Three Artists Display Their Latest Works At Etherton Gallery
By Margaret Regan
HYPED-UP COLOR saturates every work in Etherton Gallery s sumptuous
opening show of the season. Gail Marcus-Orlen, a popular local artist, paints surrealistic
interiors in her familiar turquoises, yellows and purples, ratcheting
up the hues of her drifting walls and unloosed easy chairs to
the intensity of neon. On the opposite wall, photographer Christopher Burkett plumbs
the brilliant unnatural colors of the natural world. His astonishingly
detailed large-format Cibachrome prints vibrate with the screeching
reds of the autumn maple, the strident purples of blueberry fields
at sunrise. Tucked away in the tiny front gallery, local painter Owen Williams