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By Diana Bird
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Packing Shed Gallery’s current exhibition, between March 30 and May 4, 2002, is called “3 Maryland Painters - Recent Work”. The gallery, located at Porter and Gav Streets, Washington, is open Tuesday through Sunday 12:30 to 0 p.m.
The exhibitors, teachers at the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, are all artists of vast experience, having begun their .careers in the sixties. While their approaches are dissimilar, they reflect the trends that marked the second half of the 20th Century.
For instance. Timothy App’s three acrylic canvases are strictly abstract. The most noticeable design in each picture is a black triangle These figures are associated with rectangles and curved areas of tan, gray, white, beige, and plum or brown, interacting in interesting ways. The mathematical precision of the painted areas surprisingly moves one's eyes all around the picture. ft is important to look closely at the surfaces to appreciate their textures.
From Mr. App. we look to dames Hennessey, whose work of three large oils on canvas and several pencil and wash drawings convey concessions to realism hut in a subdued and limited way. His “McLean " is a palely painted, large landscape, more than half of which is a fairly blank sky. Green fields and trees stretch for miles with only a few telephone poles and a small length of road interrupting a scene of planted Fields dotted with clumps of trees-a quiet, almost idyllic, restful vision.
Having lived in McLean when something like such a scene might have existed, I almost wonder if this now impossible picture is a rebuke to developers who have shamelessly despoiled that
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