Recent Paintings Feb 4 - Mar 2, 1984 During February the Frumkin Gallery will show a group of new paintings and works on paper by James McGarrell. The exhibition is dominated by a 15 foot, three panel painting called Nightlife and Northlight� which is a complex amalgam of landscape, figure and still-life motifs in the artist's characteristic style. There is also a multiple self-portrait called Double Double Espalier� and a number of paintings and watercolor-monotypes (the latter new to the artist's oeuvre) of figures seen in Italiante landscapes. In a current article on McGarrell in Arts Magazine, Edward Bryant characterizes the work as "expansive, inclusive, opulent, and elusive."� He goes on to describe the paintings as "understandable by incomprehensible." The current exhibition continues the line of McGarrell's work over the past twenty-five years and represents a development of the ideas in his 1981 exhibition, which featured the mural-sized painting Travestimento. This work (now in the collection of the Museum of Art at Indiana University) was a featured work in the last Carnegie International. James McGarrell was first seen in New York in the New Images of Man� exhibition of the late 1950s and has subsequently exhibited in museums and galleries throughout this country and Europe. He has lived for many years in Italy, but is currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. He is widely known for his extensive graphic production which will soon be the subject of a major exhibition at the Springfield (Missouri) Art Museum. The McGarrell exhibition opens on February 4th and runs through March 2nd. The Frumkin Gallery is open from 10 to 6, Tuesday through Friday and 12 to 5:30 on Saturdays. Exhibition Checklist Paintings 1. Nightlife and Northlight, 1983, oil on canvas, 60 x 171 inches 2. Double Double Espalier, 1982, oil on linen, 52 x 82 inches 3. The Grand Mediteranian, 1983, oil on linen, 41 x 80 inches 4. Drifting Move, 1981-82, oil on canvas, 78 x 59 inches 5. Crossing Move, 198182, oil on canvas, 78 x 59 inches 6. Magpie Goodbye, 1981, oil on canvas, 29 ¾ x 48 inches Goache Monotypes Partition: 1. Pygmalion I, 1982, 24 � x 32 � inches Left of Entry: 2. Plasir de Cheveax, 1982, 24 x 32 inches 3. Potato Island, 1982, 24 � x 32 1/8 inches Main wall: 4. Pymalion II, 1982, 24 x 32 inches 5. Puces, 1982, 24 � x 32 1/8 inches 6. Speccio Pericoloso, 1982, 25 x 32 3/8 inches 7. Bearmasked Portage, 1982, 23 x 30 inches