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 Apo Torosyan
Armenian artist Apo Torosyan exhibits his fascinating new series of mixed media works that use bread as a metaphor for life. "Bread, which is the staff of life, was taken from my ancestors. It represents victims of oppression. My grandparents and many others died of starvation. I immortalize bread with my concepts. It is the cycle of life." Torosyan received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, Turkey, and has exhibited his work throughout the United States and in Europe. |
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Gary Gordon
Gary Gordon's paintings are created from his need to identify with the natural world. "Modern man has a need to fancifully manipulate nature in order to create a more tolerable niche for himself in an otherwise forbidding and impersonal environment." His super-realist renderings of desert scenes, reflective objects and mirages make symbolic references to mankind's relationship to nature. Gordon has exhibited prolifically throughout the West Coast, and his work can be found in the collection of the San Francisco Ballet.
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Mary Weinstein-Backer
Pure pleasure motivates Mary Weinstein-Backer. Her realist floral paintings are portraits of the botanical treasures found in the garden of her California home. The titles of her works reveal an intimate relationship with her family of sunflowers, irises and lotus. Weinstein-Backer studied at Laguna Beach School of Art, and her work belongs to the collections of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, the San Bernardino County Museum and the Tate Museum Archives.
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Laura Covaciu
Laura Covaciu's series of drawings, The Surrealism of the Proletariat is a playful critique of the communist political history of Romania, her country of origin. Her worker and peasant subjects come "from my childhood to the communist reality of the revolution in Eastern Europe." Covaciu studied at the Fine Art Academy in Romania, and her work is part of the collections of Elle Magazine, The European Bank of Development, D.H.L. Company and the Austrian Bank.
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Updates
Also, enjoy the latest exciting additions to the collections of the following PaintingsDIRECT.com artists: Leonid Lamm, Michel Dattel, and Apo Torosyan. |
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