It was like old home week in Jeannette’s You Are Here Gallery during the May 4 opening reception for “Trances,” a solo retrospective exhibition by local artist Larry Beaver.

Mike Zvara of Jeannette said he and the artist were in the same Boy Scout troop back in the early 1960s. His wife, Chris Zvara, said she is the longtime owner of a Beaver rendering of “a beautiful naked lady with a beautiful smile on her face.”

Bob and Kathie Tanyer, Jeannette neighbors of the artist and his wife, Becky Benson-Beaver, showed cellphone video of their restored 1968 Chevrolet Camaro, with a Beaver painting of a group of cavemen surrounding a volcano on its trunk.

“We all have this weird connection in this city,” Kathie Tanyer said.

Running through June 9, the exhibition features mostly pastels and some works in other mediums dating from 1978 to the present. Curator is gallery intern Phoebe Walczak.

The gallery website describes the depictions of figures and faces as “intuitive and impulsive … both haunting and electrifying.”

They were there: Jen Costello, Maddie Jaynes, Dan Overdorff, Bob and Cindy Regina, Jill Sorrells, Ray Hursh and Gloria Gonzalez.

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