Alice Dalton Brown "Old New Borrowed Blue"

Fischbach Gallery

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“Old New Borrowed Blue” highlights classic Alice Dalton Brown paintings and works on paper from 1988 to the present. There will be an opening reception for the Artist Thursday February 16th from 5 to 7PM.

Alice Dalton Brown’s early artistic interests were in the color revelations of Josef Albers, the powerful graphics of Franz Kline, and the light and compositions of Edward Hopper. She was particularly impressed by the uniting of color and structure, representation and abstraction, in the spare figurative work of Milton Avery. Minimalism and photorealism were later formative influences.

Alice Dalton Brown has focused on the concept, explicit or implied, of the house and the complex interpretations associated with this subject. Water, both as a metaphor and as a visual experience is another of her themes. All of her carefully composed work celebrates light, its brilliance and its unexpected configurations resulting in lively dynamics.

A recurrent motif in “Old New Borrowed Blue” is the veiled or reflected passageway - doors, windows, verandas - which can define formal areas and suggest various symbolic readings of liminal space. Luminosity is the heart and spirit of Brown’s endeavor and her work in “Old New Borrowed Blue” is an invitation, opening into another world.

Born in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1939, Alice Dalton Brown grew up in Ithaca, New York. She studied at the Academy Julian in Paris, L’Université de Grenoble and Cornell University in Ithaca, and received her BA from Oberlin College in 1962. She currently resides in New York.

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from February 16, 2012 to March 17, 2012

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