"Planet Hope"
acrylic
  Currently on exhibit in
"Art Without Borders"
Sheraton Edison Hotel
Gallery of EAS 

"Courtyard Visitor" 
acrylic
Exhibited in "Members Only 2006"
Nov. 2006 - May 2007
Sheraton Edison Hotel
Gallery of EAS

 

           The Edison Arts Society is proud to honor Fords resident Lois Nagy-Hartnack as its Summer 2007 Artist of the Season. Ms. Hartnack is a two-year visual artist member of EAS who has instantly become very involved by attending EAS events and actively supporting fundraising efforts.

          “Creating art allows the artist to use the power of reflection, in order to project their perspective to life. I am a firm believer in life-time education”.

           An art educator for thirty- five years in the Woodbridge Township school system, Lois Hartnack, who as a professional artist paints under the name Lois Nagy- Hartnack, graduated from Wagner College with a B.A. in Art Education.  In 1977, she earned a Masters of Art in Education from Kean University with an emphasis in painting.  In the summer of 2003, she became a member of the first graduating class at Caldwell College to receive a M.A. in counseling psychology with a specialization in art therapy.
   
        Since then Ms. Hartnack has been nationally board certified as a registered art therapist, through the ATCB, and is a licensed associate counselor, through the Marriage and Family Counseling Board of Examiners for New Jersey.  She has studied the modality of sandtray with Stephanie Hagadorn.

        Having exhibited in local, statewide and New York shows, varied college and university level exhibitions, with the New Jersey Art Educators, in juried shows with the New Jersey American Artists Professional League of Representational Art, the Edison Arts Society and the Barron Art Center, her works have received much recognition.

        She lives in Fords with her life partner, Thomas Maras, and her daughters, Rebecca and Amanda.

        “For a half a decade my early work reflected the surrealistic style of Georgia O’Keefe. My current paintings, from the last ten years, are representational in composition, with   emphasis on detail and texture, yet sometimes incorporate an impressionistic flare.  I tend to paint large, in size, so the viewer can obtain a feeling of ‘being able to walk into the setting’.  The genre usually centers on nature, and demonstrates a narrative quality, that ‘leaves the viewer with questions as to the ending scenario’.”