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All of the listings are open to the public and include exhibit only museum's and fine arts shows that display and sell works from artists, crafts people, and photographers.
Some of these special exhibitions and available for an extended period of time.
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New Jersey Fine Arts Shows and Exhibits
July 2008 |
Hot Fun - Cape May
Through July 27th
Soma NewArt Gallery, Carpenters Square Mall
31 Perry Street
Cape May
somagallery@verizon.net
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An exhibit of Sean Taylor's latest works feature large-scale oil paintings that take a nostalgic look at the American Dream.
His emphasis is figures, 1950's debutantes, sunbathers on the beach, couples meeting on the boardwalk, images of the distant past connecting to images of the present.
Taylor's style is recognizable in the atmospheric blues and grays with distant muted horizons.
Daily 10 AM to 10 PM |
August 2008 |
(RE) possessed
Project Gallery
March 20 to August 24, 2008
350 Montgomery Street
Jersey City
201-413-0303
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In this exhibition, internationally renowned fiber artist Xenobia Bailey collaborates with several artists and designers to transform the museum's Project Gallery into an intimate and enchanting environment which the artist calls an "urban tea ceremony with a twist".
Dorian Webb trained in the art of making glass in Murano, Italy and has been making fanciful chandeliers in bright colors by special commission.
Working together with other artists, these two women cover the walls and ceiling of the Gallery. Resplendent with color, the works will consider the relationship between domesticity and the handcrafted object, between fine and decorative arts.
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September 2008 |
Pop Art and After: Prints and Popular Culture
Eisenberg Gallery
September 2 - December 14, 2008
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
71 Hamilton St.
New Brunswick 732.932.7237
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Ranging from the humorous to serious, or ordinary to glamorous, this exhibition of sixty prints explores the interaction of popular culture and printmaking across four decades.
The artists represented in this exhibition include Jim Dine, Red Grooms, Jasper Johns, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann.
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The 25th annual Fine Art and Crafts at Anderson Park
September 20-21, 2008
North Mountain Ave and Bellevue Ave
Upper Montclair
908-874-5247
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This is a free fine arts show is open to the public and will feature fine American art and crafts from over 185 professional fine artists, crafts people and photographers from all across the country.
A show of fine American art and crafts, is scheduled rain or shine, from 10 AM to 5 PM. |
Arts in the Park
Highland Park Arts Festival
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Raritan Ave
Highland Park
contact: Dan Burns
dan@jaffecom.com |
This outdoor, juried art show will showcase fine arts and crafts from a wide regional area, and highlight a defining quality of Highland Park as a creative, multi-cultural, dynamic community.
The main attraction of The Arts in the Park will be the juried show, highlighting Highland Park's many local artists as well as others. Participants will display and sell their work under tents along Raritan Avenue in the downtown, and participate in a contest. There will be an Art Expo featuring promotional booths, children's activities, food and performances by top entertainers from the area.
Arts in the Park will present the best of Highland Park: the arts, entertainment, dining, shopping and education.
11:30 a.m. until 4 p.m., rain or shine |
October 2008 |
The 25th annual Fall Fine Art and Crafts at Nomahegan Park
October 4-5, 2008
Nomahegan Park
Across from Union County College
Springfield Ave
Cranford
908-874-5247 |
The Fall Fine Art and Crafts show at Nomahegan Park will feature fine art, photography, weaving, clothing, pottery, wood, fiber, leather, stained glass, and much more as many new artists and crafter's from throughout the northeast gather to display and sell their arts and crafts.
The show will be accented with live music and a variety of ethnic foods.
This free to the public show will be open from 10 am - 5 pm, rain or shine. Family entertainment will be presented both days. |
The 19th Annual Cranberry Festival
October 4-5, 2008
Farnsworth Ave.
Bordentown
609 298-8066
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Fine Arts, Vintage Car Show. Food, Music,
and Entertainment.
150+ Juried crafts from across the USA and Canada.
From 11am to 5pm |
11th annual Fine Art and Craft Show at Brookdale Park
October 18-19, 2008
Brookdale Park
Watchung, Bellevue and Grove Avenues
Montclair
908-874-5247
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The 11th annual Fine Art and Craft Show at Brookdale Park is a high quality, juried fine art and craft show.
The show will feature over 180 professional artists, photographers and crafts people from throughout the northeast and beyond, displaying and selling their American-made, hand-crafted works.
The show is free to the public and will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM -5 PM, rain or shine. |
November 2008 |
From Cape May to Cairo: The Work of George Washington Nicholson
Now through November 9, 2008
733 Lily Lake Road
Oceanville
609-652-8848 |
The fine arts exhibition will include seascapes and New Jersey marsh paintings, as well as Orientalist subjects and other foreign landscapes by George Washington Nicholson, an artist with a life-long connection to South Jersey, spent much of his life in Philadelphia, and the Garden State where he painted the Jersey marshes and shore. A world traveler, the artist retired to the town of Hammonton, where he lived until his death in 1912.
Nicholson's work represents the type of academic realism extremely popular in America and Europe during the turn of the century. An interesting subset of Nicholson's work focuses on "Orientalist" imagery - exotic Middle Eastern and North African subjects. |
Repeating Islands:
6 New Jersey Latino Artists
August 1- August 29, 2008;
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 6-8pm
68 Elm St.
Summit
908-273-9121
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Repeating Islands is curated by Alejandro Anreus, Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American/ Latino Studies at William Patterson University. Providing a fresh look at the New Jersey contemporary art scene, this exhibition gathers the work of local based Latino painters, photographers and sculptors. While the artists differ in media, they share a Spanish-speaking Caribbean heritage, reminiscent in their work.
Gallery Hours:
Monday 9:30am-4:30pm, Tuesday-Thursday 9:30am-8pm, Friday 9:30am - 4:30pm and Saturday-Sunday 10am - 4pm |
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