Artfully Autistic Molly Rose—Friday Friday night, September 9, was blessed with rain after a long pandemic drought when Lloyd Sax, founder of Artists Matter gallery, held a post-pandemic reopening event, a blend of mocktails, music by Leftover Cuties. (leftovercuties.com) and art.
Featured artist Molly Rose, a young adult on the autism spectrum, was also back after the pandemic dry spell to display her fanciful, playful paintings. She is a one-of-a-kind artist who connects with others primarily through her love of art, music and humor. At the age of twelve, she showed her art for the first time at the Faulkner Gallery in Santa Barbara, and in 2020, she won first place in The Art of Autism contest for Women’s History Month. Her art shows up on walls of private collectors throughout the world and has been commissioned to design labels for Ozymandias Wines in New York and Shokrian Wines in California. The exhibit runs to September 30.
Artists Matter is located at 129 S. Topanga Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290. Lloyd Sax can be reached at (310) 488.8797; lloyd@artistsmatter.org.
—Pamela Mesaros
