Gallery at 14 Maple’s all woman artists exhibit, Approaching VIBRANCY, opens March 15, 2018

On March 15, 2018 from 6-8pm, Morris Arts will host a free opening reception for the Gallery at 14 Maple’s nineteenth exhibit, entitled approaching VIBRANCY. For this occasion, the Exhibition Committee of Morris Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, with guest co-curators, Mary Birmingham and Sarah Walko (both from the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey), selected works by 39 outstanding New Jersey women artists (culled from over 1,000 submissions!).

Focused on presenting the diversity of women artists working in this region, the exhibit will include art by Olga Alexander (Glen Ridge); Caren King Choi (Secaucus); Andrea Brooke D’alessandro (Toms River); Kate Dodd (East Orange); Shari Epstein (Long Branch); Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern (Shrewsbury); Asha Ganpat (Montclair); Suzan Globus (Fair Haven); Marsha Goldberg (Highland Park); Ellen Hanauer (Livingston): Susan Hockaday (Hopewell); Suzan Laura Kammin (Newark); Jill Kerwick (Fair Haven); Donna Conklin King (Roseland); Michelle Knox (Keansburg); Parvathi Kumar (Bridgewater); Pat Lay (Jersey City); Jean LeBlanc (Newton); Wendy Letven (Clifton); Sue Ellen Leys (Maplewood); Betty McGeehan (New Providence); Anne Q. McKeown (Secaucus); Deborah Guzmán Meyer (Montclair); Perri Neri (Highland Park); Katie Niewodowski (Jersey City); Carol Nussbaum (Short Hills); Erin O’Brien-Kenna (Bloomfield); Laurie Riccadonna (Jersey City); Sherry Beth Sacks; Lisa Sanders (Newark); Theda Sandiford (Union City); Fran Shalom; Jessica Skultety (Phillipsburg); Amanda Thackray (Newark); Marianne Trent (Bedminster); Claudia Waters (Montclair); Lisa Westheimer (West Orange); Gail Winbury (Westfield) and Barbara Wisoff (Summit).

Past, Present, Future: Visual Arts Faculty at Bergen Community College

Curated by Chris Bors, Gallery Director
Exhibition dates: February 13 — March 23, 2018
Opening Reception: February 13, 2018, 6—8 pm
Gallery Bergen, West Hall 329

Past, Present, Future: Visual Arts Faculty at Bergen Community College is an exhibition celebrating the artwork of current and past full-time and adjunct Visual Arts faculty from the beginning of the college’s history 50 years ago to the present day. Featuring the woodcut “Flight,” 1967, by Harper T. Phillips (1928—1988), the first faculty member in the Visual Arts department, as well as painting, video, digital prints, photographs, and fashion design, the exhibition shows the wide range of media and conceptual underpinnings undertaken by the professional artists that have taught at or are currently teaching at the college.

In addition to artworks, a selection of publications by Art History faculty will also be on view. A digital slideshow of images of faculty, artwork and art courses offered from yearbooks and catalogs from the early years of Bergen Community College, as well as images of the college’s current classes in Visual Art and Fashion Design will be on continual display.

Artists: Frank Aiello, Gary Armstrong, Mary Bays, Greg Biermann, Suzaan Boettger, Mona Brody, Steven Carver, John Cichowski, Denise Budd, Alyce Gottesman, Ethan Greenbaum, Fariba Hajamadi, Andrea Geller Jablonski, Carl Jablonski, Paul Laliberte, Bernice Leibowitz, Claire McConaughy, Paul Mindell, Harper T. Phillips, Christopher Priore, Laurie Riccadonna, Scott Staton, Vesselina Traptcheva

Harper T. Phillips, Flight (detail), 1967, Woodcut, 5 3/8″ x 7 1/4″. Collection of Walter Rothaug.

Laurie Riccadonna, Bouquet, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 22″ x 28″

Ethan Greenbaum, Report, 2015, Direct to substrate print, acrylic on vacuum formed PETG, 16.25″ x 18.25″

I am so pleased to have my work included in the group exhibition “The Expanding Matrix”, curated by Fred Fleisher, at the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury.

The Amelie Wallace Gallery at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury is pleased to announce the opening of The Expanding Matrix, a group show by twenty-three women artists, curated by Fred Fleisher. While their work varies widely, each of these artists begins with a central concept, chosen material, or primary image of personal importance from which her work expands from concept, to studio practice, to completed work.

The fascinating process of how a work of art begins, weaves itself together, and expands, leads the thoughtful viewer to consider the matrix from which art emanates. For the artists in The Expanding Matrix, a feeling or thought is nurtured to allow it to morph until it takes on a life of its own while still holding onto its matrix.

Such a large group of artists inevitably results in a dynamic range of contradictions and unique approaches. Within this group of twenty-three artists, the viewer may discern matrices of identity, the human body, forms in nature, nonconforming thoughts, personal histories, social interaction, and material as concept. Yet, for each artist in the exhibition, there is the shaping of her matrix through personal choice of medium and material, through idea and practice. Their work expands as we the viewers are invited to enter into their worlds of creation.

Participating Artists: Jude Broughan / Marguerite Day / Sandra Desando / Alyssa Fanning / Nava Gidanian-Kagan / Asano Gomez / Susan Graham / Allison Green / Patty Harris / Ketta Ioannidou / Vandana Jain / Laura Karetzky / Joanne Leah / Mary Mattingly / Tricia McLaughlin / Margaret Murphy / Rachel Phillips / Laurie Riccadonna / Adie Russell / Janice Sloane / Savannah Spirit / Kathleen Vance / Michelle Vitale

I am happy to be participating in the group exhibition, The Four Seasons, at Village West Gallery in Jersey City, NJ.

www.villagewestgallery.com

I am so happy to have these two works from my Hanging Garden Series included in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection. They are on view at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth in Middletown, NJ. I hope that they provide a moment of relief and enjoyment for the patients there.