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...years, Ablow has, for much of his career, devoted himself to the still life, finding in simple objects—the bowl, the cloth, the tableboth—the abstract and the specific. Ablow’s show of “Recent Paintings” at the Pucker Gallery in Boston is a testament both to his innovation and his artistic stamina...
Weil’s colors and textures may put other artists to shame—his vibrant colors become all the more apparent when placed next to Joseph Ablow’s exhibit, also recently being shown at the Pucker Gallery. While the former pulses with energy, the latter appears dull and tepid by comparison...
Naming an exhibition “Memories and Dreams” is bound to create a sense of ambiguity: Should one expect canvases painted in hazy dream-like blues? A display of Turner-like reproductions? The artwork of Shraga Weil, recently exhibited at the Pucker Gallery, deals with a seemingly incoherent choice of subject matter, but presents ambiguities that urge for interpretation...
Insipid, tepid and vigorously lacking in originality, the Pucker Gallery's current exhibit of pastels by Mallory Lake, Italy Light and Shadow, is a fuzzy romantic nightmare, Hallmark style. These lifeless, flat and relentlessly maudlin landscapes do the impossible: resurrect the bourgeois landscape of the 19th century without even the slightest hint of irony. Such unremitting cuteness might just as well have been the result of Snuggles the detergent teddy bear's experimentation with a paint-by-numbers kit while on vacation in Tuscany. To Lake's credit, several of her horizontal compositions are unusually strong in their geometric structure...
...Mallory Lake's pastels are on display at the Pucker Gallery, 171 Newbury St., Boston, through Nov. 8. For more information, call...