Our Current Exhibit
Artist Reception: Sunday, July 21
2:00 - 4:00 pm
RECEPTION & EXHIBIT ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Beautiful palettes of color and striking shades of contrast saturate the pages of Dawn (Flory) Babylon’s sketchbook. Pieces of her work carry gentle humor and are fanciful with the suggestion of magic or childlike innocence. Her work is sometimes delicate and quaint, but other times somewhat surreally out of place. Babylon has spent the last three years working with water-based pens creating her own unique whimsical style. She loves to represent light by blending values of color. She moves the viewer’s eye and creates the illusion of space in her sketches, placing objects in the foreground and background. She creates visual texture by brushing on layers of watercolor, using short dabs, long strokes and twirls her brush to make overlapping circles. Dawn often must pause, close her sketchbook and allow time to dry, thus avoiding overworking the paper. She finishes her pieces with fine point pens to add definition and additional shading through hatching and stippling.
Dawn (Flory) Babylon is creating art, just for herself these days, but is always excited to share it with others. She only asks… please don’t feed the art.
Dawn (Flory) Babylon is creating art, just for herself these days, but is always excited to share it with others. She only asks… please don’t feed the art.
First Floor Exhibit Case
Recollections
Stories of African American Life in Troy
(1900 - 1950)
Stories of African American Life in Troy
(1900 - 1950)