Burke's paintings at Alliance Gallery

NARROWSBURG, N.Y. — An exhibition of paintings by Stehelin Burke opens at the Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg on Friday, Aug. 31, with an artist’s reception from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through Sept. 21. Whether working in neutral grays and tans or with ecstatic yellows and blues, painter Stehelin Burke’s work presents an altered state of consciousness in which stuffed animals, dolls, rubber duckies, and toy travel trailers inhabit pseudo filmset landscapes punctuated with space ships, trains, light bulbs, and power lines. “The brain must be fed, tickled, and cajoled into wallowing in a picture frame, deciphering the construct, and addressing the expansive possibilities of past and future movement,” says the artist, who grew up in Los Angeles before earning a B.A. from Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Burke offers his dreamlike oil paintings as an antidote to “technology’s revolving door of invention, in which the onus on speed has ultimately facilitated the degradation of the contemplative moment.” Burke makes his home in Spring Glen, N.Y. This exhibit, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, NY, and is made possible in part with funding from the Visual Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Alliance Gallery is located at the Delaware Arts Center at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, N.Y. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call 845-252-7576 or visit www.ArtsAllianceSite.org .