Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Molly Eichel

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Published: Sep 30, 2008

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This exhibit of photographer Ernestine Ruben's work shows her versatility and career-spanning evolution, from colorful panoramic shots (People in Fields) to stark black-and-whites (Palladium Pimple). In Scar on Knee, the body part in question is shown close-up, to the point of changing its meaning. Rather than looking like a simple joint, the knee transforms into an architectural masterpiece.

While Piper Shepard's chosen medium is fiber, her pieces aren't anything like dorm-tapestry batiks. Instead, she works in intertwining patterns that beautifully recall latticework. In Sieve (pictured), our eyes get lost in the countless dots that make up a majority of the piece, before being drawn to the soothing and intricate lace-like work in the right field.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts grad Alfred Ortega's current exhibit marks a departure from previous work. Now working in brighter colors, he abstractly uses oils to depict scenes of joy. In Long Road to Paradise, wind-struck, fluid figures dance on the beach as clouds swirl in an epic sky above and sand moves below, with colors encompassing the spectrum of Ortega's palette.

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