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It is good of the gallery to mount this exhibition because it gives us a chance to compare our gallery members’ works with those of people we don’t know. The prices range from $175 to $1,500 and so far few have found buyers.
The most expensive, called “Double Trouble,” a monoprint with colored pencil by Laura Pharis, is a fairly large picture of two “life sized” violins, each with a bow lying beside it. They are portraits of beloved instruments, one with a note “J.B. Vuillaume, 1838” and the other “Giuseppe Guamerious, 1715.” The bodies of the instruments are lightly colored with few decorations on them. I think this picture would appeal primarily to a musician since the 1715 instrument is by a famous early maker of violins. The Vuilliaume 1838, made more than a 100 years later, is similar - the design and character of violins have changed little with time.
Because so much of what one sees in a work of art depends on what one brings to it, it would be difficult to judge intelligently the value and accomplishment of each exhibit in this show.
I am made especially aware that since only one example of each artist (with a few exceptions) is on display, I have a hard time imagining what other works would look like. The artists here have only one throw of the dice. Take the opportunity to see what is going on outside our gallery members’ immediate circles.
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