Lexington washes across the walls of Cross Gate Gallery this month in streams of watercolor, forming images of Cheapside, the Lexington Opera House, Al's Bar and many other familiar locations rendered in dreamy impressions from the brush of Sandra Oppegard, right. "There was one lady in here who said, 'You make Lexington look like Paris,'" Oppegard says, leading a casual tour of her exhibit, Landscapes & Townscapes. She quickly steers toward a painting and says, "I think she was referring to the old Metropol at dusk, because that has a kind of Parisian feel." In her image, the restaurant,...
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