New Art, Exhibitions, Awards, Sales & More!
As we reach the halfway mark in 2025 several artists from the Manhattan Arts International Online Gallery shared news about their recent creative projects, career achievements and their future plans and aspirations.
The artists’ names will take you to their membership pages on this website where you will see more of their art, learn more about them, and find links to their websites. Please follow their many achievements and creative journeys by connecting with them on social media. I encourage you to contact the artists directly to find out how to purchase their art.
In the weeks ahead we expect to receive news from more of our members and will add them to this page so please visit often.
Banner image: Detail of photograph by Anne Morrison Rabe
Barbara Brown
Marilyn’s Forest, oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″
News Update
This year I have been so pleased to have been invited to give interviews, and presentations of my paintings, writings and film to local gatherings and to online groups. Nothing is more gratifying than sharing my love of the forest with others, through my work. Nothing more rewarding than witnessing others’ respond as they are inspired to themselves connect with the wonder and the magic of the natural world, through the portal of the forest.
Future Plans
I am excited this year to be showing four of my forest paintings in an Earth-themed group show at Gallery 444 all summer long in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. And the highlight will be an evening event there on July 27th when we will present a screening of my film: On BEAUTY, As We Come to it in the Forest; and a reading of my book: Volume II, SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings and Ponderings From the Forest.
Lisa Freidus
Antique Shopping in Brewster, watercolor, 21.5″ x 22.5″
News Update
In 2025 “Antique Shopping in Brewster” was selected for the Manhattan Arts invitational exhibition, “Love, Peace, Unity and Hope.” This theme serves as a reminder that good fortune often stems from belief. This year I was also pleasantly surprised when a former classmate purchased my watercolors “Stairway” and “Pansies,” She said, “Our high school connection adds to the enjoyment I get from them.” It is my belief that life comes full circle through a positive outlook!
Future Plans
I will be submitting one of my works of art to the Arts for ACT Gala this year to help them raise funds. This nonprofit organization counsels and treats families traumatized by domestic, physical, and sexual abuse, in addition to human trafficking. I am also delighted to have been invited to participate in the Manhattan Arts International “HerStory” 2025 Invitational Exhibition.
Barbara Rachko
Sacrificial, soft pastel on sandpaper, 58″ x 38″ image, 70″ x 50″ framed
News Update
I am thrilled to announce that our three-artist exhibition, “Unveiling,” which debuted in February at Vedica Art Studios and Gallery in Mumbai, IN, was so well received that it is traveling (in expanded form, with work by additional artists) to Yellow Cube in Paris. We open on June 5th!
Future Plans
Last year, I began working with an exceptional artist’s agent who is busy expanding my international audience. In the fall, my pastel paintings are scheduled to travel to art fairs in Vienna and Istanbul. Stay tuned for details!
Nancy Staub Laughlin
The Elegance of the Storm, pastel on paper, mounted photographs, 32″ x 45″
News Update
2025 has been so far a great year! I was the recipient of the Highly Commendable category of the Homiens Art Prize. Also, I was the recipient of Circle Foundation Masterful Mind Award for ,”The Blossoming Froth”. I have been featured in four art publications. They are Aedra Fine Arts the Art Wire, Art World Daily and Showcase My Art.
Future Plans
I am going to keep doing what I do and hope for new exhibitions that have not been finalized as of yet.
Anne Morrison Rabe
Pop Poppy, photography, 6″ x 6″ x 1.5″ (Giclee print face-mounted to 1″ thick acrylic)
News Update
My art was selected for “The Healing Power of Color” 2025 Online Exhibition presented on The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS website, an initiative of Manhattan Arts International. This year I have been stretching my creative focus. I have also been photographing more landscapes and reworking a few images from the past.
Future Plans
I am exhibiting my work in “Aligned”, with a group of five other eclectic artists. The show opens September 12. We organically connected through an online artist group during the pandemic and have continued to meet monthly for critiques, artistic conversation and friendship/creative support. We decided to submit an exhibition proposal to the Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland, California as several of us had shown our work with this gallery in the past.
Poul S. Nielsen
Atmospheric Probabilities (yellow), pastel on paper, 30” x 22”
News Update
I was invited to participate in a painting exhibition in Bejing, China. The opening was April 23 and I was delighted to have attended the opening. My art was also selected for “The Healing Power of Color” 2025 Invitational Exhibition presented on The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS website, an initiative of Manhattan Arts International.
Future Plans
I shall be receiving a 7th Annual International Leonardo da Vinci Art Prize, to be presented June 7 at the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technolgy. I look forward to trwaveling to Milan to receive the award on June 7. I want to thank the curators Francesco Saverio Russo and Salvatore Russo for this honour and members of the EfetoArte Foundation”. Gracie Italia!!
Karen H. Salup
Rainbow Summer Skies, acrylic, 40” x 40”
News Update
One of my paintings was selected for the Manhattan Arts International “Love, Peace, Unity & Hope” 2025 Invitational Exhibition. My art is on view through June 20th in “The Healing Power of Color” 2025 Invitational Exhibition presented on The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS website, an initiative of Manhattan Arts International.
Future Plans
I am scheduled to be the Manhattan Arts International Featured Artist Showcase Artist of the Week on June 6, 2025.
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