Art Exhibition

Art Exhibition

Art Exhibition with
Harriet Sobie Goldstein
and
Barbara Jacoby

Reception:
Sunday, January 8 4pm – 6pm
(light refreshments will be served)

Art will be on display from Jan 8 – Jan 27

A little biography about Barbara Jacoby
Growing up in Inwood, Manhattan’s northernmost section, Barbara learned to appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature, people and the world. Barbara enjoyed the best of both worlds: a city upbringing, which included easy access to nearby parks, and summering in New York’s Catskill Mountains.

Barbara credits her father and uncles with introducing her to photography. Amateur photographers themselves, they were always taking pictures of the family, trips and events. And so, Barbara had started taking her own pictures at a young age, and even more so since the birth of her daughter, 25 years ago.

Truly appreciating the capturing of history and the world’s uniqueness through pictures, photography has since become a passion. She has attended the Puffin Camera Club for a number of years and her work will be on display in various venues this year.

‘Have camera will travel’ and ‘don’t leave home without it …,’ the camera.’ Barbara puts a new meaning to ‘stop and smell the roses’ to ‘stop, smell, look, appreciate and take a picture of the roses, and anything else she sees as amazing, interesting, unique, or just plain pretty.’ She inspires and challenges others to look at the world through grateful eyes. Barbara finds peace, joy and harmony when she is taking pictures, especially in nature and sharing them with others.

Barbara currently resides in Teaneck, NJ.

Words from Harriet Sobie Goldstein…
“I love the infinite possibilities of painting and the exploration of ideas and color relationships. I want my work to engender an emotional response and a sense of engagement. I like to be challenged and I love the process of painting which I sometimes make apparent by leaving visible layers of paint and marks. Hopefully the viewer is aware of the texture of the paint and the power of the artists brush on the canvas. I abstract and simplify forms and interpret color. I am interested in creating paintings that are not ordinary.
My landscapes offer a Birdseye view of the material world with its color and weather. The depiction of infinite space and air and especially clouds as well as water and its reflections are of interest to me. Often, I get my inspiration from views out of car and airplane windows. I have painted ubiquitous highways, airports, vistas of ocean, rivers, lakes and mountains. Conservation of outdoor spaces and the way we infiltrate and pave our world building mammoth homes and endless highways is a recurrent theme in my work.
In my no non–objective paintings, I am interested in composition, line and color. Lately, they are influenced by my interest in Ariel views and maps. I particularly admire the work of Richard Diebenkorn, especially the “Ocean Park Series”.
Art rests on the shoulders of the great artists. My influences have been: Chinese landscape paintings because of the infinite space that they project. The nineteenth century American landscape painters Frederick Church and Thomas Cole for their vistas of untamed land, Jacob van Ruisdael for the expansive clouded skies in his paintings. J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet for their dreamy depictions of water and atmosphere. I admire the paintings of James Abbot McNeil Whistler and Mark Rothko for their aura of calmness and sophisticat