Creative Alliance features two art galleries; The Main Gallery and The Amelie Rothschild Gallery.
Creative Alliance is the largest selling gallery in Baltimore and boats over 12 exhibitions throughout the year.
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.
Tiffany Lange’s Monsters and Moons present a compelling exploration of archetypes through character-based sculpture. In this new body of work, Lange creates unorthodox beings informed by folklore, personal narrative, and spiritual symbolism. Oscillating between protector and threat, comfort and control, these figures reveal the fluid and often ambiguous nature of power and intention.
The exhibition brings together new sculptural characters alongside familiar forms that audiences may recognize from Lange’s evolving visual language. Rooted in emotion as a form of communication, the work resists fixed meaning, inviting viewers to project their own fears, hopes, and uncertainties onto these sculptural beings. In doing so, the characters become mirrors, reflecting our conflicted relationships with authority, protection, and vulnerability.
As a former Creative Alliance resident artist, Lange represents the depth of storytelling and artistic development that the residency program has fostered throughout the years. Her continued evolution as an artist demonstrates the long-term impact of supporting artists through critical phases of their practice. Monsters and Moons stand as a testament to what becomes possible when artists are given space, time, and community to develop ambitious ideas.
Artist Bio
Tiffany Lange, founder of The MadeUpStudio, is a Baltimore-based artist, creative director, medical illustrator, and puppet designer whose sculptural and mixed-media work fuses precision with fantastical whimsy.
Trained in biomedical visualization, she spent two decades leading creative teams in healthcare communications before devoting more focused attention to her studio practice.
Her tactile, subtly humorous works invite viewers into encounters with quirky, empathetic companions—creatures that mirror our own fragility, resilience, and need for connection, while regarding the world with a touch of mischief and suspicion.
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