Volume 3, #10 March 6, 2001    

Welcome to Volume 3, #10 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art deals, news and information.


Check out PaintingsDIRECT's new featured artist, abstract New York painter Barbara Coleman, and read our interview with her. This artist has been making abstract paintings for over 30 years, and the results are beautiful! Learn how and why she creates these magnificent color-field works.
Let your children into the wonderful, creative world of art! This week's gallery features 5 original works that are great for the kids!
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 PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.
  Jason Frank
Jason Frank uses photography to frame the ubiquitous constructions that “meet and mandate all the functions of our daily lives.” Architecture is the artist’s main subject, as it reflects and documents human needs and desires over time. Water parks, football fields and public service buildings, such as a bank, are stripped of human presence and portrayed as pure specimens in his landscapes. Frank received his MFA from Hunter College and is beginning to exhibit his work in New York and North Carolina.
 
  Olga Maryschuk
Olga Maryschuk documents suc disparate subjects as Italian mosaics and endangered landscapes from the Ukraine and the Southwestern United States. The Ravenna and Torcello series were created using a type of block-printing technique that closely mimics the motifs often found in mosaics. Maryschuk studied at the Cooper Union, and her work belongs to several collections including AT&T, the Museum of Fine Art in Kiev and the Ukrainian Museum of Fine Art.

 
  Ron Zajac
The female persona portrayed in the media inspires Ron Zajac to create dramatic narrative paintings filled with psychological tension and mystery. His multi-faceted female characters carry exaggerated facial expressions, revealing women who are strong, sensitive, vulnerable and in touch with nature. Zajac studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his work is in the collection of the Paterson Museum in New Jersey.

 
  Scot Borofsky
Scot Borofsky’s symbolic landscape paintings combine the spiritual and cultural aesthetics of Asian and Pre-Colombian art. Winding roads, mountain forests, and cloudy peaks recount the artist’s “shamanic memories” of his travels to South America. Borofsky received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He has been exhibiting his works throughout the U.S. for fifteen years.

 
  Jeanne Willette
The layered compositions of Jeanne Willette’s works on paper combine printmaking and painting techniques. “I am interested in the juxtaposition of ideas, forms, colors, and materials that perform to show the complexity of life, the 'layers' that compose all of our personalities and create a oneness of philosophy.” Willette studied at the Slade School of Art in England and has exhibited her work in Florida, North Carolina and Missouri.

 
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