Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton,
609-586-0616. Fall-Winter Exhibition. In the Museum and Domestic Arts
Building, "Beverly Pepper," one-artist show. On the mezzanine,
a thematic photography show, "Focus on Sculpture." Shows
continue
to April 16, 2000. Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
New additions to the 22-acre landscaped sculpture park include works
by Michele Oka Doner, David Hostetler, J. Seward Johnson Jr.,
Francisco
Leiro, John Martini, and Joseph Menna. The park is on the former state
fairgrounds site, with indoor exhibitions in the glass-walled, 10,000
square foot museum, and the newly-renovated Domestic Arts Building.
New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton,
609-292-6464. "New Jersey, A Sense of Place," the 30th
anniversary
Garden State Watercolor Society show, juried by Leah Sloshberg,
director
of New Jersey State Museum, and Margaret O'Reilly, assistant curator
of fine arts. The Dagmar Trebble Memorial Award goes to Elizabeth
Lombardi for her painting, "Cecelia: Telling the Story." To
January 2. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.;
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Also, "The Modernists," an exhibition of gems from the
permanent
collection by Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Harley, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Helen Torr, and others, to January 23.
"The Regionalists and Precisionists," with works by Thomas
Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Francis Picabia, and
George Ault, to January 30.
On extended view: "Dinosaur Turnpike: Treks through New Jersey's
Piedmont"; "Amber: The Legendary Resin"; "The Moon:
Fact & Fiction."
Urban Word Cafe, 449 South Broad Street, Trenton,
609-989-7777.
Alan Taback's "Dance Rhythms," a series of paintings based
on music and dance. The Trenton-based artist has been painting and
exhibiting for the past 20 years. To December 1.
Theater of the Night: Film & Dreams, 1900 to 2000,
Gallery
at Bristol-Myers Squibb , Route 206, Lawrenceville, 609-252-6275.
An exhibition marking the centenary of the publication of Freud's
"The Interpretation of Dreams," featuring stills from dream
sequences in 20th-century films and an hour-long video of the film
clips. The show links the 1899 Freud publication with another key
event of the 1890s, the invention of movies. To December 12.
Throughout the 20th century, filmmakers have claimed that their medium
is best able to present the symbolic distortions and displacements
of time and place that characterize dreams. Viewed in darkness, both
film and dreams appear in the "theater of the night."
Highlighted
films include Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr.," Bunel's "Un
Chien Andalou," and Hitchcock's "Spellbound." Gallery
hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday to 7 p.m.;
weekends, 1 to 5 p.m.
Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New
Brunswick,
732-524-3698. "Work from the Art Centre of New Jersey," a
group show of oils, watercolors, pastels and acrylics, to November
30. In the New Jersey Artist Series, "Post-Industrial
Paintings"
by Tim Gaydos depicting abandoned factories and other once-vibrant
symbols of human endeavor. To December 14. Free by appointment.
Sarnoff Corporation, 201 Washington Road, 609-734-2184.
The inaugural exhibition that is also the first solo show for Sarnoff
researcher and artist Stewart Perlow continues in the reception area
through November 30. Exhibit is open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Stark & Stark, 993 Lenox Drive, Building 2, Lawrenceville,
609-895-7307. Garden State Watercolor Society third annual associate
member juried exhibition. Jurors are Gary Snyder of Snyder Fine Art,
and Frances McIlvain, American Watercolor Society. Exhibit continues
to January 7. Exhibit is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Summit Bancorp Gallery, 301 Carnegie Center at Route 1,
609-987-3200. "The American Indian Artists' Exhibition," a
group show that continues to November 29. Exhibition is open daily,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free.
Gallery at Doral Forrestal, 100 College Road East,
609-452-7800.
"Fabrications," an exhibition of fabric art by Carol Sara
Schepps. Her subjects include "59 Caddy," which features the
back end of the popular car, and "Circles." Schepps' work
has been shown in Philadelphia, San Diego, and Houston, as was
featured
in the recent book, "Visions: Quilt Expressions."
Firehouse Gallery, 8 Walnut Street, Bordentown,
609-298-3742.
The gallery celebrates its fourth year and a new exhibition season
featuring 12 gallery co-op members presenting shows that change
monthly.
Working with owner Eric Gibbons are curators and artists Beverly
Fredericks
and Lana Bernard-Toniolio.
Other co-op members are Maura Carey, Sarah Bernotas, Richard Gerster,
Robert Sinkus, Mike Pacitti, Michael Bergman, Jane Lawrence, Charlotte
Jacks, Dorothy Amsden, Carmen Johnson, John Wilson, and Bob Gherardi.
Gallery hours are Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday to Saturday,
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Highlands Gallery, Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate
Drive, Jamesburg, 732-521-0070. "Favorite Things," an
exhibition
of watercolors by Joanne Augustine and Barbara G. Watts, both of whom
portray subjects from nature. To January 4.
Montgomery Cultural Center, 1860 House, 124 Montgomery
Road, 609-921-3272. "Iron and Ink," an exhibit and sale of
contemporary art from Africa by Kwela Crafts, to December 31. In the
Upstairs Gallery, "Impressions of Nature," new works in
watercolor
by Elizabeth Roedell and Gloria Wiernik, to November 30. Gallery hours
are Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Pennington Computer School, Straube Center, West Franklin
Avenue, Pennington, 609-730-0746. "Ten Styles," a multi-media
art show by the Art Group. Artists include Adams, Berkowsky, Betz,
Stang Harr, Kaplan, Kogan, Koppel, Mandelbaum, Post, and Wiernik.
Visitor hours are Monday to Friday, 4 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Printmaking Council of New Jersey, 440 River Road,
Somerville,
908-725-2110. "Viewing Contemporary Culture," a national
juried
exhibition of prints and photographs. In the library gallery, works
by Philadelphia artist Kelli Costa. Both shows to November 30. Gallery
hours are Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 1
to 4 p.m.
Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road,
Pennington,
609-737-7592. "Vanishing Landscape," an exhibit of oil pastel
and watercolor studies of the region's fast-disappearing natural
landscape
by Dorothy Bissell. To January 8.
West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, Princeton
Junction,
609-799-0462. In the Lobby gallery, an exhibition of recent paintings
by Zakia Aziz Sayed, one of Bangladesh's best-known artists. Show
continues to November 30.
Burlington County Historical Society, 454 Lawrence Street,
Burlington, 609-386-4773. "Wildfowl Decoy Exhibit" by master
Burlington carver Jess Heisler (1891-1943), whose best work ranks
among the finest of the Delaware River school of carving, and works
by his friend and pupil John Marinkos (1915-1999). To January 9. Hours
are Monday to Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m.
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Lower Center Street, Clinton,
908-735-8415. "Mud Like a Blessing: Elemental Clay Sculpture,"
featuring works by Peter Callas, Sara D'Alessandro, Shellie Jacobson,
Jim Jansma, and Lauren Silver. To January 9. Gallery hours are Tuesday
to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Guest curator for the show is Michele Mercadal whose concept and title
was inspired by a phrase from a poem by Mary Oliver. "The
sculpture
in this exhibit conveys the honoring of clay as a material and the
organic process by which it becomes a sculptural form," says
Mercadal.
"The forms carry a contemplative feeling and convey the mysteries
and secrets of combining earth and fire."
Mercer Museum, Pine and Ashland Streets, Doylestown,
Pennsylvania,
215-345-0210. "Edward Hicks Country," a companion to the
Philadelphia
Museum of Art comprehensive exhibit on Edward Hicks, a show on the
professional and spiritual environment in which the lifelong Bucks
County artist worked. Three related displays explore the 19th-century
craft of ornamental painting, the Quaker meetinghouse environment,
and the iconography of the Society of Friends. To January 3. $5 adult;
$1.50 youth. Museum hours are Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Tuesday evening to 9 p.m.
James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street,
Doylestown,
215-340-9800. "Intimate Vistas: The Poetic Landscapes of William
Langson Lathrop," a major retrospective of more than 50 works
spanning a 50-year career, from 1884 to 1939. Curated by Brian
Peterson,
it is one of the Michener's ambitious scholarly undertakings to date.
To January 9. $5 adults; $1.50 students; children free. Museum hours
are Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Wednesday evenings to
9 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Website:
http://www.michenerartmuseum.org.
For a 30-year period, from the late 1890s through the 1920s, Lathrop
was known as one of the nation's premier landscape painters,
prominently
association with the Tonalist movement. Essaying to convey the many
and varied moods of nature, the Tonalists often employed a darker
palette than their Impressionist colleagues, and painting in their
studios.
Also, "Celebration of American Art" features "An Edward
Hicks Sampler," featuring an 1837 version of "Peaceable
Kingdom"
and "The Landing of Columbus." Also, "Picturing
Washington:
Icons and Images of America's Founding Father"; both to January
2.
Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset
Street, New Brunswick, 732-846-5777. "The Hungarian Spark in
America,"
an exhibit highlighting Hungarian contributions to the arts, sciences,
humanities, commerce, religious and civic life in America. To January
31. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday,
1 to 4 p.m. $3 donation. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11
a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $3 donation.
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