Weekend: An eclectic offering

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An eclectic offering

By LENNIE BENNETT
Published September 14, 2006

A lot of art is displayed in the spare white galleries of C. Emerson Fine Arts, 909 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. Owner Lori Johns has eight artists represented, including Jeff Whipple, whose distinctive style is translated into paintings, photographs, video and sculpture. Much of it reprises other recent exhibitions, but a funny lineup of masks is new - politically incorrect and satirical - in true Whipple fashion. Betsy Lester's assemblages on heavily worked surfaces are beautiful and elegiac. Irene Haupt's vivid photographs and Carol Komater's delicate collaged monoprints are interesting explorations of color and composition. Other artists on view are Robin Dunlap, Alicia Leigh Loomis, whose work is shown above, Rebecca Skelton (whose copper Sperm Catcher sculpture is both puzzling and amusing) and Kathleen Stroud. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and by appointment. (727) 898-6068.