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Portraits both advancing and serene. Necklaces, abstruse bank hangings, floral still-lifes and ablaze cityscapes abounding with row homes. A hat, a stepstool fabricated of board traps, a metal fish, a accumulating of begin altar in a board frame.
All these and added are allotment of the 49th anniversary Art of the Accompaniment exhibit, now on affectation at the Accompaniment Museum of Harrisburg.
“There's a altered board every year,” says Howard Pollman, administrator of alien diplomacy for the Pennsylvania Actual and Museum Commission, “so the affectation is altered every year. Afterwards 49 years, it's still fresh.”
Among the 122 works called from added than 1,770 submitted by Pennsylvania artists, seven from Lancaster County are represented.
And three of those were accustomed with prizes at the aperture accession aftermost month.
A abiding finalist or champ in the Art of the Accompaniment is Lancaster painter Denny Bond, whose “92” won aboriginal award-winning in painting. The red-rimmed eyes of an elderly, white haired woman beam beeline advanced from the watercolor work.
Wearing two strands of white chaplet about her neck, the accountable of the painting figuratively holds time in her age-spotted easily — clutching a alarm with fingers bizarre with brownish attach polish. A alternation of sparkly orbs in the painting's accomplishments — reinforcing the polka dots in the woman's brim — accomplish her assume as if she's abeyant in alien space.
“My archetypal was absolutely my mother,” Bond says. “She was 92 ... and experiencing dementia. It was (part of) a alternation of paintings I did, aural the aftermost three years, that were ambidextrous with age.”
Bond's mother has aback anesthetized away.
“The painting signifies aggregate that was accident to her,” Bond says. “The accomplishments circles are absorption the actuality that she's accepting some anamnesis loss, and they're array of beginning and activity away. There's a accomplished affair of the amphitheater of life, and it's again in her pearls. It's again in her dress that she's wearing. It's again in the background.
“It's again in the alarm she's holding, to admonish the admirers of the casual of time and age progression,” Bond adds.
Woodworker and printmaker Gene Shaw of Lancaster won aboriginal award-winning in the “works on paper” class for his block print, “Song of the Saw to Post Modern.” It's account abiding in advanced of this work, aback there's a abundant accord to booty in. The black-and-white book appearance an analogy of a table abounding with altar from woodworking accoutrement to books abounding with adorning board corbels to a box of dominoes.
Bryan Fellenbaum of Columbia won additional award-winning in the painting class for his mixed-media assemblage, “In Search of Land's End,” which combines orange, blooming and amber acrylic with such assorted elements as strips of ablaze ads, a allotment of a alley map of England, assets of the moon's phases and a bulging shelf captivation album books — one a adviser to the stars, addition a Jack London novel.
“It started with the capital book cover, which was an old album I bought in an aged shop,” Fellenbaum says. “I put it on, and afterwards putting on some added shapes, I started cerebration about a captain or a sailor out on the ocean. I was cerebration about him absent to go acquisition places. What abroad would he need?”
Fellenbaum says that's aback he started cerebration about abacus the shelf and the books. He asked himself, “What affectionate of books ability you acquisition on an explorer's shelf?”
“There's a brilliant book,” Fellenbaum says, “and ‘White Fang’ is on there. There's a Boy Scout's acreage book, and a abstruseness book. These go forth with the affair of exploring. ... I anticipation the phases of the moon would go able-bodied with that theme, as well. (A captain) would accept to cross by the stars.”
Swirls of blue, teal, blight and chicken besom acclamation draw the eye about the circular, abstruse acrylic work, “Playing? (around) #2” by Jerome Hershey of Lancaster. It's a assignment that demands to be credible up close, its alone elements creating an ecosystem of color, abundant with life.
Hershey, incidentally, toured the affectation aftermost anniversary with Pennsylvania's Aboriginal Lady Frances Wolf, discussing the works for the account of a lunchtime-event audience.
The black-and-white face of a horse, its aphotic arch and amateur set adjoin a albino background, attracts the eyewitness to “Wendolyn Dreams of Spring.” This agenda photograph is by accomplished Art of the Accompaniment honoree Jennifer MacNeill of East Petersburg.
Ephrata artisan Matthew Jones, a Manheim Township art abecedary who has been application the Veterans Memorial Bridge amid Columbia and Wrightsville as the architectural brood for his contempo work, offers a blink beneath one of the structure's arches in his bite print, “Bridge I Accompaniment V.”
Lebanon Valley College visiting artisan and academic Dorothy Thayne, of Lancaster, is accepted for her iconographic paintings. In her “Ellen and Bishop Tutu” in the accompaniment exhibit, Thayne captures a chicken room, abounding with artwork and furniture, as the ambience for an affectionate chat amid a woman in a dejected clothing and the acclaimed South African religious leader.
The “Ellen” in the painting, Thayne said, is the backward Lancaster artisan and borough baton Ellen Groff. Human rights activist Desmond Tutu backward at Groff’s home aback he was in the breadth several years ago, Thayne noted.
The arena in the painting depicts the autogenous of Groff's home, Thayne adds. She chose to admire Tutu's visit, she says, “because Ellen was a friend, and I admired and admired her greatly.”
The affectation additionally contains a pencil cartoon by Frank Morgan of Wrightsville. The classical accountable in his “Hercules and Antaeus” is the fabulous action amid the sons of Poseidon and Zeus. The account depicts the moment aback Hercules lifts the behemothic Anteus — his face angled in affliction — off the ground,
Works in the affectation by non-Lancaster County artists run the area from “Alligator Gar,” a continued angle carve disconnected calm from such bits as fishing rods and a tennis racket, to “Lady Rosamund,” a blooming absolute hat with silk-flower accents created by Jennifer Nilsen of East Fallowfield.
“I don’t anticipate we’ve anytime had a hat in the affectation before,” Pollman says.
The affectation contains amusing copse carvings and abstruse bank hangings, photos of ablaze birds and paintings of ablaze row homes and white, featherlike sheep.
James Winegar, of Graysville, created a ceramics dish, “Ode to Bernard Palissy,” featuring a sprawling lobster in the middle, and Matthew Bennett of Carlisle created the black, corrective outline of a changeable “State Police Trooper” on a agleam band of metal.
Other arresting works account a appropriate attending at accommodate the museum's Purchase Award winner, “Descent into Darkness: The Boys of the Mines,” by Patricia Kennedy-Zafred. A all-embracing bolt picture, it's a collage of images of the bedraggled faces of adolescent miners, with superimposed argument giving a appearance on their ages and actual circumstances.
“Triplets with Llamas,” an oil painting by Diane Turner of Kutztown appearance three identical women with albino duster and red, medieval-style gowns, arresting assorted poses amid timberline trunks as a amber and a white llama attending on.
Joe Cicak of Harrisburg captures a abbey captivation a woman in a white dress, her arch befuddled aback in ecstasy, during an credible river ablution in a photograph blue-blooded “Redemption.”
And the abashing oil painting “Leap of Faith,” by Allen Capriotti of Altoona, depicts an odd, familial scene. With a collapsed babe account in the foreground, a man talks actively into the ear of a woman who’s cutting a bomb-wired belong over her her deficient blooming undergarments.
The Art of the Accompaniment covers agony, beatitude and aggregate in between.
