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about us home past exhibitions laura wesley ford - paintings bethann wilson - paintings cornel rubino, ink stained fingers: new watercolors and drawings allison fomich: volumes jeff schoch, constructed radiance santiago vaca - organica ii: works on paper the tangible transcendent: centering from a source christopher e. lonegan: ancestral voices cooperativa artesanal don bosco de chacas al fresco: contemporary art in plaster and pigment rande barke: works on paper 1999 - 2004 ringside: photographs by christopher myers and j. m. giordano wrong war, right protest: artists speak out on war and politics stephen zaima: modern baroque		Rande Barke: Encrypted Landscapes "Lighthouse Residential", oil on canvas, 2007 - 2008 September 20 - October 25, 2008 Reception: Saturday, September 20, 6 – 8 PM Rande Barke paints man-made structures obscured by painterly abstraction. Barke uses well-worn pictorial devices and then encrypts deliberately naïve realism with pointillist brushstrokes and polygonal constructions. Deft paint handling and smart compositions deliver caustic witticisms. About the Artist Rande Barke’s work is included in numerouscollections including Fidelity Investments, Lauren Rodgers Museum of Artsand the “Elaine de Kooning’s Inadvertent Collection”. He has exhibitedextensively throughout the United States including the Brooklyn Museumand E.M. Donahue Gallery in New York City. He has been a recipient of grantsfrom the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation. About the Gallery SCHIAVONE FINE ART is located within Baltimore’s Highlandtown Arts District. The gallery features artists who work in a variety of mediums and styles capturing the diversity of the contemporary world. Schiavone Fine Art presents artists distinguished by their high level of professional achievement.