Volume 2, #22 May 30, 2000    

Welcome to Volume 2, #22 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art news and information. We also introduce you to several new PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.

This week in Christine's Collection: Ties? After shave? Boxer shorts? Give your Dad something really original for Father's Day--an original artwork.
Vanessa Beecroft's artistic impulses can seem more than a little cruel. Read about her Fatigue Fetish.
Countries are keeping their patrimony within their borders. See Buying Art Abroad
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.
  Barbara Coleman
Barbara Coleman composes each of her color-field paintings with a harmonious palette of cool tints and shades. ³The surfaces are veils of color, soft and glowing, expanding horizontally and vertically--a rectangle losing its perimeters.² Coleman received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City, and her work belongs to the collections of the Aldrich Museum, the Everson Museum, the Guggenheim Museum Library, the Whitney Museum Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library.
 
  Deborah Sudran
Line and color are what attract Deborah Sudran to the exotic plants and flowers depicted in her rich watercolors. The artist¹s intentions are revealed in her precise renderings of succulents, ferns and protea. ³I paint to express my passionate engagement with color, form, line, and light.² Sudran studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, and her work belongs to the corporate collections of Exxon Corporation, AT&T, IBM, Dean Witter Reynolds and Eli Lilly & Company.
 
  Terry Bergman
Terry Bergman¹s background in fashion inspires his portfolio of black and white figurative paintings that recall the ³silvery light of a film noir.² Each scene of mystery, drama and seduction sparks our interest in the moments to come. Bergman studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and his works belong to the collections of HBO and Chez Josephine, and actors Robin Williams and Whitney Houston.

 
  Richard Rutner
Richard Rutner¹s witty cartoon-like narratives depict the adventures of a masked character through desert and mountainous terrain. ³The drawings are a continuation of my fascination with tribal masks and mask-like images. They elicit humor and magic.² Rutner received his MFA from the Tyler School of Art and has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Germany. He has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Nassau County Museum of Art.
 
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