The artists on display at Centenary College's Turner Art Center are the college drawing and painting teachers as well as staff members at Meadows Museum. It seems they can make fine art themselves.
Kathy Brodnax showed a series of funky, sepia chairs as well as painterly landscapes marked by sharp, sure strokes. Fellow teacher Graham Mears, newly returned to Centenary after a number of years in England, presented large canvasses that almost yowled. An agape red-mouthed ape dominated one exhibit area. Another room was watched by a squatamous pug. Mears also had small, droll images of dark hue that were plopped onto large, white fields.
Steven Soffer's paintings offered stories made from brighter than bright colors. A child-like simplicity and sense of mystery shone forth. Soffer is also exhibiting sculptural ceramics of organic, columnar shape that I like better than any of his work heretofore. Sculptures by Leia Lewis take viewers 'round the world via boxes festooned with African and Indian imagery.
Diane DuFilho, one of the city's leading curators by her vigorous direction of Meadows Museum, has been gardening with pen and ink. Her islands of shrubbery reminded me of the lines of Edward Gorey. DuFilho invites viewers to laugh as well as to admire her competency with pen and yard. One of her hedges is unerringly like a baguette of French bread.
Worth a stop at Turner Art Center, corner of Centenary Blvd and Rutherford? Yes. And there's an adjacent parking lot.
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