The Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club announced that Deborah C.M. Rubin, a former resident of Lakeport, has work that been accepted into its 118th Annual Open Juried Exhibition at the National Arts Club, in New York.
This is an exhibition of art in a variety of media by female artists competing from all over the United States, Canada and Europe. The exhibition is open to the public from Dec. 2 through Dec. 19..
Rubin is a sculptor, painter and pen and ink artist. Following a successful career in law, mediation and financial services, she now devotes her time to her art.
Beginning as a self-taught artist in two-dimensional mediums, Rubin only recently discovered her natural facility for clay and sculpture. She now focuses her work on figurative and portrait sculpture.
Rubin had immediate success attracting private collectors, works on commissions and has had her art placed in galleries in California. She is a member of several art societies including the National Sculpture Society, the National Association of Women Artists and American Women Artists.
She keeps a private studio in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she recently relocated with her husband.
The Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club is one of the oldest women”s art clubs in the country and was founded in 1896 in honor of Wolfe, a prominent New York philanthropist and avid art collector. She was the only woman among the 106 founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The club”s home base, where monthly meetings are held, is the historic Grace Church on Broadway in New York City. The club”s original function was to provide aid and counsel to women art students who found life in New York a struggle.
In the 1950s the club”s focus shifted to serving women artists of professional standing throughout the United States. The club now organizes exhibitions, lectures, scholarships and other art related activities.
Today”s Members are represented in museums, galleries and prestigious art collections all over the world.
