Victor Faccinto (American, b. 1945) Victor Faccinto utilizes video, animation, photography, painting, and sculpture, stationary and kinetic with sound, in his bizarre and darkly humorous work. Seduction and repulsion, love and lust, good and evil are the tensions that permeate Faccinto’s work. His compositions are obsessive in their orchestration. His allegiance to bright, vibrant colors belies the sometimes disturbing subject matter, and maintains a level of humorous irreverence that is integrated throughout the work. Attilio Salemme (American, 1911 - 1955) Attilio Salemme's paintings juxtapose elongated geometric forms in complex relationships to one another. Salemme died in New York at age 43. George Ault (American, 1891 - 1948) George Ault was an American painter, most often associated with the Precisionist movement because of his simplified and unadorned representations of architecture. He drew and painted his surroundings with a focus on the underlying geometry of structures. Norman Lewis (American, 1909 - 1979) Norman Lewis was the first major African American abstract expressionist. Lewis, like fellow artist, Jacob Lawrence attended the art workshops in Harlem. At the art centers Lewis studied African art and was introduced to Howard University professor, Alain Locke's ideas about art, namely that art should derive from African themes and aesthetics.Lewis later moved from abstract figuration to modernism. His paintings from this time are devoid of realistic imagery and focused more on conceptual expression, often referring to African American settings and culture. Lewis, always active in the art community, in the 1960s was a founding member of the Spiral Group, a group of African American artists who sought to contribute through their art to the civil rights movement.