Howard, a recent arrival from a Utah college, offers three firm, serious paintings that have a decorative quality which competes with the paintings’ underlying solemnity. Inez Starer’s work is extremely uneven. She might do well to examine her own production more closely and weed out what is obviously inferior. Wakeham’s landscapes are well painted and unassuming. He has been influenced by Edward Hopper yet the honesty of his work precludes any slavish devotion to that master.

—James Monte