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Thursday — Saturday
March 12-14, 8 P.M.
Saturday, March 14, 2

Donizetti's comic opera

Power Center

P.M.

(75-minute Family Performance)

Daughter of the Regiment

Huntington Woods resident Jeffrey Abt
opens a show of his drawings and paintings
in Rochester.

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An enchanting fully-staged production
with live orchestra, performed in
French with English supertitles.

poetics of representation, can be noted
at the exhibition by observing the var-
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ious ways he depicts chairs: from the
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similar to the flat compositions of
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helps other artists advance
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their careers. He teaches,
dimensional objects but still rendered
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three-dimensional style similar to an
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exercise from a drawing handbook.
Abt's reality-based drawings and
"It's interesting to me that people
paintings, to be displayed March 7-
will often talk about art that is realistic
April 4 at the Cary Gallery in
as lacking creative freedom when I
Rochester,
invite
viewers
to
examine
think just the opposite is true," the
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the way space is perceived.
Huntington Woods resident
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said.
"Most of the work in the
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show is recent," said Abt, 49,
"I would say abstract art
The po etics of
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world is really like only when the poetics
"There's not a particular theme or
of representation are being addressed."
idea. My work tends to be fairly com-
Abt paints with acrylics on panels
plex. An individual painting or draw-
so that he can alter the surfaces. He
ing often has a number of ideas both
in terms of the subjects that I'm deal-
believes the biggest change in his work
over the past 20 years has to do with
ing with and also the ways in which I
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address those subjects through tech-
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sophistication with which they are
rendered.
Abt's approach, which he calls the
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