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DATE: SATURDAY, December 31, 1994                   TAG: 9501040010
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short


ITALIAN ARTIST'S WORK ON DISPLAY IN PULASKI

Paintings by Italian artist Romana Gennaro will be featured in January by the Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley.

She will attend a meet-the-artist reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 8 in the center gallery at 21 W. Main St.

Gennaro is in the United States on a cultural visa. She has been exhibiting her work in this country for the past year, mainly in the Southeast.

Retired after teaching art for 20 years, she now paints full-time and continues to show her work in galleries and art shows in the north of Italy.

Her large canvases, often 6-by-6-feet in size, reveal ``everything her eyes have observed and registered,'' according to art critic Salvatore Maugeri.

``Romana's eyes are constantly aroused to follow her precise perception of space and light. Space and light seem to live in a symbolic unity, produced by rhythm, constantly sinuous and in movement, which gives value to line and color,'' he said.

``My goal is to find new color combinations" `` Gennaro said, and to create elusive emotional puzzles.

The reception is open to the public.



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