Photographic Artist and Printmaker Lis J. Schwitters will present an exhibition of her latest photographic art entitled THE FERMENTED FRUIT at the Harbor Village Gallery from April 6 to May 16, 2011. Artist’s reception will be on Friday, April 15 from 5 – 8pm.

For her Fermented Fruit series, Schwitters incorporates colorful bold graphic design elements into photographs, producing a body of work exploring the subject of Wine Art. Using digital capture and creation methods, she manipulates images onto limited edition fine-art photographic paper and canvases. Inspired by colorful concert T-shirts, Dia de los Muertos, and ethnic hues, Schwitters creates psychedelic delights of powerful hypnotic energies of color. “The visual fermentation of my art creates such a powerful hypnotic trance that it engages the viewer with fruitful artistic delights, which will intoxicate and seduce them to buy my art.”, notes Schwitters. Her image entitled “The Grape Seduction” received a Buenaventura Art Association Merit Award from local winemaker Bruce Freeman.

Photographic images by Lis J. Schwitters are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Ventura County, the Ojai Valley Museum, the California Museum of Photography, and in other public and private collections across the Country. With over 30 years in the photographic world, Schwitters has been employed as a newspaper photographer and printmaker for such major institutions as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL), Warner Bros. Studios, and Paramount Pictures, and have been producing Fine Art Photographic Prints for the past 10 years.

The Harbor Village Gallery is located at 1591 Spinnaker Dr. Suite 117C , Entrance # 3 in the Ventura Harbor Village . Open every day except Tuesday from 12 to 5 pm. For more information, call the gallery at 805-644-2750 or visit their website at www.harborvillagegallery.com . The Harbor Village Gallery is an art space of the Buenaventura Art Association. For more information about the artist please visit: www.LisJSchwitters.com .