Hi, My name is Ilene
Ilene Rubin is a self-taught artist who has been fortunate to have had several masterful teachers. She has lived in Elkins Park, Thousand Oaks, California, Boulder, Colorado, Doylestown and now calls Center Valley home. She received several awards, including a First Place Award in The Lehigh Valley Art Alliance Winter Juried Exhibition 2024, the Ty Hodanish award for Oil Painting in the Artsbridge 2021 Member Show in March 2021 and was given an award in the 34th Annual Bucks Fever Juried Art Exhibition “Celebrating Bucks County Artists.” She is a published author of two novels. She was a participating artist in the 2021 Bucks County Chamber of Commerce Bucks Fever Studio Artist Tour and was the Featured Artist in Bucks County Magazine in June 2021 and in Doylestown Magazine in June 2023. She served on the boards of the New Hope Art League and the Artists of Bristol on the Delaware. She was a founder of Broads With Brushes. She is also a Co Host of the ongoing Points of View Art Show for 10 years, 2014-2024.
Rubin is an award-winning artist who works primarily in oils but also uses pastels, pencils, and watercolor in a painterly representational style. Influences range from Caravaggio to Monet and Corot admits she has learned something revelatory from every artist who has preceded her and every teacher she’s had. She is most moved by the ever-changing landscape and captures each one in such a way that the viewer can step into it and spend moments immersed in a place filled with the environment that feels so familiar yet timeless.
Says Ms. Rubin, “I'm an artist who feels very strongly about the emotional and instinctive force which drives the creative process. I want to feel that a location or object absolutely has to be explored. That exploration with paint creates a reality of that place or still life and in doing so, makes it real. That sense that I must document it is urgent and required or I will not rest until I’ve said every bit of what I need to convey about it. It's organic and ever-evolving, but unless my painting can reveal the artist in the art and at the same time be an inner mirror for a viewer, it's merely a rendering of color and form - but not stirring. I strive to reveal what's below the paint, what a viewer may remark is an invitation to walk in and look around. Then I know I’ve captured a moment in time or given an object the opportunity to seem physically real. It may not be what is seen outside your window or on your table in perfect clarity, and maybe it’s really only felt or sensed, but if it made a viewer consider its innate beauty just for one minute, then I feel happy to have conveyed something they did not realize of myself until seeing my paintings. My greatest joy is when someone looks at my paintings all together in an arrangement on the wall, and then looks at me differently. That's a wonderful moment and I never tire of it. For me, that is the creative process, which is driven by an instinctive knowledge of what is compelling and what is merely ordinary. My job is to understand that capturing the ordinary can reveal the compelling.”
She can be contacted at [email protected] and on her website at www.IleneRubin.com.
Selected Interviews
Bucks County Magazine Featured Artist, June 2021, Filling Empty Spaces
Bucks County Visitors Center Interview for Publicity Video
Selected Recent Shows
2024
Arts & Cultural Center ‘At A Glance’ Juried Member Show, Doylestown, PA
Bethlehem Palette Club Juried Spring Bethlehem City Hall Rotunda Show, Bethlehem, PA
Midnight Gallery ‘Driven; Art In Motion’, Schnecksville, PA
LAA Summer Juried Exhibition
Parkland Art League All Member Juried Summer Show, Brenigsville, PA
‘Art Across The River’; Collaboration with New Hope Arts and Artsbridge, New Hope, PA
Parkland Art League Art Show at Stoney Run Winery, Breinigsville, PA
Bucks County Community College Gallery at Upper Bucks, ‘Art In Bloom’ Art Show, Perkasie, PA
Lehigh Art Alliance ‘Organized Perspective Art Show’ at The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
2023
Parkland Art League Juried Art Show, Emmaus, PA
Bucks County Community College Gallery at Upper Bucks Show of Shows Inaugural Art Show, Perkasie, PA
Compendium Art Exhibit, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh Valley Art Alliance Winter Juried Art Show, Bethlehem, Pa -FIRST PRIZE AWARD!
9th Annual Points of View Art Show, Stockton, NJ
Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County, Doylestown, PA
Artsbridge Holiday Art Show, Stockton, PA
Fox Chase Cancer Center 26th Annual Art Exhibition, Lahaska, PA
Artsbridge and New Hope Arts Art Across the River, New Hope, PA
New Hope Arts Elevating The Arts Invitational Art Show, New Hope Pa
Selected Awards:
Lehigh Valley Art Alliance Winter Juried Art Exhibition First Place Award
Artsbridge Member Show Ty Hodanish Award for Oil Painting
Bucks Fever Juried Art Exhibition Award for Oil Painting
Doylestown Art League Member Art Show Award for Oil Painting
Tinicum Art Festival Award for Painting in Acrylic Category
Rubin is an award-winning artist who works primarily in oils but also uses pastels, pencils, and watercolor in a painterly representational style. Influences range from Caravaggio to Monet and Corot admits she has learned something revelatory from every artist who has preceded her and every teacher she’s had. She is most moved by the ever-changing landscape and captures each one in such a way that the viewer can step into it and spend moments immersed in a place filled with the environment that feels so familiar yet timeless.
Says Ms. Rubin, “I'm an artist who feels very strongly about the emotional and instinctive force which drives the creative process. I want to feel that a location or object absolutely has to be explored. That exploration with paint creates a reality of that place or still life and in doing so, makes it real. That sense that I must document it is urgent and required or I will not rest until I’ve said every bit of what I need to convey about it. It's organic and ever-evolving, but unless my painting can reveal the artist in the art and at the same time be an inner mirror for a viewer, it's merely a rendering of color and form - but not stirring. I strive to reveal what's below the paint, what a viewer may remark is an invitation to walk in and look around. Then I know I’ve captured a moment in time or given an object the opportunity to seem physically real. It may not be what is seen outside your window or on your table in perfect clarity, and maybe it’s really only felt or sensed, but if it made a viewer consider its innate beauty just for one minute, then I feel happy to have conveyed something they did not realize of myself until seeing my paintings. My greatest joy is when someone looks at my paintings all together in an arrangement on the wall, and then looks at me differently. That's a wonderful moment and I never tire of it. For me, that is the creative process, which is driven by an instinctive knowledge of what is compelling and what is merely ordinary. My job is to understand that capturing the ordinary can reveal the compelling.”
She can be contacted at [email protected] and on her website at www.IleneRubin.com.
Selected Interviews
Bucks County Magazine Featured Artist, June 2021, Filling Empty Spaces
Bucks County Visitors Center Interview for Publicity Video
Selected Recent Shows
2024
Arts & Cultural Center ‘At A Glance’ Juried Member Show, Doylestown, PA
Bethlehem Palette Club Juried Spring Bethlehem City Hall Rotunda Show, Bethlehem, PA
Midnight Gallery ‘Driven; Art In Motion’, Schnecksville, PA
LAA Summer Juried Exhibition
Parkland Art League All Member Juried Summer Show, Brenigsville, PA
‘Art Across The River’; Collaboration with New Hope Arts and Artsbridge, New Hope, PA
Parkland Art League Art Show at Stoney Run Winery, Breinigsville, PA
Bucks County Community College Gallery at Upper Bucks, ‘Art In Bloom’ Art Show, Perkasie, PA
Lehigh Art Alliance ‘Organized Perspective Art Show’ at The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
2023
Parkland Art League Juried Art Show, Emmaus, PA
Bucks County Community College Gallery at Upper Bucks Show of Shows Inaugural Art Show, Perkasie, PA
Compendium Art Exhibit, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh Valley Art Alliance Winter Juried Art Show, Bethlehem, Pa -FIRST PRIZE AWARD!
9th Annual Points of View Art Show, Stockton, NJ
Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County, Doylestown, PA
Artsbridge Holiday Art Show, Stockton, PA
Fox Chase Cancer Center 26th Annual Art Exhibition, Lahaska, PA
Artsbridge and New Hope Arts Art Across the River, New Hope, PA
New Hope Arts Elevating The Arts Invitational Art Show, New Hope Pa
Selected Awards:
Lehigh Valley Art Alliance Winter Juried Art Exhibition First Place Award
Artsbridge Member Show Ty Hodanish Award for Oil Painting
Bucks Fever Juried Art Exhibition Award for Oil Painting
Doylestown Art League Member Art Show Award for Oil Painting
Tinicum Art Festival Award for Painting in Acrylic Category
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This is from a bio of Bucks County Artist and Author Ilene Rubin in Natural Awakenings Magazine, September, 2011. One of my paintings was on the cover: “Bucks County, Pennsylvania, artist Ilene Rubin won her first drawing award at the age of 9 & has been involved in art ever since, painting murals, boots, purses, a line of women’s and children’s clothing, furniture, walls and even a radiator, using motifs that range from folk art designs to florals and landscapes. She is still painting “stuff,” but now devotes most of her brushwork to landscapes.
Working exclusively in oils for the past five years, she also works in acrylics, watercolors, pastels and graphite. Rubin’s bold and unabashed explosions of color make her canvases sing. Rubin, also a published author, plumbs the frailties and depths of the human heart and mind, but most of all, seeks to offer serenity and light. “Through my art, I explore shades and colors of beauty—the tones and silences between what is seen and what is felt,” she advises. “For me, I have succeeded if I have given someone a reason to rest their heart and smile, even for one single glance, at a beautiful sight. That’s my greatest aspiration & desire.”
Working exclusively in oils for the past five years, she also works in acrylics, watercolors, pastels and graphite. Rubin’s bold and unabashed explosions of color make her canvases sing. Rubin, also a published author, plumbs the frailties and depths of the human heart and mind, but most of all, seeks to offer serenity and light. “Through my art, I explore shades and colors of beauty—the tones and silences between what is seen and what is felt,” she advises. “For me, I have succeeded if I have given someone a reason to rest their heart and smile, even for one single glance, at a beautiful sight. That’s my greatest aspiration & desire.”
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