Folk Visions and Voices by Art Rosenbaum

Art taught painting and drawing courses at UGA for forty years. Art began teaching at The University of Georgia, joining the ranks of an esteemed faculty including painter and filmmaker James Herbert, painter and Vietnam War Veteran Richard Olsen, as well as Bill Paul (who organized a number of interesting exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art including, Open to New Ideas: A Collection of New Art for Jimmy Carter in 1976). In 1976, after having finished a MFA in painting at Columbia University and spending time in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship, Art Rosenbaum and his wife Margo Newmark Rosenbaum -who is also an artist- moved with their son Neil to Athens, Georgia. The exhibition will open with a reception from 5-7 PM, Saturday June 16th and remain open through August 11th. The show will include a presentation of ten portraits by Rosenbaum, made over the course of the last thirty years, alongside an artwork of each person depicted in the paintings. It is with great pleasure that I present an exhibition of his work Art in the South: Art Rosenbaum and Friends to inaugurate the opening of my new gallery in Athens, Georgia. Art was one of the first people I looked up when I arrived in town and I’ve felt very fortunate these last months to have him as a docent. Our meeting was uncanny, because unbeknownst to him I was getting ready to move to the same town in Northeast Georgia that he calls home.

With a miniature library of his own catalogues on hand, Art told me he didn’t want to beat around the bush that he was looking for someone in Los Angeles to make an exhibition of his paintings. Upon some mutual friends’ recommendation, he stopped by my gallery which was in Hollywood then. It must have been a year ago, this time, that I first met Art. Art in the South: Art Rosenbaum and Friends

Folk Visions and Voices by Art Rosenbaum