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The union of Pamela Soldwedel's sensuous sculptures plays enticingly beneath Richard Barrett's exciting, brilliantly colorful photographic creations.

This is the first exhibition of Barrett's evocative works, a culmination of many years behind the camera. His eye unerringly captures the unusually beautiful, the deeply human reflections ranging from the serene to the troubling, of wonder, of wit, of tenderness, each surprising in their content of heart-felt warmth. They are depicted in a wide range from abstract to sharp reality, from 8 feet to 8 inches in size.

Soldwedel's sculptures continue to seduce with her powerful organic studies, springing from the quarried rocks, the blazing crucible, glowing plastics and silvered joinings, many seeming to challenge gravity with their precariously balanced mountings. Her latest sculptures take titillation to a new level through experiments with golden drips and flows, gleaming splits, jagged cracks earth patinas and uniquely intricate stratifications.