May 2015 • The Gallery

Exhibitors

Bob Ambrosio – Stephanie Barbetti – Ed Belding
Don Bloom – Lauren Curtis – Lakshmi Durga

Toby Ehrlich –  Gerry Feldman – Carl Frankel

Joseph Gilchrist – Rhonda Goodwin – Catherine Gowen

Barbara Hochberg – Bryan Jeppson – Vadim Levin

Sofran McBride – Penny Nuwer – Andrea Orlando
Louise Reeves – John Sandstedt – Nancy Scott

Joan Wheeler – Valerie Williams

Juror Janet Waronker writes:

When I think of landscape and architecture in art, my mind turns to en plein air and those breakout renegades, the Impressionists. I feel their passion to capture the light of day; to touch the transient and the transcendent. That desire to express one’s personal and emotional response to a place and time, is expressed eloquently by of the artists whose works are on display in this gallery. It was a pleasure to jury this themed exhibit that beckons to far flung sites and down country byways. Follow the artists who invite us to experience real and imaged worlds in a range of the media: watercolor, oil, collage, glass, wood and photography.

Nancy Scott gives us global Perspectives in her delightful and dizzying architectural collage. Catherine Gowen shares her mountain climber’s view on her way to the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite, sketched on site and later in watercolor. Photographer Johnson Sandstedt’s Park Avenue captures a striking view of the colossal rock formations in Arches National Park. Joan Wheeler stood in the rain to document one of her favorite natural wonders in, Lightning in the Canyon.

Isolation is a striking feature of Loveland Pass, Rhonda Goodwin’s black and white photograph. Barbara Hochberg stopped to smell (and paint) the flowers against a rocky coastline in Bodega Bay, while visiting California. Valerie Williams invites us on her travels with camera, to Mission San Xavier del Bac. Deep spaces and misty mountains inspire Lakshmi Durga’s oil painting, Smoky Mountains.

Bryan Jeppson’s oil, impressionist landscape A Day in the Valley, shimmers with the light of summer. Italy’s architecture is explored in Andrea Orlando’s watercolor and ink, Duomo of San Biagio, catching the play of sunlight on the rounded forms. A visit to the tiny and colorful Burano Island, Venice inspired this watercolor by Toby Brown Erich. And don’t miss Domo, Florence, photographed by Joseph Gilchrist.

Other artists look for hidden treasures closer to home, as Louise Reeves does in her photograph, Irises. Don Bloom’s oil, Hurricane Sandy Tree Stumps, sees beauty in the shape and color of trees left in the storm’s wake. The New York skyline feels intimate in Carl Frankel sensitively rendered Skyscrapers (charcoal and pencil).

Bob Ambrosio captures a moment in the photograph Reflections, as one tall tower is mirrored by another’s surface. I see Mondrian ‘s patterns in the photograph, Work in Progress, by Gary Feldman.  Spring in Parsippany celebrates new beginnings in Vadim Levin’s textured oil on canvas.

These artists bring us into imagined worlds, as well. With hard and soft edges and color, the eye is drawn to Ed Belding’s arresting mixed media, Deciduo, and Stephanie Barbetti delights us in rich and vibrant Fantasy Landscape. Embedded glass and mirror form Sofran McBride’s concrete abstraction, The Gloaming Finds Itself with a Pocket Full of Winter. Lauren Curtis’ silhouetted trees speak of solitude and power in her oil, Dream of Trees 1. Hudson River Vista by Penny Nuwer, evokes the feel of Japanese brushwork.

Congratulations to all the artists!