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Landscape Painting in Sicily

Sicily Artist Retreats Taught by Ephraim Rubenstein from April 22nd to May 1st, 2023 Join us for this all-inclusive painting workshop with Art Students League Instructor Ephraim Rubenstein, where we will paint en plein air in and around magnificent Marsala, Sicily. We will bring […]

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Paintings & Pastels at the Lee Gallery in Kingsville, Maryland

Ephraim Rubenstein’s exhibition at the Lee Gallery of the Historic Jerusalem Mill in Kingsville, Maryland, opens on October 15, 2022 and will continue through March 12, 2023. There will be a reception on October 15 from 3 to 7 pm, […]

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Silver: A Metalpoint Group Exhibition Organized by DFN Projects and New York Artists Equity

Ephraim Rubenstein is one of twenty-three artists whose metalpoint work is be on view in the exhibition Silver at DFN Projects (16 East 79th Street, Garden Floor, G2), from November 18, 2021 through January 7, 2022. An opening reception was […]

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Ephraim Rubenstein: Recent Paintings and Drawings Opens at Stone Tower Gallery on October 9, 2021

Ephraim Rubenstein: Recent Paintings and Drawings will be on view at the Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park (Glen Echo, MD), October 9–November 14, 2021. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, October 9, 4:00–6:00 p.m.

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An Exhibition of Ephraim Rubenstein’s Drawings Will Be on View at Delaplaine Arts Center This Fall

Drawing from Two Decades: Large-Scale Drawings, 1999–2019 will be on view at the Delphaine Arts Center (Frederick, MD), September 4–26. Events scheduled for opening day, September 4, include an artist’s talk at 2:00 p.m., followed by “Meet the Artist,” 3:00–5:00 […]

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In Memoriam: Anthony (Bud) Panzera, 1941–2020

In the painting, a single ocean wave rolls gently towards the shore. It is a murky greenish-blue, as if it arose out of the misty background of a Leonardo. The wave is briny and heavily laden with sand as it […]

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Ephraim Rubenstein’s Still-Life Painting on the Cover of “The Book of the Classic Traveler”

Ephraim’s painting Books: Pile XXXIV has been reproduced on the cover of the Korean anthology The Book of the Classic Traveler (고전 여행자의 책), which compares 116 Eastern and Western classics with each text introduced by the author. The book was published […]

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Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting and Drawing This Summer at Stone Tower Gallery

Ephraim Rubenstein; Painting and Drawing opens at Stone Tower Gallery (Glen Echo, MD) on July 3, 2020 and continues through August 2, 2020. An artist’s reception is scheduled for July 3, 6–8 p.m.

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Spring Workshop in Color-Spot Oil Painting at the Art Students League

Ephraim will be teaching a one-month long special Hybrid Class/Workshop  in “Color-Spot Oil Painting” at the Art Students League this Spring, from March 2–27, 2020.

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Two Figure Studies in Red Chalk Published

Ephraim is delighted to announce that two of his red chalk drawings have been included in the recent book Figure Drawing Atelier: Art Instruction Sketchbook by Juliette Aristedes.  

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Cityscape in “The League of Masters” at the New York Design Center

The League of Masters: Past & Present: Works by The Art Students League Teachers and Students celebrates the League’s continuing tradition of supporting artists, exhibiting significant works by past League masters such as Hans Hofmann, Burgoyne Diller, and Will Barnet […]

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Ephraim Rubenstein’s Still-Life Painting on the Cover of “The Library Book”

Ephraim Rubenstein’s painting Book Pile XXIV has been published on the cover of the Korean language edition of Susan Orleans’ The Library Book, an account of a 1986 fire at the Los Angels County Library that destroyed over 400,000 books. […]

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Ephraim Rubenstein’s Abu Simbel I at the
Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League’s Instructors’ Exhibition 2019 is the largest faculty annual in the school’s history with nearly one hundred works on view (digital gallery). Ephraim’s large wax-resist drawing Abu Simbel I (from a series of new work) is on view in the […]

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Ephraim Rubenstein’s Portrait in
The Instructors Exhibition

Featuring works from over eighty artists who teach at the Art Students League, the Instructors Exhibition 2018 opens on September 4. Ephraim’s portrait Chris IV is one in a small grouping of works on view in the newly remodeled American […]

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The Quickening Image at Degenstein Gallery

The Quickening Image is a process-based exhibition, highlighting the creative potential of the wax-resist technique in drawings by David Dodge Lewis and Ephraim Rubenstein. Their approach integrates a range of standard drawing materials in a single image, using both wet […]

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