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 Jennifer Cecere
Jennifer Cecere’s latest series of paintings are portraits of the home. She cuts maps of familiar places into the universal triangular-topped sign for ‘house’ to transform this otherwise public symbol into an autobiographical sketch. The artist’s interest in “house/home, public/private, and physical/metaphysical” is a common thread in her work, which is part of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art collection at Cornell University, as well as the corporate collections of AT&T and Health and Hospital Corporation. |
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Thomas Heath
Thomas Heath realized his talent to express himself through oil painting when he turned forty. The artist paints on materials from everyday life, such as magazine covers in “The New York Times Series,” and on aprons in an earlier series of wearable art. Heath combines African American ancestral imagery with scenes from popular culture and urban lifestyle in pieces like “Gangster Rap”. The artist has exhibited his work in two solo shows and numerous group shows in New York City, and it belongs to the permanent collection of the New Harlem Gallery. |
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Robert Wright
Robert Wright’s seemingly abstract paintings capture the human figure in motion. They define neither figures nor their environments, but the dramatic interplay between the two. The artist’s deafness places him in a unique position that sharpens his sensitivity to human body language and physical relationships. “The human form is never still, but in a continual state of change. Human beings are not still lives. They are constantly moving.” Wright received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited his work prolifically throughout Ohio. |
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Daima
Daima’s highly stylized paintings on canvas are intimate scenes of androgynous figures. The artist’s main influences come from Indian and Persian painting and the poetry of Jalal-ud-dim Rumi, revealed in the figures’ stoic faces and period garments. The palette of each piece often communicates the figure’s emotional state or the emotional state of the painting itself. Daima studied at the Moscow Fine Arts School and the Tashkent Fine Arts Academy. She has exhibited throughout Europe and in Hong Kong. She currently lives in Paris.
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Roberta Nelson
Roberta Nelson’s unique collage and pencil technique results in colorful layered landscapes and geometric compositions. She depicts scenes from Virginia, the Grand Canyon, and the Southwestern United States by layering “4 to 15 layers of colored paper shaded with colored pencils to enhance the dimensional quality of the work.” Roberta Nelson studied at Pennsylvania State University and has exhibited her work all over New York.
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David Stroup
PaintingsDirect’s second photographer, David Stroup, creates sensual images centered on the human body’s physical and spiritual relationship to the earth. He juxtaposes delicate, bare figures and nature’s boundless grandiosity. “The human form becomes for me an extension of the landscape, a metaphor for our spiritual connection to this earth.” His locations include Joshua Tree National Park, Montano do Oro in California, and the Carrizo Plains of Central California. Stroup studied at Hancock College in California and has exhibited at the Santa Barbara Art Museum and the Texas Artists Museum. |
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