KINGSTON, NY.-Donskoj & Co. Gallery presents White Room Green Room - Watercolors, Mixed Media and Assemblage, on view July 7th thru July 28th, 2007. A series of objects and images by Elisa Pritzker and Staats Fasoldt exploring the quiet center of our busy lives. This show was conceived through conversations between Elisa and Staats, about Zen and it’s influence on art. Not that they practice Zen in the formal sense, but as artists they recognize its simple direct influence. Elisa has made magical environments, from everyday objects, playful enclosures that challenge the imagination and delight the eye. Staats has painted immediate apprehensions of nature in watercolor. George and Nancy Donskoj indulged them after much pleading and offered their space for their musings.

Staats Fasoldt - Staats, a well known Hudson Valley, is the Vice President of the Woodstock School of Art’s Board of Directors and an active member of the Woodstock Artist’s Association. He moved to Ulster County from Albany with his wife Eileen in 1976 to attend the MFA program at SUNY New Paltz. and after graduating in 1978, began teaching Watercolor Painting at the Woodstock School of Art. His popular Hudson River Painting Workshop’s continues to attract artists to Woodstock each year. They climb the heights of majestic Katterskill Falls and tramp the fields of Olana in search of sublime views of the Valley. Staats’ paintings are interpretations of nature that stress spontaneity as method.

Elisa Pritzker - Elisa Pritzker has exhibited in the United States, South America, Spain, Italy, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, London and Greece. She has curated exhibits in New York City, Washington DC, the Hudson Valley, Albany, Spain and Italy. Her lifetime work is available for study through a permanent file kept at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, DC, at MoLAA —Museum of Latin American Art's Artist Registry in Long Beach, CA and at the Museo del Barrio in NYC.

In 2003/2004, she has been selected as the US Artist representative to participate in THE PYRAMIDS OF NAXOS project in Greece in relation to the Olympic Games. She has received two grants from the Puffin Foundation LTD. Some 2005 art activities included: solo exhibit at the Franklin 54 Gallery in NYC in May. A group exhibit at the Dorsky Museum of Contemporary Art, in New Paltz NY in July, participation at the Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston NY from July through October and an exhibit at Galeria del Angel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Highlights exhibits for 2006 were at Franklin 54 Gallery,New York NY; Go North Gallery, Beacon NY; Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx NY; New York ArtExpo, New York NY; James Cox Gallery, Woodstock NY; and Art Gotham Gallery, New York NY. 2007 Highlights: Affordable Art Fair in NYC and a current exhibit/installation at Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NY. Her work is collected nationally and internationally. She is represented by the Franklin 54 Gallery in NYC.(www.pritzkerstudio.com).