Quality Original Paintings at Affordable Prices

Vivid colors, imaginative concepts are trademarks of Renee Nemerov's exciting landscapes. Through the Internet she is now able to sell her art directly to the public.

Ventura, CA (PRWEB) June 3, 2006 -- Primarily an impressionist and abstract landscape painter but also a sculptor and portrait painter, Renee Nemerov is noted for her use of imaginative concepts, intense, rich variegated colors and fluid lines.

Seeking to stretch the viewer's imagination into new areas of response, Renee is primarily concerned with conveying the emotional essence of a subject and interpreting the great American landscape—the rich green West Virginia mountains with its waterfalls, the Southwest's brilliant skies and rock formations, the California coastline and Pacific ocean views, the winding Rio Grande—through exploding color, and her own original styles—in abstract or expressionist form.

She is the daughter of artist David Nemerov, famous for his huge floral oil paintings, the sister of avant garde photographer Diane Arbus, and of Howard Nemerov, a Poet Laureate of the United States. She had the opportunity to study and learn from such great artists as the brilliant Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, San Francisco expressionist Robert Friemark, The great Jean Liberte at the Art Students League, Camillo Egas at the New School, both in New York City, and the Swiss Impressionist, Hansegger.

As a result of a show at the Palm Beach Institute, she and her late husband Roy Sparkia were commissioned by Laurence Wein, then one of the building's owners, to create the eight 5' x 7' illuminated panels in the Empire State Building lobby. They depict the Seven Wonders of the World plus the Eighth—the Empire State Building. These huge, fabulous crystal resin and stained glass panels were installed in the Empire State Building in 1963 and are still there attracting millions of viewers today. They can be viewed on the Empire State Building website at www.esbnyc.com; Virtual Tour, The Lobby.

She has had major shows in New York City; Palm Beach and Miami, Florida; Traverse City and Saginaw, Michigan; Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Ventura, California. Her work was included in a U.S. State Department traveling show, which was part of the cultural exchange program with Russia. She is represented in the Lord Beaverbrook Museum in Canada and the Nate Cummings Sara Lee collection in Chicago, among others, and her sculptures and paintings are internationally collected.

Renee believes art should be readily available to everybody. She is a prolific artist, painting daily, and now because of the internet, she is able to sell her paintings directly to the public at very affordable prices, rather than through a gallery with its normal 100% plus mark-up. She likes to paint on 1.5" deep gallery wrap canvas with sides painted so no frame is necessary, giving the artwork a clean contemporary look. Her paintings may be viewed on her new website, Contemporary Art Studio.

(www.contemporaryartstudio.com)

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