Wednesday, October 21, 2009

WINDBLOWN : Gusts of Autumn Art!

GO GO GO! IT WILL BE FANTASTIC.

LEON APPLEBAUM will visit his major exhibition at HAWK GALLERIES, 162 East Main, on October 24, 11 to 5 pm and October 25, 1 to 4 pm. This artist's work is FIRST CLASS and NOW! He's been working glass over thirty years. His post card image suggests two big GLASS truck tires (or maybe inner tubes) conjoined by glass and floating in space! -- Way to go Tom, it's at your place I once saw TAGLIPIETRA himself working in glass!

PASTELLY & ROMANTIC, -- Vivid, child-spirited watercolors by ALICE CARPENTER will show at SHARON WEISS, 20 East Lincoln, at the November HOP and onward. Pre-images suggest "youthful, spritly, thought provoking."

BERNIECE KOFF WILL SHOW her fabulous, fabulous, flowers -- at least one! -- in PATTERNS IN PAINT at THE LYLE, 615 East Town, to November 18. -- LYLE is a delight, a gorgeous, eclectic, much needed space, an up-to-date new old home! And Koff continues to dare -- in colors and shapes! She has a splendid original way of using her compositional space!

STARRING ALICE SCHILLE: She was independent, often congenial, always keen and engaged -- a sometimes teacher to boot! AND SHE HAD STYLE! She painted independently and often alone and faraway. A world traveler in a tentative era for women. She was a gracious, determined woman who possessed an adventurous spirit and quiet technical ability. Yet, she returned yearly, well, almost yearly, to teach and to paint in Columbus. As curated by JAMES M KENY of KENY GALLERY (in German Village, Columbus, Ohio) the exhibit features Schille's work from 1902 to 1914. -- We all know what dislodged the European sojourns of U.S. artists from 1914 to 1917! During her career Schille painted -- as did her "ancestor," Mary Cassatt -- Dutch-clad toddlers; she captured desert scenes, painted dignified portraits, and solemn donkeys. Highly skilled at drawing, she could render horses, camels, and run-abouts. Her colors glowed; they did not blaze. She was often a woman alone painting outdoors, plein air. She understood flowers, gardens, and high fashion. What to wear for brunch, outdoors, with wicker chairs. She was always learning and practicing. You must see her work for yourselves in ALICE SCHILLE, THE EARLY YEARS, 1902-1914. THE SCHUMACHER is on the Fourth Floor Library at CAPITAL UNIVERSITY, College & Main in Columbus.

ALSO FROM KENY TO COLUMBUS: IN the Schumacher Show Case, works of the techno poetic MICHAEL McEWAN. McEWAN, as was SCHILLE, is a much admired teacher and a very substantial painter. -- I can't wait to see the new works. McEwan knows how to paint, and his students consider themselves lucky!

DOROTHY GILL BARNES in a fresh tradition of earliest Ohio -- combines with talents of BLAIR DAVIS and ADAM BRADLEY -- to offer a major sculpture presentation: GENERATIONS: MARKS IN TIME opens October 22, 6 to 8 pm, in the new PEGGY McCONNELL ART CENTER OF WORTHINGTON, 160 West Dublin Granville Road. Everything in Gill Barnes' work uses material from the Olentangy River Flood Plain. Way to go!