The Gallery at the Ocean City Arts Center features the exquisite oil paintings of Lauren Rosenblum. The show opens August 1 and runs through August 30. A “Meet the Artist’s” reception will be held on Friday, August 11 from 7pm to 8:30pm. The Gallery is located in the Ocean City Arts Center, 1735 Simpson Avenue, 2nd Floor, Ocean City, NJ.
Lauren Rosenblum, currently residing in Marlboro, NJ, is a classically trained artist from Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the Arts Student League and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. After receiving her degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, she continued to study figure drawing and classical painting with artists Attila Hejja, Director of the Stevenson Academy of Fine Art and Robert Armetta, Director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been sold to private collectors, and exhibited nationally. Lauren is an art instructor and assistant to the director at Long Island Academy of Fine Art and owner of Lauren Rosenblum Decorative Designs designing high-end decorative finishes for interior designers, architects and residential clients.
Introduced to the arts at a tender age, Ms. Rosenblum listened to her mother play classical piano, while her father was leisurely painting or sculpting. Instinctively, she was enamored with drawing and painting. Knowing she would choose art as her vocation, she journeyed by bus and train from Brooklyn to Manhattan to study life drawing at the Arts Student League and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. At mid-point in her career, Lauren found her finest teacher and received classical training in drawing and painting. His guidance and instruction enabled her to hone her craft through the understanding of the old masters’ techniques. Following in the footsteps of her mentor, she fell in love with teaching art, which she continues to this day. Deriving experience from the cumulative body of her work as a painter, textile designer, muralist and fiber artist has allowed Lauren to transition from one medium to another, defying categorization and exploring her creative self.
Artist’s statement: “The alluring way light falls on foliage, the captivating colors of botanicals, gnarled branches on a tree, all serve as inspiration for my art. Nature is steady and tenacious; it is also an emblem of growth and renewal. I consider my figurative work a part of nature. My works’ extreme close-up encourages curiosity. It gives permission to be intrusive and inquisitive. I am getting to the core of the subject, dismissing all of the inconsequential details. My style of painting has evolved over time. I am now working in a direct painting method, applying the paint opaquely, while simultaneously considering color, value and form.”
The show runs from August 1-30. The Ocean City Arts Center is located on the second floor in the Community Center at 1735 Simpson Avenue, Ocean City, New Jersey 08226. Hours of operation are 9am to 9pm, Monday through Friday and 9am to 3pm on Saturday. The Arts Center is closed on Sunday. For further information, call (609) 399-7628. Check out the Ocean City Arts Center on Facebook and Instagram.
This program is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
