Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
'PersonuQes'

also more engaging show by
Kiyoshi Saito.
'Personoges'
The Playhouse art gallery,
727 Fifteenth street, NV,
has an exhibition Of paint
ings entitled "Personages"
who are quite a. individual
as was the late Jimmie
Walker. nominally portrayed
in the recent Playhouse
movie. The art exhibition
will remain through August
81.
Fourteen paintings in oil,
gollache and polychrome ce-
ment represent nine WASH
inRton artists, all Of whom
are expressionists, abstrac-
tionists or primitives. Jack
Berkman's two blends, es-
pecially the longnecked one
in q yellow Hat" in pleas.
ing contrast to a green back
ground, are the most engag-
ing to me.
Bernice Cross and Dominic
Spadaro also exhibit two
ladies each. The formers, in
her sophisticated primitive
convention, are the pink and
light gray moon-faced wind
Flower" symbolizing innocu-
GUS innocence, and the dark
gray triangular : faced "Ac-
tress," obviously involved in
some gloomy performance.
Mr.. Spadaro's two are more
human than symbolic. His
sleepy woman Dreaming" Is
such O warm invitation to
Slumber that 1t should belong
to an insomnia. Jacob Boul's
wistful child Nina" COM
pleteS the feminine half Of
the show. and the half most
likely to succeed with the
public.
Jacob Kainen and John
Lewis have effectively DEM
onstrated how to make slate
gray flesh look natural by
means Of surrounding colors.
Tony Bader's Don Quixote,"
attenuated and angular on
his equally skeletal nag, with
q windmill In the distance,
effectively suggests the
knight Of the Mancha.
Helene McKinsey and Pr
etro Lazzari contributed alb
stractions. Mrs. McKinsey's
Flamenco" is the better Of
hers, capturing the bright
colors and movement Of the
lively dance. In his two poly
chrome cement works, Mr..
Lazzari ponders nuclear fis-
sion or something Of the sort
Ito Judge from their titles,
with sombre results.
Pucheco Solo
Maria Louisa de Pacheco
Of Bolivia is having her first
one-artist exhibition in
Washington. at the Pan
American Union through Au-
gust 10. She was represented
in a Latin American group
show presented by the Insti-
tute Of Contemporary Art in
its Corcoran Gallery head
quarters last winter: and she
had q solo exhibition last
year at the Galeria Sud.
americana In New York City,
where she has recently
opened q studio.
She studied at the Acad.
envy Of Fine Arts Of La Paz,
Bolivia Tin which she has
been an instructor since
1851 and later in Spain at
the Royal Academy Of San
Fernando. Also with private
artist-teachers In both coun-
tries. She has had solo shows
in Bolivia. Spain, Argentina
and Chile. and has particle
pated actively in group
shows. winning both nation
al and international prizes.
She is represented in q mum.
Der Of museum collections in
South America. Besides
teaching, she is an illustrator
for a Bolivian newspaper and
two Spanish magazines.
The Pan Americans show
includes about Is works,
mostly oils. The majority Of
these are cubisti0 figures,
somewhat dry and brittle in
effect, in greenish white, or
ange and black. predomi-
nantly. Other colors include
a very beautiful red. The
Simpliied Women Miners"
and heroic Indian head are
nearer to representation.
Among several landscapes are
a two-dimensional Colonial
Town" and the abstract ex-
pressionist vertical wall
Street" with a glimpse Of blue
sky at the end Of the narrow
canyon, one Of her more sue
cessful works.
! liked the few drawings
better than the paintings.