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Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Sarah Lawrence College: Ellen Berkenblit
For more than 30 years, Ellen Berkenblit has been exploring life in her large-scale, exuberant paintings.

March 10, 2016 / Thursday
1:30p.m. - 3:30p.m.
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Screening Room
Berkenblit is a recent recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and is represented by Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY. Berkenblit presented her first solo exhibition in 1984. Since then her work has been presented in many solo shows at galleries in Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome and throughout the United States, Ellen Berkenblit’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Farnsworth Art Museum (2011), Artist Space, New York (2009), the New York Academy of Art (2008), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2007), the Tucson Museum of Art (2005), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY (2004). Berkenblit's paintings are included in numerous public collections, including, amongst others, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times.