Rivas Gallery has gone a step beyond the usual educational function of the private gallery by instituting a summer series of lectures. In its second year and growing in audience, this series also features short related exhibitions. One of the highlights is a small assemblage of works by Helen Lundeberg, some quite recent. Still Life and Interior with View, both from 1962, show her continuing powers of invention within her quiet realm. Silent and cryptic spatial statements, close in color modulation, work in and out, yet the picture plane is left without a ripple. Comparison drawn from earlier works on the walls show how faithful she is to recurring themes, themes resolved at one time only to reappear five years later with new insights and solutions.
––Doug McClellan
