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Thursday, September 02, 2004 - Dorothy Antoun's (cmcq) art dances. And it's no wonder.

``For many years, I was a dance student and have always been intrigued by the mingling of delicacy and sheer strength," says the Apple Valley painter, who is featured artist at the Redlands Art Association Gallery.

A lifelong live of dance is expressed in all her paintings and drawings.

``Leaping through space, forcing the toe to point, lifting the torso and stretching all limbs to the maximum, combine to make powerful movements. I use strong colors to denote the high energy and joy involved with flying through the air and off the canvas," she says.

Born in New York, Antoun studied with Victor de Pauw at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y. She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Syracuse University and wdas a Max Beackmann scholar at the Brooklyn Museum, where she studied with Reuben Tam.

She has exhibited widely in New York and the San Bernardino County Museum. Her work is in the permanent collection of Syracuse University, andshe has won first-place honors at the Newport Rhode Island Art Festival.

Antoun regularly shows her work at the Victor Valley Museum and the High Desert Center for the Arts.

Her work will hang through Sept. 11 at the Redlands Art Association Gallery, 215 E. State St. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday dand Saturday; and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays.

For information, call (909) 792-8434 or visit www.redlands-art.org.

For complete art gallery listings, see Friday's U magazine. Galleries are invited to submit information for this column. Contact Sun staff writer Priscilla Nordyke Roden at (909) 386-3864 or email [email protected].