Lichtblau's Emmaus

Father Carleton Jones, OP, and the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
cordially invite you to attend

INCARNATE
An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, and Works on Paper of Traditional Religious Subjects

by
CHARLOTTE LICHTBLAU

Curated by Bruce Payne

November 29, 2008 — January 5, 2009

Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
869 Lexington Avenue
New York City

Opening Reception
Saturday, December 6
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM

 

Born in Vienna in 1925, Charlotte Lichtblau came to the United States in 1940 with her parents and sister.  She has lived and worked in New York City since 1953. For the artist, the discipline of painting is a way of exploring, expressing and communicating the passion of human existence.  A significant portion of her work is focused on biblical themes, most notably the Passion of Christ.  Here, the visual transformation into imagery addresses familiar religious themes internally and directly.  While her paintings of religious subjects are boldly contemporary, they honor both the history of ecclesiastical imagery and the artistic traditions of German Expressionist painting.

Charlotte Lichtblau’s work is represented in museums and private collections across the United States and Europe.  She has had two major career retrospective exhibitions in Austria in the past 15 years, one at the Palais Palffy in Vienna and the second in the mountain art center, Bad Aussee, in Austria’s Salzkammergut region.

Father Carleton Jones, OP, the pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer, invited painter Charlotte LIchtblau and her curator for this exhibit, Bruce Payne, to showcase works spanning six decades of her artistic career.  The exhibition will include large-scale works on canvas along with smaller works on paper, both paintings and drawings.

The exhibition is on the south side of the main sanctuary and its larger paintings can be seen whenever the church is open.  The church is open to the public every day from 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM.  The smaller works are exhibited in the cloister just beyond the south wall of the sanctuary, which will be open for viewing Wednesdays through Sundays, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

For inquiries, please contact Jack Thomas at 212-730-9500 (office).

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