Authors and Artists Series July 25 at 7pm!

Margie and Bob Moskowitz will be presenting a slide/lecture about their work at the Thomaston Public Library on Wednesday July 25  at 7 PM. The presentation will take place in Room 204 of the Academy building at 60 Main Street. The program is the third of this year's  Friends of the Thomaston Library series, Artists and Authors Among Us.

Artists Bob and Marjorie Moskowitz met in graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis in 1977 and married in 1980.  They exhibited together the first time in 1978 at St. Louis Community College at Forrest Park, again in 1986 at the Seghi Galley and recently with separate solo shows at the Gresham Gallery at San Bernardino City College. They also had simultaneous solo exhibitions in Ventura in 2009 at Gallery II and the New Media Gallery respectively.  Margie’s post graduate work was experimental and abstract as she worked with found materials as well as manufactured one’s creating wall pieces, sometimes quite large, that were exhibited in galleries in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City.  She began doing landscapes during a trip to Italy in 2000.  She taught for 11 years at colleges in Missouri and Illinois and at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.  Bob’s work has always been figurative and he did portrait commissions for years in the mid-west and on both coasts.  They moved to Ventura County in 1998 when Bob took a position at Ventura College where he has been the department chair for past ten years. Margie and Bob are currently represented by Bleicher Gallery in Santa Monica and Los Angeles where Bob had a solo exhibition in 2010.  Marjorie had had recent solo exhibitions at University of Maine Augusta and at the Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland. Their work is represented in many public and private collections. They have had a house in Sidney for the past five years and spend their summers painting in Maine. In 2009 Ventura Life magazine did a feature article, “Sharing the Silence” on the work created in their shared barn studio. They both continue to participate in group exhibitions, Margie recently at the Haggin Museum and the CCAA Museum. Bob exhibited at the CCAA Museum and also in the invitational, “Skin Deep:  Artists Examine the Nude” in Ventura.  Margie is represented in Maine by the Wiscasset Bay Gallery and by the Blue Hill Bay Gallery.



Following the presentation there will be light refreshments for all in attendance.

The Series, Artists and Authors Among Us,  is free to the public but donations to the library will be greatly appreciated. For further information, please contact the library at 354-2453