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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
“Enter Nature” is a perfect exhibition for spring time showing at the Middle St. Gallery. On display are works of four women whose art exemplifies the genesis of abstract art in nature.
This is transparently shown in Lucile Swift Miller’s photographs which are largely pictures of water and stones. She has two human figures shown only partially, and one stone image that resemebles a person, but for the rest, her picutres are enlarged details of nature that exploit the movement and organic quality we find there, charging with emotive power the matter she focuses on.
Ms. Miller has created too, a large wooden image of an oval, gray stone which can be opened, revealing two books of polaroid tranfers of tinted scenes in nature. The soft edges of her photographs here give them a romantic quality.
One of her englarged black and white photographs called “God in a Tiny Detail” appears to be of dew drops standing on a piece of beautifully curved wrought iron. This picture, and her other englarged photographs, unlike the polaroid transfers, have sharply defined details, emphasizing distinct textures. She is clearly a superb photographers.
Roberta Delaney has eighteen pictures in several techniques: etchings, mezzotints, oil on canvas, India ink drawings, and more. She is accomplished in all she does and it would be difficult to say where her principal talent lies.
I especially liked the crispness of her etchings and the effective use of color in the mezzotints and gouache and pastel pictures. All of her work is abstract.
At first, I felt the subdued colors and simple shapes of her oil paintings were not as attractive as her other work, but the longer I looked and the more questions I asked myself about them, the more appealing their designs and subtle color combinations became.
The character of each picture is dictated by the particular techique Ms. Delaney employes so that you would not guess the same artist had made all of them.
Elizabeth Knowles, a sculptor, has the fewest pieces in the show, but her work is original and strong. She seems to take several kinds of plastifc netting which she covers with a substance that allows her to mold the base into any shape she desires. One beautiful combination of three pieces suggets seaweed or
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