C.S.A. exhibitions

Press, 22 June 1989, Page 19

C.S.A. exhibitions

Exhibitions at the C.S.A.’s North, Front and Canaday Galleries by Rosemary Campbell, Anna Palmer and Gisela Genthner until June 25. Reviewed by Pat Unger.

The C.S.A. continues its recent run of interesting exhibitions with works that range from the decoratively pleasing to the more thoughtfully analytical in three separate shows now on.

In the North Gallery Rosemary Campbell’s watercolours again show her ability to distill and highlight strange emanations from banks and flows of colour, with Cous-teau-like dedication. Rich and delicate colours and fine detail of line complement each other in paintings that, although they convey her

media’s capacity for visual depth, do not seem to be going any further. Anna Palmer puts her still life and flower studies into contemporary settings by rhythmic stylisation and patterning, in the Front Gallery. Figure and ground achieve further unity by scribbled surface marks which successfully flatten dimension and heighten composition. With their bright conte pastels, they are good complements to today’s interior design

styles. The Canaday Gallery hosts tougher work by Gisela Genthner. Even indifferently pressented, her collage and crayon paintings show easy familiarity with principles involved in abstract relationships and picture construction. Her European background to the fore, she places her non-objec-tive art vocabulary of universalised line, plane and form in free but somewhat backward-looking harmonies.