ART REVIEW : Fantasies by Inez Storer
SANTA MONICA — Inez Storer’s figurative paintings at Nina Frost Gallery have the dreamy, easy quality of Sunday afternoons. Unfortunately, they also have the feel of Sunday paintings.
Their images and techniques are pursued in the way hobbies are engaged, for the sake of diversion, relaxation and leisure. Perfectly pleasant and inoffensively amateurish, Storer’s oils and mixed media collages on canvas and paper benignly depict single scenes from static daydreams and frozen scenarios from conventional reveries.
The settings are vaguely theatrical. Stage curtains, flowers and elaborate costumes dress up the dramas that often revolve around the possible romance between a plain-looking man and a nondescript woman. Single words, such as ever, tempting and messenger obliquely refer to mythological stories, echoing Storer’s own weightless illustrations of bland fantasies.
Nina Frost Gallery, 120 Broadway, Suite 102, Santa Monica, (310) 393-3743, through Dec. 13. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
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