Alfa Art Gallery is excited to host an all-media exhibition, “The Space Between: Questions of Place in Times of Uncertainty” for the Women’s Caucus for Art New York Chapter (WCA NYC). This virtual exhibition will explore the relationship between female identity and the environment, evaluating women’s perceptions of place amidst a complex social climate…
Alfa Art Gallery is excited to announce the New Brunswick Art Salon 2020 Oil and Mixed Media Exhibition: “Encounters.” This virtual exhibition will showcase the work of local and international artists. The compilation of various oil paintings demonstrates the versatility of this medium. Using oil paint as a vehicle, the artists let us explore encounters…
Alfa Art Gallery invites you to “LIFE DISTILLED,” a three-person virtual exhibition with Meredeth Turshen, Betty Jacobsen, and Yvonne Skaggs, featuring representative works from their numerous explorations in watercolor, drawing, collage, and mixed media. The three artists have shown their work in a variety of exhibition venues around New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania since the 1980s. Through the years that…
Dot Bunn is a full time studio oil painter with a deep passion for teaching traditional methods of painting. She believes that “good paintings are the result of intelligent planning and the endless study of technique and process.” Bunn’s paintings are thoughtfully developed by design, with preliminary drawings using traditional methods of composition built on…
The fourth woman in our #5womenartists series is Katherine (Kat) Schneider. How do pictures and paint work together? Kat Schneider took great care in combining photographs with a variety of mediums, such as acrylic, tempera, and gouache, to add both literal and figurative layers to her images and to communicate the stories of everyday life….
Historically, the general trajectory of art practice has been dominated by men. However, times have changed, as we find statistically there are more women in art schools, more women represented in museums, the female presence in galleries (as not just receptionists), and a few female business owners. Female artists have infiltrated the system and have…
Our first post on #5womenartists didn’t even begin to cover the tremendous volume of interesting and boundary-pushing work made by women, so we had to make another. This week we celebrate Susan Amann. Susan Amann’s pottery is a mixture of hand built and wheel thrown pieces that transcend from functional forms to more sculptural works….
Following the escalation of COVID-19 Coronavirus in America, we have taken the difficult, precautionary measure to postpone this year’s “Life Distilled” opening reception. We are incredibly disappointed to take this action so close to the event opening, however the well-being of our visitors is of utmost importance. We will notify you about a reschedule date…
International Women’s Day (IWD) is an annual global holiday on March 8, that celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and pays tribute to those who have paved the way. There are plenty of meaningful ways to embrace this day: you might consider shopping at women-owned businesses, exploring art by female artists,…
Today I was playing around with our Vimeo account and decided to search for “Alfa Art Gallery” and was delighted to see there were a lot of video of events at the gallery posted by others. Check them out here – https://vimeo.com/search?q=alfa+art+gallery