When Thorpe Intermedia at the Dominican Convent in
Sparkill closed its doors about seven years ago, a gallery was lost and an
artist was gained in Adele Myers, who, having been co‑director with the
sculptor David Weinrib, resumed her own work. A resident of the convent,
Sister Adele produced her first fresco while completing graduate studies
in Florence. At that time, she was, she said, "more interested in looking
at frescoes, than painting them." Now, she does little else.
Sister Adele, however, is a
nonobjective painter and her foundations are not walls but slabs of
cement, some textured, others left smooth. Her show, previewed in her
studio, consists of reliefs. small free‑standing works and a handful of
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"Point of Sunrise" involves
strips that graduate in color from pink to white and and lie at an angle
on a field of unpainted cement. "Voices in the Temple" centers on a
circular depression, painted blue and embossed with a pair of white
horizontals and a trinity of yellow cubes. Standing before the opening is
a crowd of gray verticals, touched here and there with white and green.
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