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An Atlanta artist’s mixed-media homage to "Puppy Love” and a group show of works on paper called "Paper Love” are good ways to celebrate the universal month of love at JRB Art at the Elms.
Atlanta artist Linda Mitchell directs our attention to droll, funky, half-human dogs that stop just short of sentimental kitsch in her mixed-media acrylic painting-collage and wall sculptural works.
A soulful puppy seems to be dreaming of a doglike fish behind a wavelike wooden barrier, under glittering objects attached to the frame, in "Otto Dreams.” Beads and tiny pieces of jewelry hang on strings in front of a dog with imperial ambitions, wearing a Napoleonic hat and part of a uniform, decorated with ribbons, in a work Mitchell calls "Napoleon Rain.”
In the "Paper Love” group exhibit, Colorado artist Jenny Gummersall finds romance in her black-and-white photos of such mundane bedroom items as rumpled sheets and a pile of "BarePillows.” In her color pictures, Gummersall tries to give human meaning to inanimate objects, offering us close-ups of "Meringue” and a toy horse looking at a "Blue Slipper.”
Abstract suggestions of "Circles” partly fill a painted white void in a mixed-media work on paper by her husband, Greg Gummersall. More festive and rich-hued, with a bittersweet undertone of forced gaiety, is a semi-abstract monotype from B.J. White’s Tattoo Series called "Boredom is a Sin — Avoid at All Costs.”
A dark, inscrutable figure in front of a silvery gray background creates a note of ambiguity in Scott Momaday’s "Death of a Child with Rose Tree” monotype. Equally ambiguous is a drawing by George Oswalt of an aerial view of a man and woman’s bare feet in "Shore Leave Love.”
A man’s arms turn wildly in "Tyranny of the Square,” an acrylic-on-paper painting-drawing by D.J. Lafon. The two shows are well-worth visiting.
— John Brandenburg
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© Joy Reed Belt 2010
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