SEEING WITH THE MIND'S EYE - a solo exhibit of oil paintings by Liron Sissman www.liron.com

March 9 through March 23, 2007 at Skulski Gallery, 177 Broadway in Clark, NJ. Artist reception: Friday, March 9th from 8 - 10:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Hours: Monday through Friday from 11 am to 4 pm and from 5 pm to 9 pm. Artwork is for sale. For additional information about Liron's works please visit www.liron.com

“Every painting is a self portrait. I do not paint flowers.” Liron uses form, color, and often texture to convey emotions. The artist uses flowers to as visual metaphors conveying relationships. Having no faces of their own, flowers in Liron’s work represent an image that viewers of diverse backgrounds can identify with. Overcoming superficial dissimilarities, they serve the artist as portraits of universal appeal.

Why Flowers? The fragility of flowers, coupled with their ephemeral beauty, intriguing delicacy, and striking colors attract sensitivity and amplify the drama. The fleeting existence of flowers triggers urgency.

“In life we catch glimpses of our ideal. At times it is right behind the corner, so visible it is believable, almost reachable. Our proximity translates into a sweet promise.” Liron’s landscapes are dominated by a body of water seen through trees. Using water as a symbol of life, serenity, and that promise, the artist’s trees may either represent a barrier or they may yield to define a path. Most often they partially obscure, connoting a hurdle as they provide a glimpse. Liron’s landscapes, like her flowers, are not merely intended to reflect nature but rather to project an inner reflection, a metaphorical journey.

“I admire the intensity of emotions found in the works of the Expressionists. Like them, I too mix my soul with my paints. However, I strive to be subtle in my expression of the intense. "

Liron’s oil paintings have been featured in shows in New York City and throughout the Northeast, won multiple awards, and are widely collected by corporate collectors and by individuals in the US and abroad. Liron is listed in Who’s Who in America and in Who’s Who in Visual Art.

"The plants [in Liron's work] become anthropomorphic lovers"
Joseph Jacobs, Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum