The Life & Art of James B. Zerger

Jim Zerger lived a short life. During his vapor-brief existence, though, he painted art that is awing people today, decades after his death. Time will tell how far into the future his paintings will travel.

Jim's artwork will be featured tonight 6 to 8 p.m. at the Artitudes Gallery Artist Reception, most of it showing for the first time.

The most notable of the paintings is a large, rectangular canvas that depicts a bone floating through many blue shades of outer space. Or it could also be, according to Jim's brother and instigator of tonight's reception, a bird's-eye view of a lone, barren is...