Stephen Bron at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC

The exhibition consists of approximately 20 paintings depicting nature and figures in nature done over the last year and through all seasons. Bron’s paintings are scaled modestly with many looking downward, including Underground (The Divine Soil), a series of 10 paintings of the dense and varied forest floor, in a state of perpetual decay and resurgence. In A Snowy Field, (pictured above) draws us to where a Greyhound lies and stares back, its form blending into the melting snow, camouflaged yet present.

Bron has a strong relationship with nature not just as a subject matter – I have always held nature to be a tonic to most of life’s unhappiness; something about being deep in a forest can pretty much cure anything going on with me.

The artist has a poetic sensibility inspired by the romantic possibilities of nature. The title of the exhibition, The Spider Holds A Silver Ball, is from the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. It is a classic ode to that which is painstakingly created yet ultimately ephemeral and passing. As his friend, fellow artist, and gallerist, James Balla, wrote on Bron’s work “The poetry of painting reinterprets the sensations of a day and the result in the hands of a talented artist is something that becomes a revelation to others.”