September 24, 1999: Volume 47, Number 3

Exact Spectacular Opens in Nott

Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the exhibition An Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture by Henry Turner.

The opening reception is Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m. with curator David Greenberger, a writer, publisher and collector from Greenwich, N.Y.

Included are about 120 drawings by Rogers and 49 small-scale wood sculptures by Turner. Both are "self-taught" or "outsider" artists with no formal artistic training; their motivation and frame of reference differ considerably from that of mainstream, schooled artists. Both men are in their 70s; Rogers lives in a nursing home near Boston, and Turner was last known to be living in Schenectady.

Greenberger, called a "stand-up sociologist" by Rolling Stone magazine, has spent two decades recording observations and comments by nursing home residents and publishing them in his magazine The Duplex Planet. He also has been a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

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