Artist Altoon Sultan
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Published: February 13, 2009
STOWE – Egg tempera painter Altoon Sultan unleashes a deep understanding of the technical history of painting – not least the use of traditional egg tempera as media – in her brilliant and intimate studies of the rural mechanical landscape of farm machinery, draped tarpaulins and silage. Her studied compositions are sensual and meditative, hardly what the subject matter suggests. Sultan speaks at Helen Day Art Center on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m. Sultan is a member of the Society of Tempera Painters, the author of a book on the subject, "The Luminous Brush" (1999). Her work is in a number of major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Altoon lives in northern Vermont and is represented by the Marlborough Gallery in New York City.
Admission is free; call (802) 253-8358, or go online to www.helenday.com.
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