Paintings and More-Meet the Artists

PAINTINGS AND MORE MEET THE ARTISTS

RUTH BRUH

As a child, Ruth Bruh was rarely seen without a pencil in her hand. Drawing was her first love. Growing up, she was the class artist in grade school and majored in art all through high school. In addition to private study with various accomplished artists, she studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and the Princeton Art Association in New Jersey.

Through the years, she exhibited in numerous juried art shows, galleries and museums, winning a number of awards including Best in Show and First Place. In her professional affiliations, Ms Bruh was a member of Artists Equity, Princeton Art Association, Artists League of Central New Jersey, Trenton Artist Workshop and served as President of the Tri County Art Association for several years.

Since 1976, she has been operating a private art school, attracting students through word of mouth. They range in age from eight to senior citizen. Because of her varied experience, her students are exposed to a wide range of style and media including watercolor, oil, acrylic, sculpture and pastel.

Janet Indick

Janet Indick is a contemporary sculptor who explores the expressive possibilities of steel and other metals, and is adept at designing site-specific abstract sculpture. Her work has been displayed in many solo and invitational exhibitions at museums, galleries and colleges in New York, New Jersey and internationally.

She is the recipient of many sculpture awards including New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship,a First Award in Sculpture from the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, a Manhattan Arts International Award, and C. A. Brown Award for Metallic Art.

Janet Indick is listed in many reference books including Contemporary Woman Artists, The Dictiionary of American Sculptors, Women Artists in America, Sculpture Fundamentals, St. James Guide to Contemporary Woman Artists and Who's Who in American Art and Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers.

Betty Reeves Klank

A graduate of Pratt's School of Fine Arts and a retired high school art teacher, Betty Reeves Klank prefers to paint on location rather than in the studio. Sunlight and the shadows it creates are the things that catch her eye and her paintings reflect that enthusiasm.

Her works have been included in many juried exhibitions in New York and New Jersey and she has had seven solo shows of her paintings.

Mary Kramarenko

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Mary Kramarenko now resides in central New Jersey. Her education includes degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Ohio State University. Further studio experience has been acquired at Teachers College, Columbia University, The Art Students' League in New York and in workshops with Charles Dunn, Domenic DiStefano, Charles Reid and Don Getz.

She has exhibited her watercolors and oils in juried shows in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut. Her work has been included in shows with The Garden State Watercolor Society, New Jersey Watercolor Society, Mercer County Artists, Baltimore Watercolor Society, Silvermine Guild Galleries and others.

Stefanie Mandelbaum

Because of her background in both art and mathematics (MFA from Pratt Institute and BS and MAT from Queens College and Montclair University), most of Stefanie Mandelbaum’s artwork is based on concepts from mathematics. Mathematics affects the composition and sets a certain rhythm going on the canvas or within the sculpture. Colors are chosen which enhance the movement. Although most of the work is abstract, whether it tends more towards realism or abstraction is less important than the rhythm and the color.

Her paintings, collages, folded canvas constructions, prints and sculptures have been exhibited at galleries and museums in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vermont, Mexico and Russia.

Starting in the fall of 2001, she will be offering color theory and math/art workshops at the Center for Creative Therapies and the Arts in Forestburgh, New York.

Helen Fleischman Post

Helen graduated Pratt Institute, majoring in Art Illustration and received a BA in Art Therapy (Cum Laude) from Trenton State college. She received a Masters in Education from Rutgers University and specialized in the creative arts. She continued painting with Mel Leipzig at Mercer County Community College.

Helen was the Educator and Artist-in-Residence at Cornelius Low House, which is the Middlesex County Museum. Her former position was Program Coordinator for "Art Goes Public". She also conducted workshops in woodblock printing for the "Revisited Medieval Renaissance Period". The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission sponsored both programs. In 1994, Helen curated the first art exhibit for the Wetherill Historic Site in South Brunswick, NJ. She also curated the Bicentennial 200 in 1998 at the same site.

Helen has been teaching painting and drawing at Mercer County College and at the East Brunswick Senior Center.

Helen considers herself to be a colorist. She works in oils and pastels. Recently, she has been doing collage and experimental work.

She won an Award for Excellence for painting from Jacob Landau and has also received numerous awards for her pastels. One of her pastels was selected to tour Russia. Her works can be seen in the corporate offices of
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, and in many private collections.

Unified Field

Joint artwork of Liz Adams and Stefanie Mandelbaum

Founded on October 13, 1997, Unified Field is the name these two independent artists use to designate the works they design, conceptualize and execute together, all four hands working at one time, two minds operating in total synchrony. Like the Unified Field Theory, they work on the assumption that their separate visions are different aspects of the same artistic impulse, blending into a new vision, different from the work they execute as separate artists, in their separate art careers.

Marsha Weinstein

After graduating from Hunter College, New York, with a degree in Fine Art, Marsha Weinstein moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where she taught in the public schools.

She specializes in still life and landscapes, especially of the southwest. Her work is primarily in pastel and watercolor.

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