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Show ... . i-'i,.- ... "y TT - .. " ' i-yHT'" ... - - - ' - i " ! - ' - . ' .1 "First Outing," an acrylic by Jean Shadrach, is an example of the animal studies for which the artist is best known. Old Town Gallery opens two-artist show March 3 Sculptor Elijah David Herschler and acrylic artist Jean Shadrach will be the focus of an exhibit running March 3 to 29 at the Old Town Gallery, 1101 Park Ave. Herschler, a native of New York City, lives in Southern California in the winter and in Colorado in the summer. He studied art, sculpture and architecture in Rome and Perurgia, Italy. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Cornell University Uni-versity and a master's from Clare-mont Clare-mont Graduate School in California. Herschler' s "Ribbons in Space" sculptures can be found in most major American museums as well as in museums Jerusalem, Israel and Seoul, Korea. His work also appears in the corporate collections of General Motors, Northrup Aviation and the Hartford Life Insurance Company in addition to those of I Mitsui Bank and the Oberoi Hotels in New Delhi, India. Herschler was the first sculptor to be invited to create pieces for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration art collection. A ribbon sculpture for the Kennedy Space Center in 'Cape Canaveral, Florida, was dedicated in January. Shadrach, a Colorado native, has lived in Anchorage, Alaska for 15 years. She studied art at the University of New Mexico, in Atlanta, Georgia and in Okinawa, where she was taught sumi-e, a form of Oriental ink drawing. She also studied abstract design with William Kimura, watercolor with Keith Appel and design with Jerry Conaway. Shadrach's work hangs in public and private collections throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan. She was the first woman to give a one-person exhibition at the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum and has also been shown at the Charles and Emma Frye Museum in Seattle. In July Shadrach received an award of merit at the Seventh Annual National Artists Seminar in Chicago. She was one of 12 artists selected from among 495 who entered the competition. Concurrent with her Old Town Gallery exhibit, Shadrach's work will be shown at an invitational endangered endan-gered species exhibition in New Mexico. She is best known for her animal and floral studies and panoramas. A reception for the artists will be held March 3 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Old Town Gallery. Herschler's "Ribbons in Space" sculptures hang in museums from Israel to Korea. |
