Alice Dalton Brown “The Language of Angels”

Fischbach Gallery

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The paintings in THE LANGUAGE OF ANGELS, Alice Dalton Browns thirteenth solo exhibition at Fischbach Gallery, celebrate life with light and its visual reflections. Light is the heart and spirit of Browns endeavor; light created in the course of the earths rotation and the passing of time. Alice Dalton Brown is widely known for her scenes of water framed by a window with translucent curtains, as well as landscapes, architecture, and interiors one might see revealed through a window or door. Her work is an invitation to be free and fluid, an opening into another world, another mood. Browns well-crafted paintings are strong compositions, with themes of reminiscence, and each a metaphor for life. Browns rhythmic placements of horizontal and vertical elements combine with crisp and elegant compositions.

In a recent interview when asked what does light mean to you? Brown replied, “ I love the tensions in the play between darkness and light which provide a lively dynamic to a picture: high contrast and unexpected configurations. Light can also produce contradictory results. Sometimes it illuminates an object and sometimes it eliminates an object.”

And questioned about darkness she replied, “Night is an evocative and mysterious time in the diurnal rhythm, and visually, a whole different spectrum of value and color. “
Asked what water means to her and how her vision comes through Alice replied, “Water may have multiple meanings…liberating, a sign of opening up, of hopefulness; it can also represent sadness and loss. For me, its an instance where art contains opposites. My painting works when it has an emotional center, a strong composition, and a dream - like reality.

A color catalog for THE LANGUAGE OF ANGELS accompanies the exhibition with an essay The Illusion of Reality in Alice Dalton Browns Paintings by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Curator of European Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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from March 20, 2014 to April 26, 2014

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