Volume 2, #9 February 29, 2000    

Welcome to Volume 2, #9 of True Colors!

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In a move to develop one of the world's most explosive art projects, James Turrell is turning an extinct volcano in Arizona into a tourist attraction. Learn all about it in this week's Art Byte, Art in a Volcano.

While Jorg Haider's Right-wing Freedom Party remains in the Austrian government, artists throughout the world are calling for an international art world boycott in the country. Citing the Freedom Party's past attacks on the works of some artists, as well as Haider's praise of Hitler and the SS, many fear a Nazi-style cultural suppression. Read more from our European Correspondent in this week's Art in the News.
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  Connie Aronson
Furniture designer and painter Connie Aronson uses an unabashed palette of bright colors to communicate her fascination with the form and hue of exotic flowers. "Color is a major ingredient to good living and great looking art." African daisies, irises and Queen Anne's Lace are just of few of the artist's favorite flora. Aronson studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art and Textile Design.
 


  Grace Schultz
Grace Schultz examines contemporary relationships in her figurative paintings on canvas. Nudes and lovers dominate her work, celebrating "the soul and the flesh." Her newest series, Women in the Nineties, portrays young slender women enjoying their youth in various settings from the street to the studio. Grace Schultz studied at the Art Students League of New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the New School.
 
  Barbara Zietchick
Barbara Zietchick's work combines painting and printmaking in her expressionist monotypes of wild plants and imaginary animals. Exaggerated portraits of deer, penguins and hippos "depict memories and impressions of her travels around the world." Zietchick studied at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College in New York City. She has exhibited throughout New York and at the Newark Museum in New Jersey.

 
  George Gomes
George Gomes' misty landscapes reflect the surroundings of his home and studio in Eastern Long Island. The seasonal change of light is a subject that dominates his portfolio of beaches and foliage. As an established photographer, advertising art director and television commercial director, Gomes' work has been inducted into the Smithsonian Museum and the Museum of Radio and Television. His paintings have been exhibited at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York.
 
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