By Andrew Firestone

At the new exhibit at NAVE Gallery. "Elements: Line, Color and Form,"
three very different artists, using three very different art forms,
painting, drawing and sculpture to come together in a spectacle of the
grand and the minuscule.

Curator Susan Berstler said the
diverse works were united by their use of "found" objects calling the
goal of the exhibit "to create conversations between and to draw
attention to similarities among these different bodies of work."

The works visually evoked the raw materials of life, from Kathleen
Finley's miniaturized villa-cities, to a strikingly expressionistic
visual grid of the human hand in a graphite drawing by Alisa Dworsky.

Somerville artist Ron Brunelle exhibited a range of his acrylic
paintings, which brought many to absolute memorization with his
enrapturing use of deep colors. Peter Miner said he felt Brunelle's
"Mayo" was "Monet-like."

Kathleen Finlay, a
Somerville artist, took a different approach, making sculptures using
common materials in meticulously constructed miniature cities and giant
strands of cord and rope. She described her art as "about how we make
things to try to keep ourselves safe and protect ourselves against
time," exhibiting her plaster sculpture of a broken, crumbling city.