Lauren Shows with Assemblage at Steadman Gallery Rutgers-Camden

Local Artist to show at Steadman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts


Lauren Litwa Holden, fine artist from Wawa, PA, will be showing six new paintings at the Steadman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Fine Arts September 12 through October 29, 2011. Litwa Holden’s work is part of Assemblage’s “Into the Third Decade”, an exhibition of 15 women celebrating 25 years as an artists’ collective. “We started as a group of women artists in 1985 with the goal of meeting regularly to exchange ideas and information about current trends in the arts, and discuss the day-to-day issues encountered by artists in their work,” states Litwa Holden… “And we’re still at it today. We meet regularly, conduct group exhibitions throughout the Philadelphia region, and have even traveled a bit for residencies in Europe,” she adds.

Lauren Litwa Holden has exhibited her paintings extensively throughout Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Maine, Massachusetts and Brussels, Belgium. She won first prize for painting at Art of the State in Harrisburg, and while at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Lauren received the William Emlen Cresson traveling scholarship for painting.

Much of her work today reflects the landscapes and structures throughout the Delaware Valley and Lancaster County, composed in a natural, yet imaginary way. Famed artist and educator Will Barnett once said of Lauren’s work “there is a quality of lyricism in her paintings. She approaches the landscape with a poetic expression and captures a fine sense of light and a dreamlike feel”.

Lauren works in her studio in Wawa, PA, but travels to a diverse list of locations from the oil refineries of Marcus Hook to the fields of the Brandywine Valley to sketch and paint. She says she finds beauty in many different landscapes, and that her paintings are inspired by nature, imagination and dreams. Litwa Holden’s work, along with other members of Assemblage will be on display September 12 through October 29 at Steadman Gallery Fine Arts Building, Rutgers University Camden, NJ. Artist’s reception is Sunday September 25, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.