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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
More than a dozen of the Middle Street Gallery's members have contributed their works to the January "Whimsey" exhibition that will be on view until the 26th. What fun to see the light-heartedness of these serious artists!
June Jordan has painted two brightly colored scenes of the Maine coast in what I think is a new style for her — Fauve — reminiscent of early works by Vlaminck, Derain and Braque, for instance. Her "Salmon Farm" is in a salmon-colored sea. Things look as she would like them to look.
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One of Mary Brownstein's miniature bronzes, "Away To Me," is composed of a big dog and a man holding a star-tipped wand. Is he about to toss the star to see if the dog can catch it? B.M. Harlan has carved and painted "The Research Rat" that makes you ask, "Which is the rat, the scientist or the animal?" The rat is surely a reproach.
Chris Stevens has made of wood and other familiar things a "Long Fence Row of Houses" complete with a red convertible out front. Do our homes fence us in and others out? Bruce Blundell's photograph of "Accotink Wildlife Refuge" encourages me to laugh and cry at what development has left of undisturbed nature in once lovely Fairfax County. Much of the picture is of reflections.
Very whimsical are Noriko Hoge's two covered, slightly sculptured and painted, ceramic jars. They suggest the mountains and deserts of the Southwest. The finials of the jars' covers are a schematic goat and bird, the touches called for to make these pieces monumental. Eunice Wenger’s "Lucky Lady" is a three dimensional, box:framed collage of lavender, purple, red and cream
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