Copy Cats exhibit on display at Gallery One until Nov. 4

Gallery One’s October show, Copy Cats, will be open to the public through Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 32 Atlantic Ave., Ocean View. 

This month, Gallery One members are paying homage to some inspirational artists’ works, acknowledging the original source and honoring its influence.

With his "Autumn Evening, Trail in the Woods," Ed Lewandowski gives a nod to Isaac Ilyich Levitan, a Russian Impressionist painter from the late 1800s who advanced the genre of the mood landscape.

In “Monet’s Inspiration,” Cindy Beyer was sparked to re-create the famous artist’s famous water lilies.

Lesley McCaskill’s “Street in Italy” was inspired by John Singer Sargent, an artist who loved the figure and painted from life with elegant looseness.

Mary Bode Byrd’s “Say It isn’t So” was inspired by Louis Wane, a British artist of the 19th century who created large-eyed cats and anthropomorphic staging.

Michelle Marshall’s “Pinball Triad” is an homage to Wayne Thiebaud, an American pop artist known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects.

Regarding “Five Charlies,” Laura Hickman said, “My senior year of college, we bought Charlie Chaplin masks and dressed alike in our class blazers and painter's pants. The result was  a copycat of sorts, and we also each had the sad face of friends not wanting to part.”

In “Basic Training,” artist Joyce Condry’s copycats are actually birds. Laurie Fields copies the techniques of a favorite artist in her oil/graphite piece, “Cross Hatch.”

Dale Sheldon completes the theme with “Bella and Her Pillow” in acrylic. A mackerel tabby, Bella sits near a pillow copying two possible ancestors who are dressed in crowns and jewels.