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Time’s Breath: An Odyssey in Words and Pictures, a new exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Deborah Brown English, will open at Creative Alliance in March. English’s debut illustrated novel, Time’s Breath: An Odyssey in Words and Pictureswhich also serves as a catalogue for the exhibition, was published to rave reviews in September.
Creative Alliance is located one block from the Southeast corner of Patterson Park, with the Main Gallery located inside the Patterson Building at 3134 Eastern Avenue. The exhibition will be on view to the public from Tuesday-Saturday, 12pm-5pm. Exhibition admission is free.
Time’s Breath combines English’s paintings and works on paper with accompanying fiction, connected by an overarching narrative that resurfaces a mysterious island and a lost civilization. In a lighthouse off the coast of Norway, a book is found within the debris of a small boat. It contains pictures and stories, written in several hands. Together, they tell the tale of a volcanic island in the North Atlantic called Tokket Fall, lost a century before, and of the community that lived there—people, animals, and mythical beings.
Artist Bio
Deborah Brown English grew up on Maryland’s Upper Eastern Shore, and intended to be a fiction writer, studying English and creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with honors in 1985, and her work has been exhibited in Maryland at Steven Scott Gallery, Paper Rock Scissors, the Annual Gala Show of the Choral Arts Society of Baltimore, the Academy Museum, and at the former Sales and Rental Gallery at the Baltimore Museum of Art; as well as in galleries in Pennsylvania and Nebraska. She and her husband, Philip, live in Baltimore and are known together for their joint collecting and support of the arts.
Event calendar for the exhibition:
Friday, March 6, 6-8pm (talk at 7pm); Public Opening and Event featuring Boston based author Leah De Forest, Senior Editor of Bloom, an online magazine devoted to authors whose first major work was published when they were age 40 or older, and forthcoming debut novelist (Any Kind of Known Tomorrow) discusses balancing art practices and the craft of writing fiction with Deborah Brown English, and artist and debut novelist, Margaret Hutton (If You Leave).
Thursday, April 9, 6:30-8:30pm: Book-Signing by Deborah Brown English and Reception
Praise for the book, Time’s Breath:
“When I received a review copy of Deborah Brown English’s new book Time’s Breath, An Odyssey in Words and Pictures, it transported me back to that golden age of publishing. As I sat down with the book and flipped through its pages, I discovered something more intricate—a modern reinterpretation of this genre.” –– Jack Livingston, Bmore Art
“I felt like I was reading a newly discovered mythological text when I opened the cover to Deborah Brown English’s Time’s Breath: An Odyssey in Words and Pictures… I found it an oasis
of imagination and could not put it down. Every page is a visual feast.” ––Martha Anne Toll, Baltimore Fishbowl
“‘I want to combine narrative and image, language and paint. I want them together.’ And that is what happens in Deborah Brown English‘s debut illustrated novel, Time’s Breath: An Odyssey in words and Pictures.” ––Judith Krummeck, WBJC’s Booknote
Location: Amalie Rothschild Gallery
