League at Large x Nordstrom: Halloween / Day of the Dead

This exhibition at Nordstrom Local West Village (13 7th Ave, New York, NY 10011) features work which celebrates Halloween or the Day of the Dead by League artists Milan Debert, Roberta Greenberg, Deborah Pohl, and Emily Sabree solicited through an open call.

League at Large is a program that showcases the work of League students in public venues outside of the League in order to increase exposure to and appreciation of their work.

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About the Artists

Milan Debert was born in 2001 in Los Angeles, California. He attended art schools all through primary education, and first attended Hussian College Los Angeles for Filmmaking. He then switched to studying Fine Art at Los Angeles City College. Upon moving to New York, he attended the Fashion Institute of Technology to continue a Fine Art education. Currently, he is completing the certificate program for Painting at the Art Students League of New York.Throughout elementary, middle and high school, he received numerous awards for drawing and filmmaking. These include first place regionally and second place in the finals of the Rotary Club Pageant of the Arts, winner of the Digital Voice Awards, several years of national awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the YoungArts Competition. In 2020, one of his ballpoint pen drawings Election Day was included in the Conjoined exhibition of artists from the Los Angeles dark surrealism community, curated by fine artist Chet Zar at Copro Gallery. Recently, his work has been included in the Grant and Merit Scholarship and the Juried Selection Exhibitions at the Art Students League. He also works as a storyboard artist for commercials, television pilots and short films.

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Roberta Greenberg is a multifaceted professional distinguished by her rich background in creativity and service. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Education from Hunter College, Textile Design from the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and a Master’s in Marketing and Management from NYU. At NYU, Greenberg conducted a groundbreaking Master’s Thesis, interviewing over 60 women business owners for her study on entrepreneurial women. Her entrepreneurial spirit exemplified by co-founding the consumer gift brand Protocol, which Greenberg successfully led for 33 years alongside her husband. Following the successful sale of Protocol, Greenberg embarked on a new chapter of creative exploration. She devoted herself to artwork by attending classes at the Art Students League and participating in student shows where in spring 2024 her work earned an honorable mention award. Her efforts were also recognized when four of her pieces were accepted for exhibition at the Pictor Gallery this summer.Her passions include travel, the arts, family, and the outdoors, which further fuel her creativity and bring a balanced and vibrant approach to everything undertaken.

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Deborah Pohl’s artistic highlights include winning two Fellowships for painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, one in 2022. Pohl has been a featured showcase artist at the 14C Art Fair for the past two years. Pohl’s numerous exhibitions include solo shows at the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Trenton City Museum reviewed by the New York Times, and dozens of group shows including the NJ State Museum and the Jersey City Museum. Deborah Pohl received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.Being inspired by the atelier movement of the last decade, Deborah has been taking painting courses at the Art Students League to hone her technique. Deborah Pohl has always worked at being a community based artist, being a part of three collectives over the years: ART (Artists Representing Themselves) with her peers from Rutgers, the Agitators who put together street-based ephemeral arts around the Jersey City area and the tART Collective which was an intersectional feminist and anti-racist art collective in New York City.

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Emily Cate Sabree (b.1981) is an oil painter interested in how plastic disposable items are integral to contemporary American consumer culture. Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, Sabree lives and works in Manhattan. Sabree is a resident artist member of the Salmagundi Club and a member of the Art Students League of New York where she studies portraiture and figure painting with Sharon Sprung. A former art educator, Sabree has degrees in museum studies and curriculum and instruction. Her work is in private collections across the United States. In 2023, Emily was an artist in residence at the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust and her work was in MYTHOS at The Painting Center in Chelsea curated by Clintel Steed, Postcards From Paradise at Voss Gallery San Francisco, and the Affordable Art Fair NYC with treat gallery. Sabree's work was also featured at the Nordstrom NYC Flagship home store. Sabree is currently working on large scale oil paintings for release in late 2024.

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