Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-07

Most Of the painters al
Ores Gallery, 1729 Twentieth
street NV, have had one
man shows there in the past
year or 90. Spanish painter
Manuel Viola's work is pre-
sented for the first time. not
only at Ores, S1s n the
United States. His abstrac-
tons are sornber, suggesting
duh explosions Of white and
gray on black or dark brown
backgrounds. The Ores CAL
lery's description aptly COM
pares Viola's distractions to
"a sharp shaft Of light In q
dark cathedral"
Several Of the artists are
Latin American. Jose Luis
Cuevas Of Mexico and Jose
Bermudez, Cuba. were pres
ent at the shows invitation
preview. The former is an
illustrator and satirist, whose
large canvas Dictator" (re-
produced) shown at the latest
Carnegie International, Pitts
burgh, and several other
drawings are the exhibitions
only works with o represen.
rational element. Some Of Mr..
Cuevas' monsters recall those
in Goya's ''Provechos."
Area Resident
Mr.. Bermudez, q Washing
ton area resident for several
years, employed as o com.
mercial designer at the Pan
American Union. is showing
distractions in several media:
large somber oils, ink draw
ings and colleges, the last
mentioned the best, with q
feeling Of spaciousness, har-
monious color and interesting
forms.
Enrique Zanartu, French
born Of Chilean parents, has
the most versatile represen-
tation. paintings. sculpture,
and prints: his oil and wa.
tercolor have unusual tex.
lures.
Robert Neuman's paintings
present contrasts between
vertical and horizontal forms
and hot and cool colors.
Norman Cartons paintings,
done in excessively heavy
pigment. balance thrusting
and static masses. Both
artists are abstract express
sionists. Marie Tuicillo Kelly
shows q small mosaic Of
varied colors and swagged
lines. different from the va
riety of works in her Ores
Gallery solo last year.
BY Louise Nevelson. repre-.
scented in Washington exclu-
sively by Ores Gallery, is an
other sculpture" entitled
Reflections" q tall narrow
black box in which black
blocks of different sizes and
shapes have been neatly
stacked. These sable objects
by Miss Nevelson have in
spired a great amount Of be.
witched and esoteric COM
ment by avant garde writers.
(Gres Gallery open II to 8
Tuesday through Saturday.
Bultimoreuns
-Four Baltimore artists,
Cecile Baer. Jack Bonsal,
Helen jacobson and William
Waller, are sharing the JET
ferson Place Gallery. 1915
Connecticut avenue, tomor-
row through Saturday. IL to
5. Each is represented with
five or six paintings or sculp-
lures.
Helen jacobson, the only
Maryland artist invited to
exhibit in "Art: u. s. A.. SO"
in New York City this spring.
who won one Of three equal
awards, is the subject Of 0
newspaper article framed
with the show. She is de-
scribed as "contemptuous Of
subject matter or representa-
tional art" and is quoted as
saying, 1.-THE artist is faced
with q blank canvas, and that
is his subject matter" What
she does with q blank canvas
Is to splash or smear color
on 1t. Her prize-winning
work Is here, black on white.
"Vernal" is a melange Of yell
low, pink, green and blue.
Orange Square" comprises
approximately the lower right
quarter of the painting, the
rest thinly stained with pink.
Cecile Baer uses many ma
terials besides pigment for
her paintings: Gravel, sand,
pebbles. crushed glass, etc.,
which In her small vertical