Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 3 · column 5 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Neva SUIT Writer
Visitors to the Middle Street Artist’s Cooperative have become familiar with the names of many of Rappahannock’s large community of artists, but visitors to the Gallery’s current exhibition will become familiar with the work of artists from Chile to Moscow.
“Gallery Artists and Friends,” showing through the end of March, features the work of not only more than 30 of the gallery’s member artists, but also a number of their friends.
Some of the names will be familiar to long-time Rappahannock residents, such as Susan Marie Dopp (designer of Sursum Corda’s “Lift Up Your Hearts” sign) and Lauren Mundy, a sculptor who has used media as diverse as welded steel and saplings for her creations. Both have left Rappahannock, but examples of their work have returned for the show.
Russian photographer Edik Gladkov was the official photographer for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn before the famous writer fell from Soviet favor and was exiled to the Gulag. His series of photographs, on exhibit at Middle Street, were taken in Moscow and in his wife’s native village.
All the printing was done in Moscow with materials donated by Western contacts. They depict a stark and materially poor existence, but the humanity of the ordinary people he photographed is the most striking feature of the photographs.
They were not censored by Soviet authorities.
Mr. Gladkov’s latest work was done for Ruth Daniloff, wife of journalist Nicholas Daniloff, who was detained by Moscow late last year and then traded for an accused Soviet spy captured in this country.
Robin Purnell, a gallery artist and participant in this exhibit, met Mr. Gladkov while in Russia and provided the contact which resulted in his work being exhibited here. Her drawing of another Rapphannock artist, Sally Nash, a preliminary study of an oil painting in progress, is included in the exhibit.
Other photographers included in the exhibit are Bob Burgess, a gallery artist who was White House photographer during the Carter presidency; Cynthia Mahan, a Rappahannock resident and gallery artist
r
94.1%