Art Exhibit by Blanche Serban now on View at the East Hartford Public Library

Posted on: October 7, 2022 - 10:12am
Art Exhibit by Blanche Serban now on View at the East Hartford Public Library

East Hartford, CT - The East Hartford Public Library is proud to announce the opening of an exhibit by local artist Blanche Serban, now on display at the East Hartford Public Library.

Blanche Serban is an impressionist painter. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she studied painting at the School of Arts in Bucharest with Nicolae Iorga. After getting a B.A. and a License in Psychotherapy from the University of Bucharest in 1996, she completed a M.A. in psychology at Syracuse University.

Blanche lives and paints in Storrs, Connecticut, with her husband and their two daughters. Her works are in collections in the United States, Romania, France, Germany, U.K., South Korea, and New Zealand. She has shown often in one-person and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. She is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Artists Open Studio of Northeastern Connecticut, and Lyme Art Association.

Regarding her art, Serban writes:

I look to paint the air between things that holds the shape of seen and unseen, the transient beauty of changing light, the passing hours and seasons, the fragile balance between the wealth of material world and the simplicity of formless. Transient, understated, imperfect things shine for a moment full of life, and encourage the artist and the viewer to connect and share their personal interpretation.

Art is a thread that binds humanity and opens us to appreciate the fragility and uniqueness of our environment with its signs of the past marching away to inevitable passing and the marks of the future yet to take shape. In a world marked by the unraveling of environmental balance and social fabric, art becomes again relevant to heighten our sensitivity and bring us back together to focus again on what is important for all of us as human beings.

Follow BLANCHE SERBAN on Instagram and Facebook to see her newest paintings and find out about upcoming exhibitions.

The exhibit runs from now through the end of December 2022. The exhibit may be viewed during the library’s open hours: Monday and Friday, 9 am to 5 pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 9 am to 8 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm, and Sunday, 1 pm to 5 pm. There is no charge.