Liron Sissman displays her oil paintings in a solo art exhibit at the Watchung Arts Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) November 16, 2005 -- The exhibit which will remain on display through November 30th is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday 1 pm to 4:30 pm and Thrusday to 7:30 pm. A wine reception will be held on Sunday, November 20th, from 1 - 3 pm. The Watchung Arts Center is located at 18 Stirling Road in Watchung, NJ. For additional information on this exhibit please contact The Watchung Arts Center at (908) 753-0190. For additional information on Liron please visit: www.Liron.com

About Liron's work:

Every painting is a self portrait. Liron does not paint flowers. She uses form, color, and texture to convey emotions. Liron uses flowers as visual metaphors to convey many themes. The fragility of flowers, coupled with their ephemeral beauty, intriguing delicacy, and striking color, attract sensitivity and amplify the drama. The fleeting existence of flowers triggers urgency. Having no faces of their own, flowers in Liron's work represent images that viewers of diverse backgrounds can identify with. Overcoming superficial dissimilarities, they serve as portraits of universal appeal. By portraying emotions using faceless metaphors the artist invites viewers to be active observers.

Liron's work is focused on the individual or the relationship between two individuals. Liron uses flowers to portray themes such as aspiration, yearning, and passion. At times she celebrates individualism by emphasizing the one within the many.

Liron rejoices the expressiveness she finds in the twists and turns of edges of petals, stems, and leaves. Occasionally, she adds a dimension of expressiveness by applying paint with a palette knife, enhancing the drama by not only leaving knife strokes visible but engraving the paint, too.

Liron stretches canvases over wide stretcher bars allowing the sides to be used as an extension of the painting surface. This creates a three dimensional work that can be viewed from multiple angles; in essence saying that the painting is larger than the canvas can contain.

"I admire the intensity of emotions found in the works of the Expressionist artists. 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 more than 30 shows in New York City and throughout the Northeast. Her works have won multiple awards and are collected by corporate collectors and by individuals worldwide. 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