Artist Reception For Carol Lisa Lozito

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 5:00 to 7:00pm

It was a wet autumn afternoon, when I drove to Heller Chiropractic Spa, in Costa Mesa, for Carol Lisa Lozito’s Artist Reception. Although it was pouring rain, the streets were still busy, especially when I drove by the mall.

Inside the office, there were many paintings, photographs and other artwork hanging on the walls. I snack on some refreshments as I check out each piece.

Carol Lisa Lozito displays six paintings, each depicting a different endangered animal in a profile headshot picture with bold colors. These paintings include Mother & Baby Rothchild’s Giraffes, Endangered Giant Panda, Sonoran Pronghorns, Bighorn Sheep, Panthera Tigriss, and South African Jackass Penguins.

Odile Nicolette displays five paintings with bold colors and geometric lines that look like abstract art. House of Belonging, Enchantment, Enchanted Garden, Midnight, and My Africa, each depict a different mood and theme by the specific details on each painting.

John H. Stewart’s depicts beautiful landscape scenes of autumn and winter by displaying endless colorful leaves and greenery as well as the endless white and soft blanket covering nature in the cold winter months in After The Blizzard, Fall Hillside, Morning Mist, and Into The Woods. Such photographs remind the viewers of the beauty in the changes of the four seasons. But in this case, specific details on the cooler months’ seasonal attributes bring out the beauty of these months.

David Globerson’s mixed media artwork is of five ocean and beach scenes, each involve very detailed work to better bring out very part of the scenes. Fun Zone, Balboa is of a local amusement park in Orange County that has become a landmark and hangout of that particular locale. There are wharf scenes, which include Fisherman’s Wharf, The Fishhopper, Monterey, Beach by Stearns Wharf, and Morro Bay.

Marianne van der Veer’s three paints look like antique paintings because of the specific details of cracked lines to age the painting as well as vintage-like colors with yellowish cast used to make the paintings have an antique quality. Odalisque, Touce, and Mermaid Cove, each depict romance and feminine qualities because Marianne brings out textures and feminine styles in the way she paints her subjects.

Laurelee McKay displays six abstract paintings, and each painting uses bold colors and shapes to evoke a particular mood and theme. Each of the paintings, Odyssey, Zip, The Current, Lava, Chakra, and Illumined Tulips, use different colors and shapes to bring out its particular theme.

Roseanne Nitti’s photographs of the shore, where white foamy waves crash against a rock, display action as well as the beauty of the ocean. Splash Rock, Rock Beach, and Playa Publico photographs, each display a different angle of the shore, waves and rocks on the shore.

Kerry Frank displays four photographs of nature landscapes. Sunrise in Camden Harbor, Sunrise At Portland Head Lighthouse, Moonrise Over The Hoodoos In Bryce Canyon, and Hole In The Rock In Bryce Canyon National Park scenes look panoramic because each scene looks endless, showing how grandeur God’s Creations are. The natural lighting, colors and texture to depict the earth, time of day, and specific scene brings out the beauty in each scene.

Elena Malec’s five paintings of fruit still life appeared, to me, to be quite comical, especially of the Happy Pair, which is of two pears placed next to each other in an intimate pose. As I looked at that picture, I understood why they were a “happy pair.” In Applemandarine and Grapespears paintings, it appears to be that two different fruits are mating together into a new fruit. The Papayas painting appears to make these papayas conventional. And, the Cut Papaya painting displays a papaya cut in half, revealing the insides of this fruit, which include the large seed. I personally saw it as an aftermath of all the mating, which is the female reproductive stage.

Dennis Crane’s photograph is of an antique car parked in the middle of a wheat field. Forgotton MG-TD appears to be nostalgic of a past era of a simpler life.

Tobi Balma’s five photographs appear spiritual and relaxing amidst lovely nature scenes. Serenity, Tranquility and Borneo Butterfly & Orchid were shot in Borneo. Chilean Wildflowers was shot in Chile, and Carol’s Chair was shot in Tennessee. They are perfect photographs to meditate on when doing yoga.

Kate L.Y. Choi’s three abstract paintings are mostly in green. There are lines and shapes of grass blades and leaves that appear to be dancing in each of these paintings. As I looked at Sound of Orchid 02, Sound of Orchid 03 and Sound of Orchid 06, I felt that I could here the sound of the music, based on the positions of the shapes and lines in each of these paintings. Rhiannon Marhi’s The Recreation of Beauty is an abstract painting with bold colors in mostly orange and yellow, but there are also some red and a little bit of olive green. The colors are happy and bright, which this painting is likely to lighten up an otherwise dark room and give it some color.

Antoine Saba’s two abstract paintings are both called Untitled. In the paintings, two or three colors are swirled together to create a particular mood. I noticed that a color tends to drip into another color, before blending together into the swirl of the colors used in that painting.