‘Beyond Nature’ On View At Bachelier-Cardonsky

KENT — The Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery is presenting “Beyond Nature,” featuring the work of the painters Roberto Azank, Eleanor Miller, and Judith Wyer and sculptor Steven Whinfield. The exhibition is on view until November 12.

Mr Azank, originally from Argentina, is a still life artist whose fruits and flowers are exacting. His forms are stark and precise, painted with a strong primary palette. In every aspect of color, light and form, his sense of balance is perfect. “Powerful, bold and passionate” were words describing one of Mr Azank’s solo shows, and since 1990, he has had many across the country.

Ms Miller’s paintings are meditations on nature. They blur the distinction between reality and dream with exacting details and broad brushstrokes.

Like nature, they are multilayered in warm earth tones. Fish, birds and flowers, water, earth and sky collide in harmony.Ms Miller is a graduate of Connecticut College and the School of Visual Arts, with many gallery and museum shows since in 1984.

Ms Wyer, a graduate of Brooklyn College, was reviewed as a painter of works “rendered with poignant narrative simplicity.” Museums and subways are her subjects, often filled with figures, alone or in groups.

They are “beautifully colored and lighted interiors” with people of “hidden expressions and pure gestures of humanity.” Most of her paintings are intimate in scale, holding a quiet mood and delicate balance.

Mr Whinfield is a sculptor whose works demand a double-take. At first glance, they seem to be old discarded vessels: rusted paint cans, metal pots or sprouted containers. They are, in fact, fine likenesses, done in raku, a technique using fired clay.

Not only are the details perfect, so too are the glazed colors. One of his first shows was at The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield.

The gallery is at 11 North Main Street. For information call 860-927-3129 or visit www.BachelierCardonsky.com.