Art Centers
Artworks Trenton
Artworks Trenton get things moving with one of its signature art events: Art All Day on Saturday, September 16. The popular annual event features live mural painting, opportunities to visit art studios and galleries throughout the city, cycling activities, and a partnership with River Days, a festival held along the Delaware River in South Trenton.
An Art All Day exhibition, featuring work by artists participating in the event, opens the nonprofit art center’s new exhibition season. Free. On view September 12 to October 7.
It will be followed by exhibitions featuring the works of Trenton artists Raven George and Erin McMillon. George calls herself a “conceptual and multimedia artist who explores light, movement, and emotional intimacy.” McMillon creates visual art and is an urban suspense author whose works include “Ten Tales of Urban Lore,” “They Eat: An Episodic Zombie Thriller,” and “The Abducted,” Free. On view October 24 through November 18.
19 Everett Alley and South Stockton Street, Trenton. www.artworkstrenton.org.
Arts Council of Princeton
“Our Knowledge is Power: The Cultures of Beauty and Survival in Isle de Jean Charles, LA and Shishmaref, AK”: Guest artists Dennis Davis and Chantel Comardelle have created a multimedia exhibit showcasing the beauty of culture and the price of the climate crisis. The images take a look at communities and sacred traditions and evoke the voice of elders and stories of past seasons — before the turbulent events of climate change and environmental crisis. Taplin Gallery, September 9 through 30.
“A Place Called Flourish” is artist Tasha Branham’s multidisciplinary solo exhibit incorporating digital illustrations, acrylic paintings on wood and organic paper, and painted stories on ornate brass mirrors to examine “the journey towards healing and liberation.” September 9 through 30.
“Art Quest: Search for Expression” explores identity and impression through a collage and various materials by students who have participated in artist Donnay Payton’s Art Quest classes at the Arts Council. September 9 through October 28.
The three exhibitions open with a reception on Saturday, September 9, 3 to 5 p.m.
“In Whose Image?”: Valerie Huhn’s solo exhibition, includes the artist’s large-scale and mixed-media artworks that reflect the artist’s concern with social justice and the themes of identity, freedom, imprisonment, neurodiversity, and acts of defiance in the presence of power. The exhibition is curated by Jeanne Brasile. October 14 through November 4.
“Looking Up” is artist Judy Buckley’s self-declared “homage to the sky that I have always loved and personal belief that there is ‘something wonderful above’ and life has so much to offer us.” October 14 through November 4.
Both exhibitions open with a reception on Saturday, October 14, 3 to 5 p.m.
“Annual Faculty Show,” an ACP tradition, showcases the work of the organization’s talented teaching artists. December 9 through 21.
102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
West Windsor Arts Council
“Ode to New Jersey Art Show,” curated by “Weird New Jersey” books creators Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, was designed to allow artists to explore their personal sense of what it is to be in a state that is both the Crossroads of the American Revolution and the Diner Capital of the World. A free opening reception takes place Friday, September 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m. On view through October 28.
“Off The Wall Holiday Market” is the annual juried artisan market and show featuring Individually curated, handcrafted items including jewelry, functional pottery, women’s accessories. Weekend shopping is set for November 18 and 19, and the first three weekends in Decembers. October 31 to December 23.
952 Alexander Road, West Windsor. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Museums & Galleries
Trenton City Museum
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park is currently showing “Ellarslie Open 40,” the milestone anniversary of the popular and large juried show featuring works by artists living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. This year’s juror, Philadelphia-based art collector and arts professional Reg Brown, will discuss his process for selecting the 150 works during a public event set for Sunday, September 10, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $25. On view through September 30.
“TAWA at 45” is a celebration of the art and artists we created and participated in the influential Trenton Artists Workshop Association. October 6 through December 3.
Cadwalader Park, Trenton. Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m., Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 609-989-3632 or www.ellarslie.org.
Morven Museum & Garden
“Striking Beauty: New Jersey Tall Case Clocks, 1730–1830” features more than 50 tall case clocks to provide the first comprehensive look ever given to the ingenious work of New Jersey clockmakers. On view through February 18, 2024.
55 Stockton Street, Princeton. Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $8 to $10. 609-924-8144 or www.morven.org.
The New Jersey State Museum
“History Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of a Capital City” explores how 10 Trenton excavations have provided details about the space that has become New Jersey’s capital. On view through December 31.
Also on view are “Written in the Rocks: Fossil Tales of New Jersey,” a showcase of fossils and New Jersey dinosaurs, and “American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection,” featuring the work of important American and New Jersey artists.
205 West State Street, Trenton. Tuesdays through Sundays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Free; donations requested. www.statemuseumnj.gov.
Grounds For Sculpture
Current exhibits are “Local Voices: Stories, Memories, and Portraits,” a visual and audio presentation sharing personal stories from people in the Indian American community, and “Spiral Q: The Parade,” an installation that spotlights the Philadelphia-based nonprofit Spiral Q’s artistic use of various puppets, signage, and clothing for political expression and action. On view through January 7, 2024.
80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. $12 to $25. www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Gallery 14
The fine art photography gallery presents “A Photographic Salon” to open the 2023-’24 season.
The gallery describes the show as “a special members exhibit that will feature works in all photographic styles and approaches: Landscapes, animals, flora, abstracts, Black and White, Color, Infrared. The exhibit will highlight the individual styles and photographic approaches of 14 artists. Laid out in salon style the viewer will move through an ongoing mixture of images and subjects.”
The exhibit features works by all of the member artists: Alina Marin-Bliach, West Windsor; John Clarke, Pennington; Alice Grebanier, Branchburg; Larry Parsons, Princeton; Charles Miller, Ringoes; “Dutch” Bagley, Elkins Park, PA; Martin Schwartz, East Windsor; Joel Blum, East Windsor; John Strintzinger, Elkins Park, PA; Mary Leck, Kendall Park; Barbara Warren, Yardley; David Ackerman, Hopewell; Scott Hoerl, Yardley, PA; and Bennett Povlov, Elkins Park, PA.
A meet-the-artists event takes place Sunday, September 10, from 1 to 3 p.m. The exhibit will also be included in the Annual Hopewell Tour des Arts on September 30 and October 1. On view September 9 through October 1.
14 Mercer Street, Hopewell. Open Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m., and by appointment. www.gallery14.org.
Princeton University Art Museum
Art@Bainbridge, at the historic Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton.
“Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage” follows and presents the internationally known artist’s work inspired by Nsibidi, an ancient system of communication from southern Nigeria and northwest Cameroon that features a rich ideographic script. On view through October 8.
“Threading Memories” explores artist MiKyoung Lee’s “fascination with textiles used in her childhood homes in Korea — domestic fabrics made with long-used techniques and forms (and) explores memories — from the artist’s childhood and from later chapters of her life—that she visually expresses through her fabric arts practice.” On view Saturday, October 21, through Sunday, January 7, 2024.
Art on Hulfish 11 Hulfish Street, Princeton:
“Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings” features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine portraits and still lifes by early modern European artists, who are often called “old masters” by art historians. On view through Sunday, November 5.
“The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox” explores” motherhood, liberation, isolation, self-realization, and joy through the four-decade career of (an artist), born in 1960 in Colgate, Jamaica, and active in New York, (and who) works across a range of media using her own body — in different guises and provocative states of dress and undress — to celebrate Black womanhood, occupy multiple identities and realities, and deconstruct historical stereotypes.” Saturday, November 18, to Sunday, January 28, 2024.
More information: artmuseum.princeton.edu.
The College of New Jersey
“Off-Kilter, On Point: Art of the 1960s.” Opening Reception & Panel, TBD. September 5 through October 29.
“Image-Movement-Sound Lab,” an experimental exhibition lab curated by TCNJ arts and communications faculty members Elizabeth Mackie and Teresa Nakra. Weekly performance/events, Wednesdays, November 8, 15, and 29, and December 6, 5 to 7 p.m. Closing Event, December 8. November 8 through December 7.
TCNJ Art Gallery, Art & Interactive Multimedia Building, the College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing. tcnjartgallery.tcnj.edu.
Zimmerli Art Museum
“The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986–2017” focuses on “Rutgers Distinguished Professor Emerita Judith K. Brodsky, a visionary artist and advocate, arts administrator and entrepreneur, printmaker, and scholar, who recognized that women and gender nonconforming artists, as well as artists of color, were excluded from the art world in the 1980s. Organized by Ferris Olin, distinguished professor emerita, Rutgers University. September 13, 2023, through February 18, 2024.
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick. Free. zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
Lewis Arts Complex Princeton University
“Mindscapes Unveiled” is Princeton’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence Chanika Svetvilas’ culminating exhibition from her year-long project, Anonymous Was the Data. The project “uplifts the individual lived experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have a mental health difference or condition through mapping their survey data about healthcare access and stigma.”
Hurley Gallery at Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton University campus, 122 Alexander Street, free, open daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. September 8 through 28.
Free artist’s talk and reception, Thursday, September 14, 4:30 p.m. Virtual panel discussion, Thursday, September 21, 7 p.m. arts.princeton.edu.
