Cool New Artist: Linda Fantuzzo

So, maybe she's not exactly new, but she's new to me. Charleston artist Linda Fantuzzo is featured in Sept 09 issue of Southern Accents.

Fantuzzo is influenced by Richard Diebenkorn, one of my favorite artists, and Wayne Thiebaud. She calls her style "painterly realism," but it seems very influenced by abstract expressionism. Her work is about light and time. When Fantuzzo thinks a painting is working, she steps away, takes a break, and comes back to look at it in a new light. She turns it upside down and sideways and looks at it in a mirror, in reverse, to help herself see it differently and clarify her sense of its composition. "At that point, no matter now representational it is, I view it abstractly. A good composition works in all positions," says the artist.