Volume 2, #6 February 8, 2000    

Welcome to Volume 2, # 6 of True Colors!




Coming Home


 In an exhibit lauded by some and deployed by others, a Japanese photographer is displaying life-size photographs of elderly women ......nude. Read more in "Photographs of Age".

What trip to Paris is complete without visiting some of the splendid works of art that one can find only in this beautiful city? And what better way to see into the soul of an artist by experiencing a rendition of his studio? Learn about some of these unusual museums in our new "Art Around the World."

Home is where the heart is, and February's Exhibition honors this special place. Entitled "Coming Home", four artists illustrate their renditions of the safe and nurturing environment we call "home".


Check out what's happening this Spring in the Windy City. Dealers of every sort of collectible are coming together in this year's Chicago International Antiques and Fine Art Fair. Read more about it in Art in the News.
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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  Richard Gombar
One subject consistently catches the attention of artist Richard Gombar. His series of tank paintings depicts a recurring scene of twin industrial tanks at several times of day and season---sunrise, sunrise and summer, to name a few. Returning to the same subject many times "reinforces a sense of history, of continuity [and] of being rooted." Gombar studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and has exhibited his work at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Delaware Agricultural Museum and in galleries in New York City.
 
  Barbara Wilk
Barbara Wilk's monotypes add to PaintingsDIRECT.com's collection of fine art printmaking. Wilk uses a combination of photo-transfer and paint to create unique works on paper. Her imagery mainly consists of foliage, ruins, and seascapes. Wilk has had solo exhibitions at the Discovery Museum and the Stamford Museum and has shown her work in group shows at the Slater and Springfield Museums. The artist has also won awards for her film productions, one of which belongs to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
 
  Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor's oil paintings on canvas incorporate stylized representations of the lute, a stringed instrument, into abstract environments. The works are understood as narratives because of the symbolic meaning that the lute holds for the artist, evident in works like Bent Hauberg's Summer House and Lutes with Interior #2. Taylor studied at the Canberra Institute of Art at the Australian National University and exhibits his work in both New York and Kingston, Australia.
 
  Eric Blau
Photographer Eric Blau presents a variety of work from his prolific portfolio. His city scenes are taken from a documentary project on urban life, and a more recent body of work focuses on a fictitious religion that Blau invented through his photographs. Blau made this new series possible with an Artist Support Grant from the Polaroid Corporation. The artist studied at the University of California at Davis and San Diego and has been showing his work in solo exhibitions on the west coast since 1985.
 
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