Athens Icons: Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum Opening

Athens Icons:  featuring Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum is on view from February 21, 2019 to April 6, 2019.

The opening reception is February 21, 2019 from 6 PM – 9 PM.

Art Rosenbaum, born in 1938 in Ogdensburg, NY, is a painter, muralist, and illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. He earned his AB in Art History and his MFA in Painting at Columbia University and has worked in France on a Fulbright in Painting; he also held a Fulbright Senior Professorship in Germany. He has executed mural commissions at the UCLA School of Law, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Russell Special Collections Library, both at the University of Georgia. He has taught studio art at the University of Iowa and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia where he was named the first Wheatley Professor in Fine Arts.

Based in Athens, Margo Newmark Rosenbaum is a celebrated photographer and musician. Born on February 17, 1939, she earned her bachelor’s degree in painting and drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute in California and her master’s degree in the same field from the University of Iowa. In 1966 she married Art Rosenbaum, also an artist and musician. She moved with her husband in 1976 to Athens, where he began teaching in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.

Over the years, Rosenbaum has collaborated with her husband on numerous projects, most notably photographing folk musicians as he recorded their performances. Later she began working in large-scale digital photography, displaying images taken in Ecuador and Japan at the 2010 exhibition New Work by Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum in Athens.