Category Archives: The Gallery

Call for artists for New Jersey’s Natural Wonders, April 11 to June 30, 2014
Deadline for application Friday, March 7, 2014. Download application NJNaturalWonders-Application  or submit application via web form.

HISTORIC NEW JERSEY
JANUARY 31 TO MARCH 31

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

Exhibiting Artists

Olga Prokopenko, John Sandstedt, Dayton Continue reading →

Call for artists for Historic New Jersey, Jan. 17 through March 31, 2014
Deadline for application Wednesday, December 11. Download application Historic-New-Jersey-Application or submit application via web form.

LEGENDARY LOCATIONS Exhibit
OCTOBER 11, 2013 to JANUARY 7, 2014

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

Gallery Talk and Demonstration by Carole Grand
Monday, December 2, 6:30PM Continue reading →

Call for artists for Historic New Jersey, Jan. 17 through March 31, 2014
Deadline for application Wednesday, December 11. Download application Historic-New-Jersey-Application or submit application via web form.

LEGENDARY LOCATIONS Exhibit
OCTOBER 11, 2013 to JANUARY 7, 2014

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

Gallery Talk and Demonstration by Carole Grand
Monday, December 2, 6:30PM
Meeting Room 1, South Brunswick Municipal Building

Exhibiting Artists

Stephanie Barbetti  –  Heather Barros  –  Don Bloom  –  Indrani Choudhury
Joseph Gilchrist  –  Rhonda Goodwin  –  Catherine Gowen  –  Carole Grand
Wendy Heisler  –  Barbara Hochberg  –  Vadim Levin  –  Catherine Martzloff
Chiara Medici  –  Andrea Orlando  –  Tari Pantaleo  –  Olga Prokopenko
Christa Schneider  –  Nancy Scott  –  Laura Stenburg  –  Gerald Spielman
Ellen Veden

Juror Richard Swain of the Art History Department of Rider University writes about Legendary Locations:

“Legendary Locations takes us on a very varied voyage to lands real and imagined, far and near, familiar and un—in which the artists show us their private dreams of these places. Exotic lands conjure legends for both painters and photographers. Wendy Heisler takes us to China and Yosemite grandeur in glowing pastels.  New Orleans and New York are imagined anew in striking abstracting collages by Nancy Scott.  Indrani Choudhury surprises with a loudly-colored music room in India, and Barbara Hochberg charms with a cozy street in San Gimignano. Laura Stenburg’s lovely Carnegie Lake is Monet in Mercer County. Where have YOU been and what have you dreamed?

And then there are Joseph Gilchrist’s spacious landscape dramas—large digital prints of the natural layers of Monument Valley and the man-made layers of Rome. Gerald Spielman’s handsome photo compositions show us the dramatic monumental-Chief Crazy Horse—and the dramatic noisy-Hightstown Dam. Calm are the dreamy morning mists of Rhonda Goodwin’s workout and jangly perfect is the mixed media collage of Carole Grand’s Coney Island Remembered. Would YOU see and feel them differently?
Many artists did not have to go far for inspiring locations.  The nearby Mapleton Preserve in Kingston is clearly a treasured landscape for many. Ellen Veden’s Mapleton Road is a stunning mixed-media macro dramatic sunset of the Preserve, while Andrea Orlando’s lovely sun-dappled watercolor bridge leads us to the more intimate aspects of the Preserve. Catherine Matzloff’s Welcome to the Preserve discovers the sweet surprises in exploring the landscape. Liquid sunlight washes over the simple country charms of Heather Barros’ plein air oils. The people seem to have just stepped out.

Winter comes to the Preserve in Tari Pantaleo’s stark, almost abstract Twisted Sister and Icy Fretwork— quite a shudder after all that golden sunshine. But spring blossoms in simplicity itself at the Preserve in Catherine Gowan’s Eastern Redbud.

While most of the artists explored the legends of places they had seen, several artists went to locations in their imaginations and created legends there. Vadim Levin stuns with his very dramatic personal vision of the Jewish Exodus-There Is No Way Back.  Strikingly abstract and brilliantly colored are Don Bloom’s Imaginary Landscape and Stephenie Barbetti’s’ Aquarium Visit.

And lastly there are Chiara Medici’s Untitled photograph—dreamy mysterious spaces with ghostly presences-a sort of provocative open-ended narrative meant to keep you wondering—What is this legend?

Let us thank the artists for their artworks and the many and various “legendary journeys” they have taken us on.”

The Gallery in the South Brunswick Municipal Building,
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction, is open 8:30-4:30pm weekdays and evenings when meetings are scheduled.

Teachers As Artists IV exhibit ends October 3

LEGENDARY LOCATIONS Exhibit
OCTOBER 11, 2013 to JANUARY 7, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6:30–8pm

Exhibiting Artists

Stephanie Barbetti  –  Heather Barros  –  Don Bloom  –  Indrani Choudhury
Joseph Gilchrist  –  Rhonda Goodwin  –  Catherine Gowen  –  Carole Grand
Wendy Heisler  –  Barbara Hochberg  –  Vadim Levin  –  Catherine Martzloff
Chiara Medici  –  Andrea Orlando  –  Tari Pantaleo  –  Olga Prokopenko
Christa Schneider  –  Nancy Scott  –  Laura Stenburg  –  Gerald Spielman
Ellen Veden

Icy Fretwork (Mapleton Preserve), photo, ©2013 Tari Panteleo

Juror Richard Swain of the Art History Department of Rider University writes about Legendary Locations:

“Legendary Locations” takes us on a very varied voyage to lands real and imagined, far and near, familiar and un—in which the artists show us their private dreams of these places. Exotic lands Continue reading →

Call for Artists for
Legendary Locations Exhibit, October 11, 2013 – January 7, 2014

Download application or apply via web form.

Current Exhibit

Gallery Talk with John Marron:

The Philosophy and Art of Sumi-e INk Wash Painting

Friday, September 27th 2013, 6:30 pm-8pm

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

THROUGH October 2, 2013

Six talented South Brunswick teachers responded to our invitation to display Continue reading →

THE GALLERY
Call for Artists for
Legendary Locations Exhibit, October 11, 2013 – January 7, 2014

Download application or apply via web form.

Current Exhibit

South Brunswick Municipal Building
540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction

Exhibit July 9–October 2, 2013 Continue reading →

THE GALLERY 

At The Gallery
Natural Celebrations

APRIL 19 –JUNE 25, 2013

 Glories of the natural world, forests, meadows, gardens – celebrating the color and beauty that nature adds to our lives.

Iris, watercolor, ©Mae Lee, 2013

Natural Celebrations – For each artist in this inspiring exhibit, it is the interactive experience with nature that sets the process of celebration in motion. The colors, the light, the setting, the season, a single moment in time—all have inspired in our 15 artists a sense of elation; and we, the viewers, are the beneficiaries.
— Cory Alperstein, juror

Exhibiting Artists
Ahuva Arie
Joan Arbeiter
Stephanie Barbetti
Don Bloom
Sue Chiu Continue reading →

At The Gallery
Natural Celebrations

APRIL 19 –JUNE 25, 2013

 Glories of the natural world, forests, meadows, gardens – celebrating the color and beauty that nature adds to our lives.

Gallery Talk, Monday, May 13 6:30–8PM

Coming Round the Mountain, watercolor ©2013 Diane Kosco

Natural Celebrations – For each artist in this inspiring exhibit, it is the interactive experience with nature that sets the process of celebration in motion. The colors, the light, the setting, the season, a single moment in time—all have inspired in our 15 artists a sense of elation; and we, Continue reading →

Invitation to Local Artists .

“Legendary Locations”, the October 2013 Art Exhibit of South Brunswick Arts
Commission, will include Princeton Nursery Lands as one of the township’s legendary places. Continue reading →