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Review
other objects being moved by the action of water.
There are a number of small pieces, variously shaped and colored, that can lie on a table or in a case like sea shells; but I didn’t find them as interesting as her larger structures that need a wall to carry them. She designates her work “mixed-media,” which leaves one entirely in the dark about what she has made her sculptures of and how she has done it.
Linda Jones’ paintings are primarily oil, oil stick and graphite on paper. She seems to be focused on oval shapes of all sorts, some suggesting heads and others both outlined and solid images. Her colors are usually earth tones, augmented happily with white, blues and greens. She uses a strong, dark red in several of her works, especially in one, perhaps an Indian viewed from the back, working with or on a circular object. This is her only frankly human figure.
One dramatic painting looks as if a piece of copper has been applied to the paper, but it is probably impregnated wax. Two small works of oil on paper, showing skates’ eggs, employ colors in a sophisticated and sensuous way. She also has a large painting on canvas that is memorable for its strong designs.
This is not an easy show to discuss and it was my good fortune to see it after spending a day looking at the enormous exhibition of Thomas Coles, an early American painter, at the Museum of American Art, and the Egon Shiele and William de Kooning exhibits at the National Gallery of Art.
While the value and interest of every artist depends on a combination of her or his personality and purpose (to say nothing of skill and talent), it is helpful to compare artists to clarify the impact of art work on oneself.
Experiencing “Enter Nature” proved a good way for me to begin to reasses my feelings about abstract art, which I have not usually found a favorite form of artistic expression. I feel these four women have taught me things I need to know. I hope they can induce you to think about and respond with your feelings to the works which they have so painstakingly done and which'tell us important things about who they are.
The show opened May 6 and will be at Middle Street until May 29.
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