NEW ART FROM PACINI LUBEL GALLERY IN SEATTLE

New Art from PACINI LUBEL Gallery in Seattle.

BRENT HOLLAND



"Self Portrait - Orange Background"

Another Review of the Mobile Art Show

The sky was grey, the wind chilling but what was found inside was enough to color the most dismal of early winter days and warm the soul.

As has become customary since the arrival of director Tommy McPherson, the Mobile Museum of Art in Langan Park is presently treating the local populace to first-rate exhibits that are raising the bar for this sleepy Southern town. McPherson appears to be the perfect complement to a revamped museum eager to match its modern environs with shows as dynamic.

The current slate of exhibitions is proof enough.

Ed McGowin’s elaborate and stimulating "Name Change Project" is both amusing and entrancing with a depth of thought that certainly induces reflection. In the course of the project, the artist changed his name a series of times, accompanying each different moniker with a completely manufactured biography and new style. The body of work underlines the multi-faceted aspect of not only artists but also the average human heart in a truly gifted concept.

The Dusti Bongé exhibition on loan from Biloxi underscores the work of oft-overlooked artists from a region which, at times, seems content to ignore the more adventurous in favor of watercolor boats and wildlife. Though the Mississippi-born artist’s surrealism is clearly part and parcel of her Twentieth Century roots, it belies a sensibility still refreshing without being too dated, especially in a land of over-mythologized moonlight and magnolias.

The Southeastern Juried Exhibition is also tantalizing, but the meat of the present shows is undoubtedly the Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection entitled "Creative Imaginings." A list of superlatives spring to mind when contemplating the collection, but none do justice to the actual emotional gamut viewing elicits.

In fact, the first left hand turn into the gallery met one work so forceful, the first glance greeted a wave of intensity that passed through the observer’s core and stirred an almost visceral reaction. Superficially, Mary Borgman’s "Portrait of Jody Carter" (2002) seems another monochromatic likeness, however something seemed poised to leap from its subject’s gaze. Neither the technique nor the subject matter is uncommon, but whether it was the sheer size of the piece or the viewer’s receptiveness, its impact was tangible.

And that was only the first taste.

Work after work in this panoply of contemporary art was as vibrant as anything Artifice has seen in Mobile in years. Whether it was the haunting visage within Peter Drake’s "Out of Place" (2004), the schizoid religiosity of Norbert Cox’s works or the palpable explosiveness of Leonard Koscianski’s "Clash" (1988), every turn elicited inner action and reaction.

And is the case with contemporary art, much of it met subjects and emotions that are often avoided in our area for the uncomfortable ground they tread. Caleb Weintraub’s "Party Favors" (2005) in particular carried an overt violence that, while effective, would likely have been turned away from the museum in years past.

And Mobile’s seemingly most taboo of subjects was present in full force. The nudity that was the subject of a somewhat controversial installment of Artifice in the last year was everywhere. A full frontal female nude standing in longing over a prostrate and bare man, a distinctly unnerving male nude reclining amongst archetypes of the mythological South, or the open embrace of a naked couple protected by a distracted Rottweiler, there were more than enough human forms to shock the more puritanical quarters of our town.

But a glance through the comments in the guest book showed a refreshingly mature reaction to the exhibit. The skies didn’t fall, the earth didn’t open to swallow anyone. People took it for what it’s worth and evaluated it as such, as one would hope functioning human beings could do.

How this stands in stark comparison to other local venues that bill themselves as havens for contemporary work is inescapable, especially in light of the way the struggles of those venues’ artist advisory boards are sometimes negated, the political maneuverings within those institutions and the eradication of those who dare to try and hold their ideals above the inane and pedestrian backroom schemes.
Ideals? In an arthouse? Why who ever heard of such a thing?

Kudos to McPherson and company for retrieving the fallen standard and leading Mobile’s artistic charge into a new realm.

Maybe they can dash eastward down The Hill soon.

Kevin Lee is Lagniappe associate editor. Contact him at klee@lagniappemobile.com.

A Brief Note on New Financing for Experiencia

Week in Midwest Business: Origin of Howard Tullman's Experiencia

CHICAGO -- This week in Midwest business, we take a peak at Howard Tullman's latest venture that recently received $2.575 million in VC financing.

Are You Experienciad?

Serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman very well may have founded or directed more companies than the Chicago Bears currently have wins.

The guy who brought us companies including insurance automation specialist CCC Information Systems, music site Tunes.com and digital strategy shop Xceed Group has jumped back on the entrepreneurial horse after a stint turning around Chicago-based culinary school Kendall College.

Tullman is the chairman of for-profit educational company Experiencia. Founded in 2001 and located near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and the Chicago River (old stomping grounds for divine InterVentures and Sears), Experiencia recently closed on a $2.575 round of institutional financing led by Origin Ventures.

Founded by former Quill director of business development Steve Miller in 1999, Origin invests in Midwest-based seed and early stage technology companies. The firm has also backed insurance automation company Claimforce and iNest. iNest is a new-home builder referral network that was sold to Lending Tree in 2004.

Experiencia also raised money from private investors. The firm partners with grammar schools to offer "immersive leaning" programs for students grades three through six. To date, more than 1 million students have experienced the service. Investment proceeds will be allocated toward national expansion.

Another Review of the Mobile Show

Fine Arts
Review: 'Creative Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection'
Heather Duffy
Contributing Writer
hnd301@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

November 20, 2006

The Mobile Museum of Art is currently displaying "Creative Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection," an exhibition comprised from the Chicago couple's private collection.

The show is made up of representational paintings and drawings, primarily in the mediums of oil, acryic and charcoal. Largely figurative, this exhibition is one of the best examples of contemporary realism to arrive in Mobile in recent years.
Upon entering the gallery, one first notices the vast diversity of narrative subject matter and the large scale of most of the images. Massive canvases line the walls, interspersed with the occasional four-foot-tall drawing.

Aspects of Baroque and Renaissance painting can even be seen, of course, with contemporary twists. Bruno Sardo's "So What Do You Think?" takes an amalgamation of modern day characters (the businessman, the construction worker, etc.) and positions them into a composition reminiscent of Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ."

Brooklyn-based artist, Sarah Bereza, even shows us a modernized look at a triptych altar piece. The three-paneled painting is adorned with an intricately carved border and wooden pinnacles that point towards the gallery ceiling. Each panel subsequently gives us the view of looking in from the other side of the mirror. Bereza shows the prominance that vanity is given in our time by holding it in the same esteem as that of religion in the Middle Ages. In each panel we see a different young girl, putting on lipstick, pushing her breasts together, putting on eye shadow; each staring into the mirror as devoutly as a monk would observe mass.

While many of the paintings are well-executed, Jennifer Presant's oil painting "Projection, Memory, Desire" surpasses the other works in beauty and technical skill. A nude woman stands in the center of a room, walking forward amidst a floor of scattered magazines. The background converges into a corner behind her as the walls come together. These walls, however, show a different image projected on either one. To the left we see a bedroom in complete disarray. The perspective is skewed; cluttered pillows and sheets fall from the bed, fading together into darkness. To the right, the same woman stands naked, looking away from a man lying on the bed, his forearm almost covering his face. One is immediately overwhelmed with a feeling of loss. These projections are images of a shattered past relationship. The woman in the center is utterly alone with only these fragments of memories. The projections create such a great depth of space that the confines of this small room are stretched out infinitely far.Her subtle caucasian skin tones glow in contrast to the rest of the painting. Painted over an acidic green underpainting, her flesh reads as luminous and soft. The brushstrokes on her body are non-existent. The underpainting shows through in many places, creating a sense of process, and a look at the foundation on which this painting was built. Burnt sienna and Indian red hues play well against the bright green. The background is brushy and soft, with many of the large shapes fading in and out of each other. Value contrast decreases and darkens everything but the central figure, pulling her forward and setting her apart from the loss and sorrow of these projected memories.

This show, of course, is not without its shortcomings. Some of the paintings lack any sort of complexity, and many read as if they are so photo-realistic that they may as well not even be paintings. Some even come off as the tasteless purchasing of an eccentric collector.

Despite these facts, the good aspects of this exhibition completely out-number the bad. This is a fine collection of what is currently happening with figurative realism. Ranging from the elegant and the lovely to the garish and offensive, this show is definitely worth seeing.

Where and When

"Creative Imaginings"


Mobile Museum of Art
Through Jan. 7, 2007

Tickets: $10 for adults; $6 for students
Gallery hours: Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
More information: 208-5200

New Paintings from ANN NATHAN GALLERY in Chicago

Recent Acquisitions from Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. http://www.annnathangallery.com

Bill Marhoefer

"Bird Watcher"

Anna Sea

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/anna_sea.htm

"Faith"

Artist Information:

Anna Sea was born in Chicago, grew up in Connecticut, and lived in Austria and Boston before moving in 1992 to Brooklyn, New York, where she currently lives with her husband, Craig, and their young son, Cain. She considers each of her paintings a chapter in a non-linear autobiographical narrative. Anna describes the journey of self-discovery as the most relevant pursuit of her art. Her visual vocabulary reflects an interest in half digested holy reliquaries (particularly Catholic), the clash of innocence and darkness, animals and plants as metaphors, and modern icons such as rubber ducks and guns.


Caleb O'Connor

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/caleb_o_connor.htm

"Untitled" (Bubbles)

Matthew Kane

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/matt_kane.htm

"The Girl Who Dreamt My Fate to Be Our Saint"

Nola Romano

"The Competition: Part Two: To The Finish

"Me and My Bad Luck"

Tim Crowder

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/tim_crowder.htm

"Wolfman in Love"

Rick Beerhorst

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/rick_beerhorst.htm

"Portal to the Third Heaven"

Bruno Surdo

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/bruno_surdo.htm

"So, What Do You Think?"

Artist's Statement:

The characters in these scenes live in separate worlds of self-involvement. They walk through congested city streets in isolation from one another. Some characters loudly promote themselves and call out for attention, while others absorb themselves in private worlds. Some impose restraint on those around them, while others struggle for liberation. Traditional mythologies inspire contemporary metaphors and paint is applied using both modern and time-honored methods. Like the individuals in these paintings, we develop splintered identities, public and private selves. The work attempts to draw attention to the progressions and regressions of our crowded modern lives.

Artist Information:

Bruno A. Surdo was born in Chicago, Illinois. Early in his life, he showed great interest in art and the work of Renaissance masters. At the age of fifteen, Bruno moved with his family to Bari, Italy, where he began his formal art training. At the Liceo Artistico di Bari, Bruno studied drawing and art history and decided to pursue art as his career. Bruno continued his education in the United States and has continued to incorporate the techniques of the great masters in all off his work. He is regularly commissioned for portraits, landscapes, still lifes and figurative and allegorical compositions.


Mary Borgman

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/mary_borgman.htm

"Portrait - Jody Carter"

Artist's Info:

Mary Borgman creates larger than life portraits of culturally diverse subjects. Skillfully drawn, there is no escaping the emotions conveyed through the posture and attitudes of the handful being exhibited. Some proud, pretentious. Some sad, desolate. Others bold, angry, querulous. Persuasive portraits, they run the gamut of human emotion sans the mask of smiles.

Mary smears, smudges, rubs the charcoal -- dark here, lighter there. A wondrous nose, heavy eyes, a tilt to the head that screams "attitude", -- shadows in patches to make it all work. Charcoal is the medium and Borgman its master. She achieves in each portrait a radiance no doubt helped by the Mylar -- her canvas.

"People are the reason for my art, my only motivating source," says Borgman whose aggressive handling of charcoal carries over to her selection of subjects. "I saw my first model for the portraits jogging in the park, his long wheat-colored dreadlocks streaming out behind him. I jumped out of my car and chased him.. I then invited him to the studio in my home. Years later, he's still part of my life -- and my art."

Jeff Kamberos

http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/jeffrey_kamberos.htm

"Let Noble Ambition Be...."

"Red Room"

Beth Foley

http://http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/beth_foley.htm

"Black Tie"

Artist Information:

Beth Foley’s trademark mixture of satire and sincerity is achieved by collaging characters from her own life into atypical scenes.

Esther Shimazu
http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/esther_shimazu.htm

http://http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/esther_shimazu.htm

"Off White Bitch"

Joe Coleman


"City Medical Patrol"

Bubash

"Lucky Devil"

Macias

"Anima I"

"Anima II"

"Anima III"

"Anima IV"

Norbert Kox

"The Last Days"

"Taoman:Lost Footing"

"The Swinging Priest"

Krivacka

"Unsuccessful Men"

"Woeful Imagings"

"Medicine Chest"

Powers

"Boxers"

"Woman with Knife"

Rob Clayton

"Welcome Home"

Higgs

"Sanitary Electric"

"Cupie & Cards"

George Klauba

"House of Eve's Tattooed Dreams"

"Future House of Tribal Dreams"

"Snake and Dagger"

Martucci

"Spot"

Soppeland


"Magician"

"Dominatrix"

Toledo

"Untitled"

Tufts


"Lady Luck"

"13"

Fritz Undine

"Case Study"

Amromin

"Untitled Sculpture"

Newspaper Review of the Mobile Art Show

Artwork, imagery provocative in Tullman show
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Compelling. Disturbing. Disconcerting. In your face.

"Contemporary Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection" is not for all tastes. I say that up front because this show is not for the timorous or the easily offended. The 47 paintings and 14 drawings on view at the Mobile Museum of Art in Langan Park, many of them quite large, are drawn from the Tullmans' Chicago-based collection and speak volumes about the revivified interest in image and narrative by American artists.

In his collector's statement, Howard Tullman alludes to a sign outside the couple's loft that reads in part: "We collect art that seizes your attention and imagination. Art that you cannot look away from or beyond. Art that contains a demonstrable strength and power. Art which effectively tells a story and ... always has more to reveal."

Tullman correctly notes that one cannot presume to reduce three decades of collecting and almost a thousand artworks into "a series of pithy statements in a sign on the wall. Ultimately, ... the art in the Collection speaks for itself."
And so it does, sometimes emphatically, and with a candor and passion than many gallery visitors will find discomfiting.

"Try to escape looking at Uma Thurman in Terry Rodgers' 'The Vortex' or to avoid the penetrating stare of the little nymph in Nola Romano's 'The Competition: Part Two: To The Finish' and you begin to understand the power of the pieces," Tullman writes.

The collectors' fondness for images that convey what the text describes as a "shared sense of asocial isolation" is jarringly evident in Caleb Weintraub's horrific "Party Favors," with its demon children amid human carnage; and in Chris Scarborough's unsettling portrait of a victim, titled "The Devil Was Great, I Swallowed Burning Cigarettes and Ate Ashes."

Whatever one thinks of the subject matter -- and I doubt whether more genteel visitors linger at these canvases -- the artwork is often sublime, imaginatively conceived and executed, and often rich with color. In many instances, "hot" colors (yellow, red, orange) contrast sharply with the darker subtext of the painting.
Consider Paul Sierra's nightmarish "Untitled" (1993), which depicts a silhouetted figure running along a wooded road or path, as though pursued by unseen forces in a fever-dream.

Study the ironic composition of John Alexander's provocative "Snake Oil Salesman" (1987-88), which strongly suggests the unwholesome link between sin and piety, and perhaps the hypocrisy of the "religion bidness."

Try not to flinch at the imminent savagery in Leonard Koscianski's "Clash" (1988), which might be a visual metaphor for war, good and evil, or the duality of humankind.

In his foreword to the "Creative Imaginings" catalog, chief curator Paul W. Richelson, Ph.D., writes: "Transformed from the expectable, image and narrative have returned to being viable strategies for contemporary artists."

He and Donan Klooz, curator of exhibitions, selected works of "provocative creativity," says Richelson, who says the new wrinkle in this show is "the artist's willingness to eclectically mine the past and its visual language; although there may be a discernible echo of Old Master lighting, folk art, cartoons, illustration or Surrealist fantasy, the result is truly visually arresting and unique."

This "twisted classicism" is the reason visitors might choose to spend a few moments with Bruno Surdo's droll "So What Do You Think?" which does suggest the work of a Flemish master. (The artist stands naked at the far left, wearing a red cap and dark glasses, while other characters in the painting reflect varying levels of interest in the central figure, a shirtless young man wearing headphones.)

Try to discern the levels of meaning in "Hyacinth Arsonist" (1999) by Thomas Woodruff, with its statuesque blond nude (with eyepatch) starting a fire with a magnifying glass.

To see how the collectors' taste and interests have progressed, Tullman urges a comparison with the early drawing of "Older Woman" by Bill Vuksanovich with the "Jody Carter" portrait by Mary Borgman; or Vuksanovich's tragic "Business Clown" with Wes Magyar's "Study of Lucas."

Nudity is prevalent in the Tullman show, from Alan Loehle's "Embrace" (1989), featuring a man and a woman, a Rottweiler and a graffiti-streaked wall, to Jennifer Presant's seductive " Projection Memory Desire" (2002), a bedroom dreamscape. Whether standing full frontal, reclining or at an oblique angle, the nudes here are by turns vulnerable, querulous and defiant.

Sometimes they are merely us, like the pregnant woman with her stuffed bear in Tamie Beldue's "Veracity" (2005), alone with our dreams, isolated in a gray world between who we are and who we wish to be.

"Contemporary Imaginings" will remain on view through Jan. 7. View the Tullmans' loft at www.tullman.com or at http://tours3.vht.com/vt/STD/ virtualtour.aspx?ListingID=10 29445 .

Contemporary Art Exhibition in Poland - Gdansk National Museum

We are pleased to be a lender of a major F. Scott Hess piece to this exhibition curated by Donald Kuspit.







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Art Pez from New Mexico

A wonderful opportunity to combine two interests. Thanks to Stephen Fleischman.






A wonderful opportunity to combine two interests. Thanks to Stephen Fleischman.


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YEAR END MOVIE AND DVD LIST

A BEAUTIFUL MIND - DVD
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
A BRIDGE TOO FAR - DVD
A BRIGHT SHINING LIE - DVD
A BRONX TALE
A CASE FOR MURDER
A CIVIL ACTION - DVD
A FEW GOOD MEN
A FISH CALLED WANDA
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE – DVD
A KISS BEFORE DYING
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY
A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME
A MAN APART - DVD
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - DVD
A MIGHTY WIND – DVD
A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY - DVD
A PERFECT MURDER
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
A SIMPLE PLAN - DVD
A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
A THOUSAND ACRES
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
A VIEW TO A KILL
ABANDON – DVD
ABOUT A BOY – DVD
ABOUT SCHMIDT – DVD
ABOVE THE LAW
ABSOLUTE POWER - DVD
ACCEPTED – DVD
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST
*ADAMS RIB
ADAPTATION – DVD
ADRENALIN
AEON FLUX – DVD
THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE – DVD
AFFLICTION - DVD
*THE AFRICAN QUEEN
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
AFTER DARK MY SWEET
AGAINST THE ROPES – DVD
AIR FORCE ONE - DVD
AIRBORNE - DVD
ALADDIN
THE ALAMO - DVD
THE ALARMIST - DVD
ALEX & EMMA – DVD
ALBINO ALLIGATOR
ALI – DVD
ALIEN RESURRECTION
*ALL ABOUT EVE - DVD
ALL REVVED UP - DVD
ALL THAT JAZZ
ALL THE KING’S MEN – DVD
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES - DVD
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES - DVD
ALMOST FAMOUS - DVD
ALONG CAME A SPIDER - DVD
ALONG CAME POLLY – DVD
AMADEUS - DVD
AMATEUR
AMELIE – DVD
AMERICAN BEAUTY - DVD
AMERICAN BOYFRIENDS
AMERICAN DREAMZ – DVD
AMERICAN GIGOLO
AMERICAN GRAFFITI - DVD
AMERICAN PIE - DVD
AMERICAN SPLENDOR – DVD
AMERICAN WEDDING – DVD
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT - DVD
AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS - DVD
AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS
*AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
*AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
*ANCHORS AWEIGH
AN IDEAL HUSBAND - DVD
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
ANALYZE THIS - DVD
ANALYZE THAT - DVD
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN - DVD
ANGER MANAGEMENT – DVD
ANIMAL HOUSE – DVD
ANNAPOLIS – DVD
ANNIE HALL
ANOTHER 9 ½ WEEKS
ANTITRUST - DVD
ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - DVD
THE APARTMENT
APOCALYPSE NOW
ARLINGTON ROAD - DVD
ARMAGEDDON - DVD
THE ART OF WAR - DVD
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL – DVD
ARTICLE 99
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
ASSASSINS
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 – DVD
ATTACK FORCE – DVD
AUSTIN POWERS - DVD
AVALON
THE AVENGERS - DVD
THE AVIATOR – DVD
BABE
BABE - PIG IN THE CITY - DVD
THE BACHELOR - DVD
BACKBEAT
BACKDOOR TO HELL – DVD
BACKDRAFT
BAD BOYS
BAD BOYS 2 – DVD
BAD INFLUENCE
BAD LIEUTENANT
BADDER SANTA – DVD
BAMBOOZLED - DVD
BAND CAMP – DVD
BANDITS – DVD
BARBERSHOP – DVD
*THE BAREFOOT CONTESA
BARTON FINK
THE BASE - DVD
BASIC – DVD
BASIC INSTINCT
BASIC INSTINCT 2
BAT 21
BATMAN
BATMAN RETURNS
BATMAN FOREVER
BATMAN & ROBIN - DVD
BE COOL – DVD
THE BEACH - DVD
BEACHES
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
BEAUTY SHOP – DVD
BEE SEASON – DVD
BEETLEJUICE
BEHIND ENEMY LINES – DVD
BEHIND ENEMY LINES 2 – DVD
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH - DVD
BEING THERE
BELLE DE JOUR
BELLY OF THE BEAST – DVD
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM – DVD
BENNY & JOON
*THE BEST MAN
BEST IN SHOW – DVD(2)
BEST SELLER
BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE - DVD
BEYOND THE SEA – DVD
BIG
BIG BOUNCE – DVD
THE BIG CHILL
THE BIG EASY
BIG FISH – DVD
THE BIG KAHUNA - DVD
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
THE BIG PICTURE
*THE BIG SLEEP
BILLY BATHGATE
BILLY ELLIOT - DVD
BIRD ON THE WIRE
BIRTHDAY GIRL – DVD
*THE BISHOP'S WIFE - DVD
BITTER MOON
BLACK & WHITE - DVD
BLACK DAWN – DVD
BLACK RAIN
BLACK SUNDAY
BLADE RUNNER
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT - DVD
BLAZING SADDLES
BLAZING SADDLES – DVD
BLINK
BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY
BLOOD & WINE
BLOOD SIMPLE
BLOOD WORK – DVD
BLOW - DVD
BLOW UP
BLUE STEEL
BLUE THUNDER
BLUE VELVET
BOB ROBERTS
BODY HEAT
BODY DOUBLE
THE BODYGUARD
BODY OF EVIDENCE
BODY OF INFLUENCE 2
BOILER ROOM - DVD
BOOGIE NIGHTS - DVD
BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
BONNIE & CLYDE - DVD
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
BOUNCE - DVD
BOUND
THE BOURNE IDENTITY – DVD
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY - DVD
BOX OF MOONLIGHT
BOYS
BOYS ON THE SIDE - DVD
BOYZ N THE HOOD
BRASSED OFF
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
THE BREAKFAST CLUB - DVD
BREAKING IN
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY – DVD
BRIDGET JONES – EDGE OF REASON – DVD
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
BRING IT ON - DVD
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD - DVD
*BRINGING UP BABY
BROADCAST NEWS
BROKEN ARROW
BROKEN FLOWERS – DVD
BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF – DVD
THE BROTHERS GRIMM-DVD
THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN
BRUCE ALMIGHTY – DVD
BUGSY
BULL DURHAM
BULLETPROOF
BULLETPROOF MONK – DVD
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY
BULLIT
BULWORTH - DVD
BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN
THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS – DVD
BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
CABARET
CABIN BOY
CADILLAC MAN
CALIGULA - DVD
CAMELOT
THE CANDIDATE
CAN'T HARDLY WAIT - DVD
CAPOTE – DVD
CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN - DVD
CAPTIVES
CARLITO’S WAY – RISE – DVD
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE - DVD
*CAROUSEL
*CASABLANCA - DVD
CASANOVA - DVD
CASINO
CAST AWAY - DVD
CAT’S MEOW-DVD
CATWOMAN – DVD
CELLULAR – DVD
CENTER STAGE - DVD
CHAIN REACTION
CHANGING LANES – DVD
CHARLIE’S ANGELS – DVD
CHARIOTS OF FIRE - DVD
CHASERS
CHASING AMY
CHARLIES ANGELS – FT – DVD
CHARLOTTE GRAY – DVD
CHASING LIBERTY – DVD
CHICAGO – DVD
CHICKEN RUN - DVD
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
CHILL FACTOR – DVD
CHINA MOON
CHINATOWN
CHOCOLAT - DVD
CHORUS LINE
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES - DVD
CINDERELLA MAN – DVD
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS – DVD
*CIRCUS WORLD
CITIZEN KANE
CITY BY THE SEA – DVD
CITY HALL
CITY OF ANGELS - DVD
CITY OF INDUSTRY
CLASS ACTION
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
THE CLEARING – DVD
CLERKS
CLERKS II – DVD
THE CLIENT
CLIFFHANGER- DVD
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF - DVD
CLOSER – DVD
CLUELESS
COACH CARTER – DVD
COLD MOUNTAIN – DVD
COLLATERAL – DVD
COLLATERAL DAMAGE – DVD
COLOR OF NIGHT
COMEDIAN – DVD
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS
COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL
COMMANDO
THE COMMITMENTS
COMPANY BUSINESS
THE COMPETITION
CON AIR
CONFIDENCE – DVD
CONSENTING ADULTS
CONSPIRACY THEORY - DVD
THE CONSTANT GARDENER – DVD
THE CONTENDER - DVD
THE COOLER – DVD
THE CORE – DVD
THE COTTON CLUB
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO – DVD
COUNTER MEASURES - DVD
COURAGE UNDER FIRE
CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE – DVD
CRADLE WILL ROCK - DVD
THE CRAFT
CRASH - DVD
CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL - DVD
CRIMES OF PASSION
CRIMINAL LAW
CRIMSON TIDE - DVD
CRITICAL CARE - DVD
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN - DVD
CRUEL INTENTIONS - DVD
CRUMB
THE CRYING GAME
CYBER TRACKER
DAMAGE
DAMN YANKEES
THE DANCER UPSTAIRS – DVD
DANCING AT LUGHNASA - DVD
DANGEROUS
DANGEROUS GAME
DANGEROUS LIASIONS
DANTE'S PEAK
DAREDEVIL – DVD
DARK BLUE – DVD
DARKMAN
DAVE
DAYS OF THUNDER
DAZED AND CONFUSED
DEAD AGAIN
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
DEADLY RIVALS
DEALERS
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
THE DEEP
DEEP BLUE SEA - DVD
DEEP COVER
DEEP DOWN
THE DEER HUNTER - DVD
DEEP IMPACT
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE
DEFENSELESS
DE-LOVELY – DVD
DELTA OF VENUS
DEMOLITION MAN
THE DEMOLITIONIST
DENIAL
DERAILED – DVD
*DESK SET
DESPARADO
*DESPERATE HOURS
DESPARATE MEASURES - DVD
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
DETONATOR
DEUCE BIGALOW - DVD
*THE DEVIL AT 4 O'CLOCK
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA – DVD
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - DVD
THE DEVIL'S OWN
DIABOLIQUE
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
DIARY OF A HITMAN
DICK - DVD
DICK TRACY
DIE ANOTHER DAY – DVD
DIE HARD
DIE HARD 2
DINER
DIRTY DANCING
LE DIVORCE – DVD
D.O.A.
DO THE RIGHT THING
DOC HOLLYWOOD
THE DOCTOR
DODGEBALL – DVD
DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE – DVD
DOMINO – DVD
DONA FLOR AND HER TWO
DONNIE BRASCO
DON'T SAY A WORD - DVD
THE DOOM GENERATION
THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR – DVD
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - DVD
DOUBLE TAKE - DVD
DOWNHILL RACER
DR.NO
DR. STRANGELOVE - DVD
DR. T & THE WOMAN - DVD
DRACULA
DREAMCATCHER – DVD
DREAMER – DVD
THE DREAMERS – DVD
DREAMLOVER
DRIVEN - DVD
DRIVING MISS DAISY
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS - DVD
DRUGSTORE COWBOY
DUETS - DVD
DYING YOUNG
EAST OF EDEN – DVD
EASY RIDER
ED WOOD
EDISON FORCE – DVD
EDMOND – DVD
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
8 MILE – DVD
8 MM - DVD
EIGHT BELOW – DVD
ELECTION - DVD
THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN
ELEKTRA – DVD
ELIZABETH - DVD
ELIZABETHTOWN – DVD
EMMA
THE EMPEROR’S CLUB – DVD
EMPIRE – DVD
EMPIRE FALLS – DVD
EMPIRE RECORDS
END GAME – DVD
THE END OF VIOLENCE
ENEMY AT THE GATES - DVD
ENEMIES - A LOVE STORY
THE ENGLISH PATIENT - DVD
ENIGMA – DVD
ENTRAPMENT - DVD
ERASER
ERIN BROCKOVICH - DVD
ESCAPE FROM LA
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
EVITA
EXCESSIVE FORCE
EXECUTIVE DECISION
EXIT WOUNDS - DVD
EXOTICA
EXTREME MEASURES
EXTREME OPS – DVD
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - DVD
EYES WIDE SHUT - DVD
FABULOUS BAKER BOYS
FACE OFF - DVD
FAHRENHEIT 9/11 - DVD
FAIR GAME
FALLEN - DVD
FALLING DOWN
FAME
FAMILY BUSINESS
THE FAMILY MAN - DVD
THE FAMILY STONE – DVD
THE FAN - DVD
FANTASIA
FANTASTIC FOUR – DVD
FARGO
FARGO – DVD
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - DVD
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS – TOKOYO DRIFT - DVD
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
THE FAVOR
FEARLESS – DVD
FEELING MINNESOTA
FEMME FATALE – DVD
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
FIELD OF DREAMS
15 MINUTES - DVD
FIFTH ELEMENT
FINAL ANALYSIS
THE FINAL CUT
THE FINAL CUT - DVD
FINDING FORRESTER - DVD
FINDING NEVERLAND – DVD
FIREBIRDS
FIRESTORM
THE FIRST DEADLY SIN
FIRST STRIKE
THE FISHER KING
FIVE CORNERS
THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
FLASHDANCE
FLATLINERS
FLAWLESS - DVD
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX – DVD
FLIGHT PLAN – DVD
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
FM
FOOL FOR LOVE
FOOTLOOSE
FOR LOVE OR MONEY
FORCES OF NATURE - DVD
THE FOREIGNER – DVD
THE FORGOTTEN – DVD
FORMULA 51 – DVD
FORREST GUMP
FORTRESS
*FORTY-SECOND STREET
FOR LOVE OF THE GAME - DVD
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
THE FORGOTTEN – DVD
FOUR BROTHERS – DVD
THE FOUR FEATHERS – DVD
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
FRANKIE & JOHNNY
FREEDOMLAND – DVD
FREEJACK
FREE WILLY
FRIDA – DVD
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS – DVD
FRIENDS WITH MONEY – DVD
FROM DUSK TIL DAWN
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
THE FUGITIVE
THE FULL MONTY
FUNLAND
*FUNNY FACE
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE – DVD
GANGS OF NEW YORK – DVD
GARDEN STATE – DVD
GATTACA
THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER - DVD
GENUINE RISK
GET OVER IT - DVD
GET SHORTY
GHOST
GHOST DOG - DVD
THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS
GHOSTBUSTERS
GHOST SHIP – DVD
GHOST WORLD - DVD
GHOSTS OF MARS - DVD
GIANT – DVD
THE GIFT - DVD
GIGI
GI JANE - DVD
THE GINGERBREAD MAN
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR – DVD
THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING – DVD
GLADIATOR - DVD
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
THE GLIMMER MAN
GO - DVD
GODFATHER
GODFATHER II
GODFATHER III
GODS AND GENERALS – DVD
GODS AND MONSTERS - DVD
GOING ALL THE WAY
GOLDFINGER
GONE IN 60 SECONDS - DVD
GONE WITH THE WIND - DVD
GOODBYE LOVER - DVD
GOODFELLAS
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK – DVD
THE GOOD SON
THE GOOD THIEF – DVD
GOOD WILL HUNTING
*GONE WITH THE WIND
GOSFORD PARK – DVD
GOSSIP - DVD
GRACE OF MY HEART
THE GRADUATE - DVD
GRAND CANYON
*GRAND HOTEL
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
THE GREAT RAID – DVD
*THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
THE GREEN MILE - DVD
THE GRIFTERS
THE GRINCH - DVD
GROSSE POINT BLANK
GROUND CONTROL - DVD
GROUNDHOG DAY - DVD
GUARDING TESS
GUILTY BY SUSPICION
GUN SHY - DVD
GUNMAN
*GUYS AND DOLLS
GUYS AND DOLLS – DVD
GYPSY
HAIR
HAIR SPRAY
HALF PAST DEAD – DVD
HAMLET
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
HANNIBAL - DVD
HAPPINESS - DVD
HAPPY TEXAS - DVD
HARDBOILED - DVD
THE HARD CORPS – DVD
HARD EIGHT
HARD RAIN
HARD TARGET
HARD TO KILL
THE HARDER THEY COME
HARRY POTTER - DVD
HARRY POTTER – 2 – DVD
HART’S WAR - DVD
HARVEY - DVD
HE GOT GAME - DVD
HEAD OVER HEELS - DVD
HEARTS IN ATLANTIS - DVD
HEARTS OF DARKNESS
HEAT
HEATHERS
HEAVENLY CREATURES
HEIST - DVD
HELLBOY – DVD
HENRY AND JUNE
HERO
HIDALGO – DVD
HIGH FIDELITY - DVD
HIGH SCHOOL HIGH
*HIGH SOCIETY
THE HITMAN
HOLES – DVD
*HOLIDAY INN
HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE – DVD
HOME FRIES - DVD
HOMICIDE
HONEY – DVD
HOODLUM - DVD
HOOP DREAMS
THE HORSE WHISPERER - DVD
HOOSIERS
HOSTAGE
HOSTAGE – DVD
HOT SPOT
HOURGLASS
THE HOURS – DVD
THE HOUSE OF YES - DVD
HOUSE OF GAMES
HOUSE PARTY
HOUSESITTER
HOW I MET MY HUSBAND
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS
HOWARDS END
HUDSON HAWK - DVD
HUSTLE & FLOW – DVD
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
HUNTED – DVD
THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT – DVD
HURLY BURLY - DVD
HUSBANDS AND WIVES
I LOVE TROUBLE - DVD
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
I ROBOT – DVD
THE ICE HARVEST – DVD
THE ICE STORM
IF LUCY FELL
IGBY GOES DOWN – DVD
I'LL DO ANYTHING
IMMORTAL BELOVED - DVD
THE IMMORTALS
IMPULSE
THE IN CROWD - DVD
IN GOOD COMPANY – DVD
IN HER SHOES – DVD
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN - DVD
IN THE CUT – DVD
IN THE LINE OF FIRE
INDEPENDENCE DAY
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
INDIAN SUMMER
INHERIT THE WIND
THE IN-LAWS – DVD
INNERSPACE – DVD
INSIDE MAN – DVD
THE INSIDER - DVD
INSOMNIA – DVD
INSTINCT - DVD
INTERNAL AFFAIRS
INTERSECTION - DVD
INTIMACY – DVD
INTO THE BLUE – DVD
INTO THE SUN – DVD
INVENTING THE ABBOTTS
INVINCIBLE – DVD
THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS – DVD
THE ISLAND – DVD
THE ITALIAN JOB – DVD
*IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
JADE
JAWS
JERRY MAGUIRE
JERSEY GIRL – DVD
JFK
THE JOB – DVD
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
JUNEBUG – DVD
JUST CAUSE
JUST LIKE HEAVEN – DVD
JUST THE TICKET - DVD
K-2 - THE ULTIMATE HIGH
K19 – THE WIDOWMAKER – DVD
*KEY LARGO
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE – DVD
KILL BILL – DVD
KILL BILL – VOL 2 – DVD
KILLING ME SOFTLY – DVD
KING OF NEW YORK
KING ARTHUR – DVD
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN – DVD
KINGPIN
*KISMET
KISS OF DEATH
KISS OF THE DRAGON - DVD
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
*KISS ME DEADLY
KISS THE GIRLS
KISSING JESSICA STEIN – DVD
KNOCKAROUND - DVD
KNOCK OFF
KRAMER V KRAMER
LA FEMME NIKITA
LA CONFIDENTIAL
LA STORY
LADY AND THE TRAMP
THE LADYKILLERS – DVD
THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM
THE LAKE HOUSE – DVD
LAKE CONSEQUENCE
LARRY SANDERS - DVD
LAS VEGAS – YEAR 1 – DVD
THE LAST BOY SCOUT
THE LAST CASTLE - DVD
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO
THE LAST DON
LAST MAN STANDING - DVD
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
THE LAST SEDUCTION
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
THE LAST TYCOON – DVD
THE LAST WALTZ
LAURA CROFT – TOMB RAIDER 2 – DVD
LAUREL CANYON – DVD
THE LAWNMOWER MAN
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - DVD
LAWS OF ATTRACTION – DVD
THE LEADING MAN - DVD
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN – DVD
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
LEAP OF FAITH
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
LEGAL EAGLES
LEGALLY BLONDE - DVD
THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE - DVD
THE LEGEND OF ZORRO – DVD
LEGENDS OF THE FALL - DVD
LEON, THE PROFESSIONAL - DVD
LES MISERABLES - DVD
LETHAL WEAPON
LETHAL WEAPON 3
LETHAL WEAPON 4 - DVD
L4YER CAKE – DVD
LICENSE TO KILL
LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT – DVD
LIFE STINKS
LIMBO - DVD
THE LIMEY - DVD
LITTLE MAN TATE
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE – DVD
LITTLE ODESSA
LITTLE RASCALS
LITTLE VOICE - DVD
LIVE NUDE GIRLS
LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING - DVD
LOLITA - DVD
LOOKING FOR MR.GOODBAR
LONG KISS GOODBYE
THE LORD OF THE RINGS – DVD
LORD OF THE RINGS – RETURN OF KING – DVD
LORDS OF DOGTOWN – DVD
LORD OF WAR – DVD
LOSER - DVD
LOST IN AMERICA
LOST IN TRANSLATION – DVD
LOST IN YONKERS
LOVE AFFAIR
LOVE CRIMES
LOVE LETTERS
LOVELY & AMAZING – DVD
THE LOVER
LUCKY # SLEVIN – DVD
MAC
MAD CITY - DVD
MAD DOG & GLORY
MADE - DVD
MADELINE – DVD
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN - DVD
MAGNOLIA - DVD
MAID IN MANHATTAN – DVD
MALL RATS - DVD
*THE MALTESE FALCON - DVD
THE MAJESTIC – DVD
MAJOR LEAGUE
THE MAMBO KINGS
THE MAN – DVD
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK - DVD
MAN ON FIRE – DVD
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
MAN TROUBLE
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE – DVD
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE – DVD
MANHATTAN
MANHUNTER - DVD
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS – DVD
MARKED FOR DEATH
MARRIED TO THE MOB
THE MARRYING MAN
MASH
THE MASK
THE MASK OF ZORRO - DVD
MASKED AND ANONYMOUS – DVD
MATCH POINT – DVD
MATCHSTICK MEN – DVD
MATINEE
MATRIX - DVD
MAVERICK
MAXIMUM RISK
ME,MYSELF & IRENE - DVD
THE MEAN SEASON
THE MEAN SEASON - DVD
MEAN STREETS
THE MEDALLION – DVD
MEET JOE BLACK - DVD
MEET THE PARENTS - DVD
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA – DVD
MEMORIES OF ME
MEN IN BLACK
MEN OF HONOR - DVD
MERCENARY FOR JUSTICE – DVD
MERCURY RISING - DVD
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE - DVD
METRO - DVD
METROPOLITAN
THE MEXICAN - DVD
MIAMI RHAPSODY
MIAMI VICE – DVD
MICHAEL
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD - DVD
MIDNIGHT COWBOY - DVD
MIGHTY APHRODITE
MILLER'S CROSSING
MILLION DOLLAR BABY – DVD
MIMIC
MINORITY REPORT – DVD
MIRACLE – DVD
MISS CONGENIALITY - DVD
THE MISSING – DVD
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 111 – DVD
MISTER BILL
*MISTER SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
THE MOD SQUAD - DVD
MODERN ROMANCE
THE MODERNS – DVD
MOMENTO - DVD
MONA LISA SMILE – DVD
MONTY PYTHON AND THE GRAIL - DVD
MOONLIGHT MILE – DVD
MOONRAKER
MOONSTRUCK
MORTAL THOUGHTS
MOTHER
MOULIN ROUGE - DVD
MR.HOLLAND'S OPUS
MR. ROBERTS - DVD
*MR. WONDERFUL
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS-DVD
MRS PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
MULHOLLAND DRIVE – DVD
MUMFORD - DVD
THE MUMMY - DVD
THE MUMMY RETURNS - DVD
MURDER AT 1600 - DVD
MURDER BY NUMBERS - DVD
MURIEL'S WEDDING
THE MUSIC MAN
THE MUSIC MAN - DVD
THE MUSKETEER - DVD
MUST LOVE DOGS – DVD
MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING - DVD
MY BLUE HEAVEN
MY COUSIN VINNY
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE - DVD
MY FAIR LADY - DVD
MY FAIR LADY
MY FIRST MISTER – DVD
MY GIRL
MY LEFT FOOT
MYSTIC PIZZA
MYSTIC RIVER – DVD
9 SONGS – DVD
NASHVILLE - DVD
NAKED IN NEW YORK
NARC – DVD
NARROW MARGIN
THE NATURAL
NAVY SEALS
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS
NEMESIS
NETWORK - DVD
NEVER BEEN KISSED - DVD
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
THE NEW AGE
NEWS AT 11
NEW YORK STORIES
NEXT STOP WONDERLAND
NIGHT AND THE CITY
NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN
NEXT FRIDAY - DVD
THE NIGHT PORTER
THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
NINA TAKES A LOVER
NINJA TURTLES
NO DIRECTION HOME – BOB DYLAN - DVD
NO LOOKING BACK
NO WAY OUT
NORTH BY NORTHWEST - DVD
NOTHING IN COMMON
*NOTORIOUS
NOTTING HILL - DVD
NOWHERE TO RUN
NURSE BETTY - DVD
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
O BROTHER, WHERE ART - DVD
OBJECT OF BEAUTY - DVD
OCEANS' 11
OCEANS’ 11 – DVD
OCTOPUSSY
OF LOVE AND SHADOWS
OFFICE SPACE - DVD
OLD SCHOOL – DVD
OLD YELLER
OLEANNA
OLIVER
ON ANY SUNDAY - DVD
ONCE UPON A CRIME
THE ONE - DVD
ONE FALSE MOVE - DVD
ONE FINE DAY
ONE MAN'S JUSTICE - DVD
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
ONE NIGHT STAND - DVD
ONE TRUE THING - DVD
OTHER PEOPLES MONEY
ON DEADLY GROUND
ON GOLDEN POND - DVD
*ON THE TOWN
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO-DVD
ONE HOUR PHOTO – DVD
OPEN RANGE – DVD
THE OPPOSITE OF SEX - DVD
ORANGE COUNTY – DVD
ORDINARY PEOPLE
ORIGINAL SIN – DVD
OSBOURNES 1ST SEASON – DVD
OUT FOR A KILL – DVD
OUT FOR JUSTICE
OUT OF REACH – DVD
OUT OF TIME – DVD
OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE - DVD
OUTLAND
OUTRAGE – DVD
THE OUTSIDERS
THE PACIFIER – DVD
THE PACKAGE
PALMETTO
PAJAMA GAME
PAPARAZZI – DVD
PASSION FISH
*PAT & MIKE
THE PATRIOT - DVD
THE PATRIOT (2) - DVD
PATRIOT GAMES
PAYBACK - DVD
PAYCHECK – DVD
THE PEACEMAKER - DVD
PEARL HARBOR - DVD
PECKER
THE PELICAN BRIEF - DVD
PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT
THE PERFECT SCORE – DVD
THE PERFECT STORM - DVD
PERSONAL VELOCITY – DVD
PETER'S FRIENDS
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA – DVD
PHANTOMS
PHILADELPHIA - DVD
*THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
PHENOMENON - DVD
PHOENIX - DVD
PHONEBOOTH – DVD
PI - DVD
THE PIANIST – DVD
THE PIANO
THE PILOT’S WIFE – DVD
PINOCCHIO
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – DVD
– DVD
PLANES,TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES
PLANET OF THE APES - DVD
THE PLAYER
*PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
PLAYING BY HEART - DVD
THE PLEDGE - DVD
POINT BREAK
POINT OF NO RETURN
POLLOCK - DVD
POSSESSION - DVD
POWER - DVD
PRACTICAL MAGIC - DVD
PREDATOR
THE PRESIDIO - DVD
PRETTY BABY – DVD
PRETTY WOMAN
PREY FOR ROCK & ROLL – DVD
PRIDE & PREJUDICE – DVD
PRIMAL FEAR
PRIMARY COLORS - DVD
THE PRIME GIG – DVD
THE PRINCE AND ME – DVD
THE PRINCE OF TIDES
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
THE PRINCESS DIARIES - DVD
PRISCILLA - QUEEN OF THE DESERT
PRIVATE OBSESSION
PRIZZI'S HONOR
THE PRODUCERS
THE PRODUCERS – DVD
THE PROFESSIONAL
THE PROGRAM
PROOF – DVD
PROOF OF LIFE - DVD
THE PUBLIC EYE
PULP FICTION
PUMP UP THE VOLUME
THE PUNISHER – DVD
PURE LUCK
Q&A
THE QUEST – DVD
THE QUIET AMERICAN – DVD
QUIET DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD - DVD
QUILLS - DVD
QUIZ SHOW
RADIO DAYS
RAIDERS OF THE LAST ARK
RAIN MAN
RAISING ARIZONA
RANDOM HEARTS - DVD
RANSOM
RAY – DVD
READY TO WEAR - DVD
THE REAL MCCOY
REALITY BITES
*REAR WINDOW
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - DVD
THE RECRUIT – DVD
RED EYE – DVD
RED SCORPION 2
REINDEER GAMES - DVD
THE RELIC
REMAINS OF THE DAY
REMEMBER THE TITANS - DVD
RENT – DVD
THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS
THE REPLACEMENTS - DVD
RESERVOIR DOGS
RESIDENT EVIL – DVD
RESTORATION
RETURN TO ME - DVD
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
RICOCHET
RIDICULE
RIPLEY’S GAME – DVD
RISING SUN
THE RIGHT STUFF
RISKY BUSINESS
ROAD TRIP - DVD
ROADHOUSE
THE ROCK
ROCK STAR - DVD
ROCKY - DVD
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
ROGER DODGER – DVD
ROGER AND ME
ROGER RABBIT
ROMANCE - DVD
ROMANCING THE STONE
ROMEO IS BLEEDING
ROMEO MUST DIE - DVD
ROMY & MICHELLE'S HIGH - DVD
RONIN - DVD
THE ROOKIE
THE ROSE
ROSEMARY'S BABY - DVD
ROUNDERS - DVD
ROXANNE
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS – DVD
RUDY
THE RULES OF ATTRACTION – DVD
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - DVD
RUMBLE FISH
RUMOR HAS IT – DVD
RUN LOLA RUN - DVD
RUNAWAY BRIDE – DVD
RUNAWAY JURY – DVD
RUNDOWN – DVD
RUNNING SCARED – DVD
RUSHMORE - DVD
*SABRINA
SAHARA – DVD
THE SAINT
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
SAVE THE LAST DANCE - DVD
SAVING GRACE - DVD
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - DVD
SCANDAL
SCARFACE
SCARFACE – DVD
SCENES FROM A CLASS STRUGGLE
SCENT OF A WOMAN
SCHINDLER'S LIST
SCHOOL OF ROCK – DVD
SCISSORS
SCOOP – DVD
THE SCORE - DVD
THE SCOUT
SCREAM
SCROOGED
SEA OF LOVE
SEARCH AND DESTROY
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER
SECOND COMMAND – DVD
THE SECRET GARDEN
SECRET WINDOW – DVD
SECRETARY – DVD
SEDUCED – DVD
SENSE & SENSIBILITY
THE SENTINEL – DVD
SERENDIPITY – DVD
SEVEN - DVD
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
SEX,LIES,AND VIDEOTAPE
SEXUAL RESPONSE
SEXY BEAST - DVD
SGT BILKO
SHADOW MAN – DVD
SHADOWLANDS
THE SHAFT – DVD
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE - DVD
SHALL WE DANCE? – DVD
SHALLOW HAL – DVD
SHAMPOO
SHATTERED
SHE'S ALL THAT - DVD
SHE'S THE ONE
SHINE - DVD
THE SHIPPING NEWS – DVD
SHOOT THE MOON
SHOPGIRL – DVD
THE SHOW
SHOWBOAT
SHOWGIRLS
SHOWTIME – DVD
SIDEOUT
SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK – DVD
SIDEWAYS – DVD
THE SIEGE - DVD
SIESTA
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
SILENT FALL
SIMPATICO - DVD
SIN CITY – DVD
*SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE
SIRENS
SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS - DVD
THE SIXTH DAY - DVD
SIXTH SENSE - DVD
16 BLOCKS – DVD
THE SKULLS - DVD
SLAM DANCE
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
SLING BLADE - DVD
SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS - DVD
SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW
SNEAKERS
THE SNAPPER
SNATCH - DVD
*SNOW WHITE
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS – DVD
SOLARIS – DVD
SOLDIER - DVD
SOLO
SOME LIKE IT HOT
SOME LIKE IT HOT - DVD
SOMEONE LIKE YOU - DVD
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
SPHERE - DVD
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
THIS IS SPINAL TAP - DVD
SOUL FOOD
THE SOUND OF MUSIC - DVD
*SOUTH PACIFIC
SPACE COWBOYS - DVD
SPANGLISH – DVD
SPANISH PRISONER - DVD
SPARTAN – DVD
THE SPECIALIST
SPECIES
SPECIES 2 - DVD
SPEED
SPELLBOUND – DVD
SPIDER-MAN – DVD
SPIDER-MAN 2 – DVD
SPITFIRE GRILL
SPLASH
SPLENDOR - DVD
SPY GAME – DVD
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE – DVD
STAND BY ME
ST.ELMO'S FIRE
START-UP.COM - DVD
STATE & MAIN - DVD
STEALING BEAUTY
STEALING HOME
STEALTH – DVD
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
STEPMOM - DVD
STICK IT – DVD
THE STING - DVD
STORYVILLE
STRAPLESS
STREET FIGHTER – DVD
STRICTLY BALLROOM
STRIKING DISTANCE
STRIPES
SUBMERGED – DVD
SUDDEN DEATH
SUGAR HILL
SUMMER OF SAM - DVD
SUNSHINE STATE – DVD
THE SUPER
SUPREME SANCTION - DVD
SURVIVING PICASSO
SURVIVING THE GAME - DVD
SWEET NOVEMBER - DVD
THE SWEETEST THING – DVD
SWEPT AWAY
SWIMMING POOL – DVD
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS
SWITCH
SWORDFISH - DVD
SYRIANA –DVD
2FAST2FURIOUS – DVD
200 CIGARETTES - DVD
THE TAILOR OF PANAMA - DVD
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY - DVD
TALK RADIO
TAKE THE LEAD – DVD
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
TAKING LIVES – DVD
TAP
TAPE – DVD
THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE - DVD
THE TAO OF STEVE - DVD
TAXI DRIVER
TEARS OF THE SUN – DVD
THE END OF VIOLENCE
THE TEMP
THE TEMPTATIONS - DVD
TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU - DVD
TEQUILA SUNRISE
THE TERMINAL – DVD
TERMINAL VELOCITY
THE TERMINATOR
TERMINATOR 2
TERMINATOR 3 – DVD
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING – DVD
THAT THING YOU DO
*THERE'S NO BUSINESS ...
THIEF
THE THING CALLED LOVE
THINGS YOU CAN TELL - DVD
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU - DVD
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER - DVD
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
THIRTEEN DAYS - DVD
13 GOING ON 30 – DVD
THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR - DVD
THE 13TH WARRIOR - DVD
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR - DVD
THREE KINGS - DVD
THREE OF HEARTS
3000 MILES TO GRACELAND - DVD
THREESOME
THUNDERBALL
TICKER – DVD
TIGHTROPE
TIL THERE WAS YOU
TIME COP
TIN CUP
TIN MEN
TITUS - DVD
TO DIE FOR
*TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - DVD
TO LIVE AND LET DIE
TODAY YOU DIE – DVD
TOM & VIV
TOMB RAIDER - DVD
TOO MUCH
TOOTSIE
TOP GUN
TOTAL RECALL
TOWN & COUNTRY - DVD
TOY SOLDIERS
TOY STORY
TRACES OF RED
TRAFFIC - DVD
TRAINING DAY - DVD
THE TRANSPORTER – DVD
TRANSPORTER 2 – DVD
TRAVELLER - DVD
TREACHEROUS
TREES LOUNGE
TREMORS
THE TRIGGER EFFECT - DVD
TRISTAN + ISOLDE – DVD
TRUE COLORS
TRUE CRIME - DVD
TRUE LIES
THE TRUMAN SHOW - DVD
TOO MUCH
TOY SOLDIERS
TUCKER
TUCK EVERLASTING – DVD
TURBULENCE
2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY
2000 YEAR OLD MAN - DVD
2001 - A SPACE ODESSEY
2001 - DVD
TWELVE MONKEYS
TWENTY-ONE
21 GRAMS – DVD
29TH STREET
TWISTED – DVD
TWISTER - DVD
TWO FOR THE MONEY – DVD
TWO IF BY SEA - DVD
ULEE'S GOLD
UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
UNLEASHED – DVD
U-571 - DVD
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER – DVD
UNBREAKABLE - DVD
UNDER SIEGE
UNDER SIEGE 2
UNDER SUSPICION
UNDERWORLD
UNDERWORLD – DVD
UNFAITHFUL – DVD
UNFORGIVEN
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
UNSTRUNG HEROES
UNTAMED HEART
THE UNTOUCHABLES
URBAN COWBOY
THE USUAL SUSPECTS
VAN HELSING – DVD
VANILLA SKY – DVD
VANYA ON 42ND STREET
VARSITY BLUES - DVD
VENICE UNDERGROUND – DVD
VERONICA GUERIN – DVD
VERTICAL LIMIT - DVD
VERTIGO - DVD
VERY BAD THINGS - DVD
V.I.WARSHAWSKI
VISION QUEST
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES - DVD
VIRTUOSITY
VOLCANO
WAG THE DOG - DVD
WAIT UNTIL DARK
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN – DVD(2)
WAKING NED DEVINE - DVD
WALL STREET
WALK THE LINE – DVD
WALKING AND TALKING
WALKING TALL – DVD
WAKING THE DEAD - DVD
WAR OF THE ROSES
WAR GAMES
THE WATCHER - DVD
THE WATER BOY - DVD
WATERWORLD - DVD
WAYNE'S WORLD
WE WERE SOLDIERS – DVD
THE WEATHER MAN – DVD
THE WEDDING SINGER - DVD
WEST SIDE STORY
WHAT A GIRL WANTS – DVD
WHAT LIES BENEATH - DVD
WHEN EAGLES STRIKE – DVD
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
WHEN WE WERE KINGS
WHERE THE BOYS ARE
WHERE THE DAY TAKES YOU
WHERE THE TRUTH LIES – DVD
WHERE'S POPPA?
WHITE OLEANDER – DVD
WHITE PALACE
WHITE SANDS
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS - DVD
WICKER PARK – DVD
WILD HEARTS CAN'T BE BROKEN
WILD THINGS - DVD
WILDER NAPALM
WIMBLEDON – DVD
WINDTALKERS – DVD
WINGS OF THE DOVE
THE WINNER
WINNING - DVD
WIT - DVD
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
WITHOUT LIMITS - DVD
*WITHOUT LOVE
WITHOUT YOU, I'M NOTHING
WOLF
WOODSTOCK
WOODSTOCK - DVD
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE - DVD
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS
WORKING GIRL
XXX – STATE OF THE UNION – DVD
X-MEN – DVD
X2-XMEN UNITED – DVD
X3 – THE LAST STAND - DVD
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN – DVD
YEAR OF THE COMET
YENTL
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE
YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
YOU'VE GOT MAIL - DVD
ZANDALEE
ZERO EFFECT - DVD
ZOOLANDER - DVD
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PETER ALLEN
ANNIE LENNOX
THE BAND
JOAN BAEZ
BEACH BOYS LOST CONCERT - DVD
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-UNPLUGGED
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - BLOOD BROTHERS
JACKSON BROWNE
CELINE DION
STEVEN WRIGHT
ELTON JOHN - 1992 TOUR
ELTON JOHN
BOB MARLEY
GLORIA ESTEFAN
BLONDIE
WEST SIDE STORY-MUSIC
ROLLING STONES LIVE AT IMAX
MONTEREY POP
U2
GLENN FREY-BELGUIM
MICHAEL JACKSON
BOB DYLAN
JUDY GARLAND
ROD STEWART - VAGABOUND TOUR
BILLY JOEL AT YANKEE STADIUM
EAGLES:HELL FREEZES OVER
JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
BEATLES FIRST TOUR
THE COMPLETE BEATLES
TWO ROOMS-ELTON&BERNIE
ALANIS MORISETTE
NEIL DIAMOND
KENNY LOGGINS
PAUL SIMON
WOODSTOCK-LOST PERFORMANCES
K.D.LANG - LIVE IN SYDNEY
RANDY TRAVIS-FOREVER AND EVER
CINDY LAUPER
HARRY CONNICK
DONNA SUMMER
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
JONI MITCHELL
MICHAEL BOULTON
BARRY MANILOW
JAMES TAYLOR
JAMES TAYLOR IN CONCERT
PARIS CONCERT
PRINCES TRUST CONCERT
VAN MORRISON
RANDY NEWMAN
FLEETWOOD MAC
FLEETWOOD MAC - TANGO
CAROLE KING
BILLY CRYSTAL
PHIL COLLINS
PHIL COLLINS -THE SINGLES
PHIL COLLINS-SERIOUSLY LIVE
DIRE STRAITS
MICHAEL CRAWFORD
DOOBIE BROTHERS
GUYS AND DOLLS
ERIC CLAPTON - UNPLUGGED
SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
ROLLING STONES - LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
BOBBIE BROWN
MADONNA - BLOND AMBITION
MADONNA - THE GIRLIE SHOW
CHRISTINE MCVIE
BARRY MANILOW
WILLIE NELSON - THE BIG SIX-0
JAMES TAYLOR - CONCERT
K.D.LANG
NEIL YOUNG - RUST NEVER SLEEPS
BARBRA STREISAND - ONE VOICE
NEIL YOUNG - UNPLUGGED
DYLAN CONCERT
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES
BETTE MIDLER - DIVINE MADNESS
WHITNEY HOUSTON IN CONCERT
RAY CHARLES
MEAT LOAF LIVE
REM - PARALLEL
ROLLING STONES
DIRE STRAITS
10,000 MANIACS
PHILLIP PEARLSTEIN
FRIDA KAHLO
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
BILLBOARDS - THE JOFFREY
LES MISERABLES
LES MISERABLES - DREAM CAST
LOUVRE - 1,2,3
ARENA BRAINS
BONNIE RAITT - ROAD TESTED
CARLY SIMON - LIVE AT GRAND CENTRAL
THE CHIEFTAINS - THE BELLS OF DUBLIN
LORD OF THE DANCE - DVD
FLEETWOOD MAC - THE DANCE
LOU REED - ROCK & ROLL HEART - DVD
BOCELLI - A NIGHT - DVD
MADONNA VIDEO COLLECTION - DVD
MY FAVORITE BROADWAY - DVD
SHERYL CROW - DVD
WILL SMITH - DVD
JACKSON BROWNE - DVD
STEELY DAN - AJA - DVD
THE CORRS - DVD
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - LIVE IN NYC - DVD
MICHAEL MCDONALD - DVD
DAVE MATTHEWS LIVE – DVD
JOHN MAYER – DVD
FLEETWOOD MAC – THE DANCE – DVD
FLEETWOOD MAC – RUMORS – DVD
THE WHO – WHO’S NEXT? – DVD
ELTON JOHN – GOODBYE YELLOW – DVD
MEAT LOAF – DVD
PAUL SIMON – GRACELAND – DVD
LOU REED – DVD
STEVIE WONDER – DVD
NEIL YOUNG - RUST NEVER SLEEPS – DVD
MARC ANTHONY – CONCERT – DVD
SEINFIELD – 1&2 – DVD
SEINFIELD – 3 – DVD
EMINEM - DVD
BETTE MIDLER – DVD
MIAMI VICE – DVD
JAMES TAYLOR – PULL OVER – DVD
THE BAND – DVD
KATHY GRIFFIN – DVD
DANE COOK – VICIOUS CIRCLE – DVD
JAMES TAYLOR – SQUIBNOCKET – DVD

New Art from FAY GOLD GALLERY in Atlanta

Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta. http://www.faygoldgallery.com

New work by PAUL GALLOWAY.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart"

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

My paintings depict young people at parties, bars, and private, intimate settings. I begin by taking digital photographs that are edited in Photoshop and printed. The subsequent physical act of pushing paint around canvas, romantic and intoxicating, allows me to act as an interpreter; I become an imperfect conduit through which color and form deviate subtly from their source. My paintings are close interpretations of photographs; a realistic plasticity of surface, mediated by my hand, is necessary to achieve the over-reality I want.

Like reality T.V. shows, the scenes I paint are so removed from and yet so close to reality that the experience becomes one wholly it's own. The bodies of young men and women sprawl across my large canvases, always on the verge of action or speech. Fields of color, pattern, and objects demand as much attention as the figures do. I want an overload of irrelevant information, not a clear delineation of my intent.

There are no faces; the anonymity of the characters is crucial to the artificiality I seek. In order for human drama to lose some touch with experiential reality, the specific identities of the characters involved are the first things to be jettisoned. The multiple panels function like comic book pages or channel surfing: different scenes relate to/ interact with each other creating a broken narrative and setting up nonsensical visual analogies. Hawaiian Lay is to Floral Print Blouse as Beer Bottle in Hand is to Hand Moving Closely to Crotch. The ability to construct clear narratives is hindered by my deletion of key facts most notably faces and by the visual noise caused by a glut of color, objects, and body parts.

Every step in the translation of an image alters it's content and, subsequently, our reception of the event. Every filter the image must pass through (including myself) becomes both barrier and mediator between the viewer and reality. An inverse relationship is created: the closer my paintings approach optical (or photographic) realism the further they get from experiential realism. This relationship creates contradiction on the canvas and for the viewer. How can a painting so culturally engaged and tactilely convincing feel so artificial? Because paint evidences my hand and my presence, the viewer must deal directly with me as mediator, regardless of how tactile the paint surface may seem. When my narratives enter this context human drama and experience become simultaneously more and less real. I believe contradictory statements are the most clear and purposeful a painting can make. Painting has the capacity to relate experience in an impossibly unique way it is for this reason I choose paint as the vehicle
for my stories.


Work in the Collection also includes a major piece by TERRY RODGERS.

"The Vortex"

Rodgers is concerned with our physical relationship to art. He creates a surreal uncertain world with everything in suspension. Figures are caught in mid–motion. There is a confluence of reality which is an aspect of the American dream. “The intrusion of reality is a discomfort that many of us carry with us,” says Rodgers. The paintings make us consider how many “worlds” we and the figures are caught “between”.

Rodgers is interested in the luminous details of the gestures that show the tension of communication. “Its all a matter of how light hits every surface, illuminating the moment of uncertainty,” he says. Rodgers invents interior design with their contrasting brocades, sheer metal surfaces, the clothes, the jewelry all points up the artifice of our lives. Artifice seems to mirror the people’s vitality and their sense of personal engagement.

Rodgers draws attention to the ways people listen or don’t listen to each other. “Each figure is delicately poised in relation to the others. You can sense their groping towards a solution.” This is stop-action painting where we focus on the intimacy and decisions of the moment. It is a private experience in a public place.. The paintings are existential vignettes within a veneer of refinement and restraint.

Rodgers work is part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S. House of Representatives Office Bldg, Washington, D.C.,.,Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, Science and Technology Committee Room, U.S. House of Representatives Office Bldg, Washington, D.C., Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association, Washington, D.C., Kennedy Institute of Bio-Ethics, Washington, D.C., among others.


ARTIST"S WEBSITE: http://www.terryrodgers.com

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

My paintings are large, complex designs that attempt to reflect my sense of the times we are living in, and both how richly interesting they are and how difficult it is for most of us to navigate their uncharted waters. There is a great push and pull, the lure and the repulsion, the fiction and the real, the known and the unknown. And we live in this swirl of delicate gestures, driving desires, fantasy, economic complexity and interdependence, isolation and hope. I am trying to render some notion of this rich fabric.

Infinite fascination with details and dynamic pictorial architecture in combination with frustrated and sublimated desires make for a curious, static combustion in a painting. I attempt to map out these forces in western culture with a sense of their infinitely regenerative power.

And it's about the viewer—how we interpret and react to what we see, how we are the people in the paintings—and how they are us.

The paintings are not meant to judge or criticize. I am looking closely at who we are, the density of influences upon us, the mistakes we make, and the recognitions that occur in trying to navigate a universe with no sign posts. The figures in my paintings often are seen at a moment where some recognition or self-reflection seems to be taking place. These moments of recognition are metaphors for grappling with the unknown. Perhaps something is missing from their lives and they don't necessarily know what it is. They are metaphors for the search. My reaction to the figures and their gestures is sympathy, not judgment.

My hope is that ultimately these paintings show fragile, genuine human beings trying to make something of what they are confronted with. Each of them is unique in their individuality—in their hair, their eyes, their lips, their hands—and they are all separately struggling and often finding merely surface solutions and ephemeral escapes to the timeless riddles of consciousness.

NEW BOOK ABOUT TERRY'S WORK

"Love Will Tear Us Apart"

In the past few years, TERRY RODGERS has emerged as one of America’s most talented figurative painters. Thanks to a brilliant technique combining effortless brushstrokes and elaborate compositions, his paintings compel the viewer to participate in a disenchanted world where beauty, sex and money do not seem to bring happiness. In Rodgers’ world of appearances, the real wealth lies in the art of painting.

The Apotheosis of Pleasure, published by TORCH Books of Amsterdam, is the first comprehensive full-color catalogue to feature the work of this artist who will surely be recognized as on of the most important painters of the early 21st century. More than 60 works — selected in conjunction with the artist — present the full scope of Rodgers’ latest endeavour at portraying contemporary body politics. His rendering of the upper-class leisure life stands as an iconic vision of today’s society.

A short erotic tale, The Absent, by internationally best-selling French writer ALINA REYES (The Politics of love, The Butcher), invites the viewer to share a passionate and feminine experience of Rodgers’ work while also becoming the inspiration for performing our own story-telling based on Rodgers’ paintings.

In The Apotheosis of Pleasure, young and upcoming Belgian art critic CATHERINE SOMZÉ sets Rodgers’ work against the backdrop of cultural theories and establishes a possible archaeology of its iconography.

The catalogue is also available in a very limited special edition. Five specially designed boxes each include the book, a multiple signed by the artist and a special piece of lingerie by famous Dutch designer MARLIES DEKKERS.

The Apotheosis of Pleasure is a 112 page hardcover color catalogue of TERRY RODGERS’ paintings published by TORCH Books, Amsterdam (early December, 2006). The renowned Dutch design studio SMEL (http://www.smel.net) is responsible for the art direction and design of the book as well as the limited edition boxes.

The exhibition The Apotheosis of Pleasure is scheduled from 2 December 2006 until 13 January 2007 at TORCH Gallery. Address: Lauriergracht 94, 1016 RN Amsterdam,
phone: 0031(0)20-6260284.