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Paul GuGaze at a given Paul Gu paintingand your eye is immediatelyawash in a dominant color.The image crystallizes as youtake in the work’s other lessprevalenthues. Soft, flowinglines form simple, sinuous demarcationsthat reveal gentlyelegant figures. His techniquewith oils on canvas captures inequal measure the movementimplicit in his subjects and thelight that frames them, leavinglittle work for the imaginationDancing as Peacockin the apprehension of sunlightOil on Canvas 36”x 24”or a dance.Born Gu Tao, given name Tang Sheng, Huang Xiao Heng,Paul Gu grew up in the Hunan province of China, whose landscapesand history inform his sensibilities. After graduatingfrom the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, he was invited to jointhat prestigious art school’s faculty. But it was in 1996 at theUniversity of Lyons that Gu was immersed in the world of theFrench masters. This exposure was the copestone in the formationof his technique, a unique commingling of impressionismand traditional Chinese imagery.Website: http://www.artmine.com/ArtistPage/Paul_Gu.aspxFlowMixed Media on Canvas 52”x 60”RoniPintoIsraeli painter andmixed media artistRoni Pinto is interestedin the big questions.Her work is meditative;abstract figuresand shapes drift andfloat in a ghostly, otherworldlyspace. Pintouses music as a doorwayinto her art and it is this movement into- and then thru- thatone sees in her work. She often incorporates small amounts oftext, lovely Hebraic script, lending more to the impression thatshe is working towards something spiritual and ancient.Of course Pinto’s work is thoroughly contemporary; she usesunexpected materials in her mixed media pieces, glow in the darkwire, 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 andin New York.Website: http://www.ronipinto.com31 ArtisSpectrum