2 Artists Blend Universes At Ocean City Arts Center October Gallery

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Two artists will combine their universes to create a new one at the Ocean City Arts Center in October.

“Divergent Universe: Paintings by Penny Beck & Terri Amig” will be on display in October's gallery exhibit from Oct. 1 through Oct. 29. A “Meet the Artists” reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 11 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Gallery is located in the Ocean City Arts Center, 1735 Simpson Ave., 2nd Floor.

Penny Beck is originally from the Finger Lakes region of Upstate NY. She became interested in art at a young age and was lucky enough to have excellent art teachers through high school. In 1979 Beck moved to York, Pa and attended the York Academy of Art where she majored in Fine Art. In the mid 80s Beck moved to Cape May, after a few years she and a friend opened a very successful decorative painting and mural business. She has worked up and down the eastern seaboard in private homes and businesses.

Terri Amig attended the Corcoran School of Art and Design, Washington, D.C., California Institute of Art, Valencia, California with further studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, with Timothy Hawkeworth, and at Anderson Ranch. She lives and works from her home/studio near the coast of southern New Jersey

Artists’ Statement

One of the benefits of becoming an experienced painter is being able to look back at the large bodies of work and not just at individual pieces. It is then that you realize that, in fact, we do inhabit our own artistic universes. Perhaps a large part of the practice of a life as an artist is to be able to sense that place and articulate it through those images to others. This requires years of introspection in order to hear yourself. The incomparable jazz musician Pat Metheny once mentioned in an interview that an older musician mentor told him musicians keep writing the same song over and over. There is a visual parallel with artists, as if we are on roads to a place and each painting is on the road to that place. If we are open to it, and lucky in our art lives, we get to share these thoughts, ideas, and space through years with other artists. When universes of two artists come together, sometimes it succeeds in creating a third universe. We have been lucky enough to have had many shows together through the years and share our worlds.

The Ocean City Arts Center is located on the second floor in the Ocean City Community Center at 1735 Simpson Ave. Hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The Arts Center is closed on Sunday. For further information, call (609) 399-7628. Check out the Ocean City Arts Center’s website at oceancityartscenter.org and/or on Facebook and Instagram.