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Art in Town
school grounds have become a showcase for seven big wood, stone, and
bronze sculptures by the Lambertville-based artist Harry Gordon. Also
featured, Gordon’s large, climbable artwork in the lower school
playground.
609-497-7330.
Summer group exhibition features Robert Asman, Magi Puig, Natalya
Zaloznaya, Alain Hermand, Valeriy Skrypka, Atanas Zgalevski, and
Georges
Mazilu. To September 15. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday,
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by appointment.
609-452-7800.
"View Finders," a group show featuring photographs by Clem
Fiori, Rhoda Kassof-Isaac, William Vandever, and Selena Rose. The
exhibit in the upper lobby continues to September 7.
Plainsboro,
609-799-6706. Featuring whimsical sculpture by Bob Matranglo, and
paintings in oil by David Thurlow, Inga Steinberg, Marina Kalinovsky,
and Apo Totosyan. To November 8. Gallery hours are Tuesday to
Thursday,
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to
6 p.m.
609-497-4192.
Watercolors by Harriet J. Kaftanic. Part of proceeds benefit the
medical
center. To September 16. At Merwick, paintings by Alice Warshaw, to
September 7.
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Art On Campus
"Photographs
from the Collection of Dr. M. Jay Goodkind ’49," a show of 39
works of landscape and nature photography collected since 1964, part
of the collector’s promised bequest to the museum. The show includes
Ansel Adams’ "Aspens, New Mexico," 1958, the first work
acquired
by Goodkind in 1964, which, together with eight additional Adams
photographs,
set the tone of the collection. The brave Dr. Goodkind also presents
his own landscape photographs for scrutiny. To September 5.
Also "From Ritual Simplicity to Imperial Splendor: Chinese
Ceramics
from the Collection of Nelson Chang ’74," to September 26;
"Chinese
Painting and Calligraphy: In Memory of John B. Elliott," to
September
30. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Free tours are given every Saturday at 2 p.m.
In the Milberg Gallery, "Artifacts: The Biographical Object in
the Princeton University Library Collections," to September 15.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; noon to 5 p.m. on weekends.
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Art in the Workplace
Brunswick,
732-524-3698. "The Woodcut Printmakers of Jiangsu Province,
China,"
a show organized by the Printmaking Council of New Jersey comprising
work by 30 artists of Jiangsu, a southeastern province adjacent to
Shanghai. The art technique that remains basically unchanged since
originating in China more than 2,000 years ago, has prospered in the
region since the 16th century. To September 30. Free by appointment.
609-895-7307. "Six Photographers," an exhibition of works
by Raymond Anderson, Ricardo Barros, Joan Roth, Naomi Savage, Harry
Tobey, and Martha Vaughn, curated by Gary Snyder of Snyder Fine Art,
New York. The works cover a spectrum of modern photography genres
from Barros’ black-and-white images of the American West to Savage’s
unique photo engravings and gold color laser prints and Vaughn’s
Polaroid
transfers. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. To September 10.
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Art by the River
609-397-0275. "Jules and Adam Schaeffer, a father-son exhibition:
monoprints by Jules Schaeffer and haiku by Adam Schaeffer. To
September
25.
While serving in Japan during the Korean war, Jules Schaeffer boarded
with a traditional Japanese family before returning to study art at
the Philadelphia University of the Arts. His son, Adam, is an
advertising
copywriter in New York, whose modern English haiku has been published
in several poetry journals.
609-397-4588.
"Diversity," an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Taylor
Oughton and Peter Petraglia, both of Bucks county. To August 29.
609-397-4590. "Silver Prints," an exhibition of photographs
by New Jersey multi-media artist Victor Macarol, to September 30.
Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lambertville,
609-397-2300. Marc Chagall, signed lithographs, etchings, and posters
from a large private collection. Included: "Bible,"
"Fables,"
"Paris Opera," "Jerusalem Windows," and others.
Through
September 12. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, noon to
5 p.m.
The gallery features Delaware Valley artists in a variety of creative
media including painting, sculpture, photography, woodworking, blown
glass, and stained glass.
Featured artist for August is owner Lauren Travis Wylie exhibiting
landscapes and garden scenes of central Bucks County. To August 31.
Web site: http://www.travisgallery.com. Gallery hours are
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
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Art In Trenton
Trenton, 609-394-4095. "Ennis Beley Photography Project,"
an exhibition of photography by young artists Troy Bridgewater,
Maurice
Bridgewater, Joseph Cawley, Dashar Coons, Esau Coons, Gennara Crews,
Alyma Cross, Contelle Forte, Brandy Forte, Alex Johnson, Kionna
Laldler,
Vincent Laldler, Christian Melendez, Ashley Mitchell, Cintella
Spotwood,
Alisia Turner, and Jamar Turner. In the main lobby, to September 17.
609-989-3632.
"TAWA Invitational III, a members’ juried group show, selected
by Brian H. Peterson of the Michener Museum in Doylestown. Selected
artists are Judy Fowler, Mary Person Hrbacek, Ruth Jourjine, Tomi
Urayama, and Nancy Zamboni. To September 12. Museum hours are Tuesday
to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. Closed Mondays.
609-890-7777.
"Zero Tolerance Area," Kate Graves’ exhibition of cast bronze
sculptures depicting three abandoned houses. To September 2. Gallery
hours are Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"Zero Tolerance Areas" is a designation given by a Trenton
city ordinance to discourage illegal activity in vacant structures,
explains Graves, A Trenton resident of four years. Her meticulous
scale models of these mute structures reveal decay, yet echoes of
their original architectural splendor remain. Says Graves, "Let
these sculptures document the wasteland, places used and discarded,
and remind us to pay attention and be vigilant about where we
presently
dwell."
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Other Museums
Doylestown,
215-340-9800. "The Philadelphia Ten: A Women’s Artist Group, 1917
to 1945." Show presents work by 30 Philadelphia-based painters
and sculptors to banded together with the sole purpose of "showing
just the work they wished to present, in the most dignified and
harmonious
manner." To October 3.
Fern Coppedge and M. Elizabeth Price are among the Bucks County
artists
represented. The show was organized by the Moore College of Art and
Design, curated by Page Talbott and Patricia Tanis Sydney.
Also, "From Soup Cans to Nuts," an exhibition of prints by
Andy Warhol, on loan from the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The artist,
who died in 1987, is best known for his flamboyant, multiple
silkscreen
prints that explore icons of popular culture from the famous soup
to Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy. To November 21.
Museum hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Wednesday
evenings to 9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed
Mondays. $5 adults; students $1.50; children free.
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Other Galleries
609-259-3234.
Portraiture by watercolorist Elizabeth Lombardi and landscapes by
new gallery artist Carol Lehr. Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday
(call for hours) and by appointment. To September 10.
609-298-6970. New works from impressionist Robert Fodor and collages
by Hanneke DeNeve. Gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 4 to
7 p.m.
732-521-0070.
"Panoramas," an exhibition of landscapes and seascapes by
Dorothy Wells Bissell and Eileen Shahbender, is the inaugural show
at Forsgate’s new Highlands Gallery, open to the public during club
hours. Anita Benarde is the series curator. To August 28.
Road, 609-921-3272. Community Open Art Exhibit continues to September
30. Hours are Tuesdays through Sundays, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.;
Saturdays
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
609-586-0616. Summer Exhibition featuring new additions outdoors by
Itzik Benshalom, Kenneth Capps, Chas Colburn, J. Seward Johnson Jr.,
Kevin Lyles, and Susanne Wibroe. Also featured, George Segal’s
"Bread
Line," part of the F.D.R. Memorial commission in Washington, D.C.
In the Museum and Domestic Arts Building, a group exhibition by 40
members of the Sculptors Guild. To September 12. Free.
The 22-acre landscaped sculpture 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. Public viewing
hours are Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
609-292-6464. "New Jersey Arts Annual" featuring Emma Amos,
Miriam Beerman, Wendell Brooks, Marguerite Doernbach, Nancy Lee Kern,
Barbara Klein, Bill Leech, Mel Leipzig, Bob Mahon, George Segal, Debra
Weier, and others. To August 29. Also, "The Modernists," a
single-room exhibition of gems from the permanent collection by
Charles
Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Harley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred
Stieglitz,
Helen Torr, and others. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m.
to 4:45 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Also "Apollo 11 Remembered," an exhibit of commemorative
items,
to January 2; "Sunstruck!" an exhibit that explores the
cultural
myths, music, literature, archaeological artifacts, and astronomy
of Earth’s nearest star, to March 12. On extended view: "Dinosaur
Turnpike: Treks through New Jersey’s Piedmont"; "Amber: The
Legendary Resin"; "The Moon: Fact & Fiction."
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To the North
Street, New Brunswick, 732-846-5777. "The Hungarian Spark in
America,"
an exhibition highlighting Hungarian contributions to the arts,
sciences,
humanities, commerce, religious and civic life in America. To January
31, 2000. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $3 donation.
732-257-4340. Contemporary sculpture by 110 artists in natural outdoor
installations. Indoors, "The Hub" and "Magnetic
Connections,"
two lighthearted shows of painted hubcaps and automobile magnets,
co-sponsored by the Visual Arts League. The outdoor venue remains
open through October. Hours are Friday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.,
and by appointment.
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