Artists’ Cooperative

Unusual in that it is staffed by the exhibiting artists, this gallery offers diversified paintings at reasonable prices. Among the dozens of artists represented, four are featured in July: William Aiken, Lee Shapiro, Elizabeth Charleston and Lee Thompson. Aiken, by far the better painter of the group, uses flickering brushstrokes of thin paint in pale colors to build up an autoluminescent surface. He works toward, or away from, a gold-en-mein corner, keeping some contact with the original figure or “object.” Lee Shapiro’s diaphanous still-lifes are pleasant.

––E. M. Polley