Man in Leather Jacket - Raymond Brown
Oil on Canvas
14" x 18"
SOLD
Artist's Statement:
I have been preoccupied with drawing and painting since early childhood, and have aspired to do little else.
Photography
8" x 10"
$250
Artist's Statement:
A self taught photographer and a member of Princeton Photography Club. A lover of all things beautiful. I am extremely happy when my images are used to preserve, promote and protect the natural beauty of our planet.
Harmony in Pink - Fran Gallun
Acrylic and collage
46" x 38"
$3000
Artist's Statement:
Having done still life in the 80's from the set-up, my new work is a return to the tabletop, but from my imagination. After decades of various media and iterations, my favorite characters have insisted on a comeback: vessels, the leaf shape, flat forms, color and pattern. I am using old canvasses which allow for previous thoughts and forms to remain; and a wealth of my painted papers, magazines, newspapers, and mixed media.
Meet, Work, Play - Bennett Gewirtz
Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 30"
$2500
Artist's Statement:
In the past my work was influenced by the time I spent in a part-time job in local Home Depots. As I walked around the store I saw colors, shapes, patterns, lighting and objects that came together to create what I called a “paintable moment.” I photographed these images and then used them as a tool to re-create these everyday retail objects as bold expressions of color and composition. My intent was not to portray an exact interpretation, but to create a sense of delight in having the viewer see the object(s) and the abstraction. In my art, I want to express something positive, artistically serious, and perhaps a little whimsical. Qualities that speak of me and to me. Sharing that with others is a privilege I aspire to, in the hope that people will see a little part of the ordinary world differently. But the pandemic challenged me to use my sense of imagery and style to highlight the unique circumstances of these times. Staying home forced me to look around my immediate surrounding for inspiration.
“Work, Meet, Play” speaks for itself. It conveys a very relatable situation of these pandemic times. It was at a Zoom meeting that inspiration struck. The boxes supplied the graphic element I like. I tried to populate each box with a different person in a unique setting. The backgrounds in each square was very important in my selection process. They add the sense of energy that is a contrast to the stillness of the figure in the foreground. With the foreground figure I tried to convey the sense of how our lives has become quieter and more personally isolated. It seems what is happening in the world is now in front of us on a screen and not all around us.
Harbor at Peggy's Cove - Noe LaFramboise
Oil
20" x 16"
$600
Artist's Statement:
When I paint I try to filter and transform the reality that I perceive into a colorful, vivid and vibrant art product that brings me happiness and satisfaction. My hope is that my art can also bring satisfaction to the viewer.
Paine Massif Patagonia - Mary Rigby
Photography
20" x 16"
$250
Artist's Statement:
I was impacted by the great natural beauty of the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile but saddened at the effect of a fire in the past due to human carelessness.
Aspicio, No. 1 - Laurel Daunis-Allen
Mixed Media
$750
Artist's Statement:
Rocks and stones have always fascinated me. So much so, that many of my souvenirs from trips are small pebbles and sometimes fairly large rocks. I am especially mesmerized and drawn to the big, bold rocks found up in New England, especially on the coast. In my most recent works you will see that, instead of painting rocks as part of a landscape, they are the landscape. Usually, I paint them in black & white, so that the viewer may experience their many forms as well as the raw emotion and energy of the stones without being distracted by color. In this series I have added some color as a resting spot and a point of meditation.
Concert of Colors - Armor Keller
Acrylic, gold leaf
39" x 39"
$3000
Artist's Statement:
Armor Keller's abstract paintings are influenced by a background in Asian art. These poured paintings are both intuitive and controlled. Keller's fluid, ethereal, and meditative paintings are usually based on landscape, seascape, and space-scape. She juxtaposes elements: soft and hard materials; muted, intense, and metallic colors; transparent and opaque paint; spontaneous and controlled areas; fluid and hard edge shapes. Keller's paintings express her feelings about her environment and invites the viewer to share their thoughts as well.
October on the Lehigh - Robert Seufert
Oil on linen
27" x 10"
$6500
Artist's Statement:
In my fifty-three years as a professional fine artist I have continued to refine and sharpen my skills as a painting knife specialist. Having been born in Brooklyn I had the good fortune to have had parents who decided to move to Bucks County when I was 10 years old. I almost immediately fell in love with rural Pennsylvania and all that it had to offer. More than two thousand paintings later I still have that same enthusiasm to find new subject matter.
The Blind Hunter - Jessica Petty
Clayboard, India ink, gold foil
9" x 12"
$300
Artist's Statement:
Jessica Petty is a local artist within New jersey. She is a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design (2014) with BFA in Illustration, with a background in traditional Renaissance drawing and painting techniques.
Her personal work is mostly figurative and illustrative, with motifs of mythology and religious iconography. Jessica works professionally for the Seward Johnson Atelier and commercially, where she designs logos and packaging. while working in traditional mediums she has also been able to translate her work digitally where she uses the same traditional techniques in a digital art form.
Jessica likes to explore different mediums and push the boundaries with various techniques and styles. She shows locally in the Hamilton and Trenton area, as well as, being locally represented at The Artful Deposit pocket gallery in Bordentown City, NJ.
Elegy for Black Lives Lost - Alice Sims-Gunzenhauser
Graphite, monoprints, oil pastel, acrylic paint
22" x 24.5"
$1000
Artist's Statement:
Made in response to the murders of George Floyd et al. I combined old work with newer pieces to make a memorial. The print that was cut up for the tulips was horizontal; I turned the right-side image to vertical to signify survival and continuance. Irregular contour reflects the scope of emotion.
For a long time, my work focused on or relied on the use of line. Everyone makes lines. Handwriting is lines. There is space on either side of a line. If you draw an object with a contour line, what you’re doing is approximating the curves and inflections that describe the boundary between the object and the air around it. One of the reasons I’ve made so many images of flowers is that those boundaries are infinitely rich. I remain fascinated by another kind of boundary, too: the one between representation and calligraphic, gestural, directional marks that describe only the motion of my arm, the energy of the piece at that moment. As my work has loosened and headed more toward abstraction, line has metamorphosed into a more general focus on mark making.
Intermittently, and more frequently over the last 5 years, I have striven to express concerns about the world we live in, public events and policy. This is hard for me; I’m not a figurative artist so I have to look for less direct imagery with which to comment on events that affect people. I see much of my work as inherently narrative even though it contains no verbal language—but it’s hard to know whether viewers will see that. In other works, I’ve loosened the boundary between verbal and visual imagery by incorporating text (and this has not been limited to work that I associate with external events).
Recently, I have been working with old drawings and prints, everything from finished pieces to scraps: putting them together in layers or through juxtaposition, tearing or cutting to find new areas of focus, creating stillness and movement of various sorts. In those works, it is also the boundaries of time and of my own personal history that blur and intertwine, whatever the primary content of the piece may be.
Oil on cradled wood panel
18" x 24"
$750
In my recent work I explore the transparent and opaque nature of oil pigments as a feature of composition and a tool to reveal and hide, shade and highlight, themes within a painted subject. From everyday experience - players in a little league dugout painted on a wood panel - to sweeping social issues at the heart of national debate - Thomas Paine, an immigrant, painted on his pamphlet, The American Crisis collaged with a legal brief supported Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - decisions to make visible or to block from view shape the dynamic of a viewer's experience. As I continue on this path, I hope my artwork serves as a vehicle to better understand human yearning for visibility, which, in a world of growing surveillance and exposure, can be in tension with privacy and loss of sanctuary.
Rest Stop - Lisa FalkensternHonorable Mention - Drawing
Graphite/Charcoal
20" x 34"
$1500
Artist's Statement:
I am an imaginary realist painter. All my life I have been fascinated by fantasy art. As a child, my earliest purchase was a book of fairy tales Illustrated by Harry Clarke and a Beatrix Potter book. Fantasy art, for me, delights the eye and intrigues the mind. I use paints and pencils to make the unreal appear to exist. I sculpt maquettes, take photographs, draw from life, all in an attempt to bring reality to what I see in my mind and hope others will see the same.
Only that was left - Jacek Szymaniak
Digital Photography
20" x 16"
$450
Artist's Statement:
StaJacek - artist-photographer , had a first photo solo exhibition "Prawosławie" in Poland ( 2000). As a member of the Polish-American Photographers Club in New York he takes active part in group exhibition: 2015 , 2016- the Annual Exibition at Polish Consulate in New York - first place - Club Award for Best Show Photo. He parcipated in many group exibitions in New York , New Jersey and Pennsylvania .In 2015 he exhibited in a solo show at Starbucks- Greenpoint in New York , The Art of the Flower at the Philadelphia Sketch Club (PA), Ellarslie Open 34 at the Trenton City Museum.
Rolling Hills - Sherri Andrews
Fiber Art
12" x 12"
$495
Landscape with torn pieces of rice paper in translucent layers. Framed in floating frame.
Artist's Statement:
Sherri Andrews is a fast-rising, award-wining artist, a local philanthropist and community leader, and a well-regarded hedge fund manager. Yet it is her success as a mixed media artist that has been most stunning to her. In less than six years, Sherri has sold more than 100 paintings, curated a highly successful solo exhibition and received recognition, including the prestigious Ben Whitmore Purchase Award from the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie.
Breach, Fallen, Rising - Philip Caton and Tyler Caton
Staged Photography
NFS
Artists' Statement:
Designated 'high risk' by the powers at be, walks through the woods were a frequent escape during the initial 'safer at home' stage of the COVID19 pandemic. The towering beech trees in the woods nearby were an escape from the noise and rising anxiety of the world. Imagined on these walks, “Breach”, "Fallen” and “Rising” comprise the sole triptych from 'The Ball Project', a staged photographic series that explores the juxtaposition of highly manufactured items in natural settings. The scenes were staged on sites within Curlis Woods in Hopewell Township and were selected to reveal the magical essence of the trees when exposed by age or natural forces. Only one of the three photos (“Rising”) has been digitally manipulated due to height constraints.
Distance, Please! - Frank Sauer
Archival Pigment Print
21" x 25"
$580
Artist's Statement:
I take my camera into nature in a quest for beauty, in particular a quiet beauty that does not reveal itself immediately and that takes time to discover and appreciate. I like to create photos that anthropomorphize nature, photos that capture a semblance of faces, figures, and gestures in the natural world. Nature serves as a mirror of human activities and attitudes. My aspiration is to move my photography from documentation to poetry, reflecting upon relationships in and between natural and human worlds, and ultimately celebrating nature and life.
Red Stars and Roses - Basia AndruskoHonorable Mention, Sculpture
Pysanka (Ukrainian Egg Art), Rhea Eggshell
4" x 6" x 4"
$265
Artist's Statement:
Pysanka writing is a vibrant folk art form with roots in the Ukrainian community going back 2,000 years. Pysanky are created by “writing” designs on a real eggshell with wax. The egg is then dipped in dye. The wax serves to “resist” the dye, protecting the color of the shell. This layering of wax and dyes is repeated until the design is completed, and then the wax is melted off, revealing the colorful design. I really enjoy recreating traditional designs, and modifying them in different variations and color schemes. I find inspiration for creating original non- traditional designs from elements all around me, and I enjoy teaching workshops to introduce others to this wonderful folk art. My Ukrainian / Lemko family immigrated to America when I was 7 years old. I began writing Pysanky as a young child, as part of our traditional Ukrainian Easter celebrations. We would write (decorate) eggs that were then blessed with other food in the Easter Basket. I enjoyed the cultural tradition, and the meditative process that creating Pysanky provided for me. In recent years, I found a renewed interest in the tradition / art, and began writing Pysanky year-round. I’ve learned new techniques and non-traditional approaches to the art (such as making jewelry and mosaics from the decorated eggshells). For me, writing Pysanky is much more than just a form of art or self-expression. It is my privilege and my responsibility to continue and share this ancient folk art. The best satisfaction is seeing the joy in the eyes of the people with whom I share my Pysanky, and knowing that I am passing on a tradition to future generations.
Wildebeest Migration, Serengeti, Tanzania - Joan Lasota
Photograph on Metal
22" x 18:
$300
Artist's Statement:
Eyes peering around the corners pierce the viewers’ soul in a way that forever modifies the imagined. Ideals are magnified and frozen in time as the essence of the inner spirit captures unique imageries as they dance on the precipice of the lens. Reality, emboldened and elasticized, is projected as a novel view to be anxiously consumed. Photography enables the artist to display intimate emotion as captured, then released, through the lens.
Stillness (from the Places in Silence Project) - Asya Dodina and Slava PolischukStephen Bruce Award for Achievement in Unique Media
Acrylic/mixed media
40" x 29.5"
$1900
Artists' Statement:
The cataclysmic situation caused by the Covid-19 has created a new reality for a person. Society faces disastrous effects of unprecedent pandemic: losses of the human lives, loneliness, luck of personal interaction, anxiety, feeling hopeless, closures of businesses. Visiting our favorite places, we were struck by the scarce silence of the streets, abandoned buildings, gardens. We saw the familiar places from entirely different perspective - they were silent. Spacious grounds, the ocean coast, paths in the sand were without the usual addition - a man. Our ongoing project “Places of Silence” reflects our personal experience in this new reality. Another aspect of the project is depicting the sublime beauty of the nature surrounding us. We feel that looking at landscape bring a balance and hope and lead to the self-reflection, understanding oneself and one's responsibility to nature and other people. The project consists of ten large scale mixed media paintings on canvases and more then eighty works on paper. We have chosen paper as the integral material for the series. The origin of paper is directly related to nature. Its texture and brittleness reflect the amazing vitality and fragility of the nature. We applied black acrylic paint on the traditional oriental rice paper creating the palette of different hues and then attached small pieces of paper to the canvas the same way as if we would be using paint. Dense layers, lumps of liquid mass soaked in water, monochrome colors, an endless gradation from black to white allow us to create rich Earth like surface for our landscape works.
NOT - A Correlative Conjunction - Geri HahnHonorable Mention - Fiber Art
Silk, cotton, polyribbon, metallic and cotton thread & floss
30" x 30"
$14,500
Artist's Statement:
“Not” is a Correlative Conjunction that joins two or more thoughts. This hand-sewn image has a vertical axis that divides the energy, the motion, and the action that I perceive in this ordinary word. The left side is softly rounded while the right side is rectilinear. Elephants are NOT Dogs
I studied the sciences not art in college, but because biomorphic, super brightly colored images and patterns are always in my head, I have sketched these images daily my whole life. I “came out” as an artist at age 69 after my hand-sewn work was accidently seen by a college art gallery director, and later that year, 2014, the Ramapo College gave me a solo show. My handsewn pieces and enhanced archival prints have been shown and sold regionally ever since.
Uncle Bernie - Larry Straus
Photography
30" x 23"
$500
Artist's Statement:
Larry Straus is an avid amateur photographer who has had photographs accepted in the Trenton City Museum--Ellarslie Open and the Mercer County Photography Exhibit. He began taking photos at age 10 with a Kodak Instamatic 100. By day he makes a living as a psychologist in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Summer Evening Front, Stroud Series - Gregory Blue
Oil on Linen
46" x 40"
$7500
Artist's Statement:
Landscape painting is contemplative, it is communing with nature, intently focused on the world around you, a meditation. The objective of my work is to express form, texture, and atmosphere and the interplay of light as it drapes across the subject or spills through a cluster of quivering leaves and dances onto the ground.
Archival Pigment Print
21" x 25"
$580
Artist's Statement:
I take my camera into nature in a quest for beauty, in particular a quiet beauty that does not reveal itself immediately and that takes time to discover and appreciate. I like to create photos that anthropomorphize nature, photos that capture a semblance of faces, figures, and gestures in the natural world. Nature serves as a mirror of human activities and attitudes. My aspiration is to move my photography from documentation to poetry, reflecting upon relationships in and between natural and human worlds, and ultimately celebrating nature and life.
Great Bay Beach Pebbles - Catherine GowenHonorable Mention - Watercolor
Transparent Watercolor
6" x 6"
$275
Artist's Statement:
I am a self taught artist working primarily in watercolor. As a trained scientist and recently retired lawyer working in the field of bioscience, I have always made detailed scientific illustrations and paintings for enjoyment and satisfaction, and often for exhibition. My usual subjects are botanical and avian in nature. As we in the Garden State experienced the increasing physical limits of lockdown last winter and sought refuge in the outdoors, my eye and heart turned to the stabilizing themes of ice and rock, and remnants of the natural world appearing before me "on the path." I found ever deepening beauty in the "cast off" and the otherwise more mundane bits of nature. This work originated, perhaps, in a need for more firm, "bedrock" footing during confusing times, and fulfilled personal, spiritual expressions of place.
I'm Late - Lisa Falkenstern
Oil on Board
12" x 16"
$2000
Artist's Statement:
I am an imaginary realist painter. All my life I have been fascinated by fantasy art. As a child, my earliest purchase was a book of fairy tales Illustrated by Harry Clarke and a Beatrix Potter book. Fantasy art, for me, delights the eye and intrigues the mind. I use paints and pencils to make the unreal appear to exist. I sculpt maquettes, take photographs, draw from life, all in an attempt to bring reality to what I see in my mind and hope others will see the same.
Oil on Paper
22" x 30"
$1400
Artist's Statement:
In response to the extraordinary events of the past year I started a series of paintings about weaving as a form of healing, nurturing and protecting. Traditionally less valued as a women's craft, weaving is a powerful expression of egalitarianism, a necessary antidote to the hierarchical and authoritarian thinking behind so many of our current problems. Translated into paint, these weavings lose their functional value and become symbols, applicable to whole societies and landscapes.
Rest Stop - Lisa FalkensternHonorable Mention - Drawing
Graphite/Charcoal
20" x 34"
$1500
Artist's Statement:
I am an imaginary realist painter. All my life I have been fascinated by fantasy art. As a child, my earliest purchase was a book of fairy tales Illustrated by Harry Clarke and a Beatrix Potter book. Fantasy art, for me, delights the eye and intrigues the mind. I use paints and pencils to make the unreal appear to exist. I sculpt maquettes, take photographs, draw from life, all in an attempt to bring reality to what I see in my mind and hope others will see the same.
Collar with Braille - Stephen Althouse
Archival Pigment Print
Shot with 5 x7 black and white sheet film, scanned, digitally manipulated and printed by the artist using pigment inks on heavy cotton rag paper. Braille on plate is in Pennsylvania German, added digitally.
36" x 48"
$4000
Artist's Statement:
Like so many artists across time I feel compelled to portray aspects of the human race. I utilize old worn implements and objects as metaphoric depictions of ourselves rather than making literal portrayals of people. Some of these objects remind me of the paradoxes of our species, and some imply the valor of individuals facing lives of relentless uncertainty. My work also intertwines personal representations of people, thoughts, and experiences of my own life that are often manifested as written words in non-mainstream dialects related to those experiences. Sometimes I embed Braille writing into my pieces suggesting blindness and our inability to “see” throughout our long history of repeated mistakes. My artwork provides a meditative and personal symbolic way for me to express my feelings of mystery about humankind. It allows me to acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses, ponder our contradictions, and perhaps subtly bestow upon us a small degree of nobleness.
