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Sarasota News Leader October 26, 2012 work. "I create because I am driven to define moments, emotional responses to the nat- ural world, and the chaos that seems to be life's breath. My senses live on red alert. All of them. I am sustained by, obsessed with, my soul filled to brimming virtually daily, by the grand, the infinitesimal, the lightest and the darkest of images and insights." Judd first exhibited his work at the Philadel- phia Museum of Art, where, at the age of 25, he was included in a survey show titled, "Con- temporary Drawing: Philadelphia," the release says. The museum purchased a piece from that exhibit for its permanent collection. Judd went on to exhibit his work in distinguished commercial galleries. Then, in the '90s, he had a 10-year retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Naves is an artist, critic and teacher. He says in the release that his art "is a form of paint- ing disguised as collage. My criticism abjures the marketplace for what meets the eye. My teaching encourages burgeoning artists to question just what it is exactly they're getting into and how to do it well." Naves' work has been written about in The New York Times, Art in America, The Village Voice and Time Out New York. Ramos Rivera is an abstract painter whose work is celebrated nationally for its intense emotional content and its unique, personal symbology, the news release says. "His paint- ings combine the palette and iconography of the indigenous cultural heritage of his native Mexico with classic techniques of post-war Page 103 American abstraction," the release adds. In his works, Rivera "constructs layers of intense translucent color fields upon which he lays simple hieroglyphic markings of rich impasto, which seem at once archaic and contempo- rary," the release notes. Schmidt has forged a career as a visual and performing artist "whose work is deeply shaped by investigations into Eastern philos- ophy and Indian mysticism," the release says. Her work is "shaped by the recognition and in- quiry to cyclical tendencies," the release adds, "including the contemplation of life cycles: birth, death and rebirth or the possibility for reincarnation. I have been interested in this all my life." Urso says in the news release that she wants "to push the visual matrix to a crescendo just before breakdown, to find, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, 'The still point of the turning world.' There is a gamble involved in this, and my circular arrangements put me in mind of rou- lette wheels, just as they provide an insight into the spectral nature of consciousness." She has received The Basil H. Alkazzi Paint- ing Award (2000), a Mid-Atlantic HEA (1994), grants from Art Matters Inc. (1988) and The Ruth Chenven Foundation (1988) and an In- dividual Artist Fellowship from the Florida State Arts Council (1986). For more information about the exhibit, call 366-2454 or visit www.allyngallup.com. The gallery is located at 1288 N. Palm Ave., Sara- sota . Press Releases & News Tips News@SarasotaNewsLeader.com