Date: Fri 10-Sep-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: JUDIR

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Baczek-Lake

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Wm Baczek Fine Arts Presents Pastels By Mallory Lake Through Oct 9

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NORTHAMPTON, MASS. -- Wm Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton is hosting a solo

exhibition of pastel landscapes of Italy by artist Mallory Lake. The show will

exhibit through Saturday, October 9. There will be an opening reception with

the artist present on Saturday, September 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Lake's landscapes are created using hand-made pastels which she applies in

thick, rich layers onto paper that has been specially coated with vegetable

fiber. This gives the paper a rough sand-papery surface, which combined with

the extremely soft and dense pastels produces a velvet-like buttery surface.

Traveling to Italy every year or two, Lake chooses to make her journey either

in early spring or mid-Autumn, when the colors of the landscape are in a

transitional state.

Lake's Tuscany is rich greens and browns, misty and mysterious. She softens

the edges of villas and the twisting streets, blurring with the rich pastels

to create landscapes that are at once evocative and accurate. Anyone who has

been to the Italian countryside around Tuscany, Umbria and Emilia Romagna will

instantly recognize how persuasively Lake captures the essence of the region.

Lake exhibits her pastels nationwide and even though she has been a primary

member of Wm Baczek Fine Arts stable of artists for years, this show marks her

first solo exhibit at the gallery. Her work is included in many important

public and private art collections, including the Museum in Lincoln, Mass.,

the Boston Public Library and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.

For more information about this or upcoming exhibits please contact owner

William Baczek at 413/587-9880. The gallery is located at 229 Main Street and

is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday, 12:30 to 4:30 pm and

Thursdays until 7:30 pm.