
Alexander Nepote
Kramer Gallery
Half of this exhibit consists of painted-over collages, the other half are watercolors which simulate painted-over collages. The actual collages are often dramatic but weak in form and lacking in the element of essential balance. Because of their imitative quality the watercolors are thin and static. One striking piece, titled Together on White Cliff, illustrates a subtle technique: torn paper bits are glued to a background, then painted to heighten their relationship. In this work the central image is a colored, whirling body placed against a black backdrop beneath which are a series of white torn sheets assembled in the fashion of glaciers. Nearby a collage ball rolls toward the center of action. As with many of the pieces, the total effect is one of an abstract, science-fiction illustration for a story about life on the third planet from the sun in one of the glactic systems of Alpha Centuri.
