The Great Neck Library will host an art exhibit showcasing artist Louis Bender’s watercolor summer florals.
The exhibit will be hosted from Aug. 5 through Aug. 29 at the Main Library Lower-Level Art Gallery located at 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck.
A reception will also be held on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. Anyone is invited to attend.
Lois Bender is a New York artist who interprets varied nature and garden themes, creating a fresh mix of painting, printmaking and mixed media.
GardenSpiritsNY, her design brand grew out of her retail art direction experience for Godiva Chocolates, pointing her towards the gift industry & becoming a retail product designer at the New York Botanical Garden.
She was born into her aesthetic garden sensibility as the daughter of Flora Bloom & granddaughter of Hortense Bloom.
With a B.A. from Hunter College and an MFA from Boston University in painting, she has been teaching art workshops in the Hamptons & New York for 20 years, teaching watercolor this summer at The Baker House in East Hampton. She has been a college adjunct art professor at Essex County College in Newark, New Jersey for 10 years.
She shows her work in Metro New York venues and recently in “Biophilia,” a group show at Yale University’s Sacred Music Art Gallery in April 2024 celebrating Earth Day and fighting climate change. Her work is represented in the Hamptons by Sara Nightingale Gallery.
For more information about the gallery, please contact the Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.
