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For this cross-country feature we requested our correspondents to ask museum directors to select a favorite contemporary painting or sculpture and give some comments on their choice.

What for many Artists would be a dream-come-true is just "a nice addition to the biographical data," to Oxnard College~ art instructor Jim Jarvalse.Six of Jarvaise's paintings have recently been accepted for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. The works will hang in Smithsonian's Hirshhorn : Museum and Sculpture Garden.

James Jarvaise long overdue return to the local exhibition scene finds him preoccupied with often essentially mono chromatic expanses of which motives are developed in an absurdly assuredly contemporary an individualistic way that nevertheless evokes have an ancient decorative patterns.

Originality in Art, as in Music, literature or related arts is the quality having to do with the not copied; the fresh; the novel...

Paintings done in various mediums line the walls. Five abstract impressionistic, paintings called "The Hudson River Series" represent the work of James Jarvaise. The paintings, done in bright color, show an uncontrolled free usage....

Planted in the outback of row upon row of paintings, James Jarvaise's strongly plastic small still-life would have made a worthy color selection.

The most youthful art that I have seen this month is produced by James Jarvaise, who is 91. If these collages were downtown at an industrial space, anyone would be scanning the information sheet on the entry desk to check out the MFA status and recent shows of this emerging artist. But looking more closely, it would be clear that the sophistication of composition and surface treatment are the very qualities that the artist has acquired over some seventy years spent in his studio. Louis Stern Fine Arts presents James Jarvaise: Collages Redux through April 25.