Aron works to be displayed in Bliss

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

An exhibition of works by the late Marlene Aron will be open for viewing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Solomon Gallery, inside Bliss Hall, on the Youngstown State University campus, to coincide with the Summer Festival of the Arts.

A free public reception will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Aron was born in 1943 in Youngstown, and attended what would become Youngstown State University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in painting in 1966. She studied in The Hague, Netherlands, in the late 1960s and went on to receive a masters degree in painting/drawing from California College of the Arts in 1992.

In addition to being a prolific visual artist, Aron was a published poet, social activist and expert on Post-Impressionism, lecturing widely on the life and art of Vincent van Gogh.

Aron was a two-time grant recipient from the Ohio Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited widely and can be found in the permanent collection of the Butler Institute of American Art as well as in numerous private collections both in the United States and abroad.