STEPHEN BRON
~Winter Landscapes~
November 29, 2024 - January 10, 2025
A special online exhibition of new oil paintings on paper
~Winter Landscapes~
November 29, 2024 - January 10, 2025
A special online exhibition of new oil paintings on paper
For those of us who live where the full effect of the changing seasons is felt, winter is a time of revelation.
Hidden all summer under a canopy of graceful leaves, the stark beauty of the twisted limbs of a small maple tree reveal themselves, turning, bending, leaning on one another, seemingly the manifestation of movement and dance.
Revealed too are the hidden homes of birds and insects laid bare by the lack of covering. Their architecture and structure remaining like abandoned houses (which they are), testaments to the industry and life that existed there not long before.
The paths of fox and coyote. The rotted trunks of old trees broken and split and severed by winter’s winds.
A feeling of being part of a cosmic sundial as the low winter sun casts its long shadows on the snow.
There is clarity of sound, of the feel of air, of sight.
That purple, hazy, hard-to-describe color of the snow in shadow. Spidery flowers of witch hazel with their yellows and hot oranges like sparks in the dark. Darkness and light have actual dimensions here - the glowing tops of trees contrast with the deep compelling merging of color down below. I guess we are never truly alone in nature, but that silent, biting feeling of vulnerability is also a revelation to those who journey out to find it. Breath made visible, there are evidences of life everywhere.
We are glad that there is a painter who strays off of the path that so many follow. To whom having the senses challenged and enriched feeds such a primal sense of self. That this is what is important to him.
We are happy to present this new body of winter landscapes by Stephen Bron.
-James Balla / Albert Merola
Hidden all summer under a canopy of graceful leaves, the stark beauty of the twisted limbs of a small maple tree reveal themselves, turning, bending, leaning on one another, seemingly the manifestation of movement and dance.
Revealed too are the hidden homes of birds and insects laid bare by the lack of covering. Their architecture and structure remaining like abandoned houses (which they are), testaments to the industry and life that existed there not long before.
The paths of fox and coyote. The rotted trunks of old trees broken and split and severed by winter’s winds.
A feeling of being part of a cosmic sundial as the low winter sun casts its long shadows on the snow.
There is clarity of sound, of the feel of air, of sight.
That purple, hazy, hard-to-describe color of the snow in shadow. Spidery flowers of witch hazel with their yellows and hot oranges like sparks in the dark. Darkness and light have actual dimensions here - the glowing tops of trees contrast with the deep compelling merging of color down below. I guess we are never truly alone in nature, but that silent, biting feeling of vulnerability is also a revelation to those who journey out to find it. Breath made visible, there are evidences of life everywhere.
We are glad that there is a painter who strays off of the path that so many follow. To whom having the senses challenged and enriched feeds such a primal sense of self. That this is what is important to him.
We are happy to present this new body of winter landscapes by Stephen Bron.
-James Balla / Albert Merola
All work: 2024 oil paint on gessoed heavy Lanaquarelle watercolor paper unframed (dimensions in captions)
Stephen Bron [b. 1993] is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in painting at The Cooper Union in 2015, and received his MFA in Painting at NYU in 2017, and attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School in 2014.
Solo exhibitions include:
Overnight Garden, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany, 2022, Mistaken For A Songbird, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2022, Just Another Diamond Day, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2021
Select group exhibitions include:
Small Paintings, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY, 2022, Flowers, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany, 2022, You Got Your Secret On, Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY, 2021 and Pause, Theodore Art, New York, NY, 2021, HEAD2HEAD, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2018.