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Arts fellows show off their creativity
By DAN BISCHOFF

Excerpt:
The NEA stopped giving grants to individuals because the institution could be held politically responsible for just about anything that artist did after he/she got the grant money, and you can see the risk. Artists survive on press notices, and often the best way to get attention, as we saw with last year's "Sensation" at the Brooklyn Museum, is to outrage. But there is none of that here, even in the entries from Martin Beck, an illusionistic realist who paints with flair and often a social conscience. Beck caused a stir in Jersey City last fall with a show that depicted often deeply offensive sexual and family situations, but curator Accola has chosen two fairly benign works, one a fantasy of bodies floating in midair and the other a gracefully sketched mother and child titled "Remorse." However Beck feels about things, confrontation just doesn't seem to be in the air lately. The State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition reflects that perfectly, laying its stress more on wit than conflict.

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