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Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art is present ing Janos Enyedi: Images of Industry through May 10, showcasing works by the late St. Petersburgbased artist, the gallery has announced. Among Enyedi's wideranging creations are threedimensional paintings, digital mixed media, sculptures and photographs, a news release points out. The exhibit's curators are Roy Slade, the former director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Cranbrook Art Museum, and Diana Enyedi, the artist's surviving wife and the representative of the Janos Enyedi collection in St. Petersburg, the release adds. "Janos' body of work is a whole. Each piece contributes to an epic American story that he told across a lifetime," says gallery director Allyn Gallup in the release. "Roy and Diana selected work that distills that larger story into a selfcontained narrative that stands on its own. It's an amazing compression, and it's unlikely these pieces will ever be seen together again." According to Gallup, Enyedi's art "evokes the haunting scope of America's industrial and postindustrial landscapes," the release continues. The artist's twodimensional work reveals glimpses of warehouses, abandoned mills and smokestacks, the release explains, while "his threedimensional constructivist pieces were actually assembled from frag ments of that world." Enyedi's "fascination with the vistas of American industry" began when he was 8, the release says. He was enjoying a late afternoon car ride with his parents in Gary, IN, when they turned a corner and he "saw a sudden apocalyptic vision of factories and refiner ies, spewing fire and smoke into the dimming sky," the release notes. "I looked at it as pure visual imagery," Enyedi once said. "The colors and forms and textures just stuck with me all my life." For more information, call 3662454 or visit allyngallup.com. The gallery is at 1288 N. Palm Ave. in Sarasota. GALLUP ART'S NEW SHOW FEATURES WORKS BY ENYEDI Port of Virginia by Janos Enyedi. Contributed image Heartland Souvenir by Janos Enyedi. Contributed image Sarasota News Leader April 11, 2014 Page 112