But don’t look down

‘‘Climb to the Rise’’ (oil on canvas), by Judith Brassard Brown, at Kingston Gallery, Boston.

Her artist statement:

‘The acts of making and viewing are opportunities to heal. While paintings may appear traditional at first glance, they do not recreate a specific location or event. Rather, each provides connections across boundaries of time or a captured moment, contrasts what we see with what we sense below the surface. Their qualities may activate our capacity to connect with others and with our own buried emotions. In recognizing what is compressed, that recognition may activate a corresponding release of psychic burden and an increase in joy.’’

She’s based in Boston’s Dorchester section.

Neponset River at Lower Mills (2009). Dorchester on the left, Milton on the right (south) side of the river.

Baker's Cocoa Advertisement in Overland Monthly, in January 1919. The manufacture of chocolate had been introduced in the United States in 1765 by John Hannon and Dr. James Baker in Dorchester, then a separate town from Boston. The long-gone Walter Baker & Co. was based in Dorchester.

What goes up....

“On The Rise” (oil), by Judith Brassard Brown, in her show “On the Rise and Fall,’’ at Kingston Gallery, Boston, Dec. 90- Jan. 17. She teaches at the Montserrat College of Art, in Beverly, Mass.

See:

http://www.judithbrassardbrown.com/

and:

www.kingstongallery.com