Tim Parris
Acrylic and newspaper on paper
24 x 18
Spriha Gupta
Mixed media: acrylic, watercolor, modeling paste, oil pastels, found materials
"As a narrative mixed media contemporary artist, I bring organic forms and textures into my work, using iconic symbolism to exemplify concepts close to my heart that are influenced by personal, societal and environmental changes. I take a fearless approach to the colors I use in compositions that I build around found objects. By bringing an almost three-dimensional aspect to my work, I am suggesting that art has no boundaries and that in the limitlessness of nature colors and forms flow from one space to another."
Beatricia Sagar
36 x 36"
Mixed media
Robert Raphael
Acrylic on canvas
The blue background symbolizes hope. The large flower symbolizes outrage. The yellow flowers symbolize fear. The twigs symbolize nervousness. These effects were arrived at intuitively.
Jonathan D Tracy
Oil on canvas
20 x 24"
March 31, 2020
Black Knight to Red Queen 3
Margaret Kalvar
Oil on canvas
"The inspiration for the painting was a photo of my two cats on our tiled kitchen floor!"
Spriha Gupta
Acrylic on wood
12 x 16"
Sean Carney
Water based wood stain on wood
6 x 6"
Gail Bracegirdle
Watercolor and collage on paper
"This is watercolor and collage on paper, with the collage being text from an article in the Philadelphia Enquirer about PAFA, the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts. So the text in the 'colors' is all about art."
Completed April 7, 2020
Susanne Pitak Davis
Acrylic paint
Meg Brinster Michael
Oil on canvas
40 x 30"
Janis Purcell
MC1 wool
6 x 9"
"The Hightstown's Woman's Club is creating a Community Art Quilt to commemorate the town's 300th anniversary. The quilt represents a "slice of life" of old and new Hightstown."
Maia Reim
Digital photography
"It was taken in an abandoned garage. It comes from what I discovered there and how I edited the image to satisfy my personal expression. I think it engenders the feeling of being sheltered forcibly in our homes. Though I photographed the scene long before the C-Virus hit, I created this image more recently."
RBG (Portrait for Equality)
Howard Michaels
Hand cut stencils and acrylic paint on birchwood panel
18 x 24"
"A tribute painting to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
Tyler Park Covered Bridge
April Ann Bohmler
Pastel on paper en plein air
"In these uncertain times it is a sanctuary for so many of us, lucky we are to have it.
I found the vibrant and blossoming spring with it's emerging growth provided a sense of tranquility and hope. As I painted outdoors, distanced from others on an old canvas laid on the ground near the Neshaminy Creek, it's babbling water spoke of past and future. The trees just budding and the scents and sounds were comforting. Mother Nature is taking care of herself and us if we just pause and listen."
Julian S Weitzenfeld
Photography
I took this photograph in 2012 in France, between the Dordogne and Lot rivers, and a print has been on my wall for years. However, you couldn't see the actual rain that print. I now have a printer that will print larger, but I also use different software, and I decided to start from scratch to see if I could get more detail. Also, my old print was very painterly, romantic, and dramatic. I thought I would try for a more natural look. I did and my photographer friends preferred the new version, but all (and I myself) mourned the dramatic threatening clouds in the first version. So I blended the two. The dramatic sky is back, but the foreground is realistic photographically. And you can see the rain fall. When we drove into the rain, it was fully as terrifying as the clouds."
Diptych: "Redshift" "Blueshift"
Vincent Hawley
Acrylic with oil pastel on styrene paper
Each 28 x 30"
"Redshift and Blueshift are terms in astronomy that describe the way light shifts by pushing and pulling toward shorter or longer wavelengths in space. Redshift refers to how far away an object is, and blueshift refers o how close an object is. This concept is similar to the Doppler Effect for sound, in which an approaching sound becomes louder, later changing in tone and volume as it passes. This, in an ever expanding universe, is almost a stasis point for what is happening today. We don't know when our current situation will end, but we know what is occurring in close proximity to us now. Just as 3-D glasses are comprised of both a red and blue side, this is a diptych meant to show us our current during this pandemic. Eventually we will get through it, but in the present unknown as it continues to grow, we simultaneously try to heal and "pull" the end closer while "pushing" away our current condition."
Fran Leyenberger
Porcelein container
Aleydis Nissen
Ink, watercolour paint
25.2 x 1.8 cm
Susan Pitak Davis
Acrylic paint
Lindsey Frances
Watercolor, ink
"It's been a month, I think, since I've been working from home and then in quarantine by myself in Brooklyn. It's a weird mix (for my own circumstances and the broader ones) of scary, lonely, intensely creative, weird, liberating, and exhausting. All of it is tinged with an all encompassing intuitive sense that I'm exactly in the spot I always had to be, like no other version of me could have been that didn't find herself here, iring her feet out in very long walks. All signs lead me here even when I didn't want to follow."
Morris Doktor
Graphite
10 x 12"
John Herz
Colored pencil
23 x 29"
"Drawn from my photo image of a Bahamian that posed for my camera. His name is Noel. I love the look he gave me, so much in those eyes."
"I have been very busy in my studio. I have been drawing 10-14 hours a day. It keeps me away from the News."
Hope J Carter
Oil on canvas
18" x 24"
From the "Work Party" series
Dave Orban
"Quarantine or not, it takes me a little longer than a month to complete a painting, so this one will just have to be a 'work in progress.' This is another in the 'Work Party' series that I started sometime back in the late 80s"
