Volume 3, #22 May 29, 2001    

Welcome to Volume 3, #22 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art deals, news and information.

Exhibiting nothing is the brain child of several British artists. Read about this empty space on display.
Art to get you ready for summer weekends...
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Introducing this week's PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.
  Elizabeth Castagna
Elizabeth Castagna's newest gestural abstractions continue the painter's interest in the physical reactions humans have to their immediate environment. "The paintings are made in a non-self-conscious space where things are allowed to happen, to come into being." The artist's process involves natural applications, such as weathering her canvases and preparing her surfaces with layers of paint droplets. Elizabeth Castagna has participated in many performances and has had two solo shows in New York City.
 
  Greg Geffner
Photographer Greg Geffner has been capturing the image of lightning striking for over ten years. The artist's titles document the dates and time of actual strikes of lightening, adding a precarious edge to images inherently dependent on chance. In each image, spears of light charge through the Manhattan skyline and down to the Empire State Building, the United Nations and the Queensboro Bridge. Geffner received his BFA from the University of Buffalo.

 
  Ludmila Sapozhnikova-Dook
Ludmila Sapozhnikova-Dook is Russian abstract painter who sees the ultimate truths in simple artistic elements. Although her images are pared down to color and form, she prefers to think of herself as a "romantic realist," conveying the true "harmony" and feeling of each cityscape, landscape, and person she encounters. Sapozhnikova-Dook's work has been exhibited at the Yavora Museum in Poland and the Pushkarev Museum of Modern Art in Russia. She has exhibited prolifically in Moscow.

 
  Charles Randolph Bruce
Charles Randolph Bruce's paintings of Onancock, Virginia and Virginia Beach are reflections of the serenity of southern coastal life. Unique images of boats and realistic seascapes are painted from the artist's extensive body of photographs. "I paint the things that create interesting designs." Bruce studied at the Chicago Art Institute and exhibits his work in Virginia.

 
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