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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock Newa
Contributing Writer
After looking at June Jordan’s exhibition at the Middle Street Gallery, just when it was mounted, I drove home amid the fall splendor and could only think that to a remarkable degree, Jordan’s pictures bring the glories of our foliage inside.
Jordan’s 23 oil paintings at the gallery, and the 17 pictures that are hanging now at the county library this November, are of two sorts: area landscapes and views of her other favorite places, like St. Andrews, New Brunswick, and female figures, both dressed and undressed, seen in a variety of settings. A few of the pictures at the library are pastels.
Although Jordan’s colors are strong and almost shimmering in instances, the models she paints, who dominate the canvases, are of incidental interest of her. She is not making portraits and she is not depicting three dimensional replicas of people. While many colors appear on the images, they are only minimal attempts to reproduce flesh tones, hair and limbs in a lifelike way. Her striking combinations of colors command as much attention to the whole picture as do her women. This is not true of her one pastel portrait at the library where a patterned composition of a person within the background is reminiscent of Vuillard.
One nude, “Reclining Figure on Purple Pillow” is painted largely in tones of yellow. This painting brought to mind Danae, the mythical Greek princess imprisoned by her father in response to a Delphic prophecy. Zeus, who
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