Issue 14 December 28, 1999    

Welcome to the last True Colors of this century!

Our international roster is strengthened this week with new French surrealist painter, Jacqueline Bareille-Denat. Her imaginative landscapes share a language all their own. Also new to PaintingsDirect.com is California painter Kasandra Weinerth, who uses light-reflecting gold leaf in her work to imitate patterns in nature. Her methods are intricate and purposeful, and reveal the artist's talents.

All this and more in this week's True Colors. We hope you enjoy it! Please let us know if there is other information you might like to see on our site by contacting Majordomo@PaintingsDirect.com with comments or questions.

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From the team at PaintingsDirect.com, we wish you and yours a joyful Millennium celebration.

Sometimes what one person calls "Art" sounds a lot like a mailing project to another. Read about Ezra Shales' "art project", which involves licking a lot of stamps for 10,000 postcards in this week's "The House that Ezra did not Build".



Moving on to Italy, home of a huge number of the world's greatest art and cultural artifacts.... A large 13th century fresco was recently discovered near the Coliseum in Rome. Will it be restored in time for next year's Jubileo celebrations? Read more in this week's "Art in the News".

  Beth Kantor
Although Beth Kantor began her painting career depicting a wide variety of subject matter, her most recent bodies of work focus on land and seascapes. In these works, Kantor portrays memories of a clear, fall landscape and of fellow vacationers at Cape Cod. Beth Kantor studied art history and painting at Princeton University and has had several solo exhibitions in New Jersey.
 
  Dale Emmart
Dale Emmart’s seemingly abstract oil paintings are artfully cropped still-lifes of gladiola blossoms, grocery cuts of meat, and bird’s nests. The artist often removes her subject from its natural context to challenge the meanings designated to everyday rituals and banal objects. “I’ve rendered the subjects so that they have become icons…metaphors for portraits or intimate interiors." Emmart studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited her work at the Albright Knox Museum, the Everhardt Museum and at various New York galleries.
 


  Jacqueline Bareille-Denat
Jacqueline Bareille-Denat is PaintingsDirect’s newest French artist. Her surrealist landscapes and portraiture are inspired by literature, performers, and the “magical” South of France. She intensifies the color of the landscape to create dream-like narratives between clowns, jugglers, and acrobats. Bareille-Denat graduated from the Ecole Normale de Dessin in Paris and is presently teaching painting in France. She has exhibited her work all over France and in Spain.
 
  Suzanne Archibald
Suzanne Archibald’s abstract works in oil are clips of remembered objects and scenes of life, such as houses, rabbits and faces. Her line drawings act as the structure of each piece, as literal outlines of things remembered. She layers the drawing repeatedly, between patches of color, to illustrate the changing meaning of images throughout our lives. "My process is about seeking variety and surprise.” Suzanne Archibald received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and has exhibited her work in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

 
  Kasandra Weinerth
Kasandra Weinerth’s paintings and monotypes mimic the shapes and textures of nature through her depictions of leaves and vines, and her intricate process. “I layer gold leaf with transparent acrylic glazes, creating an iridescence that makes each painting appear to glow from within.” Her interest in alchemy is apparent in the transformation her work undergoes from start to finish. Kasandra Weinerth studied at the Art Center College of Design and has exhibited her work around the Napa Valley.

 
  Douglas E. Jamieson
Douglas E. Jamieson captures picturesque scenes of New York City. He depicts scenes of recognizable landmarks such as the 59th Street Bridge, Central Park and the ubiquitous hotdog stands that line its winding paths. He also paints many still-life and scenes of nature. His prolific body of work and realistic style come from a twenty-year career as a professional illustrator and courtroom artist. Douglas Jamieson studied at the School of Visual Arts and at the Art Student’s League of New York. His work has been exhibited in several galleries in New York City and in the Queens Museum.
 
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