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April 3, 2009 -Part II:  Mass Ave

I continued the First Friday art hop by traveling down Mass Ave to the McFee Gallery and Studio.  The main artist shown this month is Kelly Gentry.  Her work falls easy on the eye.  There seems to be three related series of works.  One has a silhouette of a single person, usually walking away from the viewer, holding a colorful umbrella.  The backgrounds of these paintings are mostly blotches of bright colored paint creating the look of a mist.  The paintings would  seem lonely, perhaps, if not for the brightness of the background.  Something draws me whimsically toward these.  The second series has a similar misty background with calligraphic lines of thick acrylic paint on top.  The third is a series of tree silhouettes on colorful skies.  The trees are simple with enough branches to be used as design elements.
Art Bank.  My first venture into the Art Bank brought me in contact with a melding of different styles and types of art.  Gina Soo Golden’s realistic figurative work (paintings that also seem to have feeling and purpose) shares a room with Dale Kercheud’s post-impressionist type paintings.  Rosanna Hall’s realistic landscapes are around the bend from a simplified abstract landscape by Steve Woerner.