Liron - Nature art for healthcare and healing, living, environments. Landscapes and Flowers. Oil paintings and fine art prints.

I was 11 when I realized what art meant to me. At the time I was visiting Holland and seeing Rembrandt's original oil paintings. The Power of the visual language: The depth of the emotions Rembrandt portrayed coupled with the mastery of rendering the human body, even its soul, struck me more than anything I have seen before or since. The life I have lived and the gains I have experienced have only confirmed my feelings.

When I returned from Amsterdam I attempted my very first drawing, a portrait of my favorite poet in charcoal from a black and white photograph. I did not know that I could sharpen a charcoal and had no reason to expect much of the outcome. Yet I was pleasantly surprised.

Having experienced the emotions art can create and being encouraged by what I believed was my own yet-undeveloped potential I wanted to paint more than anything else. However, growing up in a small economy and a technocratic society (Israel) art was not perceived as a viable career choice. I have earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry, Cum Laude, and hold an M.B.A. I completed the first year of Art School prior to leaving Israel. I later continued to take art classes at the New York Academy of Art for four additional years. I started exhibiting my artwork in 2000.

Neither time nor a different life course changed my love. On the contrary, the longer I did not paint the harder it became to keep not doing it.

Selected Collections

Commissions

Liron's painting with Kate Hudson and
Ginnifer Goodwin in Something Borrowed

Completed 20 corporate and private commissions.

Paintings in Films

Hudson River at Boscobel appears in Something Borrowed a Warner Bros. film starring Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski

National Juried Shows

2014 The American Artists Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2013 The American Artists Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2012 The American Artists Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2010 Hudson Valley Art Association, National Arts Club, New York, NY
The American Artists Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2007 The American Artists Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2005 Hudson Valley Art Association, Newington-Cropsey Museum, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
The American Artists Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Taboo, Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ (Juror: Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, Village Voice)

2003 Westminster Gallery, Bloomfield, NJ (Juror: Joseph Jacobs, Curator of American Art, Newark Museum)

2002 CAA, Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ

Selected Solo and Two-Person Shows

Liron's painting with Kate Hudson in Something Borrowed

2016 Peace of Nature, Clement Art Gallery, 201 Broadway, Troy, NY - On display through May 25th

2015 Beauty in Harmony, Pomona Arts Center, Pomona, NY (Curator: Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha)

2013 Reflections of the Soul, Geary Gallery, Darien, CT

2011 A Brush with Nature, The Gallery at Crooked Halo, Park Ridge, NJ

2007 Nature as a Metaphor, The Donald B. Palmer Museum, Springfield, NJ
Jourenyscapes, Synagogue for the Arts, New York, NY (Curator: Marilyn Sontag)
Seeing with the Mind's Eye, Walter Skulski Art Gallery, Clark, NJ (Curator: Aleksandra Nowak)
Leaving their Mark, Pomona Arts Center, Pomona, NY (Curator: Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha)

2006 Visions of Landscapes, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Two Brushes with Flowers, Synagogue for the Arts, New York, NY (Curator: Marilyn Sontag)

2005 Speaking About Flowers, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Visual Metaphros, Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ

2004 Flowers as Portraits, Waltuch Gallery, Tenafly, NJ

Selected Group Shows

2013 Examining Process, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
The Little Treasures Holiday Show, Geary Gallery, Darien, CT

2011 Eclectic Visions, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Featured Artist, Geary Gallery, Darien, CT

“I love looking at your painting!”
A collector in NYC

2010 Featured Artist, Geary Gallery, Darien, CT

2009 Artists Invitational, Chelsea 32 Art Gallery, New York, NY
APPETIZING PICTURES: Unusual Still Lifes of Food and Kitchen Objects, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY (Chelsea. Curator: Jim Furlong)

2008 The Four Seasons, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY (Chelsea. Curator: Jim Furlong)
Summer Exhibition, Sheldon Fine Art, Newport, RI

2007 Trees, Waltuch Gallery, Tenafly, NJ. 1st Prize, Oil/Acrylic Painting
Spring Exhibition, Peter McPhee Fine Arts, Stone Harbor, NJ
RENEWAL Interpreted, The Art Center of Northern NJ, New Milford, NJ. Honorable Mention

2005 Spring Color, Galleria Nuova, Warwick, NY
Celebrations, Glory, Heritage and Holidays, Perkins Gallery, Stoughton, MA. (Three-person show. Curator: Cindy Kaplan)

2004 Holiday Show, Port of Call Gallery, Warwick, NY
Featured Artist, Geneva Gallery, Morristown, NJ

2003 Salmagundi Club Theme Exhibition Flowers, New York, NY
Salmagundi Club Women Artist Exhibition, New York, NY

2002 Salmagundi Club Theme Exhibition Flowers, New York, NY

2000 Modern Masters, Madison Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Showcase, Limner Gallery, New York, NY

Honors and Awards

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“I have your paintings on every wall!”
A collector in Northern NJ

Elected Fellow of the American Artists Professional League (AAPL), 2011
Listed in Who's Who in the World, 2011 through 2015
Listed in Who's Who in America, 2006 through 2015
Listed in Who's Who in American Art, 2008 through 2015
Listed in Who's Who of American Women, 2008 - 2009 and 2010 - 2011 editions
1st Prize - Oil/Acrylic Painting, Trees, Waltuch Gallery, May 2007
Honorable Mention, RENEWAL Interpreted, The Art Center of Northern NJ, January 2007
Best of Art, Edgewater Arts Festival, September, 2006
1st Place Oil, Bergenfield Arts Festival Coalition, February, 2005
Best in Show, Mid Rockland Arts Festival, November, 2004
Elected Artist Member, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (2002 - 2004)

Education

“I will enjoy this painting for the rest of my life!”
A collector in Norway

Studied with David Dunlop, Scott Tallman Powers, Skip Whitcomb, and Donald Demers
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Avni Fine Art Institute, Tel -Aviv, Israel
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

TV Interview, Workshops, and Art Demonstrations