Volume 2, #14 April 04, 2000    

Welcome to Volume 2, #14 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art news and information. We also introduce you to several new PaintingsDIRECT.com artists,and update you on some of our existing artists.



To be opened with great fanfare by Queen Elizabeth in May, the Tate Modern is the biggest art event in Europe this year. Soaring seven stories, the new museum will rival New York's MOMA as the world's leading museum of twentieth and twenty-first century art.



In a process that could result in gaining a few pounds, artist Janine Antoni creates works out of 500-pound blocks of chocolate and lard. Her technique? Nibbling, chewing and gnawing at the blocks, then displaying the teeth-marked cubes.




A bust that was collecting dust in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is now rumored to be a creation of Bernini, the famous Italian sculptor. Potentially created to bribe the Pope, the bust's value has skyrocketed from $4000 to $4 million since the discovery! More 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.

Introducing this week's new PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.
  Betty Becker
The results of Betty Becker's unique artistic process are powerfully textured works on paper. Each piece is created when the artist lays down an image and then layers washes and collage elements onto its surface. "Layering materials seems to create that vibration for me." Becker has been exhibiting her work in solo shows since 1992 and her work belongs to the collections of the Humana Care Corporation and the Waxler Corporation.
 
  Sylvia Ruth Weinberg
Sylvia Ruth Weinberg grew up in Manhattan dreaming of having her own garden. Her still-life watercolors are renderings of the flowers from her "always-dreamed-of garden." Weinberg received her MFA from New York University. She has exhibited her work throughout the Hudson River Valley in numerous solo shows. She lives and works in upstate New York.
 
  Eleanor Tyndal Meier
Eleanor Tyndall Meier's still-life watercolors appear traditional, but she draws her inspiration from the color and composition of well known American artists like Mark Rothko, Georgia O'Keefe and Charles Demuth. Meier has exhibited her work in the Heckscher Museum, the Nassau Museum and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Her watercolors have won numerous awards in the state of New York.
 
  Olive Reich
Olive Reich's watercolors of rolling seascapes, blooming sunflowers and country still-lifes are glimpses of the artist's home environment. Each light and careful rendering reveals Reich's personal attachment to her subjects. Reich studied at Parsons School of Design and the Art Student's League of New York. Her work belongs to the collections of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Nature Conservancy of New York.
 
  Sasha Meret
Sasha Meret's "mindscapes" are imaginary interpretations of the everyday. Each piece is a layered composition combining imprints of the recognizable with organic abstract gestures. "[I] avoid the definable altogether in order to enhance the mystery, which I think is an essential ingredient in art." Meret did most of his studying in Romania. He has his exhibited his work in Japan, France, Belgium, Holland and the United States.
 
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