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ROBIN PURNELL
Rappahannock Neva Contributing Writer
“One Square Foot,” Middle Street Gallery’s present show, demands a close look. Take your time as your stroll through this show and observe these small works with care.
Most are watercolors, a media condusive to small size, and are very skillfully done. Two artist’s stick in my mind, Pablo Ramella and Petra Gerger. Pablo handles this difficult, whimsical material with great skill and sensitivity. Spend some time look at Still Life /; enjoy the rich colors and layers of paint that have created this piece.
Tea Time by Ms. Gerber, is also well executed with it’s lush flowers, sumptuous blue and gold teapot all reflected in an elegant silver water pitcher.
The Piece de Resistance of the show is Reliquary-Childhood by Ellen Fairchild Flugel. This deam-like mixed-media box, packed full of bit’s and pieces of a past is touched off with precious metals, insect wings of glass, luscious stones and even a tiny clothesline. This piece is a testament to Ellen’s imagination and skilled use of materials. I loved this work. Ellen is a cohsistent, professional, original artist and it’s wonderful to have her involved at Middle Street.
Dieter Schellinger has one fascinating painting of what appears to be the decaying wall of a city street. I admire Dieter’s enthusiasm for this humble subject. City walls, with their graffitti, crumbling bricks and plaster, peeling paint and torn post
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