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Alice Dalton Brown, “Pathways,” 2007, oil on canvas, 40 by 40 inches.

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NEW YORK CITY — “Alice Dalton Brown: Friends Forever” is on view through April 19 at the Fischbach Gallery, featuring new paintings and works on paper.

Brown began exhibiting in the mid-1970s, with artistic roots in both Realism and Minimalist abstraction. Since then her oeuvre has integrated photographic views of reality with a crisp, reductive approach to composition based on architectural planes, natural environments and illumination.

Brown engages these elements as a tripartite conceptual foundation for subject matter with an emotional center, inspired by the intersection of qualities creating a sense of place and time. Brown edits and amalgamates photographic references to create illusionistic sanctuaries at the gleaming edge of pristine nature.

A recurrent motif is the veiled transparent passageway — doors, windows, verandas — which can suggest various formal and symbolic readings of liminal spaces and luminosity. Recent paintings of expansive sky and waterscapes seen through translucent fabric have inspired in several new works a return to a theme featured in some her earliest paintings, the American flag.

The Fischbach Gallery is at 210 Eleventh Avenue, between 24th and 25th Streets. For information, 212-759-2345 or www.fischbachgallery.com.