NEWPORT, RI.- The Newport Art Museum, presents a solo exhibition of the work of Corrine Colarusso: Magic Gold, Full Sun, on view May 17 through September 7, 2014. Her large scale contemporary paintings redefine the genre of landscape and offer rich, contemplative experiences. Detailed and layered in curious ways, radiating with luminous color and wild imagination, Colarusso's paintings celebrate the complexities of our interconnectedness with the natural environment. Her show is previewed in the May/June issue of ARTSCOPE.

During this, The Newport Art Museum's sesquicentennial year, the museum has the opportunity to exhibit this selected group of recent paintings completed 2010-2014.

Colarusso writes about her work for Magic Gold, Full Sun:In my work, nature, landscape, the bright symbolic sunrise, the gloaming, paint and color, become a stirred fiction. Sunrise connects us to an imagination and reality that is productive; it leaps over irony and dripping sentimentality in order to chart our course back into the world, so that we might minister to it, and ourselves more mindfully. Images embody meaning. Deeper connections between nature and our inner selves are there for the taking if only we can see it.

Colarusso has been the recipient of many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Fulbright-Hayes research and travel grant to India and Nepal. She has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, the Cortona Program of the University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy and the Ossabaw Island Project, Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions and is included in numerous public, private and corporate collections.