"Still Life and Portraits" Exhibition

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PaulaBarr chelsea will present "Still Life and Portraits", a group show featuring the work of six artists: Jeanne Corin, Elizabeth Cronley, Ettore Di Sebastiano, Frances Ianarella, Carolyn Kerwick Melillo and Cindy Shaoul. The artists will be present at the opening on Thursday, May 7, from 6 pm to 8 pm. They are all studying with the award winning painter and author Gregg Kreutz.

"Still Life and Portraits" is an invitation to pause and reflect for a while, remembering Georgia O'Keeffe when she said, "It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite."

Jeanne Corin is an art student and a Registered Nurse by profession. She lives in Manhasset, NY with her husband and is the mother of twin girls both of whom are in college. "It is both a privilege and an honor to be able to study under the tutelage of such a luminary and master of realistic painting as Gregg Kreutz", she says.

Elizabeth Cronley resides in Rockville Centre, New York, with her husband Steven and two teenage children. They have been extremely supportive of her and her recent desire to paint. "I have been painting under the amazing instruction of Gregg Kreutz for just over one year. I am extremely fortunate to have been taught by such an accomplished master and to be surrounded by his other talented students", she says.

Ettore Di Sebastiano is an Italian Painter currently living and working in New York City. A native of Florence, he grew up surrounded by the work of the Renaissance Artists who inspired him to work in a traditional representational manner. He completed his higher education in the United States where he also worked as a graphic designer and as a model. Recently, Di Sebastiano has devoted all of his time and energies to the study of portrait and still life painting under the tutelage of Gregg Kreutz. "A good painting, like a good written story, should never be one single statement. A good story, like a good painting, should have more than one meaning and more than one message. The painter should allow the viewers to find several meanings in a painting according to their own sensitivity and past experiences", he says.

Frances Ianarella is a New York City artist currently studying with Gregg Kreutz at the Art Students League and in his private atelier. She has studied with well-known artists Michael Burban, Richard Pionk, Robert Johnson and David Leffel. She is a Resident Artist in the Salmagundi Club and an artist member of the Art Students League and the Art Guild of Port Washington. "I paint the beauty of objects, fruit and flowers in a representational manner. I use oil paint to bring out the beauty of nature and of decorative objects. I work only from life, portraying still life arrangements that exude serenity and tranquility", she says. Her goal is to portray the still life in a way that brings a calm and peaceful feeling to the viewer.

Carolyn Kerwick Melillo is an accomplished artist who paints still life, landscapes and portraits in the style of the Old Dutch masters. Carolyn studies under the tutelage of the renowned master, Gregg Kreutz, privately and at the Art Students' League. She has exhibited at the South Ocean Art Gallery and Fos Gallery. Carolyn lives in Rockville Centre with her husband Rob and their three children, Robby, Ellis and Ty. "After living in Italy for seven years, I was drawn to the passion of the religious paintings I would pass time gazing at in churches. This chiaroscuro drama is represented in every story I paint. There is a solitude and stillness competing with the excitement of light and color," she says.

Cynthia Shaoul was born in Manhattan 1987. Being a third generation artist, (granddaughter of Albert Nemethy Senior, famous for his Hudson valley work) she learned from her family, but never received formal training from an institute early on. In 2006 she started Emerson College to study film media, being that she wasn't sure of her ability to paint. In 2007 she moved back to New York and began figure-drawing classes while studying with her mother, Kristina Shaoul. In 2008 she moved to Hungary to study at the Budai Art Institute. In 2009 she moved back to New York and began classes at the Art Students League where she is currently studying now under Gregg Kreutz, and Joseph Peller. "I get inspired by color - places that I find cozy, subjects in my house where I grew up. I try to be an active surrealist; painting scenes from my imagination allows me to express a certain subconscious. I think those paintings are only understood after they are finished, not while I am painting them", she says.

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from May 07, 2010 to May 08, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-05-07 from 18:00 to 20:00

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