Piero Averse, John Leeper, Dorothy Brown, Margo Hoff, Edward Kitson, Laverne Krause, Max Kahn, Eleanor Coen, Alice Asmar, Leonard Edmondson, Ann Wolfe, Finkelstein and Rolf Nelson
Adele Bednarz Gallery
One of the area’s better collective exhibitions, well-mounted and an interesting survey of the two-month old gallery’s widely divergent stable. The Italian painter Piero Averse is having his first showing on the West Coast. Highly stylized, Aversa’s still-life painting is a fine combination of excellent draftsmanship juxtaposed against flat color surfaces. His “Symphony No. 4,” a white pot with a white spring growth terminating in flower shapes is both Oriental and organic. Set against pale yellow background tiles with a non-dimensional border reminiscent of Persian motifs, the device of