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Barns 1965 – 1976 Works on Paper

September 7, 2006- October 8, 2006

Alice Dalton Brown

Fischbach Gallery

210 11th Ave

This survey of Alice Dalton Brown's works on paper features many never-before-seen pieces completed in the 1960 and 70’s when Brown lived with her three children in rural upstate New York. After moving to New York City in 1970, these barns became the main focus of her work as Brown felt that the images were ready to be absorbed and used in imagination once she permanently resided in the city. Also, this series of barns marked the beginning of Brown’s passion for “the home,” the structure that has dominated Brown’s work for the past forty years

In Barns 1965 – 1976 Works on Paper, Brown emphasizes the play of light and shadow through her use of unique architectural spaces. Created using photographic collage studies, Brown's crisp and elegant compositions combine a shrewd use of cropping and a rhythmic placement of vertical elements. Most striking about her choice of subject matter at this time, is Brown’s use of building shapes—closed volumetric spaces with limited openings—primarily as formal elements with which to construct her paintings. According to Brown, these paintings of barns reflect both their formal and symbolic qualities.

“Formally I see barns as monumental sculptures, set apart in a landscape where every change in vantage point offers a change in configuration. Their shapes are determined by function, which gives them both variety and coherence.”

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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