By Jessica Votipka
York News-Times
YORK â The two announcers prepare for every game like itâs a State Championship; rosters for both teams are studied, the equipment prepared and tested, then comes game time.
One announcer specializes in color commentary, while the other sticks with the essentials, the pair playing off each other as comfortably as the athletes on the court.
The announcers, by the way, are eighth-graders.
York Middle School students and fast friends Layton Oberle and Wes Heiss are sports broadcasting prodigies. The story of how they got behind the microphone is one of initiative, passion and teamwork.
Angela Fraleigh. Photo by Wes Heiss, courtesy of the artist.
Angela Fraleigh brings the work of the Old Masters into the 21st century with gorgeously rendered figures that seemed plucked from classical Western art history, which she paints against colorful abstract backgrounds rife with references to design traditions.
For “Fluttering Still,” her first New York solo show in over a decade, which is on view at Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fraleigh has overlaid elements pulled from turn-of-the-century illustrations by pioneering female designers Ethel Reed and Gerda Wegener atop images of women painted at life size.
Ahead of last month’s opening, we spoke with Fraleigh about her recent inspirations, what she listens to in the studio, and the art-historical research behind her latest works.