The paintings, etchings, and drawings of internationally recognized painter Laura Myntti will be featured at Hobart Galleries, 393 Main Street, Ferndale, California, from September 13 to October 25, 2008. The artist will attend an opening reception to be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 from 4:00 to 8:00 pm.

At first glance, Myntti's paintings appear to be scenes from an ideal American existence; families, parties, groups of people. Looking deeper reveals that all is not as it seems as Myntti's work takes us deeper, peers into the psyche, and taps into deeper emotions. These representational works penetrate into what Ivan Esteban Castanada called "human psychological spaces."

New York writer and artist Douglas Davis summed up Myntti's work: "... she is magnetized by us. She wants to see more of us, know more about us. These are the eyes - and the voice - of an artist who finds no end of freshness and surprise in the world... as impudent as she is, in brief, she is also reverent, about what she sees, which is why she is doomed to speak to us in many voices."

Myntti was born in Minnesota, and educated at the University of Idaho and the Sorbonne in Paris. She has lived and worked in Alaska, Boston, London, and New York, and currently resides near Chicago.

Myntti's work has been exhibited around the world, in places as diverse as Anchorage,Alaska; Montreal, Quebec; Dublin, Ireland; and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her next stop after Humboldt County will be an April 2009 exhibit at the Association pour l'estampe et l'art Populaire, in Paris, France.