Fifteen paintings of Daniel James Brophy at his first show “Trains, Stains and Hymns“ at the gallery of Kean University in Union NJ have shown the explosion of colors and passion in depicting life on the stage of the under-ground tunnels.

Homeless, panhandlers, street musicians, passengers and world of human pain, suffering and alienation elevated by the tremendous energy of the painter to communicate life and love in what our world is, or has turned to be, seen by the eyes of a stranger who can’t help but getting involved. The figures of humans hanging and exceeding or reaching to the edges of the frames of paintings, mysterious figures, obvious figures, poetic or distant figures centered or set on the stage of triptych-like compositions are simple in the essence, and that simplicity is underlining the clear message of complexity and value of human life.

I could see it only on photographs taken from the show but in details of each painting shown I found the world of true life and life meaningful to the fullest extent, even in portraying some ordinary or meaningless ambient where one may dwell or stray. In these fifteen paintings that are resembling the trees from the primordial garden (although each of them may stand as a jungle of vibrant emotions echoing with music, noise, tremor and sometimes, even deeper than that, with a silence) one may see the art from the cave abreast with the urban pictorial definition of humanity today. (...)

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