FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barbara Nitzberg (914) 654-5285

THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE TO HOST 
ART EXHIBIT BY JEBAH BAUM



New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2003 – The College of New Rochelle (CNR) is hosting a solo exhibit by artist Jebah Baum entitled, Jebah Baum: Paintings and Works on Paper, in which he showcases two dimensional works in an expressionistic mode.  This exhibit represents Mr. Baum’s first project at CNR, and is on display in the Mooney Center Gallery on the first floor at the New Rochelle campus from September 5 to September 29.

The Mooney Center Gallery is open weekdays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and weekends from 12 until 4 p.m. For information, tours and directions to The College of New Rochelle, please call (914) 654-5423. 

Jebah Baum: Paintings and Works on Paper includes works in oil on canvas, watercolors and woodcuts, exploring the artist’s unique engagement with figurative abstraction. He is a painter’s painter whose lyrical, calligraphic voice is at once primitive and sophisticated. Mr. Baum’s describes many of his pieces as “a kind of self-referential punning where one gesture evokes another and spatial relationships are clarified and then obscured.”  The artist’s intelligent use of color and scale relationships creates a sense of monumentality even in his most intimate work.

Mr. Baum was graduated from Cornell University with a Master of Fine Arts degree.  He is an internationally exhibited artist and has received public recognition for his work both here and abroad. He has created several stage designs, notably masks and projections for the American Tap Dance Orchestra’s performance of “The American Landscape” at the Joyce Theater.  Mr. Baum has also created over 150 murals with children in the New York Public School System. Mr. Baum is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Wagner College in Staten Island.


The first Catholic college for women in New York State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School.  The main campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of New York City.  The College maintains six other campus locations in New York City. Visit the College’s website at www.cnr.edu.


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