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Mark Adams. American, 1925-2006
Mark Adams' images and color reveal a lifetime of observation,
experience, and discipline. He is a master of allusion who with
seemingly little effort transfers the luminosity and transparency
of watercolor, a medium in which he excels, to lithography, etching
and silk screen printing. He understands how a simple object can
become other than what it is. He captures its essence, frees it
from time and place, and transforms it into a symbol of authority.
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David Avery. American, born 1952
Connoisseur of the picturesque and recherché? Devotee of the rare and exquisite? Curiosa fashion victim? If you have a sweet tooth for symbolism and surrealism, and a weakness for Brueghel, Ensor, Chirico, Magritte and the other sly fabulists of Old Europe, then David Avery’s enchanted prints, a veritable Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Marvels) of meticulously executed magic realism, will restore your soul.
DeWitt Cheng
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Will Barnet. American, born 1911
Will Barnet continues "his life-long habit of drawing and painting from the model, usually his family seen in a moment of time within the sheltered and private world of the home. ..In his hands tender and intimate moments, his wife reading in bed, his daughter on the stairway, his wife holding a cat, become images of the sublime."
Robert Doty, curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Will Barnet catalogue raisonné compiled and edited by Sylvan Cole, Jr., 1972
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Leonard Baskin. American, 1922-2000
"Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping
sack of beef and ash, is yet a glory. Glorious in defining our
universal sodality, and glorious in defining our utter
uniqueness. The human figure is the image of all men and
of one man. It contains all and can express all"
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Zevi Blum. American, born 1935
"Blum's compositions present us a delightful panoply of characters. Fat prelates plot, warriors posture, and lavishly dressed courtiers and coquettes preen. Their attire ranges from the armour of the medieval knight to the latest fashions at the court of the Sun King. They belong to no age and to every age. They are both fanciful anachronisms and universals in the comedic humaine."
James Hall, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
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Bernard Chaet. American, born 1924
Chaet wrote about his preferred themes in 1985: "Preferred structures, configurations, patterns reside in the memory tracks. Awaiting the call to action--painting. Seeing these already acquired sensations in nature provides the catalyst. This reaction takes place regardless of outward subject matter. Here abstraction works, works to boil down these sensations to make vision real."
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Ann Chernow. American, born 1936
"The women we encounter in Ann Chernow's work remind many of us of the
Hollywood movies of our youth which so influenced the styles of our mothers -
those double features with news and cartoons that filled many Saturday
afternoons. These are not nostalgic tableaux offering pleasing escapes,
they are provocative images suggesting associations and comparisons that
are more personal and even political. The clarity of the silver screen
is filtered through a richly treated picture surface mimicking our
meandering thoughts."
Janet Saleh Dickson
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