NYAB Event - Colin Brown "Selva Oscura"

Colin Brown "Selva Oscura"

Fischbach Gallery

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Colin Brown’s romantic and beautiful images of New York capture the magic and vitality of the City. He brings the viewer his profound and contemplative sense of solitude of the city he calls home.
In childhood Brown observed the New York City skyline from his parent’s 23rd floor apartment. Finding New York City at night a mesmerizing image, he photographed from atop the Empire State Building, The World Trade Center, and Rockefeller Center. Combining the information from his photographs with his skills as an artist Brown created Blackboards.
Brown first prepares a white undersurface on a panel, to which he then applies a pitch-black layer. This wet black layer is dusted nickel, carbon or charcoal powder. Working in a precisionist manner using a jeweler’s tool, Brown skillfully removes small amounts of black revealing just the right amount of white to create the illusion of light emulating from city windows, street lamps, and automobile headlights. Brown’s incredibly detailed Blackboards at first appear to be night photographs, but upon closer inspection one discovers the amazing hand of the artist. Colin Brown’s romantic and beautiful images of New York capture the magic and vitality of the City. He brings to the viewer his profound and contemplative sense of solitude of the city he calls home.
Brown’s latest Blackboards presented in Selva Oscura are observed from the panoramic views atop 30 Rockefeller Center.

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