GREENWICH, CT.- The Bendheim Gallery of the Greenwich Arts Council will host the Painting Center of New York, July 7 through 29, in a diverse and lively exhibit entitled The Persistence of Paint. The five painters included in this show, Carrie Patterson, Elizabeth Yamin, Anne Russinof, Carmela Kolman, and Geoffrey Dorfman, were selected by the Arts Council’s gallery committee along with staff curator, Tatiana Mori, from a panel of fourteen artists submitted by the Painting Center.

The exhibit is designed to demonstrate diversity in the use of painting language and the vitality of paint as a means of communication. The Painting Center is dedicated to promoting the art of painting in all its diversity and does not champion one school or style.

Carrie Patterson works much like a choreographer would in subtly altering the arrangement of line, shape and color in repetitive action, not on a dance floor but rather on a canvas. She received her MFA at the University of PA and has also studied at the NY Studio School, James Madison University, and the British Institute.

New York City-based Elizabeth Yamin has been strongly influenced by her studio location, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with its sense of hugeness, weight and inspiring decay. She received her MS in Museum Education at the Bank Street College in Manhattan.

Anne Russinof’s forms suggest something along the lines of cellular biology. Each painting comprises variations on a theme of primarily doughnut-like shapes sometimes with the center circles filled in. She received her training at the Pratt Institute in NY and the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.

Carmela Kolman received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1982 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1984. She has exhibited widely in NYC. About her work she says, “As a former figure painter, I have turned my attention to fruit because they are living, voluminous objects that, like the human form, decay over time.”

Painter, writer and musician, Geoffrey Dorfman received his BFA from Cooper Union in Manhattan, and his MFA from Syracuse University. As an associate professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY since 1978, he has taught painting, drawing and modern culture. He has authored several articles on painting for Artforum and on music for Stagebill, and his recently published book, “Out of the Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School” has received rave reviews.