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Phelan, who has served as director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts alongside her chairship, will remain on the department faculty. She could not be reached for comment...
Ablow’s subject matter is deceptively simple: collections of open jars and pitchers rest innocuously on top of non-descript tables. The visual confection normally found in still lifes—reflective sparkles on glass, pastel groups of flowers or dew on fruit—is nowhere to be found. Instead objects are simplified into flat shapes. A cup is represented through the simple shape of a cylinder rimmed with shadow, while a drape of fabric becomes little more than a hard-edged line...
From the tin box to the ceramic jar, Ablow always targets similar subject matter, and often from memory. Although Ablow says most of his work is purely visual, with no aspirations to greater social or metaphysical meaning, his objects sometimes assume a more personal significance. In “Waiting,” which was conceived as a memento mori for a dead friend, a ponderous swath of fabric slumps above a somber procession of empty cobalt cups...
...structure of Ablow’s paintings is far from haphazard. Each painting is deliberately structured and painstakingly worked and reworked, giving it an architectural quality. In works like “Rhymes” and “Markers,” the shadowed bowls form a visual cadence of repeated circles and jagged triangles, while the negative space is carefully framed to act as a balancing counterweight...
...Harbor Me” was powerful expression of the group’s belief in justice and tolerance which was translated, along with the other songs into expressive sign language by Shirley Childress Saxton, who incorporated her signing into the performance so seamlessly that it added an expressive visual element while hardly detracting from the focus of the singers...