April Art Exhibit: Andrea Ulmer’s Pretty Girls, Plus

TOMS RIVER – The Ocean County Library Toms River Branch is pleased to present an exhibit by New Jersey artist Andrea Ulmer throughout the month of April. Pretty Girls, Plus will be on display in the McConnell Gallery.

Andrea Ulmer belongs to Starlight Painters, a chapter of the Kansas-based Society of Decorative Painters, and is studying portraiture in oils under Kevin Murphy at the Art Academy of Hillsborough. She previously developed her skills with the guidance of Ana Neis at the Princeton Academy of Art.

The artist has extensive experience in acrylics applied to furniture, glassware, boxes and tin, and also in graphite, pastels and oil paints. Her works have been displayed in the Somerset

County Library Hillsborough Branch, the Hunterdon County Library’s Flemington headquarters branch, and Lambertville’s Bank of Princeton.

The career Registered Nurse credits her medical education for her budding art career.

“I began painting as an elective in nursing school,” she explained in a statement. “…my goal is to become a professional artist so I can spend my days doing what I really love, which is painting, especially realism.”

The exhibit is free of charge, open to the public, and can be viewed during normal Branch operating hours. Registration is not required. For more information, visit the Toms River Branch, 101 Washington Street, see details at theoceancountylibrary.org/events , or call 732-349-6200, ext. 5100.

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