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Chris Stephens’ acrylic “North Fork” and “River Light” are made electric with postimpressionist colors — greens, blues, yellows, purple and red. In one, the water flows briskly; in the other, it seems to run deep. Both convey a sense of a bright, lively world.
Ned Bittinger’s three domestic scenes, a bathtub bather, an image focusing on old-fashioned brass plumbing fixtures and a bather’s feet, and a kitchen sink full of pots, utensils and dishes, emphasize how the artist’s eye can excite thought in unexpected places. Although his subjects are distinctly portrayed, colorful and picturesque, there is a softness at the edges of things, characteristic of his work, that relaxes one’s focus while observing his down-to-earth statements.
Three photographs with mirrors by Nancy Halgren are almost surrealistic in that the mirrors reflect the scene from the opposite direction of the camera’s focus — beach and a pond scenes. The soft, neutral colors of these colored photographs are natural, but show a gray, not a blue or green sea.
Steven Kenny, an exuberant surrealist, has four entry’s
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