This duo at B2 Gallery is a modern Vaudeville act in pastel, inventive, sometimes frightening and often moving. It’s Ric Hall and Ron Schmitt, two artists who have now spent years collaborating on pastel paintings. I use the term “painting” because even though pastel is a chalk, a drawing media, what they do with it is painting in concept and appearance. And it is marvelous. They create an Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole world as illustrated by Pablo Picasso and the German Expressionists. Read More