RIDLEY HOWARD.(Brief Article)

New York-based painter Ridley Howard is profoundly attached to the South of his childhood. The six large-scale oil paintings and three drawings in the "Palace Court" series, 1998-2000, on view in his first solo exhibition recently, depict this twenty-six-year-old artist's neighbors on the suburban Atlanta street where he spent his first thirteen years.

In the narrative theater of Howard's canvas, his characters--Janie Mulaski, Mr. Genn, Hester, Barbara, Kelly, the Domenicos--function as cultural archetypes and autobiographical signifiers. Howard's settings and figures are ...

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