Theatre Producer Jack Thomas Opens SEEING AND BELIEVING June 28

Jack Thomas, currently a producer of the hit Off-Broadway play Freud's Last Session, is presenting an exhibition of artist Charlotte Lichtblau's paintings, opening this Tuesday, June 28th at St. Mary the Virgin in the heart of Times Square at 145 West 46th Street. The show, entitled SEEING AND BELIEVING, runs through July 31st with admission daily from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. This exhibition is curated by Bruce Payne, Executive Director, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. For appointments, contact Jack Thomas at 212-730-9500 ext. 210.

The June 28th opening reception will be held from 5:00 to 8:30 PM and is free to the public. There will be Open House on the following Mondays, from 5:00 - 8:00 PM, also free and open to the public: July 11, July 18, July 25.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Vienna in 1925, Charlotte Lichtblau came to the United States in 1940 with her parents and sister. Since 1950, she has returned repeatedly to Austria, primarily to Vienna and to her childhood summer home in Altaussee, in Austria's Salzkammergut region. She has painted the mountains, lakes and countryside in and around Altaussee, Austria, for more than seven decades. Her range of work includes landscapes, fantasias, mythic figures, and biblical scenes, often transported to this remarkable Alpine world. For the past five decades, Lichtblau has exhibited her works in galleries, museums, universities, and churches in New York City, in Europe, and throughout the United States. She has had two major career retrospective exhibitions in Austria, one at the Palais Palffy in Vienna (1994) and the second in the Pfarrheim Arts Center in Bad Aussee, near Altaussee (2002), along with a 2010 retrospective at the 8th Floor Space in Chelsea.

The Austrian exhibitions led to the publication in 2000 of Origin and Transformation: Life and Art of the Painter Charlotte Lichtblau by Albert Lichtblau (no relation to the artist) and Bruce Payne. Her drawings were published in Fr. Patrick Ryan's books When I Survey The Wondrous Cross: Scriptural Reflections for Lent (1989) and The Coming of Our God: Scriptural Reflections for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany (1999). For more than four years, her drawings were published weekly in America Magazine.

Lichtblau has also been an art critic, writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Herald Tribune, Arts Magazine, and other publications. Her collected reviews and other papers can be found at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

For more information, visit www.charlottelichtblau.com.

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