A.M. Richard Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Lizbeth Mitty.

Ms. Mitty paints the metamorphosis, devastation and renewal of the urban landscape (Central Park, The Queens El, The World Trade Center, Coney Island, Bethlehem Steel). Lately, the artist’s attention has turned to the vicinity of her Brooklyn studio, the Red Hook waterfront, where condemned, rehabilitated and brand new manufacturing, storage and retail plants are a perspicuous sight. An abandoned sugar factory, now demolished, is the subject of a few paintings, aptly titled Vanished, Stripped Bare. Through Ms. Mitty’s strokes of paint brushes, oil, wax sticks and rags, the industrial architecture peels away before our eyes in soft layers of color, divaricated planes and consuming voids. A series of small paintings and large monotypes takes us, as feathers on a bird’s wing, on an intimate tour of intricate bridge structures. Steel beams, endless avenues, all common visual sights in a large Metropolis, are given the duality of a déjà vu and a fresh abstract perspective.

Ms. Mitty’s creative process includes documenting specific sites through numerous contemplative visits, sketches and photographic snapshots. With these mementos in hand, the artist conceives her paintings in the shelter of her studio. Although rife with structural complexity Ms. Mitty’s compositions evoke an unusual quietness,

This is Ms. Mitty’s first showing at the A.M. Richard Fine Art gallery.

Ms. Mitty is a beneficiary of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Her work is in the permanent collection of several museums, public and private collections; notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newark Museum and the Zimmerli Archive.