Art On Campus
Art by the River
Art In Trenton
Art in the Workplace
Other Galleries
Other Museums
To the North

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Art in Town

Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777. "Collecting the World," Mollie Murphy's mixed-media installation show. To December 12. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Gallery at Chapin School, 4101 Princeton Pike, 609-924-7206. "Italy: Two Views," a shared exhibition of photographs by Rhoda Kassof-Isaac and Sally K. Davidson. Open by appointment during school hours, to December 17.

Cranbury Station Gallery, 28 Palmer Square East, 609-921-0434. Exhibit of watercolors and oils by Kathleen Maguire Morolda. The artist is also owner of the gallery which she established 16 years ago. Cranbury Station is at three locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and Dayton. Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday, 10 to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Friday to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Marsha Child Contemporary, 220 Alexander Street, 609-497-7330. "A Moment in Time," an international group exhibition of new works by gallery artists includes Georges Mazilu. To December 5. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Firebird Gallery, 15 Witherspoon, 609-688-0775. Original watercolors by the Russian-born illustrator Gennady Spirin from his new picture book, "Jack and the Beanstalk," re-told by Princeton author Ann Beneduce. To November 30. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by appointment.

Medical Center at Princeton, Witherspoon Street, 609-497-4192. Pastels art show by Kathy Shumway-Tunney, to November 18. In the Merwick Unit Library, landscapes and house portraits by Betty Hirschmann, to December 9. Part of proceeds benefit the medical center. Open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

Main Street Gallery, Montgomery Center, Route 206, 609-683-8092. Featuring color and black-and-white photographs by Harry Rubel who has been making photographs for 45 years. Also, works by area artists Patrice Sprovieri, Wayne Mathisen, Annelies van Dommelen, and Susan Setteducato. Also exhibiting Hsu Dan, Tom Chesar, Larry Chestnut, Calvin Hart, Clem Fiori, Leslie Neumeyer, Leyla Spencer, Janet Landau, Jacob Landau, Ellyn Gerberding, and Marge Levine. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday to 9 p.m.; and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-4377. "In Ascension," a show of recent paintings by Kevin Patrick Kelly, to December 5.

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Art On Campus

Art Museum, Princeton University, 609-258-3788. "Edward Lear's Greece," an exhibition of watercolors, sketchings, and letters from the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. Also "The Trappings of Gentility: 19th-Century British Art at Princeton." Both shows to January 2. Also, "Contemporary Photographs, new acquisitions and photographs from the permanent collection; to January 9. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Free tours are every Saturday at 2 p.m.

The permanent collection features a strong representation of Western European paintings, old master prints, and original photographs. Collections of Chinese, Pre-Columbian Mayan, and African art are considered among the museum's most impressive. Not housed in the museum but part of the collection is the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection of 20th-century outdoor sculpture, with works by such modern masters as Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and George Segal located throughout the campus.

Bucks County College, 434 Swamp Road, Newtown, 215-968-8432. "Art Faculty Biennial," group show featuring the works of 26 faculty artists. Media include painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, wood, and electronic imaging. To December 14. Monday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday- Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to noon.

College of New Jersey, Art Gallery, Holman Hall, 609-771-2198. "Mercer County Photography Exhibition," an all-county show juried by Susan Fenton. To December 8. Monday through Friday, noon to 3 p.m.; Thursday 7 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 3 p.m.

Gallery at Mercer County College, Communications Center, West Windsor, 609-586-4800. "Odd Bedfellows," an exhibition of paneled painting collage constructions by Ani Rosskam, whose sources include primitive art and African artifacts. To December 15. Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Wednesdays 6 to 8 p.m.

A resident of Roosevelt, Rosskam has won three artist's fellowships from the New Jersey Council for the Arts. "My work is a play on the abstract relationship between found objects, painting, and the resulting dynamic when they are combined," she says. "As I build layer upon layer, the significance of the piece finally emerges."

Lawrenceville School, Gruss Center of Visual Arts, Lawrenceville, 609-620-6026. "Camera Work: Photographs by William Vandever." To December 15. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 4:30 p.m.; except Wednesday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. Gallery is closed for fall break November 19 to 28.

Princeton Theological Seminary, Erdman Hall Gallery, 609-497-7990. Philadelphia sculptor Nena Bryans, an inaugural show in the remodeled art gallery at the Erdman Hall Conference Center. Titled "Giving Shape to Faith," her exhibit of 14 works continues to December 6. Exhibit hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Saturdays to 5:30 p.m., and Sundays 2 to 9:30 p.m.

Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, 609-895-5588. "Louis Finkelstein, Paintings 1971 to 1999," a retrospective show by the veteran artist and art educator. To December 12. Gallery hours are Monday to Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m.; Friday to Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m.

Born in New York in 1923, Finkelstein studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students' League, and Brooklyn Museum Art School. An instructor at Yale University, Philadelphia School of Art, and Queens College, he has also had his writings published in Artforum, Art News, and the Magazine of Art.

"My involvement in painting is in the exploration of painting language, not simply in making products," says Finkelstein. "I think the whole question of what painting is and can be is a very open one, and more than anything else, that's what I would like the viewer to get."

The Peddie School, Mariboe Gallery, 609-490-7550. Faculty show featuring Tim Trelease and his Weird Mole series; Deirdre McGrail and her film "Rabbitman"; mixed-media works by Catherine Robohm Watkins; and paintings by gallery curator Ken Weathersby. Show runs to December 3. The gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Art by the River

Artists' Gallery, 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609-397-4588. A shared exhibition of representational riverscapes and still life in oils by Leonard Restivo, and impressionist oils, or "cerebral mosaics," by Don Jordan. To December 5. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Bell's Union Street Restaurant, 183 North Union, Lambertville, 609-397-2226. "Painterly Impressions," an exhibition of watercolors by Chinese-American artist Oliver Tang, inspired by recent visits to Venice, Alaska, and the Jersey shore. To December 3.

Coryell Gallery, 8 Coryell Street, Lambertville, 609-397-0804. Holiday show featuring landscapes and regional scenes by Hunterdon County artists Alexander Farnham in oil and by Ron Lent in watercolor. To January 9. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Howard Mann Art Center, 45 North Main Street, Lambertville, 609-397-2300. Charles Fazzino, whimsical three-dimensional paper constructions on subjects that include New York, Philadelphia, sports, and the law. To December 26. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Nagy Gallery, 20 South Main Street, New Hope, 215-862-8242. Figurative and landscape paintings in oil by Helen Meyers and David J. Dincher. To December 30.

Old English Pine, 202 North Union Street, Lambertville, 609-397-4978. "Safety in Numbers," Malcolm Bray's fifth annual eclectic group show of innovative painting and sculpture that includes works by Myles Cavanaugh, Annelies van Dommelen, Gareth Evans, Chad Cortez Everett, Diane Levell, Virgil Sova, Alan Taback, Stacie Speer-Scott, and Ron Wyffels. To December 31. Open every day, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Art In Trenton

Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, 609-394-9436. "Innovation in Contemporary Printmaking," a group show juried by Judith Brodsky of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking. Selected artists include Lynne Allen, Tom Baker, Catherine Bedout, Kathleen Catanese, Carson Fox, Diana Gandalfi, George Olexa, and Cyndi Wish. Artists reception is Friday, December 3, for the show that continues to December 19. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 4 p.m.

This exhibit includes an Artworks Purchase Award and other prizes totaling $1,000, jointly sponsored by the Trenton Museum Society, TAWA, Taylor Photo, and the Urban Word Cafe.

Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park, 609-989-3632. "Partners," an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Chrisa Craig and Charles Kumnick, partners and members of the College of New Jersey art faculty. In the upstairs galleries, a juried show, "The Best of Mercer County High Schools." Both shows continue to January 2. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.

"As partners, we enjoy sharing many things," write artists Craig and Kumnick, "a barn building that houses each of our studios, a comfortable if slightly eccentric living space, a love of animals, of food, teaching art, and each other."

Dana Stewart & Jacqueline ter Kuile, Extension Gallery , 60 Ward Avenue, Mercerville, 609-890-7777. "Recent Work," an exhibition of sculpture and jewelry by Dana Stewart and jewelry objects in gold, silver, and precious gems by Jacqueline ter Kuile. Show runs to December 9. Gallery hours are Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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.

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Art in the Workplace

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.

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Other Galleries

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.

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Other Museums

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.

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To the North

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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