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Thursday February 17, 2005
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| “Innocence” is a 36x42 framed oil on
canvas by Florence Putterman. |
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| The Celery Barn in Towles Court is
featuring the work of George Ollinger. Pictured is
his “Trojan
Horse.” | |
| Local artist will be
missed |
The
community mourns the loss of artist Richard
Beckman, who died on Dec. 25. He was a professor
at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and
was widely admired. Within the last decade, his
work was included in three exhibitions at the
Ringling Museum, and two of his sculptures were
purchased for the permanent collection. His work
was also purchased for the collection of the City
of Sarasota and is on view at Five Points Park
near Selby Library. Beckman also created the
concept behind the exhibition “Industrial
Carnival,” which was on view at the Sarasota Art
Center this past fall. We shall miss his generous
spirit and his powerful work.
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ART
Painters Howard, Ollinger and
Putterman enliven local galleries
By: Mark
Ormond
Florence Putterman is showing new and
recent work at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art.
“Spirits
and Essences” (52 x 52 inches) is made up of her signature
paint, sand and crushed shell ground. She adds pigment into
the mix and, in this case, there is a harmonious balance of
the colors turquoise, purple, melon and mustard. The end
result of the combination is to keep the eye focused on the
process of her method while enjoying the pictorial structure
of the finished surface.
“Side by Side II” is a
mixed-media work on paper. The two sheets look like fragments
from an ancient codex. Their surfaces are worn with traces of
color evident. The sheets seem related by their juxtaposition,
however, it remains for the viewer to discern the puzzle of
their connection. Her oil painting “Savage Innocence I” (30 x
36) from 2000 is a complex composition that in its construct
pays some homage to the abstract painting of Arthur Dove and
Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb
and Joaquin Torres-Garcia. The gallery is also filled with
sculpture and carvings from Africa and Asia. A wood carved
female figure from the Sudan and another carving from the
Philippines frame the wildly colorful “Savage
Innocence.”
The Celery Barn in Towles Court is
featuring the work of George Ollinger, who Jini Mount, owner
of the Celery Barn, discovered in North Port. This artist, who
began his career in New York, is exhibiting facile drawings of
people he made decades ago, as well as some fine abstract
ink-on-paper pieces, including one he calls “Trojan Horse” (40
x 28 inches). There are small pastels that, with minimal
gesture and bold choices of color, capture the essence and
atmosphere of the Florida landscape. We note the low horizons
and humidity-laden air. In “Peace River,” a glowing globe,
indicated with a stroke of the pastel, hovers over the gray
expanse below.
Jonas Howard is exhibiting his acrylic
paintings at the Symphony Center, 709 N. Tamiami Trail. The
subject matter of the work is nature, and Howard has captured
the many moods of the skies of the West coast. In “West from
Key Largo,” we see silver-white light that has streaked from
behind a cloud bank to shimmer on the surface of the sea. It
is one of those days when the water and the air become one
color – mist gray punctuated by the verdant green of islands
and the coastline. His love of nature and its changing
personality is evident in the dozens of paintings on
view.
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