Volume 3, #26 June 26, 2001    

Welcome to Volume 3, #26 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art deals, news and information.

Nature Morte, this month's exhibition, focuses on female artists who investigate the significance of botanical imagery, imbuing this ageless subject with contemporary themes.
Celebrate July 4 with us! This week see some inspired renditions of the red, white and blue in MyGallery.
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.
  Harriet Lovitt Damm
Harriet Lovitt Damm paints the décor and foliage of her surroundings. From a porch in a small American town to a seaside balcony in Italy, the artist finds inspiration in the traces of everyday living. “I am aware of everything visible and am constantly picturing a vista on canvas.” Damm has exhibited prolifically throughout the United States.
 
  Biagio Civale
Italian artist Biagio Civale offers a wide variety of fine art printmaking and painting on PaintingsDIRECT.com. The artist has been working for over fifty years, with a majority of his expertise in woodblock printing and etching, and he has recently updated his portfolio with new abstract oil and acrylic paintings reminiscent of 1950s abstract expressionism. Civale studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome and at the Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and has shown his work all over the world.
 
  Susanne Sendelbach
German artist Susanne Sendelbach has added a new body of tropical landscapes to her PaintingsDIRECT.com portfolio, inspired by Eastern and Southeastern Asia. Parrots and bamboo cover her new canvases, with several images of western mountain peaks in the mix. “Art that fascinates is my goal, because not only the artist but also the onlooker’s inspiration is challenged.” Sendelbach studied in Japan, and has exhibited her work in New York and New Jersey.

 
  Elena Gorina
Russian artist Elena Gorina celebrates nature with her whimsical paintings or flowers, sunlight, snow and figures. Dreams are a bountiful source of inspiration for this artist. “Painting is for me a way of life!” Gorina graduated from the Moscow Surikov State Art Institute, and has been featured in over 70 exhibitions in Europe, Asia and America.

 
  Apo Torosyan
Armenian artist Apo Torosyan is exhibiting his newest series of mixed media works that use bread as an artistic component and as a political metaphor. “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.

 
  Eric Gouttard
Impressionist painter Eric Gouttard look to his immediate surroundings in Lyon, France to find his subjects, from simple still lifes to elegant landscapes. The artist is a master of his medium, using white in almost all of his works to produce subtle tints with a think impasto. Although he initially studied medicine, this late-blooming artist has been prolifically exhibiting his work since the early 1990s.

 
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