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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 11 SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1993 i mi mil -uiii -iiiimoi iim in REVIEW ART "ERonasM PLAYED LIKE CHAMBER MUSIC Bruct Williamson, PLAYBOY MAGAZINE ONCE UPON A FOIIST 1 15 5 1 5 ma mm rotESi ieo ux INDIAN SUMMER 3.0O7.00 9 INDIAN SUMMER 3, 157.19 9 HOT SHOTS 1 9 00 Imagination And Time's Passage HOT SHOTS 9:153 THE SANOLOT HOT SHOTSI 1.30 3.137)0 3 unCoenrenHiver SPLITTING HEIRS 3 00 7,0 BENNY A JOON 5:00 9:00 i THE S1NHOT 1.30 3.30 5.307.30 tS WHO'S THE MAN 9 00 WSSX IA HEART IN WINTER) OCTOBER THE LOVER 9,30 Hi SlIICTLfULUOOM 100 seo INDIAN SUMMER 3.00 7.00 9.00 James McGarrell: New Paintings, Bronzes and Works on Paper Where: William Shearburn Fine Art, 4740A McPherson, second floor When: Through July 31 Hours: 1-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment 0WIUPONrOliSTl15 NIGHTLY 7:009:15 SAT 4:45 7:00 9:15 SUN 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:15 ONCE UPON A FOREST 1,153:155:15 INDIANSUMMER3.007.003 HOT SHOTS 2 9.00 3 1 fV TTT iv TIMES FOR SUNDAY 07-18-93 Mi i Purchase Tickets it Hit. No Children Under 3 In Any PG-13 or R-Rated Feature after 6 P.M. In Advance, The gallery is dominated by two enormous canvases from McGarrell's "Young and Old" series of double portraits of 10 20th-century artists: "The Singer, Young and Old" (Billie Holiday) and "The Painter, Young and Old" (Edwin Dickinson).

The only visual artist in the group, Dickinson is hardly a household name, but the Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art describes him in terms that could also describe McGarrell: "His imagination often invokes comparison with the 'Gothic' romanticism of the 19th century: There are also surrealist overtones in the hallucinatory precisionism of his shapes and their dissolving into one another." Both paintings contain images of the artists involved in their art and also brooding visages, one old and the other young. The canvases are a tangle of biographical details contained in careful, dramatic compositions where the negative space between objects is as significant as the objects themselves a key element for the success of compositions of this complexity. McGarrell's images feed the view-, er's imagination and keep it burning in the attempt to create stories to make sense of it all. They are a bonfire for the eye and the mind. Northwest So 298-8847 721 -6844 Otestwood Piaza 968-8766 Regency Sq.

946-8174 781 -3806 BETH MIDLER SARAH JESSICA ETOR KATHYNAJM village Square. 895-3604 I HOCUS POCUS HOCUS POCUS i 1:15 3 30 15 45) 6 00 10 15 PQ WEEKEND AT BERNIES II 1:102:10 (5 30) 7:10 7:50 9:30 10 15 PO IN THE LINE OF FIRE 1:20 2 7:55 8:50 10.30 ISfiF PICTURES inth. And perhaps most tellingly, he honors artists from another medium, literature: Joyce and Nabokov. The paintings in this show are rich in incident and detail. Their themes refer to obsessions of McGarrell's: the creative imagination and the passage of time.

McGarrell has painted four small puzzle paintings especially to fit the confines of Shearburn's small space. They hang attached by velcro in a wooden frame; the parts can be rearranged to create totally different effects. The three works in the "Dancing Daughters" series which he terms verso variant diptychs each represent young girls dancing within the romantic confines of rooms that could illustrate a Gothic novel. Each group sways to the sounds of a different musician. While the girls in "The Chandelier" dance to a dark, satanic saxophonist in a gold and burgundy room rich enough for a 1920s movie palace, the young women in "Portrait of Cezanne" cavort to the plaintive notes of a melancholy guitarist.

In "Hearthfire," they have stripped naked to prance before the fire to the accompaniment of a solitary violinist. PRESENTS WEEKEND AT BERNIES II 1:00 3 00 (5:15) 7:30 9:45 PQ IN THE LINE OF FIRE 1:30 (4:30) 7:15 10:00 THE SON-IN-LAW 1 :46 5 30 6:00 10:15 PO-13 JURASSIC PARK 0O7 4510 30PO-1l WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? 1:45 (5:30) DENNIS THE MENACE 1:00 3:00 (5:15) 7:309 45 PO 1 :25 3:20 (5:25) 7:30 9:40 PO SNOW WHITE 1:001:45 3:00 3 7:45 9 00 0 LAST ACTION HERO 1:40 (5:05) 7:45 10:20 PO-13 WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO 00 WITH IT? pocuS 1:50 5:10) 7:40 10:10 MADE IN AMERICA 1:30 (5:35) 8:10 10 25 PO-13 CLIFFHANGER 9 45H By Carol Ferring Shepley JAMES McGARRELL, one of St. Louis' most important artists, is exhibiting new work at William Shearburn Fine Art this month. For the last 12 years, he taught at Washington University. In June, he became professor emeritus and will soon move to Vermont.

But he will maintain a studio in the Central West End, and he plans to return one day a month to work with graduate students. A proponent of what has been variously labeled "expressionistic realism," "surrealism," "narrative" and "imagist" art McGarrell has marched to the beat of his own drummer since his first important show in 1959. At that time, when he was barely out of graduate school, he was one of three artists to exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "New Images of Man" show. In more than 80 one-man exhibits, he has stuck with what he terms "fiction painting," an almost hallucinogenic combination of representational images, often simultaneously depicting different points in time. While Pop, Op, conceptualism and minimalism dominated the art scene, McGarrell's work was considered out of style at best, disreputable at worst.

But he has outlasted them all, only to find his brand 'of painting becoming fashionable again. As to influences, he mentions Renaissance and Baroque artists Giotto, Velazquez, Veronese, Titian and Bellini as well as 20th century masters Matisse, Beckmann and Cor- Excaliber Stages 2-Person Dramas TWO two-person dramas, Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" and Robert Friedman's "Man of Experience," will be presented as a theatrical double-header by Excaliber Production at Cummel's Cafe, 1215 Washington Avenue, at 8 p.m. Friday as the opener of a three-weekend run. Dan Belrose and Darryl Maximilian Robinson, artistic director of the company, will team in "The Zoo Story," with Robinson directing. Belrose and Carlos Woodson will team in "Man of Experience," with Michael Parrish directing the work of a St.

Louis author. The run continues Saturday at 8 p.m. and next Sunday at 7:30, and again July 31, Aug. 6 and 7 at 8, Aug. 1 and 8 at 2 and 7:30.

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