Current Exhibit
If These Walls Could Talk
City Watercolors by Rita Argen Auerbach
September 21 - November 7, 2021
City Watercolors by Rita Argen Auerbach
September 21 - November 7, 2021
Ocher, watercolor, 12 x 15 inches
Artist's Statement
Architecture has been a lifetime motivational theme for me, and the City of Buffalo has provided endless subject matter. After painting interpretations of the architectural jewels in Buffalo for many years, I needed to investigate other views of the city. That led me to explore homes and other buildings on the East Side of Buffalo, many of which are unfortunately derelict or abandoned. Consequently, this recent series of paintings show a different side of the architecture of our city, one replete with untold stories - not unlike the stories that I was compelled to illustrate on the walls of my childhood - that lead the viewer to wonder and imagine what might have been and what is to come.
About the Artist
Rita Argen Auerbach is an internationally recognized, award-winning artist whose watercolor paintings are included in museum, corporate and private collections across the United States and abroad. A signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and charter member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, she is also a consultant to the International Center for Watercolor in the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo NY.
Auerbach was an art teacher in the Clarence Central Schools for 20 years and served as Chair of the Department before retiring in 1994. She then joined the faculty of the Special Studies program in Chautauqua Institution teaching watercolor painting and has also taught watercolor workshops in Costa Rica, France, Italy and Spain.
Her paintings have been exhibited extensively regionally and nationally and are included in the permanent collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo History Museum, Chautauqua Institution, and the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. Her work has been published in American Artist and Watercolor magazines and she is included in Who’s Who in American Art.
www.ritaauerbachpaintings.com
Architecture has been a lifetime motivational theme for me, and the City of Buffalo has provided endless subject matter. After painting interpretations of the architectural jewels in Buffalo for many years, I needed to investigate other views of the city. That led me to explore homes and other buildings on the East Side of Buffalo, many of which are unfortunately derelict or abandoned. Consequently, this recent series of paintings show a different side of the architecture of our city, one replete with untold stories - not unlike the stories that I was compelled to illustrate on the walls of my childhood - that lead the viewer to wonder and imagine what might have been and what is to come.
About the Artist
Rita Argen Auerbach is an internationally recognized, award-winning artist whose watercolor paintings are included in museum, corporate and private collections across the United States and abroad. A signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and charter member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, she is also a consultant to the International Center for Watercolor in the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo NY.
Auerbach was an art teacher in the Clarence Central Schools for 20 years and served as Chair of the Department before retiring in 1994. She then joined the faculty of the Special Studies program in Chautauqua Institution teaching watercolor painting and has also taught watercolor workshops in Costa Rica, France, Italy and Spain.
Her paintings have been exhibited extensively regionally and nationally and are included in the permanent collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo History Museum, Chautauqua Institution, and the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. Her work has been published in American Artist and Watercolor magazines and she is included in Who’s Who in American Art.
www.ritaauerbachpaintings.com