>Landscapes and florals featured at Valley’s gallery
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
BY EILEEN LA FORGIA
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The October exhibit at the Valley Hospital Art Gallery features two local artists who have spent their lives studying and teaching art: Carolyn Opderbeck and Lorrie Pallant. It’s a large exhibit with 55 oil and watercolor paintings.
Carolyn Opderbeck taught art at the Hawthorne Christian Academy, and also to home-schooled children. Throughout her art career, she has enjoyed success with a variety of media including oils, watercolor and tile murals for kitchen back-splashes. The Hawthorne resident was born in Paterson. She entered a city-wide contest for students in the Paterson school system and won first prize for a watercolor painting done from the school window overlooking the city. Opderbeck has studied art at the Entwhistle School of Art, at the Ridgewood Art Institute with Arthur Maynard, Allan Avery and Frank Rossi, at the Isobel O’Neill studio in New York City and with private teachers.
Opderbeck enjoys the challenge of painting outdoors, capturing the beauty of the colors, contrasts and textures of the surrounding landscape and focusing on painting the light.