Autumn de Forest 2020

World-Renowned Artist Autumn de Forest to Premiere Rosies, Posies & Pearls Exhibition at Jersey Shore

Ocean Galleries of Stone Harbor, the area’s most prestigious fine art gallery, presents a dazzling & ground-breaking interactive Exhibition: Autumn de Forest: Rosies, Posies & Pearls. The integration of narrative into artistic language results in the must-see entertainment event of the summer. de Forest, world-renowned Artist & most recognized and decorated Gen-Z painter in the world has rendered a new collection populated with wise, witty images. Each artwork is accompanied by individual narrations by the Artist via a QR code accessible via one’s personal Air Pods/Headphones.  All works are on exhibition & available for acquisition. The gallery meets the highest standards of public health safety: Face Masks required at all times in the gallery. Artwork is on exhibition and available for acquisition from Friday, September 4 through Monday, September 7, 2020.   RSVPs are requested at kim@oceangalleries.com or 609-368-7777. Visit www.oceangalleries.com for more info and gallery hours.  Complimentary to the public.

Stone Harbor, New Jersey: (August 20th , 2020) – Renowned Artist Autumn de Forest works’ return to Stone Harbor’s prestigious Ocean Galleries Ocean Galleries for this groundbreaking interactive exhibition: the first of its kind and a distinct museum provenanced model which is the perfect summer entertainment option for these times.  Ms. De Forest narrates each and every piece; giving the guest an unparalleled artistic and cultural experience that is perfect for all ages.  She and gallerist and principals Josh and Kim Miller of Ocean Galleries are setting the standard for exhibition in 2020 in these unprecedented times.                                     

Stranded between absurdity and calamity“ is how Autumn de Forest describes her current world. “Challenges like that drove me to create a collection that included frustration, humor, appreciation, humility, patience and grace.

As the most recognized and decorated Gen-Z painter in the world, Autumn, also a graduating high school senior this year, had any rite of passage either put on hold, or canceled altogether. Caught in the crossfire of quarantine and incongruity, Autumn has rendered a completely new collection populated with wise, witty images. 

“I have been so eager to see Stone Harbor again, and I hope old friends and new friends alike have an opportunity to see what I have expressed especially for them.”

Autumn de Forest is the youngest artist ever chosen to represent The President’s Committee on The Arts and Humanities in Washington D.C, Turnaround Arts, alongside celebrities Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Edward Norton, Yo-Yo Ma, Usher, Cameron Diaz, Whoopi Goldberg, and Elton John.  With Turnaround Arts, de Forest travels the globe visiting pilot schools and inspiring students.  De Forest was invited to meet and paint with the art students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas this past February: continuing her mission of using art to heal and pursuing her mission of utilizing self-portraiture to harness the power of creativity.  WATCH THIS

From Parkland, Florida….to Washington DC….to San Bernardino, California…As the youngest member of the Presidents’ Committee on the Arts & Humanities http://turnaroundarts.pcah.gov/ , de Forest travels the country painting with, healing, & inspiring students.

Autumn exhibits her work globally as a renowned young Artist, and has exhibited at Stone Harbor for several years.  In 2015, she was awarded the International Giuseppe Sciacca Award for Painting and Art, an acknowledgment of a select few young people chosen from around the globe, believed to be changing the world for the better. That November 2015, mid heightened security concerns due to the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris occurring only hours earlier, de Forest was extended a brief yet powerful meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on the steps of Saint Peter’s Basilica. It was there that the then just 14-year-old de Forest presented the Pope with her grand and intricate artwork transported thousands of miles from her United States painting studio.

She is a true philanthropist, and also has been named one of the ten coolest teens to follow on Instagram by the New York Observer.

Autumn had the honor of being named one of Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21 Teen Vogue:  2017   21 Under 21, and attended the Teen Vogue Summit in Los Angeles recognizing these carefully-chosen and extraordinary young women

All artwork on Exhibition & Available for Acquisition