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Sarasota News Leader February 22, 2013 Page 125 ART UPTOWN TO FEATURE WATERCOLORS BY RITA RUST Around Here, a one-woman exhibition of recent watercolor paintings by Sarasota artist Rita Rust, opens Feb. 23 and runs to March 30 at Art Uptown, 1367 Main St., Sarasota. graphic arts, primarily in publishing, the release notes. Her work is widely held in corporate and private collections, and she often is invited to serve as a juror for juried art exAn artist���s reception is scheduled for Friday, hibitions, it adds. March 22, from 6 to 9 p.m., the gallery has an- Watercolor is her passion, she says in the renounced. The public is invited. lease, ���for its translucence, spontaneity and Rust has twice served as president of Art Up- proclivity to create unintended results.��� Her town, where she exhibits her paintings on a subjects can be ���anything interestingly illuregular basis, a news release notes. She is a minated, because it���s all about the quality of signature member and past president of the light,��� she notes. ���I try to capture the beauty Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society and has that surrounds us but is so often overlooked exhibited and won numerous awards through- in our fast-paced lives.��� out Florida, the release adds. Scenes of Sarasota will be featured in her exA graduate of Georgetown University, she hibition. Even after living in the community spent 11 years working in New York City in for more than 20 years, Rust continues in the Bayside Morning by Rita Rust/Contributed photo