Group Exhibition

Like most art association shows in Anywhere, U.S.A., this one has no special character of its own, nor does being mixed up in a mediocre hodge-podge do anything to enhance the three or four good paintings lost in the deluge of hobbyists and other nonprofessionals. Two woodcuts by Sandra Brentan, Nude and Face, are woodcutty without being technical exercises. Carol Tolin’s impasto paintings occasionally come off, and when they do, as in Woman on Pier, her “push-pulling” of pigment suggests powerful, fanciful, dynamic, coarse configurations of unusual vigor. A painting-collage, entitled Variations #7, by Gordon Holmes is about the only other work of interest in this exhibition.

––Arthur Secunda