Jeremy Anderson, Roy De Forest, Sidney Gordin, Leslie Kerr, and Charles Ross

Anderson, Gordin and Ross are sculptors. De Forest and Kerr are painters. Gordin’s small sculptures are silhouettes in metal composed of large and small rods neatly welded and chopped. The larger rods give sturdy, but elevating support to the small ones which are sufficiently springlike to make the pieces “zing” in a lighthearted way. Ross is more roughhouse in his welding techniques and choice of metal parts. Though larger, their conformation somehow suggests a Gordin work launched into faulty orbit, jarring it out of silhouette into 3-D convolutions. The tensions are such that if Central Control doesn’t act it may explode momentarily. Anderson is best in Table where wood functions as wood. In other cases one prefers to be spiked with steel. De Forest’s personal folk art tickles me pink (in this case a desirable color) because I am fond of gardens and garden insects. One would like the birds to sing or perhaps, at least, find a place to blow and make sound as with a Mexican whistle. Les Kerr is among the more able painters in California.

––Henry T. Hopkins