Nightshade Nikolaos Schizas In a play on the

In a play on the Persian word Simorgh (Phoenix) they end up with Si-Morgh (thirty birds) realizing that the Phoenix Is nothing more than those birds themselves who persevered and endured the path through Self-sacrifice and steadfastness

which is in the service of the artist’s interest in showing the question of space

regular lines create a bulge or welt in the negative space where the thread is behind the canvas and the puncture holes are emphasized

This work comes from a new series created during a residency at the Chateau d'Orquevaux

but always opening up to something more

Nightshade Nikolaos Schizas In a play on theFor Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. The marks coalesce into a structure, a loose grid. She works with oil and her application of layers is wet on wet which can require a certain amount of speed. Anne Russinof is inspired by things she sees: a visceral reaction to manifest a feeling physically through paint. That initial visual stimulus is often related to color.