ELIZABETH GOREK
Ocean View
54" x 48", oil on canvas
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Elizabeth Gorek was raised with the smell of oil and turpentine — her grandmother is a 1910 graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago and her mother is a well-kno wn landscape painter. Gorek was
inspired by her mother to take up the brush
at an early age and even more inspired by
family photos she found years ago that
showed her mother and aunt on the beach
in the 1940s. The grace of the two women
as well as the look of the old-style bathing
suits and caps inspired her work and can
be seen in this image as well.
“I am drawn to the unguarded moment,
stripped of artifice,” she says. “A caught
thought trapped in the body that betrays
an inner life.”
DOUG SMITH
A Refreshing Rain
36" x 36", acrylic painting
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Bo r n i n S a n Francisco, Doug Smith paints with
a clear nod to the Bay Area
figurative movement that
flourished during his youth.
The Los Angeles painter
uses his experience as a
graphic designer to paint with a focused confidence. His
work is in the permanent collection of several museums
and is on exhibition at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow.
“Traditional farmhouses and weathered barns punctuate my vast planes of color, line and texture,” he says
about this painting. “The composition evokes enduring
themes of the American West such as boundless optimism
and wistful nostalgia.”
