| | | PAGE 8 THE POST NE W S Sunday, September 11, 2005 ARTISTIC Continued from Page 1 people in Germany,” Bentley said in a phone interview from the foundation’s headquarters in Norcross, Ga., “and I asked them if they had a machine in the Unit- ed States. They said, 'Only one.” It was at Lizza Fine Art Studios in this town of 1,900, nestled in the Endless Mountains of Penn- sylvania’s northern tier. And it’s why works owned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and another destined for the Vatican have made their way to a place many native Pennsylvanians don’t know exists. It has also placed Lizza Studios at the cen- ter of a growing artistic commu- nity stretching from Scranton to the east and to Wyalusing and be- yond to the west. Bentley says that owner Bob Lizza, a painter himself, con- vinced him “that he could do a better job than anybody else in the country — and he can. He’s a perfectionist.” The Cruse CS 285 ST scanner that Lizza uses scans a single line of pixels at a time, at a rate of up to 1,000 per inch. “That minute line,” Bob Lizza explains, “is all that needs to be lit. The source of light is constant and doesn’t move - the painting moves beneath it. [That means] the lighting is even across the whole piece, so you don’t have any corners that are dark.” More- over, “each pixel scan can have di- 502 S. Mountain Blvd. Rt. 309 Mountaintop 474-1180 www.quiltersquarters.com Over 6000 Bolts! rectional light from just one area in order to give a textural feel.” Just how textural becomes clear when one sees the paper collage by Marvin Baker set on an easel in the back of the studio. Lizza routinely invites visitors to pluck off one of the slips of paper the work is evidently made of. When they do, though, they dis- cover there’s nothing to pluck — the vivid three-dimensionality is illusory. Larry Baca, a color manage- ment and color reproduction con- sultant — among his clients is the Getty Museum, which has just obtained its own Cruse scanner — was present when La Madonna della Luce was scanned. The scanner, he says, “has unique ca- pabilities, and Bob is very skilled and has more experience with it than anyone else in the United States. So the reproduction was really quite remarkable, the col- ors astoundingly accurate, the textural attributes of the original very nicely done.” Lizza acquired the scanner two years ago. He got “the best deal possible” by agreeing to have Liz- za Studios serve as a demonstra- tion site - “good for them and good for me.” That is the reason New Yorks Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art had a tapestry, painting and a photograph driven here for scanning. 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Another, billed as the world’s largest crystal ball (57 centimeters in diameter and weighing 700 pounds) is housed at the American Ceramics Socie- ty’s Ross C. Purdy Museum in Westerville, Ohio. Last spring, Ries had a successful exhibition in the Netherlands. Colini has also been around. Since leaving his native Bohe- mia, he’s lived in Paris, Venezuela a_ (where he became a citizen), Canada (where he had his first show), New York, and now Scran- ton. He just had a show in Sag Harbor, but is better known in Europe, where he has exhibited widely in Switzerland, Germany -- aw WTR ks Twin Sets | ’° Ca ioe 073" Mattresses Factory Direct . Comfortable Prices A 00" # Queen Sets oy 19 West Side Mall ~~ * $199.00 3% Edwardsville, PA 18704 a. d: 570.285.1308 WB ® TV "SUCK™ CALL FUMANTI WIRELESS 883-7833 For Satellite TV FREE Equipment FREE DVR Upgrade Money Market Account There’s no better time than now to lock into our Choice CD or to open a STAR ADVANTAGE Money Market Account. 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The Dietrich reopened in 2001 and hosts spring and fall film festivals (the next one opens Sept. 30). Also a venue for live theater and con- certs, the center has gallery space as well, and sponsors art classes for children and adults. Meanwhile, Brian Keeler, who describes his work as “realism with a punched-up palette” — and whose work was just in a show at Philadelphia's FAN. Gallery — has his own Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing, about 20 minutes west of Tunkhannock. And 20 minutes due north, painter James Penedos and sculptor Charles Welles are hard at work converting the former Spring- ville village school (boys and girls, grades one through 12) into the Springville Schoolhouse Art Studios. When completed, a va- riety of live-in studio workshop spaces will be available, ranging from 300 to 900 square feet, eac with a private bathroom, kitche and sleeping loft, and high-speed Internet connection. “As is often the case, once the artists settle in, others follow. 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