September 10, 1999: Volume 47, Number 1

Exact Spectacular on Display in Nott

Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the exhibition An Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture by Henry Turner through Oct. 17.

The show is curated by writer, publisher and collector David Greenberger of 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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