Florentine
by Amy Talluto

20x200 artist, Amy Talluto, has work up in a small group show, Second Nature, at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn.

Amy Talluto is a painter for whom the romance of the natural world still exerts a powerful draw. She takes us to remote places where the influence of human activity is out of sight and rediscovers the intense magic and silent strangeness that nature can hold. Talluto's high keyed Technicolor palette and assured, brutal, and painterly, brush strokes give the paintings a vibrant physicality. Her work reminds us of the rough virgin territories that provided a home for Native Americans and that so excited America's pioneers. Her un-peopled landscapes may also remind us that wildness still exists, for now, by the grace of our stewardship.

Amy's lush landscape paintings share the walls with painters Lauren Gohara and Timothy McDowell.

SECOND NATURE
January 30 – February 22, 2009
Metaphor Contemporary Art
382 Atlantic Ave
(Between Hoyt & Bond Sts)
Brooklyn, NY

Amy's 20x200 edition print:
Hermaphrodite

Amy's site