Colin Brown at Fischbach Art Gallery in New York

Above are snapshot photos of The Sunless Sea by Colin Brown.  The Sunless Sea is the current exhibit at the Fischbach Gallery (March 5 –28, 2009). Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge.

Art Exhibition New York - Colin Brown

THE SUNLESS SEA

MARCH  5 –28, 2009

V, 2009, acrylic on plexiglass, 16-3/4 x 19 x 3-1/4”

The Fischbach Gallery is pleased to present The Sunless Sea, a series of Blackboards of New York City at night. The Sunless Sea is Colin Brown’s third art exhibition at Fischbach Gallery.   The exhibition opens March 5 and is on view through March 28, 2009.

In childhood Brown observed the New York City skyline from his parent’s 23^rd floor apartment. Finding New York City at night a mesmerizing image, he photographed from atop the Empire State Building and the Met Life Building as well as taking helicopter flights over Manhattan. . 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 black layer is often nickel, carbon or charcoal. 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 emanating 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 the viewer his profound and contemplative sense of solitude of the city he calls home.

A 40 page illustrated catalog created by the artist accompanies The Sunless Sea.

Colin Brown was born in Ithaca, N.Y. in 1965. He received his M.A. from NYU’s program in Painting in Venice, Italy. He has also attended the State University of New York at Purchase where he received his B.F.A.  He and his wife Cara currently live with their two children, Gwyn and Luke, in New York City.

Colin Brown Art Credentials

Alice Dalton Brown Bio

Art Gallery New York | Fischbach History

Fischbach Gallery records, 1954-1978

Fischbachgallery.com | Files on artists containing correspondence, photos, and printed material on group shows and one hundred Fischbach Gallery artists; and correspondence with museums, galleries, and other artists. The restricted portion, financial records, consists of bills, receipts, invoices, and bank statements.

Artists’ files include: John Altoon, Stephen Antonakos, Anne Arnold, Jo Baer, Ed Baynard, Robert Bechtle, John Bennett, James Bishop, Ronald Bladen, Jack Bosson, Joe Brainard, George Brecht, John Carswell, Wynn Chamberlain, Bruno Civitico, Mell Daniel, Allan D’Archangelo, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Sally Drummond, Anne Dunn, Mark Ellenberg, Stanco Filco, Barry Flanagan, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Paul Frazier, Richard Friedberg, Paul Georges, Stylianos Gianakos, Piero Gilardi, John Giorno, Ron Gorchov, Daniel Gorski, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Grosvenor, Ira Joel Haber, Hans Hartung, Dale Henry, Eva Hesse, Hans Hokanson, Domoto Insho, Will Insley, Sheila Isham, Yvonne Jacquette, Bill Jensen, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Kenneth Kilstrom, Nicholas Krushenick, Gary Kuehn, Aaron Kuriloff, Jack Larsen, Thomas Lenk, Les Levine, Sol Lewitt,

Nancy McCauley, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Mangold, Knox Martin, James Metcalf, Robert Morris, Renee Neu, Babette Neuberger, Doug Ohlson,Germano Olivotto, Ray Parker, Pavlos, Georg Karl Pfahler, Alejandro Reino, Anne Ryan, Robert Ryman, J. M. Sanejouand, George Schneeman, Ed Shostak, Sidney Simon, Arlene Slavin, Leon Polk Smith, Tony Smith, Jack Sonnenberg, Albert Stadler, Joseph Stefanelli, Michael Steiner, Frank Stella, Rachelle Strick, George Sugarman, Altoon Sultan, Robert Swain, Tadasky, Tinguely, Ken Tisa, Giusseppe Uncini, Frank L. Viner, Jeffrey Weinstein, Hank Widmier, and Sanford Wurmfeld

ADDITION: Photographs, black-and-white reproductions, negatives, color transparencies, and printed material, including catalogs and announcements, and press releases of artists represented by the Fischbach Gallery. Among the photographs of artists are John Altoon, William Anthony, Stephen Antonakos, Jo Baer, John Bennett, James Bishop, Ronald Bladen, George Brecht, John Carsman, Wynn Chamberlain, Bruno Civitico, Chryssa, Alan D’Arcangelo, Robert Dash, Lois Dodd, Anne Dunn, Barry Flanagan, Paul Frazier, Stylianos Gianakos, Robert Grosvenor, Ira Joel Haber, Yvonne Jacquette, Kenneth Kilstrom, Nicholas Krushenick, Gary Kuehn, Aaron Kuriloff, Thomas Lenk, Les Levine, Robert Mangold, Knox Martin, Nancy McCarey, Renee Neu, Doug Ohlson, Beth Parsons, Lil Picard, Robert Rauschenberg, Anne Ryan, Hunt Slonem, Jack Sonenberg, Robert Swan, Mark Tobey, Cy Twombly, Frank Viner, Sanford Wurmfeld; and group shows including “Eccentric Abstraction,” organized by Lucy Lippard. There are also extensive photographs of Gene Davis, Eva Hesse, Alex Katz, Robert Ryman, Tony Smith, and George Sugarman.

Of special note are photographs of Alex Katz’s paintings of his friends in the art world, Richard Bellamy, Edwin Denby, Al Held, Elaine de Kooning, and Neil Welliver; and also reproductions of Robert Rauschenberg with his paintings from the 1950s.

Donated 1978 by A. Alada Marberger, former director of Fischbach Gallery. In 2001, ca. 3 feet of additional records, primarily photographs, were donated by Carnegie Mellon University, through Maureen Dawley. Materials were received by the Hunt Library, Arts and Special Collections department sometime before 1987. Hunt Library had put the boxes in storage; nothing is known about the circumstances or the actual date of donation.

Alexandra Tyng Art Credentials

About Fischbach Art Gallery

The Fischbach Gallery was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 in New York City at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including Alex Katz, Ronald Bladen and Eva Hesse. Knox Martin had four solo shows at the gallery in the mid-1960’s.

The Fischbach Gallery would later move to two consecutive locations on 57th Street. In the 1970s Marilyn Fischbach hired Aladar Marberger as gallery director. Marberger shifted the gallery’s emphasis from Avant-Garde Art to Realism. The gallery included renowned artists Nell Blaine, John Button, Jane Freilicher, Ian Hornak and Neil Welliver.

In the early 1980s, Marilyn Fischbach decided to take on three additional investors in the gallery, although she remained a partial owner until her death in 2003.

The Fischbach Gallery currently remains open and has relocated to 210 Eleventh Avenue in New York. The gallery at the present, places a strong emphasis on contemporary realism.

Art Shows NYC - Alexandra Tyng

Home and House, 2007

ABOVE AND BEYOND

8 JANUARY - 31 JANUARY 2009

Great and Little Duck 2007, oil on linen, 34 x 48”

The Fischbach Gallery is pleased to present Above and Beyond, recent work by Alexandra Tyng. The exhibition opens 8 January and is on view through 31 January 2009.

The land formations and architecture of coastal Maine are joyfully explored in the new work of artist Alexandra Tyng with her characteristic interplay of light and shadow, subtlety and intensity.

“The surfaces breathe with life, and are rich with small strokes of color,” notes Suzette McAvoy, former chief curator of the Farnsworth Museum. “The brushwork is inquisitive, actively leading the eye throughout the image, yet also deliberate in defining textures and shaping forms. Light and atmosphere are rendered with specificity and are critical to animating the compositions, each plays an active role in conveying the ‘sense of place’ that is central to the work.”

Tyng believes that true understanding of a subject takes place in the context of its environment. Her recent paintings of Maine represent a hierarchy of perspectives, from intimate views of specific locations to aerial perspectives of Maine’s convoluted coast. “To truly understand a place, I try to experience it up close and from within, then I gradually move further and further away, encompassing it within increasingly larger settings. From the air, you see the landscape open out in front of you, below you and on all sides. There’s an extraordinary sense of perspective.”

Ultimately, though, there remains something intangible in the process of showing and revealing. Tyng’s landscapes not only describe what we see, but also acknowledge that which is beyond the power of physical description, beyond understanding. This exhibit includes large aerial views, ground-level views with wide-angled perspectives, and small paintings that focus on details of buildings, rocks, trees and water.

Born in Rome, Italy in 1954, Alexandra Tyng earned a B.A. from Harvard-Radcliffe University. She resides in the Philadelphia area.  This is her sixth exhibition at Fischbach Gallery.  An Exhibition Catalog with color reproductions will accompany this exhibition.

Art Galleries New York

The address of 210 Eleventh Avenue is home to many New York art galleries.  Below is  a street view of the building location from  google maps.  Just click on the image (below) and it will direct you to google maps.  On the left of the next page is a list of galleries and other businesses within the building @ 210 Eleventh Avenue.

Fischbach Art Gallery Location

There are many art galleries in New York.  It is easy to get lost among them all.  Below is a map of the Fischbach Art Gallery.

Directions:  Located between 24th and 25th Street at 210 Eleventh Avenue.

Subway:  C, E to 23rd Street; A, C, E to 14th Street; L to Eighth Avenue; 1, 9 to 18th, 23rd, 28th Streets

Bus:  23rd Street cross-town bus to Eleventh Avenue.  Water Taxi: to Chelsea Piers

210 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY 10001

Tel: 212.759.2345     Fax: 212.366.1783

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