Tuesday evening opening at Gallery 195

Gallery 195
195 Church St., 4th floor (NewAlliance Bank), New Haven, (203) 772-2788
Barbara Marks & Vanilia Majoros
Nov. 17, 2009—Feb. 19, 2010
Artists' reception: Tues., Nov. 17, 5—7 p.m.

Press release

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Barbara Marks and Vanilia Majoros at Gallery 195 at NewAlliance Bank, 195 Church St., 4th floor, New Haven. The exhibition will be on display during bank hours from Nov. 17, 2009 through Feb. 19, 2010. An artists' reception is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, from 5—7 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

This exhibition showcases lyrical paintings and prints by Connecticut artists Barbara Marks and Vanilia Majoros.

Painter Barbara Marks earned her BFA in 2005 from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (Old Lyme) and her MFA in 2008 from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Marks' work has been exhibited in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, and at the Galleria Giotto in Italy 's Umbria region, where she studied at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture. She is a member of Artspace's (New Haven) Board of Directors.

Art historian Vanilia Majoros earned her Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has written six monographs about European modernists and had more than 100 scholarly articles published in Canada, France, Germany, Hungary and the United States. Her work has been shown in New Haven and Hungary and is included in private collections around the world. Majoros was a participating artist in the Arts Council's recent gala fundraising event Somewhat Off the Wall and is on the faculty of Creative Arts Workshop.