Points of Origin: Beatrice Bork and Jennifer Cadoff

"Points of Origin"

featuring Beatrice Bork and Jennifer Cadoff

Oct 10 - Nov 3, 2013

Opening reception: Saturday, Oct 12, 4-7 pm

At first glance, there’s almost nothing similar about artists Beatrice Bork and Jennifer Cadoff, whose work is featured this month at the Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville. Bork paints stunningly detailed birds in watercolor; Cadoff creates minimalist abstract ink drawings and collages. But stay a while, and you, like these artists, will start to see the common ground from which their work springs: Both draw inspiration from the natural world, delight in form and texture, and pay particular attention to negative space in their often unusual compositions.

Beatrice Bork

"Turn, Turn, Turn"

watercolor

"Beatrice has an astonishing ability to combine very loose, free — I’d call it joyous — application of paint in the background of her pieces with precisely detailed renderings of her animal subjects — in this show, mostly birds. The result is not just beautiful, it’s unique, compelling and instantly recognizable," says Cadoff of Bork, adding, "You can feel Beatrice’s deep affinity with the natural world in every painting. It’s no wonder she’s a member of the prestigious Society of Animal Artists, and has won many awards, both regionally and nationally, for her work."

Jennifer Cadoff

"You Are Here"

pen & ink

Bork describes Cadoff’s work this way: "Jennifer's beautiful abstract drawings are music for the eyes, an intriguing compilation of small marks that coalesce into a rhythmic cohesion of texture and pattern that often call to mind organic elements. Lines become ripples on a sea, tiny circles are reminiscent of looking at cells under a microscope. Her collages are carefully choreographed, with simple lines and forms contrasting with her wonderful textures, working harmoniously in positive and negative compositions, giving yet more dimension to her art."

Come and meet the artists at the opening reception on Saturday, October 12, from 4 to 7 pm. They will also be at the gallery for "Coffee & Conversation" on Sunday, November 3, from 3 to 5 pm.

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

Beatrice Bork in The Artists for Conservation Festival 2013

Beatrice Bork

"Waylay in the Mango Tree"

watercolor

Beatrice Bork's watercolor painting, "Waylay in the Mango Tree" has been selected for an international annual juried exhibit, and joins approximately 70 of the the leading nature and animal artists from around the world in this exciting show to support conservation. Other participating artists include Robert Bateman (CA), Carel Brest van Kempen (USA), and Leslie Delgyer (USA-NJ) to name just a few.

The Artists for Conservation Festival 2013 at Grouse Mountain, in North Vancouver will open Sept. 28 and run until Oct. 6, 2013. Proceeds will go to conservation, and Beatrice has also chosen the Asa Wright Nature Center, in Trinidad West Indies, where her piece was inspired. Trinidad holds a special place in her heart, as her first visit  of many visits was due to her award of the Don Eckelberry Scholarship. Mr. Eckelberry, a renowned bird artist, was instrumental in helping to create what is now known as the Asa Wright Nature Center, known for it's spectacular birding.

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

Patricia Lange in "Viewpoints"

Artists' Gallery's Patricia Lange is one of 9 artists featured in "Viewpoints", an invitational exhibition presented by the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission, being held at the Sawmill Gallery at Prallsville Mills, Stockton, NJ. The show also includes former Artists' Gallery member Florence Moonan.

Show dates: Friday, Sep. 6, through Sunday, Sep. 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, Sep. 6 from 5 - 7:30 p.m.

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

Concepts & Realizations: Alan J. Klawans and Andrew Werth

"Concepts Realizations"

featuring Alan J. Klawans and Andrew Werth

Sept 5 - Oct 6, 2013

Opening reception: Saturday, September 7, 4-7 pm

Artists' Gallery invites you to join us at the opening reception for our September 2013 exhibition, Concepts + Realizations, featuring the work of Alan J. Klawans and Andrew Werth. The free reception will be on Saturday, September 7, from 4 - 7pm (we're located at 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ).

Alan J. Klawans

"Normandie"

original digital print

This is the third year in a row that Klawans and Werth have exhibited together. While Alan and Andrew both conceive of their artwork through the lens of abstraction, the two realize their ideas using very different techniques.

Alan begins with photographs and digital scans of objects, textures, and colors from his travels around the world. "I think about some meaningful object or memory and then extrapolate that idea into something visually abstract," Klawans says. "For my print, Normandie, I was thinking about the colors, textures, and shapes of the most luxurious ocean liner of the art deco era." He then combines this imagery digitally with hand-drawn graphics, lines and shapes that provide structure as well as accent. The end result is a series of framed, limited edition digital prints that have both the crispness of digital creation and the visual texture of the real world.

Andrew Werth

"Arising #2"

acrylic on panel, 24 x 24

Andrew's acrylic paintings explore the interaction of color on multiple scales. His software engineering background comes in handy as he designs biomorphic compositions on the computer, often by simulating real-world biological processes and adding some artistic tweaks and twists along the way. After toning the support (this year, he's working on Dibond aluminum panels) and painting the base layers of the design, he proceeds to fill the surface with thousands of hand-painted marks of graduated color. If you've visited the gallery and wondered about Andrew's process, he recently put together a video on YouTube demonstrating the entire process from start to finish.

This show runs from September 5 through October 6, and the gallery now has extended operating hours (Thursday through Sunday from 11am - 6pm). We hope to see you there!


Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

NAMASTE - with Charlie Katzenbach

Artists' Gallery's Charlie Katzenbach is showing in "NAMASTE", at the Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ.  Show runs Sept 1-28, 2013 with an opening reception on Friday, Sept 6, 6:30-9:30pm.   More info here.

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

Bork and Viera in "The Feathered and the Field"

Beatrice Bork

"I'll Fly Away"

 Black-capped Chickadee, Watercolor

Artists' Gallery artists Beatrice Bork and Charles David Viera are both taking part in "The Feathered and the Field", a group show sponsored by the D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, NJ.  The exhibit celebrates the beautiful spirit of birds and the expansive fields & open spaces where  they soar.

Charles David Viera

"Sidewalk Birds"

acrylic 10 x26 inches

The show is running now through October 5, 2013, at:

D&R Greenway's Johnson Education Center
One Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609-924-4646
[map & directions]

Opening reception: Thursday, August 15, 5:30-7:30

Please note that the Greenway's gallery is open Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm, but it's best to call the Greenway at 609-924-4646 first to confirm that the facility is not being used for other purposes.  There are no weekend hours.

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

"Stories" - featuring Charles David Viera and Eric Rhinehart

"Stories"

featuring Charles David Viera and Eric Rhinehart

August 8 - September 1, 2013

Opening reception: Saturday, August 10, 4-8 pm

The sea, animal life and vivid colors set the narrative for "Stories" at the Artists' Gallery in Lambertville, featuring the work of Eric Rhinehart and Charles David Viera.

Not your typical regional artist, Eric Rhinehart delves into subjects that are far from his Summit, New Jersey home. Inspiration for his watercolors comes from travels to England, Spain and France, as well as Martha's Vineyard, the Chesapeake Bay and the Caribbean. "Beach Reading" is typical of Rhinehart's work—fluid and inviting. Exotic, yet familiar. "I try to balance the undercurrent relationship between color and light," said Rhinehart. "They each play an important role in describing the physical and emotional weight of my subjects."

Joining Eric Rhinehart in this exhibition is artist Charles David Viera. His bold color choices are a perfect compliment to Rhinehart's delicate and subtle use of watercolor. "My paintings derive more from Matisse than from your more traditional wildlife painters like James Audubon. These paintings translate the elegance, color and the anonymity of wildlife to a more personal color and compositional statement that I think the viewer will appreciate", says Viera.

Mr. Viera's work has been included in exhibitions at the First Street Gallery, the Adam Gimbel Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Nassau County Museum in N.Y. and locally at the Riverrun Gallery and Coryell Gallery in Lambertville NJ. An inspired educator, Charles is currently an instructor at the Arts Council of Princeton and the Hunterdon Art Museum.

Together, the works of Viera and Rhinehart offer a compelling exhibit, as each expands upon themes of beauty, serenity, wistfulness and joy in their own, unique way.

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Note: Artists' Gallery will be open until 9pm every Saturday evening during August.

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

Treichler Exhibit at Bell's Tavern

John Treichler is having a solo show of his work, running now through the end of August, 2013 at Bell's Tavern in Lambertville:

Bell's Tavern
183 North Union Street
Lambertville, NJ 08530
[map & directions]

Please note that Bell's has dinner and evening hours only:
Mon-Thurs 6pm-9:30pm,
Fri & Sat 5pm-10pm,
Sun 5pm-9pm

John Treichler

"Stainless Steel"

photograph

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Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

Gallery is now open 11-6 on Thursdays

We've expanded our hours of operation, and Artists' Gallery is now open 11am to 6 pm every Thursday.    So our new hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm each day.

Additionally, during the summer we're open Friday evenings until 9pm or so for the Lambertville / New Hope Fireworks - as long as the fireworks are on for that evening.  (They sometimes get canceled due to weather or unsafe river levels).

Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours: Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com

True Colors - featuring Charlie Katzenbach and Alla Podolsky

"True Colors"

featuring Charlie Katzenbach and Alla Podolsky

July 4 - August 4, 2013

Opening reception: Saturday, July 6, 5-9 pm

Closing reception: Sunday, August 4, 4-6 pm

"Artists are storytellers. And colors are our words." Those are the words of painter Alla Podolsky. She and Charlie Katzenbach have more than a few stories to share. Many will be on display in "True Colors," Katzenbach's and Podolsky's joint show running Thursday, July 4, through Sunday, August 4.

"Color is a universal thing," says Podolsky. "At the same time, it's incredibly personal. We have such visceral reactions to colors. We love some, we hate others. To an artist, color is a language. It's how we communicate. It's how we compose. It's how we translate. It's what connects all artists, no matter what the medium, or style, or form."

Katzenbach seems to chase the rainbow for this show. She paints boldly with the primary colors on glass planes in various geometric designs often reminiscent of Amish quilts. "I've been painting the spectrum for some time," Katzenbach says. "I try to capture the brilliant colors that I see as the crystals in my studio window break the light into its components. There is an exuberant joy in the cascade of colors that make up the rainbow. It is also a cultural and political symbol celebrating unity despite diversity for both the civil right and GLBT movement. As a person affected by both this means much to me."

The Trevor Project to Benefit
Katzenbach and Podolsky will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of their work to The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

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An opening reception will be held Saturday, July 6, from 5 to 9 pm. The artists will also host a closing reception from 4 to 6 pm on August 4. All are welcome!

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Artists' Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ - map & directions
Gallery hours:  Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm
www.lambertvillearts.com