PaintingsDIRECT.com - Exhibition

Abstract painting reveals the infinite possibilities of communicating without words, and challenges our potential to think with our emotions. It employs formal elements to define pieces of the imaginary and the intangible. Artists create symbols and gestures according to their sensitivity to the forces around them. It is a means by which artists re-interpret the real. This exhibition presents four paintings that speak through the voice of form.

Our symbolic languages are derived from the equations we make between forms and ideas. Abstract painting toys with these beliefs and deconstructs representation. It shakes up our confidence in the images that we see every day and contradicts our immediate perception.

The four artists in this exhibition have each created a visual language of shape, color, and line to address their own formal concerns.

Leonid Lamm	Regine Sarallier	Joanna Boer

Leonid Lamm, a renowned abstract painter from Moscow, explores the dialog between volume and flatness in three-dimensional illusion. A French artist, Regine Sarallier, tells the story of a "moment" using vibrant colors and liquid forms. Joanna Boer, an artist from the Netherlands, depicts both struggle and liberation through contrast and line.