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From Front Royal, custom framer Debra Singleton sends a pastel landscape of Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park’s sweeping expanse of grass and sky, and Steve Griffin sends a realistic acrylic landscape that captures the tranquillity and beauty of the Piedmont countryside. Gallery members Eva Wine and Joel Hoyer, both from Linden, will be exhibiting paintings and fiber art and bringing the work of friends from Sweden and San Francisco.
The contributions include pastel mountain scapes of the Blue Ridge by Syria’s Margaret Novak, a magic garden of imaginative plants and flowers air-brushed by Washington freelancer Steve Wagner (who is now working on illustrations for a new Time-Life series), and oil portraits by Bill Sullivan of Orange, who was recently commissioned to paint three landscapes for the Sears Building in Chicago and shows regularly at Sherry French Gallery in New York.
Tico Herrera has promised an entry. The recipient of a Guggenheim Grant, Herrera is documenting the work of Bernard Coffendaffer, who is building clusters of crosses across West Virginia and into Virginia. Herrera’s photographs of the crosses were part of a recent cover story in the Washington Post Magazine.
From further afield come the works of a Soviet citizen and a Soviet emigre.
Edik Gladkov of Moscow was the official photographer for Solzhenitsyn before that writer fell out of favor. Now, as a member of the underground artistic community of the Soviet Union, he is a free-lance photographer who must rely on Western contacts for the materials he needs to develop and print. Visitors to the gallery will be asked this year, at last, to write their responses to Gladkov’s photographs, and their messages will be returned to him via the same underground system that brought his pictures out.
In Moscow, teenaged Alexei Afonin was a television film star. His mother played the piano for the Bolshoi and his father was an architect. Afonin was 17 when his family emigrated to the U.S. 14 years ago. Now his father is a New York City cab driver, his mother still plays piano for the ballet, and he is an artist. He paints oils that strike the emotions. “Put your arms around me like a circle round the sun. Put a song in
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