April 22, 2004

Printed in Boca Magazine which comes out in the Boca Raton News

                                 Boca Raton’s Own Edna Hibel Art Gallery

 Edna Hibel has opened her first gallery in Boca Raton at the Boca Corporate Plaza at 7860 Glades Road just east of the Turnpike. The artist moved from Boston to the West Palm Beach area over 30 years ago and established Edna Hibel Corp., dedicated to publishing her art worldwide. The Boca Raton gallery rounds out her Palm Beach County presence adding to a museum and gallery in Jupiter and a gallery in Boynton Beach. 

 

The 87-year-old artist, whose style critics have compared to that of Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, is the first American woman to win the coveted Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Art. Her international acclaim has made Hibel the preeminent ‘local’ artist. 

 

During the season, her company conducts benefit art shows almost every weekend for Palm Beach County charities, and continually reviews new requests for these charitable art displays. Through her benefit shows, Hibel’s company has raised more than $100,000 for charities during the past two seasons.

 

The Boca Raton gallery reflects Edna Hibel’s artistic talents in many mediums and themes. The artist is well known for her oil paintings, stone lithographs, serigraphs and work on porcelain portraying themes ranging from florals and landscapes to family and mother-child oriented images. She has recently released her new annual Mother’s Day porcelain plate, ‘A Golden Thought’. 

 

The Boca gallery carries Edna’s original art as well as reproductions in many mediums, including oversized framed art that is perfect for the large walls found in Boca Raton homes. The gallery also carries a selection of Hibel collector plates from past years as well as wonderful ceramic art tiles and even ‘wearable art hand bags’.

                       

Over the past forty years, the artwork of Edna Hibel has met with growing critical and popular acclaim, as major museums and galleries in twenty countries on four continents have held numerous exhibitions of her work. Her paintings are in the collections of many of America’s outstanding universities and public museums. Edna Hibel’s artwork has been exhibited in prestigious museums, galleries, universities, and palaces in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Costa Rica, the People s Republic of China, Israel, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, and the United States.

 

Edna Hibel is often referred to as America’s most beloved and versatile artist, and best colorist. The chief lithographer in the Wolfensberger atelier in Switzerland, in which Hibel creates most of her original stone lithographs, plainly states "When it comes to stone lithography, no other artist even comes close to the ability of Edna Hibel." Hibel has created more than 600 individual lithographic images, all of which she herself has drawn directly onto the Bavarian limestones from which the images are "pulled." Each color requires Hibel to draw on a separate stone, and she has to be able to visualize how the image will finally appear when all the stones are printed sequentially onto special French papers

 

For information about the Boca Raton Hibel Gallery call 561-883-1604. For information about other gallery locations or Hibel benefit art shows call 800-275-3426.

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Contact: Gary Berke, Edna Hibel Corp., (561) 848-9633

 

For information about the Boca Raton Hibel Gallery call
561-883-1604. For information about other gallery locations or Hibel
benefit art shows call 800-275-3426.

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Contact: Gary Berke, Edna Hibel Corp., (561) 848-9633