The juried show featuring six area artists, mostly fresh faces, at Main Line Art Center is an attractive one that should reach out to the general public especially well. This exhibit has more clarity than abundance, more tension than energy, and more grace than sensuality. It's a sort of expressionistic exhibit with manners. Nick DiAngelo's own pictorial manner renders small still-life objects in detail. He favors a clean, hard edge with sharp separations of light and dark tonalities.
Several pictures are gnomic, even a trifle bizarre.
Not interested in art for art's sake, J. Allen Bentley 2d, in sketchy yet resonant paintings of dancing couples, makes his people express the larger aspects of human existence. Liveliness for him is about movement within shapes that depend entirely on brushy color for their substance. His are the only obviously energetic works on view. Taking an entirely different tack, Christopher Vecchio, meanwhile, puts his doctorate in engineering to work here, showing us how our acquaintance with his art can make us more technology-friendly. His creations don't picture something.