Saturday in New York. Ninety seven degrees farenheit. What a great day to be in Chelsea! My good friend Nancy Bea Miller celebrated the opening of her show, Still Moments, at the Sherry French Gallery with a reception at the gallery. The gallery is in a wonderful airy space overlooking the Hudson River. The view is so spectacular that every time I am there for an opening, there is a moment when the focus turns from the art on the wall to the panorama outside. Saturday's distraction was a fireboat in the river below, spraying its hoses in all directions. The crowd in the gallery was cheery and animated despite the heat, moving towards the window to see the fireboat, then back to the main part of the gallery to continue enjoying the paintings and the company. Many friends came up from Philadelphia for the event including Fred Danziger, Carla Tudor, Marianne Mitchell and Fay Stanford. Nancy Bea's paintings glowed against the wall in the subdued light of the gallery. Her still life paintings are known for their strong sense of stillness. The doughnuts looking like they've been caught in a bell jar, the sugar gleaming with a stickiness that can never be touched. Surprisingly, even her landscapes with figures, like "Berry Picking on Manana " above, have a feeling of time stopped forever at a particularly quiet moment.
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