PAUL GU
RONI PINTO
Gaze at a given Paul Gu painting and your eye is immediately awash in a dominant color. The image crystallizes as you take in the work’s other less-prevalent hues. Soft, flowing lines form simple, sinuous demarcations that reveal gently elegant figures. His technique with oils on canvas captures in equal measure the movement implicit in his subjects and the light that frames them, leaving little work for the imagination in the apprehension of sunlight or a dance.
Israeli painter and mixed media artist Roni Pinto is interested in the big questions. Her work is meditative; abstract figures and shapes drift and float in a ghostly, otherworldly space. Pinto uses music as a door-
Flow
Mixed Media on Canvas 52”x 60”
way into her art and it is this movement into- and then thru- that one sees in her work. She often incorporates small amounts of text, lovely Hebraic script, lending more to the impression that she is working towards something spiritual and ancient.
Of course Pinto’s work is thoroughly contemporary; she uses unexpected materials in her mixed media pieces, glow in the dark wire, for example, that makes the work kinetic as well as graceful. Pinto received a B.A. in Art at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Since then she has taught art and art history in Israel, New York, and New Jersey. She has shown her work across Europe and in New York. Website: http://www.ronipinto.com
Dancing as Peacock Oil on Canvas 36”x 24”
Born Gu Tao, given name Tang Sheng, Huang Xiao Heng, Paul Gu grew up in the Hunan province of China, whose landscapes and history inform his sensibilities. After graduating from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, he was invited to join that prestigious art school’s faculty. But it was in 1996 at the University of Lyons that Gu was immersed in the world of the French masters. This exposure was the copestone in the formation of his technique, a unique commingling of impressionism and traditional Chinese imagery. Website: http://www.artmine.com/ArtistPage/Paul_Gu.aspx
