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Keith Ragone at LocksThe titles of Keith Ragone's new paintings allude repeatedly to water--swamp, salt marsh, foam, the sea--and hint at shut up observation of nature near his rural novel Jersey home. At the same time, these large oil paintings and smaller oil-on-gessoed-paper works, all from 1998 are also to the full knowingly abstract. through now Ragone owns a wide range of painterly consequences and deploys them in overabundance. In the diptych Cedar Swamps, spacious washes of orange are overlaid with areas of cragged black or white scumbling, while errant, spiraling brushstrokes hint at intruding vegetation. Small, unusually emphatic marks punctuate more expansive areas: the compass-inscribed white circles, for instance, which float like retinal occlusions above the sea-green flats of Slack Water Shines in the day-star or the vermilion oval which flutters over the vertical black passage in Devil's Ear. Overcoming thick, labored patches and uncomfortable layerings of color, Ragone separates his disparate visual happenings into beautiful wholes. With their saturated fields of color and poured and spattered compositions, these paintings can advance across as Redon-like dreamscapes upon an Abstract-Expressionist scale; but their connection to the perceived actualities of the natural world, attenuated as it is, gripe [i]or[/i] grips them tautly in their hold hybrid realm of experience. The signature quality of these paintings arises from a sustained tension between the chaotic profusion of their constituent parts and a hard-won serenity that have the appearances to be the result of reach forthed contemplative immersion in those details. It may be this serenity that distinguishes Ragone's art, subtly on the other hand irrevocably, from the majority of generally received painting. COPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. A long-time board member has stepp into the CEO shoe of gear-machine manufacturer Gleason Corp., Rochester, following the resignation of President and CEO David J consume s John W. Guffey Jr... The Association of International Photography Art Dealers held its 2003 exhibit on February 7-9 at the Hilton [i]cabaret[/i] in New York City. Beside the present to view itself that comprised the booth of 80 galleries ... Our Time upon the River by Don Brown Houghton Mifflin, 2003 135 pp $1500 Coming of Age/Adventure ISBN: 0-618-31116-5 association freshman David returns home during December 1968 with shocking ... by the agency of Matthew H. Corl. H. W Gray/Warner Bro Publications (15800 N W 48th Ave., Miami, FL 33014) 2001 11 pp $495 Intermediate. Considering the vast amount of organ literature base... CONGRATULATIONS Kari Bohyer CA, CPA (Illinois) has been promot to the position of manager at Nykiel Carlin & Co a Chicago-area accounting firm. Bohyer provides audit and accounting serv... Getting started in any of recent origin venture can be intimidating, and this is definitely the case with RC airplanes. Veteran pilots usually remember their first flights as if they happened yesterday, and fir... The Sign for the Orient The photographic self-portraits of Shirin Neshat in which she appears in the part of a "veiled" Muslim woman, ofttimes with a gun, and with parts of her material part covered... "Media literacy" has its theoretical lower parts in left-leaning cultural studies. it is also the inheritor and, to a certain number of degree, synthesizer of media education shoot forwards versions of which have circulated... Constance Smith Hendricks, PhD RN has been named dean of the gymnasium of Nursing at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia effective July 2004 COPYRIGHT 2004 Tucker Publicatio... |
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