BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Alfa Art Gallery - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Alfa Art Gallery X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.alfaart.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Alfa Art Gallery REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180622T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180622T213000 DTSTAMP:20210910T210307Z CREATED:20180525T194807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210910T210307Z UID:14040-1529692200-1529703000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2018 - June 22 @ 6:30 - "Visceral and Visionary": New Brunswick Art Salon All Media\, Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:On display: June 19 – August 31 2018\nOpening Reception: June 22 at 6:30 pm  \nCommencing on June 19th\, Alfa Art Gallery will host one of its most exciting and diverse exhibitions as part of “New Brunswick Art Salon 2018”. Entitled “Visceral and Visionary”\, this showing is a melting pot of intriguing techniques\, media and visions that seamlessly unite to inspire the viewer in unexpected and exhilarating ways. The exhibition will last from June 19th to August 31st. \nArtists chosen to showcase their work include: Amanda Yoakum\, Chris Ernst\, Christine Parker\, Undress God\, Gene Tanta\, Agop Gemdjian\, Alphonse Lane\, NJ DeVico\, Edward Ruggieri\, Erica Velasco\, Lauryn Ahearn\, Manisha Em\, Merrilee Drakulich\, Rhonda Yanow\, Susan Winter\, Vera Genovese\, Lauren Curtis\, Minakshi De\, Susan Ward\, and Strahil Stanchev.  \nFrom oil paintings to ceramics to mixed media pieces\, the array of artwork carefully selected for this exhibition is sure to appeal to lovers of all kinds of artistic mediums. The exhibition showcases work that transcends aesthetic norms and prompts viewers to consider introspective ideas and compelling expressions. Each artist in this exhibition adopts their own style\, with pieces reminiscent ranging from portraiture to landscapes to three-dimensional works. While each artist has their own meaning and message behind their work\, viewers will have the opportunity to interpret and reflect upon each piece. Lovers of neo-expressionism\, impressionism\, and even primordial works of art will enjoy what each artist has to offer during this exhibition.   \nAn opening reception will be held for this showing at the New Brunswick gallery on June 22 at 6:30 pm. This event will include live music\, refreshments and plenty of networking opportunities.   \n“New Brunswick Art Salon” aims to unite those who appreciate art and culture within the tri-state area and beyond\, providing a creative hub of guidance and encouragement for artists. Thus\, its exhibitions are always free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday\, from 11am to 6pm. As the most medium-inclusive exhibition of the year\, Alfa extends an open invitation to art lovers and local patrons alike to come and view the works of professional and emerging artists while submerging themselves in an awakening artistic experience. \nWith the assistance of grants from organizations such as Amboy Bank\, the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission\, Magyar Bank and the New Brunswick City Center\, Alfa Art is confident that all who come to the 2018 All Media New Brunswick Art Salon will leave with a greater appreciation of the arts and the gallery’s showcasing of local\, skilled artists.  \n\nPhotos from the opening reception: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2018-june-22-630-new-brunswick-art-salon-all-media-visceral-and-visionary-exhibition-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/BannerV2Amanda-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180427T213000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185552Z CREATED:20180328T180429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185552Z UID:13697-1524853800-1524864600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2018 - April 27 @ 6:30 - New Brunswick Art Salon 2018 - Oil Color and Mixed Media "An Expanse of Expressionism" Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:New Brunswick Art Salon 2018 – Oil Color and Mixed Media: “An Expanse of Expressionism”\n Exhibition Duration: April 24th\, 2018 — June 16th\, 2018\n Opening Reception:  Friday\, April 27th\, 2018 @ 6:30pm \nBeginning on April 24th\, Alfa Art Gallery will commence one of its flagship exhibitions\, the 2018 New Brunswick Art Salon for Oil Color and Mixed Media. This display\, celebrating the aesthetic mastery of gifted painters\, will be initiated with a cozy and intimate opening ceremony to be held on Friday\, April 27th at 6:30pm and hosted by Alfa. Attendees of this event will become familiarized with a diverse array of wondrous artworks spanning the colorfully abstract to the otherworldly and surreal. \nThough expressionism is a substantial theme of our Oil Color & Mixed Media Exhibition\, the featured artists at Alfa will boast a wide array of visual aesthetics ranging from the impressionistic to the abstract style that expressionism is renowned for. Charity Henderson’s body of work serves to explores various psychological states through mixed media impressionistic paintings of the human face. Similarly\, Debora Thedinga utilizes impressionism in order to manipulate light\, color and space thus crafting a landscape that can be viewed successfully through the small window of the canvas. In slight contrast to her fellow featured artists\, Tricia Miho offers a more surrealist aesthetic with paintings reminiscent of Salvador Dalí. Her work explores the progression of images and how such progression enables the transformation of metaphysical creations. \nAlfa’s Oil Color & Mixed Media Exhibition will also display artworks that are more consistent with expressionism\, particularly in the realm of the abstract. Colleen Lineberry’s works celebrate natural beauty as captured through her mind’s eye resulting in in vibrantly colorful motifs presenting near otherworldly landscapes. In a fashion akin to Lineberry’s abstract aesthetic\, Enrique Zaldivar utilizes color and inspiration from the natural world to illustrate issues inherent to human beings and satisfy his constant need to express himself. Kathleen Shaver’s artistry can be described as a quest for the beauty which lies within human impulse and the primal. Leona Tenebruso-Shultes similarly explores this primality by adorning her canvas with impassioned brushstrokes and expressive colors and finally. Pat Cresson utilizes multifaceted mediums of both digital and analog origin in order to craft texturally rich abstract pieces rich in complexity and exquisitely balanced hues. Incorporating drawing as a structural springboard\, Maurie Brooks endeavors to embody visual thinking and simultaneously facilitate the suspension of thought.  For her\, this can ultimately result in a freedom from the rational\, linear or observational\, a freedom that allows for a more intuitive approach\, even a turning toward the repetitive or meditative\, sometimes with surprising results.   \nDevotees to the likes of Salvador Dalí\, Wassily Kandinsky\, and Helen Frankenthaler will especially find a great deal to love scouring Alfa’s artwork adorned walls. \nDrawing inspiration from Parisian exhibitions from the Baroque era bearing the same name\, Alfa Art Gallery’s New Brunswick Art Salons are held a number of times each year always with the express goal of lessening the divide between artists and the community\, especially in the diverse city of New Brunswick. With the help of grants given by organizations such as Amboy Bank\, the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission\, Magyar Bank and the New Brunswick City Center\, Alfa is confident that all attendees and viewers of 2018 New Brunswick Art Salon for Oil Color and Mixed Media will leave with a healthier interest and appreciation for the artistic contributions of talents spanning the New Brunswick\, the state of New Jersey and beyond. The exhibition and opening ceremony is free and open to the public. \nFeatured Artists: Charity Henderson\, Colleen Lineberry\, Debora Thedinga\, Enrique Zaldivar\, Kathleen Shaver\, Leona Tenebruso-Shultes\, Maurie Brooks\, Pat Cresson\, Tricia Miho. \nAbout Alfa Art Gallery’s Art Salons: \nAlfa Art Gallery possesses a great deal of reverence for the 18th and 19th century traditional art salons. During this era\, art salons were the single greatest annual or biannual melding of the artistic and intellectual minds of their time. For ten years\, Alfa has successfully emulated these  momentous events in its own unique way by bridging highly esteemed and talented artists with the New Brunswick public. The Winter offers a salon with exhibitions dedicated to photography while Spring hosts oil and mixed media. The Summer brings a collective consisting of all themes and the Fall presents a watercolor and mixed media exhibition. Alfa is dedicated to the discovery\, growth\, and support of emerging and established artists. We believe that visual art is a universal form of expression which can bridge cultural gaps and provide a forum where diverse perspectives can be shared and appreciated. Established in 2008\, Alfa Art Gallery has grown into New Brunswick’s Cultural Hub by exhibiting over five hundred artists and by hosting multidisciplinary community events in honor of the visual arts\, music\, poetry and dancing. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2018-april-27-630-new-brunswick-art-salon-2018-oil-color-and-mixed-media-an-expanse-of-expressionism-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/ONTsBbxg-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180309T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180309T213000 DTSTAMP:20210907T201451Z CREATED:20180225T220057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T201451Z UID:13582-1520620200-1520631000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2018 - March 9 at 6:30 - Ceremony for New Brunswick Art Salon 2017 award winners DESCRIPTION:Event Date: March 9\, 2018 at 6:30pm at Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick NJ. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery welcomes everyone to the Ceremony for the New Brunswick Art Salon 2017 Award Winners\, judged by Rocco Scary. This event will take place on March 9\, 2018 and will announce first\, second\, and third place award winners as well as all honorable mentions. \nThe New Brunswick Art Salons’ main aim is to build relationships and connections between local artists and the community. Talented artists from diverse backgrounds have been drawn into these exhibitions for the past eight years. \nThe New Brunswick Art Salons consists of four unique showings. The New Brunswick Art Salon: Photography Exhibition was held on February – March. This exhibition was featuring nine artists from the Raritan Photographic Society\, New Jersey’s\, oldest photography club\, founded in 1929. They worked through a spectrum of styles from photo-realism to abstractions. The “Introspective Concepts of Reality” was a group exhibition hosted on May – June and exclusively showcased thirteen artists who could bring their awareness and artistic outlook to Alfa’s audience and the greater New Brunswick area. This exhibition focused on developing an opportunity to connect cultural gaps and explore diverse perspectives within the community with the use of mixed media. On June – July\, the “Summer Collective” exhibition featured fine art from nine artists specializing in all media. On November – December Alfa hosted “The DNA of Form: Watercolor and Mixed Media” which featured ten local and international artists who specialized in the use of water color\, gel\, charcoal\, oil pastels and more. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery was delighted to have Rocco Scary as a judge of the New Brunswick Art Salon 2017 exhibitions. An active multi-disciplinary artist by himself\, Rocco Scary always brings exceptional perspective to the NBAS 2017 exhibitions. Rocco Scary is also an accomplished denizen of the art world accruing multiple awards and accolades from the New Jersey State Arts Council Fellowship to the Essex County Arts Council. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2018-march-9-at-630-ceremony-for-new-brunswick-art-salon-2017-award-winners/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBAS_Ceremony.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T063000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T213000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185533Z CREATED:20171213T202234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185533Z UID:12707-1515738600-1515792600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2018 - Jan 12 @ 6:30 - New Brunswick Art Salon 2018 - Photography: "A Facility for Photogenia" exhibition opening DESCRIPTION:New Brunswick Art Salon 2018 – Photography: “A Facility for Photogenia“ \nExhibition juror: Andrew Darlow \nExhibition Duration: January 9 – March 3\, 2018.   \nOpening Reception:  January 12\, 2018\, 6:30pm – 9:30pm \n As part of its successful decade-long New Brunswick Art Salon\, Alfa Art Gallery is honored to announce the New Brunswick Art Salon 2018 Photography Exhibition: “A Facility for Photogenia” in which a group of talented photographers from the Tri-State area and beyond will be exhibiting their finest work. Epic sights from monochrome skyscrapers adorning the New York City skyline\, to images of a quaint\, weathered Asbury Park boardwalk will be available for both curious eyes and discerning collectors. Additionally\, photography delving into portraiture and a wide range of other enthralling visual concepts will grace the walls of Alfa Art Gallery.  \n“A Facility for Photogenia” is a juried exhibition sure to surprise\, entertain and enchant. Andrew Darlow\, an award-winning artist\, author and renowned arts educator who will be this year’s juror\, had this to say about the show: “It’s an honor to be asked to choose my favorite prints from the work of so many creative artists. I especially enjoy being ‘virtually transported’ to new and often exotic locations across our incredible planet through the artists’ images.” The exhibition will be open to the public from January 9 through March 3\, 2018. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday\, January 12\, 2018.  \nFeatured Artists: Amy Becker\, Barbara Eggermann\, Brayden Donnelly\, Carl Geisler\, Casey Shaw\, Chelsey Sinclair\, Christine Cuthbertson\, Craig Shofed\, Gina Petrecca\, Hannah Schrenzel\, Heidi Sussman\, Kedar Wani\, Nick Palmieri\, Patricia Bender\, Patrick Carroll\, Peter Aldrich\, Steven Yahr\, and Thomas Maugham  \nAbout Alfa Art Gallery’s Art Salons \nAlfa Art Gallery possesses a great deal of reverence for the 18th and 19th century traditional art salons. During this era\, art salons were the single greatest annual or biannual melding of the artistic and intellectual minds of their time. For ten years\, Alfa has successfully emulated these  momentous events in its own unique way by bridging highly esteemed and talented artists with the New Brunswick public. The Winter offers a salon with exhibitions dedicated to photography while Spring hosts oil and mixed media. The Summer brings a collective consisting of all themes and the Fall presents a watercolor and mixed media exhibition. Alfa is dedicated to the discovery\, growth\, and support of emerging and established artists. We believe that visual art is a universal form of expression which can bridge cultural gaps and provide a forum where diverse perspectives can be shared and appreciated. Established in 2008\, Alfa Art Gallery has grown into New Brunswick’s Cultural Hub by exhibiting over five hundred artists and by hosting multidisciplinary community events in honor of the visual arts\, music\, poetry and dancing. \n\nArtist Interviews \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2018-jan-12-630-new-brunswick-art-salon-2018-photography-the-facility-for-photogenia-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Ew3q_mUA-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T210000 DTSTAMP:20190427T171432Z CREATED:20171005T142201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190427T171432Z UID:12592-1510943400-1510952400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2017 - Nov 17 @ 6:30pm - "The DNA of Form: Watercolor and Mixed Media" Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: November 14th– December 31st\, 2017\n Opening Reception: November 17th\, 2017. 6:30pm – 9:30pm. \nAlfa Art Gallery invites you to join us for the opening of our New Brunswick Art Salon Exhibition\, Fall2017\, “The DNA of Form: Watercolor and Mixed Media”.  Our reception starts at 6:30 pm on Friday\, November 17th 2017. The Event will feature a brief introductory presentation of the exhibition and information about exhibiting artists. Refreshments will also be served. \nFrom November 14th to December 31st\, 2017\, Alfa Art Gallery will be displaying the work of 10 phenomenal artists specializing in the medium of watercolor and mixed media. At Alfa’s “DNA of the Form“ exhibition\, viewers will be treated to visual delights crafted from water color\, gel\, charcoal\, oil pastel\, flashe paint\, paper collages\, and more. Visual art from the electrifyingly abstract to the compositionally stunning will be available for everyone to see. Featuring both local and international names\, the pictorial artworks on display will compel attendees to conceive possibilities beyond the forms they are presented using their own imaginations and intuitions. Concepts ranging from the capturing of human forms within the vibrant worlds they inhabit to lively dances of color and texture will anchor this upcoming exhibition. The surreal will cohabitate with the sublime as the numerous artistic perspectives show the public a sampling of their bodies of their work.  \nAbout the artists:  \nPatricia Bender‘s work avoids timelessness\, using light and chemicals to cast her processed work back in time. Jonathan Horowitz approaches texture with similar intensity and brightness\, but with deeper variety across his two-dimensional surfaces. Carol O’ Neill and Leslie Sheryll  utilize an eclectic use of materials to highlight the variance of texture when used as a substitute for light. The work of watercolor artist Evgenia Klimenko\, features prominent use of human subjects in semi-surreal relation to the elements\, fragments\, and companions of daily life. Fragmentation of human artifacts is an equally important focus to the abstracted works of Ilona Sochynsky. Look quickly at one of Peter Arakawa‘s pieces and you might only see that chaos of daily life\, but look further to find the organized ballet of colors. Using watercolors to tell stories with targeted subjects and underlying subjective elements\, Robert Stetz paintings are impressive. Tracy Coons offers collages of natural forms overlain with dense text and unnatural geometric patterns of muddled color. Ken C. Hamilton strives to bring out beauty and dignity as the world around him presents a widespread dichotomy of fragile\, elusive and often conflicting tensions\, in a way that only watercolors can. \nAbout New Brunswick Art Salon (NBAS) exhibitions:  \nEvery year\, Alfa Art Gallery hosts a series of New Brunswick Art Salon (NBAS) exhibitions. This particular Art Salon will only showcase water color and mixed media pieces. The overall goal of the Art Salon installments is to lessen the divide between the artist and the community\, especially in the diverse city of New Brunswick. Alfa Art Gallery is a non-profit organization located at 108 Church Street\, in the heart of New Brunswick. The gallery is sponsored by the New Brunswick City Market\, through grants given by organizations such as Amboy Bank\, Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission\, and Magyar Bank. Alfa Art Gallery believes that visual art is the ultimate form of communication\, and aims to provide professional criticism and guidance to exhibiting artists. Alfa Art Gallery aims to create a cultural hub for fine painters\, sculptors\, actors\, and writers from New Jersey and beyond. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2017-november-17-630pm-new-brunswick-art-salon-watercolor-and-mixed-media/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/11-14-Watercolor-and-Mixed-Media-GK.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170317T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170317T213000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185641Z CREATED:20170223T221546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185641Z UID:11620-1489775400-1489786200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2017 - Mar 17 @ 6:30pm - “Free Form” Group Exhibition Opening & Alfa's 9th Anniversary Celebration DESCRIPTION:“Free Form” Group Exhibition featuring professional artists and art educators of New Jersey \nExhibition duration – March 15 – April 29 \n Exhibition Opening Reception – March 17\, 2017 – 6:30 – 9:30pm \nMarch 17th Event Schedule:\n\nWelcoming Official Guests: 6:30 – 6:45 PM\nExhibition Opening Presentation: 6:45 – 7:00 PM\nNinth Anniversary Celebration Remarks: 7:00 – 7:15 PM\nAwards Ceremony for NBAS’ 2016 Winners: 7:15 – 7:30 PM\nLive Music and Refreshments at 7:30 – 9:30 PM\n\n  \nAlfa Art Gallery is pleased to present “Free Form” Group Exhibition featuring the professional artists and art educators of New Jersey\, including many artists from the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP). This exhibition will exclusively showcase these well-established artists who can bring their knowledge and artistic visions to the New Brunswick and Alfa Art Gallery audience. In the past\, Arts Council of Princeton has collaborated with Alfa Art Gallery to present art instructors at ACP and provide an unique opportunity for the New Brunswick community by exploring new ideas\, opportunities\, and art forms. \nOur featured artists include: Eva Mantell\, Libby Ramage\, Dorothea Berkhout\, Charles David Viera\, Scott Wright\, Joel Rudin\, Andrew Werth\, Krysia Kolodziej\, Karen Titus Smith\, and Arlene Milgram \nThe March 17th event will involve a brief introductory presentation of our current exhibition and featured artists\, presented by the gallery’s curatorial interns. In addition\, there will be Ninth Anniversary Celebration Remarks and Awards Ceremony for the winners of the 2016 New Brunswick Art Salon juried by Rocco Scary. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is dedicated to the discovery and support of emerging and established artists. We believe that visual art is an universal form of expression which can bridge cultural gaps within our community and provide a forum for diverse voices to be heard. Alfa was established in 2008 and has exhibited over 500 artists and hosted multi-disciplinary artistic events such as music\, poetry\, and dancing and  became  a cultural hub of New Brunswick. \nWe invite you to please join us in our efforts to strengthen our community and positively impact the lives of local residents through the arts. Alfa will provide light refreshments and a live musical performance. \nThis program is sponsored in part by:  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/free-form-2017-group-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-03-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T213000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185641Z CREATED:20170117T182420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185641Z UID:11137-1486146600-1486157400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2017 - Feb 3 @ 6:30pm - New Brunswick Art Salon: Photography Exhibition by Raritan Photographic Society DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, February 3rd\, from 6:30pm – 10:00pm  \nExhibition Duration: February 1st- March 14th 2017 \nAlfa Art Gallery will be hosting the seasonal New Brunswick Art Salon: Photography Exhibition featuring the Raritan Photographic Society (RPS).  \nThe Raritan Photographic Society is New Jersey’s oldest photography club\, founded in 1929. The society’s members are united in a common passion for photography and a desire to become better artists. They are also members of the New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs and the Photographic Society of America. This allows the group to attend lectures\, digital and print competitions to improve their technical and creative skills in photography. Both professional and amateur photographers choose to work in a wide spectrum of styles from photo-realism to abstraction as well as members who are still looking to find their own style. \nOur featured artists are Richard Doerr\, Barbara Eggermann\, Paul Eggermann\, Carol Petscavage\, Bill Petscavage\, Ellen Reardon\, Jamie Shombert\, Susan Powell and Kedar Wani. \nRichard Doerr the President of RPS is an annual artist for the New Brunswick Art Salon. He has developed a speakers program that has featured various photographers instructing their knowledge. His commitment and passion for the arts has inspired others to become more involved in the community. Barbara Eggermann and Jamie Shombert both members of the RPS and artists partaking in the annual exhibition assist with Alfa Art Gallery to ensure the event is better than the last. Photography allows Eggermann to express her emotions and fully convey her point of view through a story only she can tell. On the other hand\, Shombert’s photography is more vague which allows the viewer to create their own narrative using their imagination. \nJoin Alfa Art Gallery in the opportunity to celebrate the achievements and talent of the photographers. The wide varieties of genres include landscapes\, nature\, architecture\, abstract objects\, and figures. Each artist develops their own style and narrative through their pieces\, providing the viewer to be just as creative. Alfa Art Gallery is a non-profit organization determined to support emerging and well established artists and to give their work exposure and critical following within the art community. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/new-brunswick-art-salon-photography-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Nicoles-Final-Banner-NBAS-v3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185641Z CREATED:20161101T182804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185641Z UID:10976-1480703400-1480716000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2016 - Dec 2 @ 7pm - Holiday Salon 2016\, "Tis the Season" DESCRIPTION:Alfa Art Gallery invites you to the 2016 Holiday Salon\, “Tis the Season“\, featuring representations  of reality through abstractions using mixed media\, oil work\, and water painting based art.  \nExhibition Duration: November 22nd- January 27th 2017 Exhibition Preview: December 1st@ 6:30-10:00pm Exhibition Opening: December 2nd@ 6:30-10:00pm Exhibiting Artists: Madeline Polymeropolous\, Michael Fenton\, Agop Gemdjian\, John Hawaka\, Vesslin Kourtev\, Andrei Medvedev \n  \nWe are pleased to invite you to Alfa Art Gallery’s Holiday Salon\, “Tis the Season”\, highlighting artists who excel in their work of capturing the true essence and beauty of art. The 6 featured artists are prominent local figures whom have exhibited their work in gallery shows throughout the greater New York area or have worked with Alfa Art Gallery in previous exhibitions. Through the exhibition\, you will witness local talents from the New Brunswick area\, and beyond\, whom reflect and inspire the rich artistic culture of the community.  \nThe pieces featured in Alfa Art Gallery’s “Tis the Season” Exhibition exemplifies a mastery of abstract expression. Relying on form\, color\, and concept\, our artists invite you to explore their worlds of expression. Representing reality through abstraction\, the six artists create exquisite works that find inspiration from figurative forms. Please join Alfa Art Gallery for a night of enjoying intricate artworks during the happy holiday time. \n  \nAbout the Artists:  \nAlfa Art Gallery’s “Tis the Season” features many talented artists. \n  \nMadeline Polymeropolous\, has resided in New Brunswick for the past 40 years.  Throughout her career\, she has experienced the variety of the world\, having traveled her hometown of Dallas\, Texas to Greece to Boston where she received her B.F.A. and M.F.A.  from Boston University with a concentration in Painting and Drawing. In addition to her outstanding resume\, Polymeropoulos has a MS from Parsons in Visual Arts and Museum Education.      \nPolymeropoulos finds inspiration from her experiences within the world.  Her works exhibit colorful and textured landscapes and figures through bold expression of geometric shapes.  Works are on paper constructed through mixed media of oil sticks\, acrylics\, pencil\, and collage.   \n  \nMichael Fenton\, a New Jersey artist\, was born and raised in upstate New York but has lived in New Jersey for the past 30 years residing in Morris Plains. He is a painter who works in a variety of different modes and sizes\, ranging from Korean folk painting to realism to near-impressionism. Working primarily from the memory and imagination\, he attempts to distill his images to a point where there is a powerful emotional resonance\, without being specific or didactic. He paints primarily in Korean Water Color\, oil and acrylic\, and the vast majority of his works involve the figure in one way or another. Fenton’s paintings comprise several distinct\, yet interrelated bodies of work. In addition to his studio work\, he also continues studying the ancient Korean folk art and drawing in a private capacity.  \nMichael focuses on portraits which should evoke emotions from the viewer. His subjects are painted naturalistically and show great detail. He focuses on detail by making use of lighting (light and dark colors) within the painting. The subject’s emotions can be seen by the body language. A perfect example of his work is his “Chet Baker” portrait\, the painting casts the subject in a dark area with a light illuminating the weathered details of the subjects face. \n  \nAgop Gemdjian accomplishes classical techniques of etching in his prints\, supplemented with the emotional atmosphere that he creates with sudden bright colored stresses\, odd surrealistic states\, and metamorphoses of figures and objects. There is a well-mastered combination of heterogeneous figurative components – images\, color spots with abstract impact\, embossed elements and even personal poetry entwined in the pictorial space. All of this creates an instinctual density and an active suggestion of the works these features manifest themselves especially in the plastic works of Agop Gemdjian. Compound works with six\, nine\, or twelve prints\, drawings and plastic collages\, combining real objects\, various matters\, light and words lead the feelings and the thoughts of the spectator into a complex picture of human states\, where the spirit tries to break away of the enormous heaps of the material world\, and to purify itself.  \n  \nJohn Hawaka paints for the sheer enjoyment of doing so because he loves the challenge. He enjoys being a studio with brush in hand\, facing a “blank canvas.” Over the years he has experimented with many mediums and techniques-from casein to oil to acrylic from wood to canvas to laminate. Currently\, he uses a mixture of lacquer and several other mediums on laminate. He uses the lacquer mixture for its fluidity and the laminate for its smooth surface\, which allows the paint to flow freely. Alfa Art Gallery is proud to announce that they are Exclusive Representatives of John Hawaka.   \n  \nVesselin Kourtev has over 20 years of experience as a professional fine artist. Born and raised in Bulgaria\, Vesselin Kourtev received a high school degree in Fine Art from the Fine Arts School in the historic city Kazanluk\, as well as his MFA degree from The Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Veliko Turnovo\, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire.  From 1989 until 2002\, Vesselin worked for the National School of Stage and Film Design in Plovdiv\, Bulgaria. In the years following\, he remained active within the Bulgarian art community and participated in a large number of national and international exhibitions and competitions. Vesselin was featured in The Good Living Magazine from Saint Peter’s University Hospital\, New Brunswick in 2008 and has exhibited his work in over a dozen shows across New Jersey and New York.  \n  \nAndrei Medvedev Graduated from the Department of Theatre Set Design at “Memory of Year 1905” Art College.  Medvedev’s works are now in Moscow Tretyakov State Gallery and in many high profile personal collections around the world. Andrei Medvedev has developed his own style\, which has close connection to his authentic personality and his insight into people’s souls and psychology. Without leaving beauty behind\, Andrei gives his paintings depth of thought\, and questioning of the main forces present in all of humanity: good and bad\, hope and fear. The Russian artist has been painting since the age of four\, when his grandfather first encouraged him to pursue and develop his talent. Now\, as an adult\, we can sense in his creations the strong influence and inspiration he found in artist Diego Velasquez\, Medvedev’s most favored artist. The resemblance is most clear in observing Medvedev’s work and Velasquez’ greatest creation\, Las Meninas. \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/holiday-salon-2016/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/holiday-gallery-poster-banner-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185641Z CREATED:20160927T154805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185641Z UID:10805-1476469800-1476482400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2016 - Oct 4 @ 6:30pm - New Brunswick Art Salon Fall 2016: Oil Color and Mixed Media\, "L'Appel Du Vide" DESCRIPTION:October 14th and 15th @6:30-10:00 PM \nAlfa Art Gallery invites you to New Brunswick Art Salon: Oil Color and Mixed Media\, “L’Appel Du Vide” featuring representations of the nuances of nature\, using oil color and mixed media. \nExhibition Preview: October 14th @6:30pm\n Exhibition Opening: October 15th @ 6:30pm \n Exhibition Duration: September 27th – November 20th 2016 \n  \nExhibiting Artists: Dorothea Berkhout\, Elinor Meeks\, Enrique Zaldivar\, Francisco Araneo\, Joel Rudin\, Lauren Curtis\, Lyle Kleinhans\, Maria Bouquet\, Meredith Turshen\, Michael Hanna\, Paul Mordetsky\, Tania Ianovskaia\, Teriz Michael\, Vadim Levin \nWe are pleased to invite you to the third installation of the New Brunswick Art Salon\, highlighting artists who excel in their work manipulating oil and mixed media pieces.  The 14 featured artists are prominent local figures whom have exhibited their work in gallery shows throughout the greater New York area or have worked with Alfa Art Gallery in previous exhibitions. Through the exhibition\, you will witness local talents from the New Brunswick area\, and beyond\, whom reflect and inspire the rich artistic culture of the community. \n“L’Appel Du Vide” focuses on the everlasting flow of life\, matter\, and nature. Thus\, providing a glance into one’s experience of nature’s materialized essence\, both tangible and intangible. From using the power of the Feminine and Nature to form personal myth-stories by  Lauren Curtis\, to connections between silence and mindfulness that have captured depth within spirituality in relation to the world from Maria Bouquet\, all of our artist are coming together to lessen the divide between artist and the community. Reminiscent of the Art Salons of the 18th and 19th century\, the New Brunswick Art Salon was launched to promote the ever-evolving advances in the arts. Please join Alfa Art Gallery for a night of celebrating an exclusive glimpse into multifaceted impressions of the ever-changing human experience. \n  \nAbout Artists:\n“L’Appel Du Vide” features many talented artists\, both renowned and currently establishing themselves. \nDorothea Berkhout uses her Dutch heritage to mimic still lifes of the 15th and 16th centuries in classical settings. She is interested with shadow and light\, along with highlighting objects to reflect the angle of light making her subjects appear almost palpable. Her passion for nature influenes her to paint still lives\, scenery\, and figures. Her paintings exhibit a realistic approach and perspective.  She prefers to paint with oils as they provide the ability to intensify paintings and subjects by layering the paint and increasing depth. Having traveled both nationally and internationally\, her paintings render the beauty\, balance\, and order that is portrayed in her work. \nElinor Meeks has been making pictures with words and visual mediums for as long as she can remember.  Connecting and reflecting in these ways helped her adapt to frequent moves in this country and abroad growing up\, and lead to her work in documentary film production and public television programming and to her writing for publications including The New York Times\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and Medium.  Her lifelong engagement with art — begun with the hours spent painting watercolors with her grandmother — is expanding into collage and mixed media and to a first-time focus on exhibition and creative community building activities. \nEnrique Zaldiver uses his tropical Cuban heritage along with his appreciation for the colorful autumns of the United States for the inspiration of his artwork.  Avoiding mixing more than two colors\, Zaldiver’s surreal landscapes exhibit simple and profound use of color.  With the use of the expressive properties of acrylic paint\, he employs complementary colors to create balance. The landscapes reflect the meaning of life\, death\, freedom\, religion\, power\, and exile—themes Zaldivar holds dear. \nFrancisco Araneo’s world was shook when he began suffering from a severe spinal injury and autoimmune disease.  This self-proclaimed “hard-core athlete” began painting as therapy\, deriving his artistic style from a dream during one of the worst nights of his illness.  Spending several years alone and confined to a wheelchair\, Araneo found hope and healing by painting his dreams as subject of his art.  His paintings preach strength through difficult times.  All of his hard work has led him to having solo shows in New York City. \nJoel Rudin creates imaginary\, mystical\, surreal\, and foreboding landscapes. His palette consists of mostly veiled and muted colors\, evoking old photographs. Rudin creates a sense of vastness and space of faraway vistas with distant formations half seen in the mist. Rudin’s artistic career was foreshadowed when as a child\, his sixth grade teacher\, sympathetic to his art leanings\, was assigned to create an image of the solar system in color chalks across the classroom blackboard. Rudin’s principal medium is pastel\, thinly applied\, mixed with other materials\, pencil\, crayon\, oil pastel\, watercolor and gouache. \nLauren Curtis focuses on the interconnectedness of art\, spirituality and culture.  She expresses her beliefs recalling the power of the Feminine and Nature.  Curtis’ art is inspired by various mythological and symbolic systems of both ancient and modern cultures.  Using artwork and photography\, often inspired her travels within the US and Europe to tell personal stories of the world as she experienced it\, and of herself as an individual in that world. Respecting the differences of people\, as well as their similarities\, Curtis tells her stories.  When creating art\, Curtis uses diverse materials\, and for each piece\, selects the media that best exemplifies the symbols and subjects. Whether it’s through painting\, collage\, or photography\, each image becomes it’s own personal myth-story. \nLyle Kleinhans studied drawing and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin in the 1950’s\, but his life diverged from that interest when the exigencies of supporting a family interceded.  His interest in art had diminished however\, and over the years Lyle visited many of the major museums of Europe and the U.S.  Now\, after a break of 55 years\, he returns to his first love – art.  Kleinhans has been drawing for 4 years and painting for the last 2 years. Kleinhans’ works through abstract figurative representations in oil.  Kleinhans’ paintings are another picture of reality viewed through the skewed or jaundiced filter of his mind.  This filter works to deepen the mystery of life and cast light on the existence of life. \nMaria Bouquet’s spiritual experiences and personal transformations of herself and others inspire her art.  The connections between silence and mindfulness have acted as a transforming agent in Bouquet’s life\, aiming to capture depth within spirituality in relation to the world.  She considers herself a seeker\, always searching for truth and knowledge and living with a purpose.  Beauty and abundance in the world combined with questions like “Why am I here?” and “Who am I” govern Bouquet’s growth and works.   \nMeredith Turshen\, an artist\, teacher\, and writer  currently teaching at Rutgers University New Brunswick\, began her art studies at age ten at the Art Students League in New York with Saturday classes for children.  After majoring in studio art at Oberlin College\, Turshen has participated in workshops at Pratt\, the Printmaking Council of NJ\, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking\, the CT Center for Graphic Arts\, and elsewhere.  Through her artwork\, she reflects on nature\, the mystery of the human figure.  Her paintings reflect an interest in body movement and dance theater\, particularly the work of Alwin Nikolais.  She exhibits regularly in the New York metropolitan region\, with Viridian Gallery in Chelsea\, and with hob’art\, an arts cooperative based in Hoboken. \nMichael Hanna’s art is a culmination from a lifetime of training and experimentation\, a style which he refers to as industrial planes. The key element in his paintings is tension from many variables\, which make his works quite complex. In all formats of his art– paintings\, experimental paintings\, drawings\, and digital– cyberpunk culture acts as theme. Hanna’s experimental paintings with oil on steel\, electronic components\, and crystals\, have an analysis of a deeply exotic\, hi-tech future\, in a state of social collapse. With emerging advanced technologies such as fusion\, quantum computing\, artificial intelligence\, and biological engineering\, Hanna believes it is his role as an artist to address his current world.  Hanna comments on the world’s ever increasing reliance on technology\, the destabilization and collapse of nations from the Middle East to Ukraine\, the increasingly authoritarian and oligarchic structure of Western society\, and provides perceptions as to the social reaction\, context\, and rebellion of our transition to an age of transhumanism. He makes art which is complex and cerebral. \nPaul Mordetsky finds his primary inspiration from landscapes.  Using landscapes for both aesthetic and metaphorical reasons\, he represents space and light within the graphic language.  The mood and atmosphere of the scene define Mordetsky’s works. The artist works from drawings\, memory\, and news media photos as reference for the mood and atmosphere of the piece. \nTania Ianovskaia uses her works to reflect her identity and life.  As the artist changes\, so does her art.  As Ianovskaia experiences life events and struggles\, these themes demonstrate themselves in her works.  Ianovskaia immerses herself in the pieces\, living in the painting rather than reality.    \nTeriz Michael\, born in Cairo\, Egypt\, began her intensive art studies in High School and continued until earning a BFA in fine arts.  After traveling extensively in Egypt\, she uses her photographs as references for paintings and drawings.  Some of her most notable abstract works of art are derived from memory\, emotion\, and spirituality.  Her work has earned her various awards that includes receiving a Sila Rhodes Scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. \nVadim Levin was born in Minsk\, Belarus and grew up among famous artists who have inspired his artwork.  Levin creates works that represent his view on the world\, the complexity of life\, his feelings\, vision and personality. The works aim to make people think and revisit every day values.  All Levin’s current paintings feature oil on canvas. Currently\, Vadim Levin and his family reside in East Brunswick\, NJ.   URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/lappel-du-vide-oil-and-mixed-media-2016/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Lappel-Du-Vide-gallery-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160708T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160708T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185640Z CREATED:20160526T203137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185640Z UID:9622-1468006200-1468015200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2016 - July 8 @ 7:30pm - New Brunswick Art Salon Part II: Watercolor and Mixed Media - "Movements in Nature: Perspectives of Being" DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Preview: July 6th @ 7:30pm to 10pm\n Exhibition Opening: July 8th @ 7:30pm to 10pm\n Exhibition Duration: June 28th  to August 20th  2016 \n  \n \n \n  \nNew Brunswick Art Salon Part II: Watercolor and Mixed Media\, “Movements in Nature: Perspectives of Being” featuring representations of the nuances of nature\, using watercolor and mixed media. \n\nWe are pleased to invite you to the second installation of the New Brunswick Art Salon\, highlighting artists who excel in their work manipulating watercolor and mixed media to reveal vast visions of nature. The 13 featured artists are prominent local figures whom have exhibited their work in gallery shows throughout the greater New York area or have worked with Alfa Art Gallery in previous exhibitions. Through the exhibition\, you will witness local talents from the New Brunswick area\, and beyond\, whom reflect and inspire the rich artistic culture of the community.  \n“Movements in Nature: Perspectives of Being” focuses on ebb and flow of life\, matter\, and nature. Thus\, providing a glance into one’s experience of nature’s materialized essence\, both tangible and intangible. From the unrestrained watercolors of Hanna Aviv\, to the deconstructed figural representations by Verdiana Patacchini\, bear witness to the broad interpretations of life in flux\, through unbridled color\, experimental texture\, and limitless gesture. Reminiscent of the Art Salons of the 18th and 19th century\, the New Brunswick Art Salon was launched to promote the ever-evolving advances in the arts. Please join Alfa Art Gallery for a night of celebrating an exclusive glimpse into multifaceted impressions of the ever-changing human experience. \n  \nAbout Artists\n“Movements in Nature: Perspectives of Being” will feature many talent artists\, both renowned and those currently establishing themselves. Hana Aviv has excelled as a local artist over the past decade\, continuing to hone her artistic process and style. Working as a pathologist at Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson\, she spent her nights taking art classes at a variety of institutions\, where she found her artistic match working with watercolors. Watercolor gives Hana a freedom she was not able to find in other media. She focuses her work on life painting and expressions of nature where she draws upon color and fluidity to create dynamic works. In particular\, her series of flower paintings seem to depict bright bushels of  nature that blur the line between contained objectivity and open expression\, as evidenced in her loose\, broad brushstrokes. \nSimilar in style and subjectivity\, Thea Berkhout depicts the world in a recognizable yet innovative manner. She is an artist\, as well as an Associate Dean at Rutgers University\, in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy. Her artwork consists of images such from life\, such as still life\, landscape\, and explorations of the nude figure. \nKaren Terry is a lifelong artist\, always returning to painting as a meditation. Her pieces are inspired bythe universality of nature and landscape\, often depicting simple snapshots of the seasons or weather.She works in mixed media but thrives using sumi-ink\, departing from classical Eastern painting and manipulating the medium to produce modern pieces. Her paintings in the NBAS Part II Exhibition are dark\, vague landscapes produced with the sumi-ink wash\, and emphasize a dreamlike experience of  nature. Terry emphasizes the merit of her art is dedicated to peace. \nGregg Bautista is a recent graduate from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts\, there he concentrated in painting\, with a minor in Art History. He utilizes water color to create dark abstractions and loose figural forms. His work blends forms and color to create new landscapes and figures\, which challenges the viewers’ perception of these historically and traditionally known aspects of nature and art.  \nKaren Starrett\, a trained educator and artist\, has exhibited her work in over 60 shows throughout the United States over the past decade. Her educational roots stem from Rutgers University\, our local neighbor\, and she has expanded her work since then. Starrett works with mixed media\, from painting to assemblage and collage. Her process is dynamic and spontaneous\, where new forms build off of previous ones\, creating personal and nostalgic scenes for the artist. Her mixed media collages that are exhibited in the New Brunswick Art  Salon Part II are engaging and multidimensional in space\, portraying an abstraction of nature and form. \nDonna Payton has an MFA from the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles and is a recipient of the New Jersey Print and Paper Grant from the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University. Payton uses very bright colors and highlights to bring her paintings to life. The subjects of her paintings consist of everyday household- objects\, but the use of color brings importance to these images.  \nRida Fatima has an Associate degree in Interior Design. She won “Best In Show” in December\, 2013 at the Old Orchard Gallery. Fatima uses watercolor to create paintings of wood\, trees\, and flowers. The main elements of her paintings emphasize depth\, perspective\, mystery\, texture\, and color. She emphasizes that art is her personal language through which she can talk without saying a word.  \nSusan Gilli also utilizes the power of mystery\, texture\, and color in her work. She focuses on depicting subjects of nature in flux. She presents the brilliant electricity of life through her usage of bright colors and intricate yet explosive brushwork. Her artwork is partially abstract\, and her mediums of choice are acrylics and mixed media. \nVerdiana Patacchini has her roots in Italy and now works fluidly between Italy and the United States. She creates multimedia images and compositions where she finds painting to be the ideal medium  to bridge the gap between nature\, the imagination\, and reality.  \nJeffrey Pullen obtained his BFA and MFA from the Pratt Institute of New York. He uses oil on wood to create portraits of landscapes\, which are mainly focused on New York City. Specifically\, he has created impressive landscapes of Times Square. He has taken part in almost 40 solo exhibitions nation-wide\, along with 70 group shows. In his work\, he presents realistic images on  nontraditional surfaces. In this current exhibit\, his paintings depict imagery of the city which communicate with the complex sculptural forms of the surfaces.  \nTania Sen also plays with the  viewers’ ability to interpret different realities in her work. She was born in Kolkata\, India\, but she currently lives and works in New York and New Jersey. Sen received her Masters in  Communications Arts from the New York Institute of Technology. Sen utilizes mixed media to create pieces that speak to the materialization/dematerialization of the world. She is influenced  by media signage\, pop culture\, and the thoughtful perceptions of pop culture reality. Sen has taken part in past exhibitions at Alfa Art Gallery. \nIndrani Choudhury was born in Calcutta\, India and worked as a biomedical research scientist for 25 years. Upon moving to New Jersey in the 1990’s\, she began to feel that her life was  incomplete. This void led to her becoming a full-time self-taught painter in 2005. Entirely self-taught\, Indrani works solely in watercolors\, transforming the medium beyond its typical constraints to produce the texture and richness of acrylics and oils. Her portraits consist of nature scenes and miscellaneous objects.  \nDustin Garafalo also utilizes watercolor to create mainly landscape scenes consisting of gradients of dark colors\, rather than deep contrasts of  lightness and darkness as seen in Indrani Choudhury’s work. His working pace tends to be fast\, due to the fact that he combines charcoal\, acrylics\, graphite\, and oils. Garafalo focuses on  subjects in nature. He is currently working on obtaining an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the State University of New York\, at Albany. \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/july-8th-730-1000-pm-alfa-art-gallery-invites-you-to-new-brunswick-art-salon-part-ii-watercolor-and-mixed-media-movements-in-nature-perspectives-of-being/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBAS-Water-Color-and-Mixed-Media-Part-II-banner-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185640Z CREATED:20160407T161503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185640Z UID:9531-1462554000-1462568400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2016 - May 6 - Alfa's 8th Anniversary Celebration & NBAS Awards Ceremony & "Pushing Boundaries: An Exploration of Form and Color" Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: April 27th – June 25th 2016Opening Reception: May 6th 2016 @ 5 pm – 9:30pm \n\nAlfa’ 8th Anniversary Celebration \nNBAS Awards Ceremony\nPushing Boundaries: An Exploration of Form and Color” exhibition opening\n\n  \n \nSchedule of events:\n\n5pm – 5:30pm: Welcoming Alfa Honored Guests\n5:30pm – 5:45pm: Alfa’s 8th Anniversary Remarks\n5:45pm – 6pm: New Brunswick Art Salon Awards Ceremony\n6pm – 7pm: Live music and refreshments\n7pm – 9:30pm: Pushing Boundaries: An Exploration of Form and Color – Exhibition Opening Reception\n\n  \nExhibiting Artists :Vesselin Kourtev\, Peter Arakawa\, John Hawaka\, Rita Herzfeld \nPlease join Alfa Art Gallery in commemorating the gallery’s 8th anniversary on May 6th 2016 at 5pm! In the past eight years\, Alfa Art Gallery has seen great success in exhibiting and working with over 300 accomplished artists from the community. Our anniversary event will honor these artists for their hard work and achievements.  \nWe are pleased to announce and host the New Brunswick Art Salon (NBAS) 2015 awards which will be presented to artists in the mediums of watercolor and mixed media\, as well as oil and mixed media exhibitions. The NBAS was designed to showcase the talents of artists to the New Brunswick community and has been very successful in this endeavor in the last five years. The goal of these salons is to bridge the gap between artists and their communities and to unify the diverse city of New Brunswick through making and appreciating art. The Alfa Art Gallery New Brunswick Art Salon derives its inspiration from the 18th century Parisian art salons that celebrated new advances in academia and the arts. \nAlfa Art Gallery is pleased to present Pushing Boundaries: An Exploration of Form and Color. Artists Vesselin Kourtev\, Peter Arakawa\, Rita Herzfeld\, and John Hawaka\, have been long-time partners and affiliates of Alfa Art Gallery and are well-established artists in the New Brunswick area. This exhibition features a selection of their paintings\, each of them distinct in style and inspiration\, but unified in their themes of synthesizing order and chaos\, and inspiriting form and color. \nWe are also delighted to present our 2015 annual catalog. This carefully curated catalog promotes our exhibiting artists and provides an extensive over view of our exhibitions from the past year.  \n\n                                                                                                                        \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/alfas-8th-anniversary-celebration-nbas-awards-ceremony-pushing-boundaries-an-exploration-of-form-and-color-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/8th-Anniversary-banner-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160311T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160311T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185638Z CREATED:20160218T171519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185638Z UID:9380-1457722800-1457733600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2016 - March 11 @ 7pm - The New Brunswick Art Salon: featuring Arts Council of Princeton DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: March 1st – April 23rd\, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday\, March 11th\, 2016 at 7:00pm \n  \n \n(New Jersey\, March 2016) Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition to start off the spring season\, The New Brunswick Art Salon: featuring Arts Council of Princeton. This exhibition will exclusively feature art instructors from Arts Council of Princeton\, bringing their professional knowledge and recent artistic visions to the availability of Alfa Art Gallery audience. \nMerging the New Brunswick Community Arts Council and Arts Council of Princeton presents a unique opportunity for all members\, artists\, and interested parties to explore and collaborate new ideas\, opportunities\, and art forms.  \n  \nExhibiting Artists:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nLibby Ramage\nIfat Shatzky\nBarbara DiLorenzo\nEva Mantell\n Charles Viera\n\n\n\n  \nPlease join us at the Opening Reception on Friday March 11th at 7pm. There will be light refreshments and a live musical performance by Classical Revolution\, a global network of musicians who take classical music out of the concert hall and into non-traditional venues\, in order to enrich communities and create local support networks for local musicians. For more information\, visit www.crnj.org \nPerforming musicians will include: James Keene- Violin I; Samantha Tomblin- Violin II; Seth Van Embden- Viola; Alex Nelson- Cello \n  \nAbout Arts Council of Princeton\nThe Arts Council of Princeton was founded as an independent non-profit organization in 1967 by Bill Selden\, its first President. From the beginning\, its mission has been to Build Community through the Arts\, serving the community as an artistic and cultural hub and nurturing visual\, performing and literary arts in the greater Princeton area. Today\, The Arts Council fulfills its mission by presenting a wide range of arts and arts education programs including studio-based classes and workshops in the visual\, performing and media arts\, exhibitions\, performances\, and free community cultural events. Arts Council of Princeton programs are designed to be high-quality\, engaging\, affordable and accessible for the diverse population of Mercer County and beyond. Creating art and learning from working artists and performers in intimate artistic encounters directly addresses the Arts Council’s mission. For more information\, visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/9380/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Watercolor-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160122T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160122T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185550Z CREATED:20160108T163801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185550Z UID:9246-1453489200-1453496400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2016 - Jan 22 @ 7pm - New Brunswick Art Salon: Photography feat. The Raritan Photographic Society DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: January 12th – February 29th 2016 Opening Reception: Friday January 22nd\, 2016 from 7:00-9:30pm  \n \n  \nAlfa Art Gallery is pleased to announce collaboration for the second year in a row with The Raritan Photographic Society in the 2016 New Brunswick Art Salon: Photography Exhibition. Alfa is always enthusiastic about merging existing art clubs\, organizations\, and societies\, in order to give artists new exposure to the New Brunswick community. A specific focus will explore the experience of travel\, whether it’s cross country\, or capturing unknown landscapes outside the United States. This exhibition will give viewers a chance to escape their everyday sights and learn about alternative destinations. Join Alfa Art Gallery and The Raritan Photographic Society at our opening reception night on Friday January 22nd from 7:00-9:30pm. There will be music\, light refreshments\, and a brief informative curatorial introduction will be presented. \n  \nExhibiting Artists: \n\nBarbara Eggermann\nPaul Eggermann\nSusan Powell\nJamie Shombert\nRichard Doerr\nEdward Hughes\nHilda DeSanctis\nCarol Buinno-Petscavage\nWilliam Petscavage\nEllen Reardon\n\n  \nAbout the Raritan Photo Society\nRPS originally started in 1929 with a small group of photo enthusiasts regularly meeting in each other’s homes. At present\, the society has 50 paid members and many more regular visitors who attend the lectures\, which occur twice a month. RPS has witnessed the amazing evolution of photography from glass plates to today’s powerful digital photo technology.  \nThe society’s photographers are united in a mutual love of photography\, but maintain their individual aspirations as to what they want to achieve with that love. There are members who are professional photographers as well as members working towards achieving professional status. Its members choose to work in a wide spectrum of styles from photo realism to abstraction as well as members who are still looking to find their own style. The members hold a common passion for photography and a desire to become better photographers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Eggermann\nPaul Eggermann\nSusan Powell\nJamie Shombert\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Doerr\nEdward Hughes\nHilda DeSanctis\nCarol Buinno-Petscavage\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\nWilliam (Bill) Petscavage\nEllen Reardon\n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/new-brunswick-art-salon-photography-feat-the-raritan-photographic-society/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Melissa-Egues-RPS-Banner-small.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151113T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151113T220000 DTSTAMP:20160801T182645Z CREATED:20151104T225514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160801T182645Z UID:9144-1447443000-1447452000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2015 - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2015 - Oil and Mixed Media Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: November 1st – December 30th\, 2015 Opening Reception: November 13th at 7:30 pm \n \n(New Jersey\, November 2015) Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to announce the third and final New Brunswick Art Salon of 2015: The Oil and Mixed Media Exhibition. Alfa is excited to introduce new artists\, as well as previously exhibited artists: John Hawaka\, Sean Carney\, and Merrille Drakulich. A wide variety of mediums include oil\, lacquer\, wood stain\, relief\, and acrylic. The contrast of styles\, from abstraction\, to surrealism and more traditional realism\, gives the show a dynamic eye of contemporary fine art. These carefully selected twelve artists bring to Alfa their unique spin on the artistic process and a new take on universal concepts. \nThe exhibition has no admission fees and is open to the public. An Opening Reception will be held Friday\, November 13th @ 7:30pm. There will be a live musical performance by the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra and refreshments will be served. Musicians: (Elizaveta Laskova: Violin ; Nina Vieru: Violin; Ana Tsinadze: Viola; and Jordan Enzinder: Cello) \n  \nExhibiting Artists: Curatorial Notes \nAdel Strauss: She uses a variety of mixed media as a way to reinterpret themes from the past through today’s visual and cultural lens. The unique frames in conjunction with collaging magazines give these materials a new meaning and purpose. \nBarry Altman\, M.D.: He was previously a surgeon who began painting after retirement. Although most of his work is abstract\, he also includes representational objects that are highlighted through his use of collage and relief artistry. His subject matter varies from tigers to naturalistic diorama scenes\, all bearing interesting Latin titles. \nJan ten Broeke:  His work incorporates biomorphic objects\, shapes and forms that resemble those which are found in nature. His use of color combined with the round\, natural forms of these objects\, evokes a balance between organism and structure. \nJane Zamost: Her work is driven by emotions and dreams\, which are captured at the moment of their formation. She uses a variety of colors and different forms of applying paint to display the emotion she wishes to capture. \nJohn Hawaka: He uses lacquer as his primary medium because of its reaction to water\, resulting in an explosion of forms across the canvas. Hawaka is inspired by life\, his subject matter is capturing the burst of color in an aesthetically pleasing manner\, as it expands towards the edges. \nSean Carney: He received a BFA with a focus on Portrait and Figure Painting from New Jersey City University\, and has also studied at the School of Visual Arts and The Fashion Institute of Technology in NY. Carney uses wood stain and dremel for his work. He experiments with water based stains as to expand his palette and texture. The overall tone of his work embodies some variance of shades and color. \nSarah Smith: She works with mainly oil\, in an attempt to focus on endangered species that she considers to be works of art themselves. She hopes to achieve a sense of protection within the canvas as to help the viewer reconsider their relationship with wildlife. When painting a person\, nature tends to be her central focus rather than the figure. \nRitch Gaiti: He primarily works in oils with mixed media like sand to give a sense of the setting and time. Focusing on western themes\, he attempts to capture not only movement but also the heart and soul of the subject. He includes a strong use of impasto to add dimension as well as the use of yellow and orange to add an antiquated feeling. He juxtaposes the time and culture from the far past with shades of blue. \nRia Glassman: She studied studio art at Drew University and is inspired by her life drawing classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY. Focusing on the female nude\, she practices the discipline approach working best with structured pre ordained forms. She uses dark colors juxtaposed with skin tones\, giving little visibility to the face by the portrayal of hands over the woman’s face or turning her body away from the viewer. \nPia de Girolamo: She grew up in NYC yet traveled to Italy to study paintings privately and continued to explore fine arts in college. However\, she became a physician and shortly after leaving the practice began to experiment with large spaces of color. She works mainly with large charcoal marks as well as working with drawing and painting to characterize the movement of lines and swirls. The dark violent lines juxtapose to the soft color. \nMiriam Stern: She works with highly abstracted versions of objects\, places\, and people from the photographs she takes. These photographs include places the artist has visited\, becoming a new place with each manipulation. She begins with photography and uses a combination of digital manipulation\, traditional printmaking\, and painting. After creating unique prints\, she uses oil paint to give a more abstract feel. \nMerrilee Drakulich: Attaining both a BFA and an MA in studio art\, Merrilee uses large portions of color to approach the subject matter. With a high contrast of light and dark\, she uses a loose application of paint adhering to prominence of her brushwork. She works with close views of objects\, striving to avoid a full view in its entirety. Much of her influence derives from Caribbean and French landscape. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2015-new-brunswick-art-salon-oil-and-mixed-media-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Exhibition_Web_Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150508T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150508T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185533Z CREATED:20150427T131145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185533Z UID:8534-1431108000-1431118800@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2015 - May 8 @ 6:30pm - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Spring 2015 - Watercolor and Mixed Media Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: May 2nd – June 30th\,  2015 Opening Reception: Friday\,  May 8th\, 2015 at 6:30pm \n  \n  \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Karen Starret \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Jazz Genome Project \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rudy Martin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hana Aviv \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Indrani Choudhury \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Judy Koo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n  \nAbout this Exhibition\nAlfa Art Gallery will be hosting its seasonal New Brunswick Art Salon Exhibition featuring local artists within the watercolor medium. The opening will be held on Friday May 8th\, 2015 at 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ. \nOriginating in Paris in the 18th century\, art salons were the most anticipated annual and biannual events\, celebrating the farthest advances in academia and the arts. These salons provided artists with the opportunity to exhibit their work alongside their contemporaries while received critical as well as public response. Inspired by the Parisian Salons\, Alfa Art Gallery holds Salons four times a year in different artistic mediums and endeavors to showcase the talent of local artists to the New Brunswick public. \nThe gallery is excited to introduce new and well established watercolor and mixed media artists to show in the exhibition. Many of these works range from the beautiful simplicity of realism to the thought-provoking questions of abstraction. While a majority of the artists work in watercolor\, some choose and more extensive approach and add mixed medium to their pieces including: digital imaging\, collage\, charcoal\, and ink. \nThe exhibition has no admission fee and is open to the public. There will be a live musical performance and refreshments will be served. \n  \nExhibiting Artists\nCuratorial Notes by Bari Kaplan \nAida Birritteri is a watercolor artist who draws inspiration from natural settings and human figures.  She creates her works from working off of photographs\, or paints her scenes directly in the open air (en plein air).  Each work expresses a celebration of life through the use of fresh and vibrant colors. \nChris Carter uses her art to express human archetypes\, rhythms\, patterns of life\, and energy that pulses through the universe.  Each work incorporates her other two loves:  math and science. \nDavid Glasofer has had a strong passion for photography his entire life\, and he has practiced the art for the past thirty-five years.  He experiments with the various technological advances that computer imaging offers.  After he prints his images he typically enhances them by incorporating other media such as paint\, pencil\, or chalk. \nHanna Aviv paints a plethora of scenes that inspire her from day to day.  These can range from vast outdoor landscapes to simple objects such as fruits or vegetables.  In each work\, Hana’s main goal is to provide an essence of harmony and tranquility. \nJudy Koo works involve the process of translating impulsive thoughts into drawings and then through painting.  Her subjects entail trivialities that are part of her daily routines; they can be complex or as simple as eating a meal.  Each painting is chaotic\, lyrical\, and playful. \nKaren Starrett uses art as a conduit that connects her inner and outer world.  She sees artistic expression as a means of confidence to express her voice as an individual.  Each of her paintings starts with arbitrary forms that are later transformed and given color. \nLibby Ramage’s works are very abstract and avant-garde.  She incorporates new types of media such as newspaper that add a variety of texture.  Each work is created from a collage of materials that come together and create a cohesive and beautiful image \n Steven Cavallo is a watercolor artist who focuses on images of human figures.  Each painting is infused with emotion that radiates into the souls of viewers. Steven plays with light and shadow\, which highlights the detailing in his paintings. \n Tania Sen draws her inspiration from mythology\, pop culture\, advertisements\, and signage.  Her abstract works incorporate deep meanings as she explores traditional symbolism through personal interpretation for subject matter \n Victoria Kulikowski is a watercolor and botanical artist. Flowers are a constant presence in her works.  She looks for organic shapes and recurring patterns in nature when crafting her paintings \n Mark de Mos is a watercolor artist who uses painting as a means to capture realism through movement\, color\, lights\, and centers of interest. His works communicate his inner emotions or narratives from within. \n Rudy Martin has had a passion for art since early childhood. In 2003 he was diagnosed as legally blind and he continues to paint with this condition. His key purpose of painting is to bring joy to others. Each work combines feelings and motion to create organic and geometric forms\, colors\, and dimensions. \nIndrani Choudhury  is a self-taught artist who takes watercolor to new limits. She manipulates the texture of her paintings in such a manner that her watercolors appear as different media such as acrylics or oils. The landscapes that she paints range from her local New Jersey home to her homeland of Calcutta. \nErica Velasco is a photographic artist with an interest in painting. Her goal with her works is to create aesthetically pleasing visuals through the use of color and texture. The inspiration behind her art derives from the natural world and human body. \n  \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/nbas-watercolor-and-mixed-media-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/watercolorbanner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150220T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20150213T165412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:7801-1424458800-1424466000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2015 - February 20 @ 6:30pm - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Photography 2015: Raritan Photographic Society DESCRIPTION:February 19th – March 11th\, 2015 Opening Reception: Friday\, February 20th\, 2015\, 6:30-9pm \nAlfa Art Gallery will be hosting the seasonal New Brunswick Art Salon\, Photography 2015 exhibition featuring the Raritan Photographic Society (RPS). The opening will be held on February 20th 2015 at 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ. \nThe gallery is pleased and excited to introduce the Raritan Photographic Society and its members’ works into the New Brunswick community. The exhibition continues to support Alfa’s initiatives to promote art organizations such as RPS. Working with RPS and its diverse members\, the gallery is able to continue to give new talented artists a place of exposure as well as provide tangible products of expression to expand the perspectives of individuals in effort to grow the unity and cultural heritage. \nThe exhibition features works by Barbara Eggermann\, Hilda S. DeSanctis\, Carol Biunno-Petscavage\, Bill Petscavage\, Susan Powell\, Paul Eggermann\, Julie Barlasov and John Cregar. \nVesselin Kourtev\, the gallery’s owner spoke about the new exhibition with enthusiasm\, “The decision to present the society to the local community is part of Alfa’s dedication to promote many new and emerging artists and their works.” \nBarbara Eggermann the RPS Coordinator\, shared Mr. Kourtev’s enthusiasm over the new found partnership\, “It is an opportunity to introduce RPS to a broader audience. It is also a chance for the exhibiting members to have their work seen and to attract new people to become involved in RPS and their activities.” \nThe exhibition will be from 6:30-9pm promptly\, and refreshments will be served. The exhibition has no admission fee and is open to the public. \n  \nAbout the Raritan Photo Society \nRPS originally started in 1929 with a small group of photo enthusiasts regularly meeting in each other’s homes. At present\, the society has 50 paid members and many more regular visitors who attend the lectures\, which occur twice a month. RPS has witnessed the amazing evolution of photography from glass plates to today’s powerful digital photo technology. \nThe society’s photographers are united in a mutual love of photography\, but maintain their individual aspirations as to what they want to achieve with that love. There are members who are professional photographers as well as members working towards achieving professional status. Its members choose to work in a wide spectrum of styles from photo-realism to abstraction as well as members who are still looking to find their own style. The members hold a common passion for photography and a desire to become better photographers. Regular RPS lectures and critiqued competitions conducted by professional photographers help to improve the members’ skills\, to grow their knowledge of photography and to make new friends who share their interest. \n \nContact: Sean Fallon\, PR Intern\, sean@alfaart.org \n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by: \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/nbas-photograph-exhibition-raritan-photographic-society-feb-2015/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/RPS-Banner_2015-Feb-11-CORRECTED-VERSION-960x380-pi.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T220000 DTSTAMP:20160731T222242Z CREATED:20141029T160657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T222242Z UID:7544-1415995200-1416002400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2014 – November 14 @ 8pm – New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2014 DESCRIPTION:Exhibition duration: November 4th  –November 24\, 2014Opening Reception: Friday\, November 14th @ 8pmAlfa Art Gallery Hosts 5th Annual New Brunswick Art Salon \n \nAbout this Exhibition\nOriginating in Paris in the 18th century\, art salons were the most anticipated annual and biannual events\, celebrating the farthest advances in academia and the arts. These salons provided artists with the opportunity to exhibit their work alongside their contemporaries while received critical as well as public response. Inspired by the Parisian Salons\, Alfa Art Gallery holds Salons to showcase the talent of local artists to the New Brunswick public. \n2014 will mark the 5th year of these juried exhibitions. The featured pieces will be in either watercolor or mixed media and from a variety of emerging and professional artists. Through exhibiting the work of local artists\, the New Brunswick Art Salon seeks to bridge the gab between artists and their communities. \nThe opening reception of the New Brunswick Art Salon runs from 8-10pm on Friday\, November 14th\, following the “End of Summer Nights Dream” Alfa Gala Benefit Event\, which is taking place at Crossroads Theater from 6-8pm. \nThis exhibition with include watercolors and mixed media works by the following artists: \n\nDustin Garafolo\nEdwin Santiago\nGinny Nagy\nJoanne Amantea\nJoel Rudin\nJuana Rodriguez\nKaren Terry\nLynn Varga\nMarilyn Rose\nRita Herzfeld\nRita Koch\nSam Caponegro\nSean Carney\nSteve Zazenski\nTeriz Michael\n\nMuch like the various media with which these artists create\, the works in this exhibition are highly multifaceted in form and style. From the familiar nature scenes painted by Marilyn Rose to the harlequin-like colors and figures of Ginny Nagy\, the pieces in this exhibition explore a wide range of themes. The thematic diversity of the exhibition is coupled with its stylistic variety. While Dustin Garafolo’s paintings are bound together by their photorealistic undertones\, Rita Herzfeld’s pieces resonate with an abstract quality. Joanne Amantea also embodies this abstraction through the alluring composition of each of her watercolors. Juana Rodriguez’s creates a similarly enticing effect through the raw emotion of her subjects. Emotion is also portrayed in Karen Terry’s ink on paper works\, although this artist does so without the help of color. \nNot only do these artists differ from one another in style\, but there is also variation in form among each artist. Sean Carney and Terez Michael\, for instance\, do not adhere to one particular style of painting\, but\, rather\, excel in many media and forms. Although all the works in this exhibition are diverse\, the pieces balance one another to create the unique identity of the collection. \nAlfa Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information about the gallery\, see https://www.alfaart.org/. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2014-november-new-brunswick-art-salon-fall-2014/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBASbanner2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141114T210000 DTSTAMP:20160731T221429Z CREATED:20141020T182406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T221429Z UID:7286-1415988000-1415998800@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2014 - November 14 @ 6pm - Crossroads Theater Gala & New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2014 Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, November 14th 6-8 p.m. Tickets: $10 donation \nNEW BRUNSWICK\, NJ— On Friday\, November 14th\, Alfa Art Gallery will hold its fundraiser\, “End of Summer Nights Dream” at the Crossroads Theater at 7 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. \nThe gala will feature live music by Conrad Herwig\, the renowned jazz trombonist. Herwig has earned three Grammy nominations and has twice been voted Number One Jazz Trombone in the Downbeat International Jazz Critic’s Poll. He is also a well-respected educator\, currently serving as Area Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts here in New Brunswick. Herwig will be accompanied by Craig Handy on saxophone\, Bill O’Connel on piano\, Ruben Rodriguez on bass and Robby Ammen on drums. \nFor the showcase\, artists will spontaneously paint on canvas\, rendering inspiration that they feel from the music. Pieces by various artists from the New Brunswick Art Salon Fall’ 2014 will also be exhibited at this event. \nWith the assistance of the Middlesex County Cultural Heritage Commission\, Alfa Art Gallery successfully secured a grant from Johnson and Johnson. \n“End of Summer Nights Dream” takes place from 6-8pm\, right before the opening reception of the New Brunswick Art Salon\, which will open at Alfa Art Gallery at 108 Church Street in New Brunswick from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. \nAlfa Art Gallery holds four Salons per year to showcase emerging and professional artists in different mediums. This fall’s Salon will feature watercolor and mixed media artists. Inspired by Parisian art salons of the 18th century\, the New Brunswick Art Salons’ goal is to bridge the gap between artists and their communities\, as well as unify the diverse city of New Brunswick through art. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and support of emerging and well-established artists. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. \nFor more information about Alfa Art\, visit https://www.alfaart.org. For more information about this event\, contact Allie Smith at alexandra@alfaart.org. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2014-november-14-crossroads-theater-gala-new-brunswick-art-salon-fall-2014-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Crossroads-banner2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140411T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140411T200000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20140405T205506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:6148-1397241000-1397246400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2014 - April 11th @ 6:30 - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Spring 2014 - "Eclectic Aesthetics" DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, April 11th from 6:30pm to 9:30pm Exhibition Duration: 4/1/14 to 4/30/14 \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is excited to unveil “Eclectic Aesthetics” rendered with the mediums of oil and mixed media.  This exhibition is Alfa’s biannual New Brunswick Art Salon.  Alfa Art Gallery presents this diverse exhibition which engages the beauty of a collective work of artists.  This highly selective exhibition celebrates a variety of artists portraying their unique abstract thoughts\, meaningful still life paintings and drawings\, portraits and vividly imaginative sculptures. \n“Eclectic Aesthetics” houses aesthetically pleasing compositions\, geometric shapes\, art that speaks for itself\, vibrant color\, muted colors\, gold leaf and powerful spiritual abstraction.   Alfa visitors will be inspired\, as these artists lure the viewers into their personal portrayals of life\, a feeling\, a moment\, nature\, a deity\, a figure in geometric space and more.  Featured are works with ephemeral renderings\, illustration\, superb portraits\, mixed media including portraits on an elaborate concoction of electronics and found objects\, different perspectives within and without. \nThis exhibition will feature works by the following artists: \n\nDustin Garafolo\nErica Velasco\nHerbie Pabst\nJosé M. Fontaiña\nJoseph Lawrence\nKaren Starrett\nMarla Fasano\nMichael Price\nPatricia Millen\nSheila Grabarsky\nVadim Levin\nVincent Salvati URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2014-april-11th-630-eclectic-aesthetics/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Eclectic-Aesthetics-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140110T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140110T210000 DTSTAMP:20160801T182339Z CREATED:20131019T234940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160801T182339Z UID:4959-1389378600-1389387600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2014 - January 10 @ 7pm - "New Brunswick In The Eyes of Photographers" - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Winter 2014 - Photography DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: January 10- January 29 Opening reception: January 10th – 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is proud to present its fourth annual Photography exhibition\, “New Brunswick in The Eyes of Photographers”\, in cooperation with New Brunswick City Market. This Photography Exhibition is a part of the New Brunswick Art Salon series\, in which Alfa invites established and emerging artists to present their works as a tangible presentation of their artistic expression. This winter\, we invited photographers to open the audience towards their images of New Brunswick\, a cultural and diverse city with various perspectives and viewpoints. \nPhotography as a medium is especially powerful. A photograph holds nothing but the truth\, images that can only be tampered with so much. These series of photographs\, dedicated to the city of New Brunswick\, provide a different perspective to a city that is enriched by the citizens that inhabit it. While some photographs do not particularly feature New Brunswick\, these photographs are just a small example of the artistic integrity that emerges from a city that harbors such diversity. \nWe are proud to include an eclectic mix of artists\, new and experienced\, local and international. This salon will feature a “Best in Show” award along with 2nd and 3rd place prizes. Jurors this year will include seasoned art critics Greg Ritter and Nat Clymer. Artists featured in this year’s photography exhibition are: \n\nAndrew Darlow \nCasey Shaw\nChristine Anderson \nChristopher Sztybel\nFrank Villafane\nGina Delia\nKarissa Gannon\nLauren Curtis \nNeil Larsen\nSean Coban\nParvathi Kumar\nTom Maugham URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/new-brunswick-art-salon-photography-2014-call-for-artist/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBAS-photography-web-banner-CJ.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131108T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131108T210000 DTSTAMP:20160731T213645Z CREATED:20130929T233254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T213645Z UID:4977-1383935400-1383944400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - Nov 8 @ 6:30 pm - Pathways to Nirvana – New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2013 - Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: November 8\, 2013 from 6:30 to 9:30 PMExhibition Duration: November 1\, 2013 to November 28\, 2013 \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is proud to present “Pathways to Nirvana\,” our New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2013 Exhibition. Alfa’s Fall Salon focuses on oil-color and mixed media – a turn from our Winter Salon’s focus on photography and our Spring Salon’s focus on water-color and mixed media. All of our Salons have amassed stunning success and illustriousness within the New Brunswick arts community as metamorphic meetings – meetings between artists’ works and viewers of art – between art and the public – between art and you. \n“Pathways to Nirvana” features the works of 15 monumentally talented artists\, making this Salon Alfa’s largest in what will be the New Brunswick Art Salon’s fifth year. The NBAS is a forum for artists and their works to be exposed to the New Brunswick public\, and for the New Brunswick public to be exposed to artists and their works; this crisscrossing helix of our artists and the New Brunswick public is what deepens the connection between the artist\, the art\, and the viewer – a connection that we at Alfa proudly promote and support. The exhibition encompasses oil-color works and mixed media works from a collection of artists who possess differing ideas – ideas seamlessly connected through a passion to explore the mercurial nature of art in all forms\, using a kaleidoscope of media to tell deep\, thoughtful stories. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is thrilled to present the works of the following artists: \n\nAllyson Block\nDavid Rivera\nHannah Batren\nJane Dell\nLou Storey\nMarianne Trent\nMartin H. Blender\nMegan Verzi\nMerrilee Drakulich\nNancy Stella Galianos\nPeter Arakawa\nRita Herzfeld\nShyamal Raguso\nTricia Zimic\nWes Sherman\n\nIn its fifth year\, Alfa’s New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2013 Exhibition will be a thundering success; with the works of 15 skilled artists embellishing Alfa’s gallery space with blooming spiritedness\, we here at Alfa foresee the denizens of New Brunswick enjoying a show that will encourage profound reflection and a colossal appreciation for what these artists have produced. Join us at our Opening Reception on November 8\, 2013\, from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. We look forward to having you celebrate Alfa’s fifth year of the New Brunswick Art Salon with us. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-nov-8-630-pm-pathways-to-nirvana-new-brunswick-art-salon-fall-2013-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBASfall2013_banner1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130502T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20130316T165301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:4099-1367521200-1367532000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - May 2 @ 7 pm - "Infinite Layers" - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Spring 2013 - Part II - Mixed Media Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: May 2 @ 7-10pmExhibition Duration: May 2-28Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am- 6pm \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is proud to announce the spring installment of our New Brunswick Art Salon.  Because there were so many fantastic artists that submitted to our open call for artists\, Alfa Art Gallery has decided to divide its Spring Salon into two separate exhibitions.  Opening on May 2\, 2013 at 7pm\, “Infinite Layers” will be the second installment of juried watercolor and mixed media artwork featuring established and emerging artists.  \nThe New Brunswick Art Salon has been a successful program for the last three years with the help of New Brunswick City Market and our sponsors.  Previously twice\, now three times a year\, Alfa Art Gallery presents salons exhibiting fantastic artists in different mediums.  The goal of these salons is to bridge the gap between artists and their communities\, as well as unifying this diverse city of New Brunswick through the use of art. \n“Infinite Layers\,” the second installment of the Spring New Brunswick Art Salon Exhibition will feature the multi-media works of talented artists Andrea Abarca Coutts\, Anuja Phansalkar\, Chris Kapsaroff\, Jane Dell\, Jane Zweibel\, Kristen Gillespie\, Lauren Curtis\, Lea Cattan\, Miriam Lefkowitz\, Renée Wysocki Levin\, and Yelena Budylin. \nThe second part to Alfa Art Gallery’s spring salon of 2013 features a number of artists who fully embrace the freedoms of working in mixed media. Whereas the first part to our spring salon\, “Quiet Moments\,” featured artists who worked primarily in water color\, in “Infinite Layers” the artists in the show combine the traditional painterly materials of water color\, oil\, and acrylic with a variety of outside materials. Another strong characteristic of the work in Infinite Layers is the trend towards abstraction. Artists like Chris Kapsaroff\, Lauren Curtis\, Lea Cattan\, Miriam Lefkowitz\, Yelena Budylin\, and Jane Dell all work with abstraction in varying capacities\, often combining it with figural imagery to create works that juxtapose familiarity and novelty. This bent towards abstraction in “Infinite Layers” also produces an overall effect much different to that of “Quiet Moments\,” where the show is largely comprised of town\, nature\, and landscape scenes. In “Infinite Layers” the collective direction of the show is much different\, as each artist employs a different technique to obscure or estrange their particular subject. For instance\, in Renée Wysocki Levin’s work commonplace objects such as sea shells are magnified and rendered with extreme detail and clarity\, the effect being one that brings a new\, heightened awareness of a relatively commonplace object. Levin’s work is just one example of the exciting work being shown in Infinite Layers\, a show that we hope will demonstrate the talent of each artist. \nAt Alfa Art Gallery’s second spring salon exhibition\, “Infinite Layers\,” there will be\, along with the various works in mixed media and watercolor\, a group of three sculptures provided by the New Brunswick Public Sculpture organization. \nSpirit of 1776 – Edward Kolwicz \nThe NBPS is a not-for-profit organization\, like Alfa Art Gallery\, whose mission is to commission and place public art throughout the city to enhance the quality of life and encourage cultural tourism and commerce. The organization will commission a wide range of styles\, primarily for outdoor display. The sculpture being exhibited in “Infinite Layers” was donated to NBPS in 2008 and is a group of three sculptures by the Metuchen based artist Edward Kolwicz. These life size sculptures are created from automobile parts and scrap metal\, most of which was donated by the Charter Machine Company. In honor of the 1976 bicentennial Kolwicz sculpted three 6-foot high Revolutionary War soldiers\, two of which are outfitted with drums and the third with a flute. Kolwicz has skillfully sculpted these figures in positions that imply movement and that add to their liveliness. The Drummer was perched on top of an aquatic float in 1980 along the Raritan River for the City’s Tercentennial Festival\, reminding spectators of New Brunswick’s role in the Revolution. These sculptures fit in nicely with the rest of the exhibition\, in which many artists make use of irregular and sometimes surprising materials. Alfa Art Gallery is proud to be able to exhibit works from the NBPS and looks forward to doing so in the future. \n  \nPhotos from Exhibition Opening! \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by: \n \n \n \n \n \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-may-2-7-pm-infinite-layers-nbas-2013-part-ii-mixed-media-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBAS-BANNER-Part-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20130316T165045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:4092-1365102000-1365112800@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - April 4 @ 7 pm - "Quiet Moments" - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Spring 2013 - Part I\, Water Color Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: April 4 @ 7-10pmExhibition Duration: April 4-30Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am- 6pm \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is proud to announce the spring installment of our New Brunswick Art Salon 2013.  Because there were so many fantastic artists that submitted to our open call for artists\, Alfa Art Gallery has decided to divide its Spring Salon into two separate exhibitions.  Opening on April 4\, 2013 at 7pm\, “Quiet Moments” will be the first installment of juried watercolor and mixed media artwork featuring established and emerging artists.  \nThe New Brunswick Art Salon has been a successful program for the last three years with the help of New Brunswick City Market and our sponsors.  Previously twice\, now three times a year\, Alfa Art Gallery presents salons exhibiting fantastic artists in different mediums.  The goal of these salons is to bridge the gap between artists and their communities\, as well as unifying this diverse city of New Brunswick through the use of art. \n“Quiet Moments\,” the first installment of the Spring New Brunswick Art Salon Exhibition will feature the beautiful watercolor works of talented artists Arlene Cornell\, Indriani Choudhury\, Jinnie May\, Judy Ballance\, Marilyn Rose\, Medy Bozkurtian\, Neela Pushparaj\, and Rose Reilly Leonard.  Each artist has their own style respectively\, but when viewed together the pieces create a tranquil silence that is easy to get lost in. \n  \nArtist Interviews (more coming soon) \n \n  \nPhotos from Exhibition Opening! \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Quiet Moments \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-april-4-7-pm-quiet-moments-nbas-2013-part-i-water-color-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBAS-BANNER-Part-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T190000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20130312T203524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:4071-1363874400-1363892400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - March 12 - April 7 - “New Brunswick Through Photographers' Eyes" @ George Street Playhouse DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: March 21st  @ 1:30 Exhibition Duration: March 12th – April 7th \nAlfa Art Gallery is proud to announce that their New Brunswick Through Artists Eyes Exhibition\, which debuted on January 10th\, is going to be exhibited at George Street Playhouse from March 12th to April 7th.  This exhibition will be on display at the foyer of George Street Playhouse during their theatrical run of “Rich Girl\,” a comedy by Victoria Stewart and directed by Michael Bloom. This exhibition displays a large array of cultural and demographic interests that exist within New Brunswick\, and intends to capture the diverse cultures of many talented photographers as they portray New Brunswick through their eyes. This juried exhibition showed the works of many talented artists that instead of traditionally ranking the artists\, the jury decided to award them all for their best image. \nThe featured artists include: Andrew Darlow\, Aubrey J Kauffman\, Frank Villafane\, Mark Chernin and Neil Larsen.  \nFor further information\, contact the George Street Playhouse Box Office\, 732-246-7717\, or Alfa Art Gallery at 732-296-6720\, or visit the organizations websites: www.GSPonline.org or www.AlfaArt.org. \nGeorge Street Playhouse is located at 9 Livingston Avenue in the heart of New Brunswick’s dining and entertainment district. \n  \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-march-12-april-7-new-brunswick-through-photographers-eyes-george-street-playhouse/ LOCATION:George Street Playhouse\, 9 Livingston Ave\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/George-Street-Photography-Exhibition-March-2013-benner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130125T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130125T210000 DTSTAMP:20160731T211224Z CREATED:20130102T190152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T211224Z UID:3747-1359136800-1359147600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - Jan 25 @ 6pm - “New Brunswick Through Photographers' Eyes" - Open Studio / Meet the Photographers DESCRIPTION:Open Studio: January 25\, 6pmExhibition Duration: January 10-29 \nAlfa invites you to attend an open studio / meet the artists event with featured photographers in New Brunswick Art Salon 2013 – Photography exhibition. The audience will have an opportunity to have their questions answers from the artists themselves\, in order to gain insight into their techniques and processes. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery New Brunswick Art Salon has been a successful program for the last three years. Previously twice\, now three times\, during the year\, we present salons exhibiting emerging and professional artists in different mediums. The goal of these salons is to bridge the gap between artists and their communities\, as well as unifying this diverse city of New Brunswick through the use of art. \n“New Brunswick Through Photographers Eyes” exhibition capture the diverse cultures and many talented photographers\, exhibiting New Brunswick through their eyes. The exhibiting artists will include: Andrew Darlow\, an active member of the photography scene in New Brunswick; Aubrey J Kauffman\, who focuses on complex images and multi-layered spaces; Frank Villafane\, a photographer who pays attention to dense details and contrasts; Mark Chernin\, who tends to accentuate a reflection of land or waterscapes with color\, contrast\, and saturation; and Neil Larsen\, a traditional/contemporary photography who concentrates on nature. \n  \nAlfa also invites you to attend: \nTravel/Street Photography Techniques and Lightroom 4 Workshop – Saturday 1/26/2013 at Alfa Art Gallery – Instructor: Andrew Darlow \nTravel/Street Photography Techniques and Lightroom 4 Workshop  – Sunday 1/27/2013 at Alfa Art Gallery – Instructor: Andrew Darlow URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-jan-25-6pm-new-brunswick-through-photographers-eyes-open-studio-meet-the-photographers/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:New Brunswick Art Salon,Open Studio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/NBAS-Photography-2013-Benner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130110T220000 DTSTAMP:20160801T182414Z CREATED:20130102T004031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160801T182414Z UID:3631-1357844400-1357855200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - Jan 10 @ 7pm - “New Brunswick Through Photographers' Eyes" - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Winter 2013 - Photography DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: January 10\, 7-10pm \nOpen Studio: January 25\, 6pmExhibition Duration: January 10-29Open Tues-Sat\, 11am-6pm\, Thursday 11am-8:30pm  \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is proud to announce the third installation of our New Brunswick Art Salon. Opening on January 10\, 2013 at 7pm\, “New Brunswick Through Photographers Eyes” will be a juried photography exhibition\, featuring emerging and established artists. This photography salon has been designed in collaboration with the New Brunswick City Market and other organizations in order to display the large array of cultural and demographic interests that exist within New Brunswick. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery New Brunswick Art Salon has been a successful program for the last three years. Previously twice\, now three times\, during the year\, we present salons exhibiting emerging and professional artists in different mediums. The goal of these salons is to bridge the gap between artists and their communities\, as well as unifying this diverse city of New Brunswick through the use of art. \nIn weeks following the opening reception\, Alfa will also conduct an open studio event. This will include lectures and panel discussions from the photographers. Additionally\, the audience will have an opportunity to have their questions answers from the artists themselves\, in order to gain insight into their techniques and processes. \nThis exhibition will capture the diverse cultures and many talented photographers\, exhibiting New Brunswick through their eyes. The exhibiting artists will include: Andrew Darlow\, an active member of the photography scene in New Brunswick; Aubrey J Kauffman\, who focuses on complex images and multi-layered spaces; Frank Villafane\, a photographer who pays attention to dense details and contrasts; Mark Chernin\, who tends to accentuate a reflection of land or waterscapes with color\, contrast\, and saturation; and Neil Larsen\, a traditional/contemporary photography who concentrates on nature. \nTo show appreciation for the immense amount of work done by the New Brunswick Free Public Library in collecting and archiving New Brunswick’s history in images\, Alfa will also presents the photographs from the library’s “New Brunswick Tomorrow” collection. The collection consists of 6000 slides documenting the changing streetscapes of New Brunswick from 1979 into the early 1990s. \nThe library also maintains a significant local history collection of various media. Photographs are an integral part of the collections and include images of local Civil War veterans\, school events\, library programs\, nearly 200 Van Derveer photographs\, and building preservation documentation. \n \n \nImages from the opening reception \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aubrey J. Kauffman NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christa NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christa NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christa NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christa NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christa NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mark Chernin NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Natalie Bazaral (NB City Market Treasurer) & Fawn Stephens (Program Coordinator) NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Natalie Bazaral (NB City Market Treasurer) NBAS Photography 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NBAS Photography 2013 Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Neil Larson NBAS Photography 2013 URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-jan-10-7pm-new-brunswick-through-photographers-eyes-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Poster-NBAS-Photography-2013-FL-GK-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121116T210000 DTSTAMP:20160729T221351Z CREATED:20121101T215204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T221351Z UID:3100-1353088800-1353099600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Nov 16 @ 6 pm – United We Stand: New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2012 – Open Studio – Meet the Artists – Second Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us for open studio on Nov 16th to meet the artists and learn about their art technique and philosophy.\nExhibition Duration: November 1 – 27\, 2012 Open Tue-Sat\, 11 am – 6 pm\, Thursday 11 am – 8:30 pm  \n“United We Stand” is a juried group exhibition\, inspired by the historical salons of the 18th and 19thcenturies.  The Alfa Art Gallery provides an opportunity for upcoming and established artists to exhibit their works side by side in a show celebrating the diversity of art.  From traditional painting to abstract installations\, the works of these ten unique artists utilize a broad spectrum of media to showcase the capabilities of the visual arts to express each person’s individual thoughts and philosophies.  The artists\, Phil Carroll\, Bruce Garrity\, and Leah K. Tomaino\, each provide abstracted\, yet realistic\, views of the world with their compositions of outdoor scenes.  Then\, Joanie Gagnon San Chirico\, Dion Hitchings\, Marie Sturken\, and Ethan Sherman demonstrate an abstract approach to viewing their environment\, in which they utilize bright colors and geometric shapes.  The remaining artists\, Colleen Gahrman\, Nanci Hersh\, and Agop Gemdjian\, all work in two and three-dimensional media to create works that tell a narrative or comment on the world around them.  Exhibited together\, these works create a microcosm of the diverse art world\, showing that the most different people and works come together to create the culture and world in which we reside. \n  \nAgop Gemdjian works in both two- and three-dimensional media.  Highly abstracted figures are thought provoking and stimulate the viewer in a unique way.  His work offers a look into his life and opinions on many different subjects and issues. \nBruce Garrity currently focuses on the woodland interior and captures realistic moments with a slightly abstracted style.  Bright colors and sharp contrasts accentuate the scenes he creates with his skilled hand. \nColleen Gahrman works in photography and college\, but she specializes in sculpture.  She uses ceramic sculpture to depict narrative scenes from her personal life\, experiences\, and environment. \nDion Hitchings utilizes geometric shapes and bright colors in his paintings to create figures.  The abstracted works lead the viewer into Hitching’s mind and imagination. \nEthan Sherman uses geometric patterns and blocks of colors in his 2-D and 3-D works.  He pushes the boundaries by adding texture to his composition with different materials\, and also by expanding his work into the space of the viewer. \nJoanie Gagnon San Chirico creates abstract paintings with both the beauty of the world and the impermanence of beauty in mind. \nLeah K. Tomaino’s paintings invite the viewer to contemplate the beauty of nature in an increasingly urban society.  Landscapes\, trees\, and flowers slightly flattened and abstracted in her own personal style are used as metaphors for spiritual subjects. \nMarie Sturken’s finds her inspiration in Japanese culture.  Her works include lines\, patterns\, and geometry that create balanced abstract compositions. \nNanci Hersh’s abstract paintings and installations are created from various materials.  Her works chronicle her personal life in an ongoing visual narrative. \nPhil Carroll is a well-established artist who works in oil\, and recently video.  His paintings offer a realistic view of the world around us and capture its natural beauty. \n  \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n2\n► URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/november-16-6-pm-united-we-stand-new-brunswick-art-salon-fall-2012-open-studio-meet-the-artists-second-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:New Brunswick Art Salon,Open Studio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-11-16_open_studio_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T220000 DTSTAMP:20160729T221102Z CREATED:20121101T215054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T221102Z UID:2482-1351796400-1351807200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Nov 1 @ 7pm - "United We Stand: New Brunswick Art Salon\, Fall 2012" - Juried Exhibition Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: November 1 @ 7 – 10 pmOpen Studio: November 16 @ 6 – 10 pmExhibition Duration: November 1 – 27\, 2012Open Tue-Sat\, 11 am – 6 pm\, Thursday 11 am – 8:30 pm  \nWhat better way to forget about the hurricane for a while than to attend the opening of our most prestigious exhibition series? And if you can’t make it on Nov 1st\, please join us for our open studio on Nov 16th (read below for more info) \n“United We Stand” is a juried group exhibition\, inspired by the historical salons of the 18th and 19th centuries.  The Alfa Art Gallery provides an opportunity for upcoming and established artists to exhibit their works side by side in a show celebrating the diversity of art.  From traditional painting to abstract installations\, the works of these ten unique artists utilize a broad spectrum of media to showcase the capabilities of the visual arts to express each person’s individual thoughts and philosophies.  The artists\, Phil Carroll\, Bruce Garrity\, and Leah K. Tomaino\, each provide abstracted\, yet realistic\, views of the world with their compositions of outdoor scenes.  Then\, Joanie Gagnon San Chirico\, Dion Hitchings\, Marie Sturken\, and Ethan Sherman demonstrate an abstract approach to viewing their environment\, in which they utilize bright colors and geometric shapes.  The remaining artists\, Colleen Gahrman\, Nanci Hersh\, and Agop Gemdjian\, all work in two and three-dimensional media to create works that tell a narrative or comment on the world around them.  Exhibited together\, these works create a microcosm of the diverse art world\, showing that the most different people and works come together to create the culture and world in which we reside. \n  \nAgop Gemdjian works in both two- and three-dimensional media.  Highly abstracted figures are thought provoking and stimulate the viewer in a unique way.  His work offers a look into his life and opinions on many different subjects and issues. \nBruce Garrity currently focuses on the woodland interior and captures realistic moments with a slightly abstracted style.  Bright colors and sharp contrasts accentuate the scenes he creates with his skilled hand. \nColleen Gahrman works in photography and college\, but she specializes in sculpture.  She uses ceramic sculpture to depict narrative scenes from her personal life\, experiences\, and environment. \nDion Hitchings utilizes geometric shapes and bright colors in his paintings to create figures.  The abstracted works lead the viewer into Hitching’s mind and imagination. \nEthan Sherman uses geometric patterns and blocks of colors in his 2-D and 3-D works.  He pushes the boundaries by adding texture to his composition with different materials\, and also by expanding his work into the space of the viewer. \nJoanie Gagnon San Chirico creates abstract paintings with both the beauty of the world and the impermanence of beauty in mind. \nLeah K. Tomaino’s paintings invite the viewer to contemplate the beauty of nature in an increasingly urban society.  Landscapes\, trees\, and flowers slightly flattened and abstracted in her own personal style are used as metaphors for spiritual subjects. \nMarie Sturken’s finds her inspiration in Japanese culture.  Her works include lines\, patterns\, and geometry that create balanced abstract compositions. \nNanci Hersh’s abstract paintings and installations are created from various materials.  Her works chronicle her personal life in an ongoing visual narrative. \nPhil Carroll is a well-established artist who works in oil\, and recently video.  His paintings offer a realistic view of the world around us and capture its natural beauty. \n  \nArtist Interviews  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-nov-1-7pm-new-brunswick-art-salon-fall-2012/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-11-01_nbas_fall_2012_main_2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20120601T150004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:2294-1339180200-1339189200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - June 8 @ 6:30pm - "Synthesis" - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Spring 2012 - Part II DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, June 8 @ 6:30pmExhibition Duration: June  8 – July 11Curator: Kathryn Mecca \nReaching from the historical “salon” style exhibition\, Synthesis provides local artists with a chance to simultaneously unveil their recent works to both their contemporaries and the public. Since opening its doors in 2008\, Alfa has held these Art Salons biannually. Each exhibition is juried by a panel of art professionals\, and features new artists to the gallery while celebrating their exchange of ideas. Synthesis features a group of works which carefully balance\, juxtapose\, and combine opposites in ways that evoke novel synthetic unities. \n  \nShalum Shalumov is a painter\, jazz pianist\, and poet. His paintings find inspiration from unexpected mediums. We clearly see musically themes behind his work in their dynamic compositions and layered imagery. Boundaries are constantly shifting\, much like the perpetual transformation found in the films of Federico Fellini and Andrei Tarkovsky. This complexity brought on by movement creates surreal\, dreamlike environments in his work. Shalum captures the dynamism of creation by using a wet-on-wet watercolor technique.  Originally from Russia\, Shalum received his Masters in Fine Art and Architecture at the Ilya Repin State Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.  He currently works full time as an architectural designer and renderer in New York City.  \nJane Dell has studied painting\, printmaking\, textile design\, fabric art\, and graphic design. Her diverse background in the arts is well explored in her current body of work. She combines collaging techniques with painting to create provocative and outspoken pieces. The works force us to consider the interactions and interrelations of contemporary culture by embedding carefully selected imagery within surrealistic landscapes of evocative color. Jane has been practicing for nearly forty years and has exhibited in six shows this past year alone\, including a solo show currently on display at the Monmouth Museum.  \nWade Miller’s oil paintings explore the creative destruction of illusion. He offers a fragmented yet cohesive perspective of popular culture by presenting familiar images in ways that challenge the eye. By carefully positioning found images from magazines\, his works channel the modern strategies found in cubist and surrealist traditions. Because his works stop and begin in unexpected ways\, they are naturally absorbed more slowly\, providing a more prolonged interpretive experience for the viewer. Wade received his Masters in Fine Art from Columbia University and has been practicing for nearly thirty years. He currently lives and works in Highland Park\, New Jersey. \nTheodosia Tamborlane is an active member of the Art Students League\, the New Century Artist Gallery\, Studio Montclair and the Woodbridge Artisans’ Guild. Her series “Connections & Communications” uses abstract painting methods to explore the ways that communication among individuals serves to unite and unify their disparate lives and personal experiences. These colorful compositions are highlighted with bold line work that branches throughout the entire surface and reflects the complex entanglements that both bind and limit us. Theodosia has participated in six shows this year alone\, and is currently featured in a group show at the The Artist Framer in Crandford\, New Jersey. She is the recipient of the 2012 Blue Dot Award through the Art Students League\, and a selected juried artist with the 2012 Gaelen Juried Art Show.  \n  \nThis event is in part sponsored by: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nInauguración: Viernes\, 08 de junio a las 6:30 pmDuración de Exposición : 8 jun – 11 julCuradora: Kathryn Mecca \nLlegando desde la histórica exposición “salón” de estilo\, Síntesis ofrecen a los artistas locales con la oportunidad para dar a conocer simultáneamente sus obras recientes tanto a sus contemporáneos y el público. Desde que abrió sus puertas en 2008\, Alfa ha mantenido estos Salones de Arte cada dos veces al año. Cada exposición es juzgado por un panel de profesionales de las artes\, y cuenta con nuevos artistas a la galería mientras celebran su intercambio de ideas. Síntesis cuenta con un grupo de obras que cuidadosamente equilibran\, yuxtaponen y combinan los opuestos en formas que evocan nuevas unidades sintéticas. \nJane Dell ha estudiado pintura\, grabado\, diseño textil\, arte de tela\, y diseño gráfico. Sus diversos antecedentes en las artes es bien explorado en sus obras de trabajo actual. Ella combina las técnicas de collage con la pintura para crear piezas provocativas y abiertas. Las obras nos obligan a considerar las interacciones e interrelaciones de la cultura contemporánea mediante la incorporación de las imágenes seleccionadas cuidadosamente dentro de los paisajes surrealistas de colores evocadores. Jane ha estado practicando durante casi cuarenta años y ha exhibido en seis muestras sólo este año pasado\, incluyendo un show solitario actualmente en exhibición en el Museo de Monmouth. \nShalum Shalumov es un pintor\, pianista de jazz\, y poeta. Sus pinturas se inspiran demedios inesperados. Vemos claramente los temas de música detrás de su trabajo en sus composiciones dinámicas e imágenes de capas. Los límites están cambiando constantemente\, al igual de la transformaciónes perpetuas que se encuentra en las películas de Federico Fellini y Andrei Tarkovski. Esta complejidad provocada por el movimiento crea los ambientes de ensueño\, surrealistas en sus obras. Originalmente de Rusia\, Shalum recibió su Maestría en Bellas Artes y Arquitectura en la Academia de Ilya Repin Estatal de Bellas Artes en San Petersburgo. Actualmente trabaja como un procesador de arquitectura en la ciudad de Nueva York. \nTeodosia Tamborlane es un miembro activo de la Liga de Estudiantes de Arte\, la Galería Siglo Nuevo Artista\, Montclair Studio y el Gremio de Artesanos de Woodbridge. Su serie “Conexiones y Comunicaciones” utiliza métodos abstractos de pintura para explorar las formas en que la comunicación entre individuos sirve para unir y unificar sus vidas de dispar y experiencias personales. Estas composiciones de colores se resaltan con el trabajo de línea gruesa que se ramifica a lo largo de toda la superficie y refleja los complejos enredos que ambos se unen y nos limitan. Teodosia ha participado en seis exposiciones en este año solamente\, y actualmente muestra en una exposición colectiva en el Framer El Artista en el Crandford\, Nueva Jersey. Ella es la ganadora del Premio 2012 Blue Dot a través de la Art Students League\, y una artista seleccionada para el jurado en el Salón de Arte de Gaelen 2012. \nPinturas al óleo de Wade Miller exploran la destrucción creativa de la ilusión. Él ofrece una perspectiva fragmentada\, sin embargo cohesiva de la cultura popular mediante la presentación de imágenes familiares en formas que desafían la vista. Colocando cuidadosamente las imágenes encontradas en revistas\, sus obras canalizar las estrategias modernas que se encuentran en las tradiciones surrealistas y cubistas. Porque sus obras paran y comienzan de maneras inesperadas\, ellas son naturalmente absorbidas más lentamente\, dando una experiencia de interpretación más prolongada para el espectador. Wade recibió su Maestría en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Columbia y ha estado practicando desde hace casi treinta años. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Highland Park\, Nueva Jersey. \nEste programa es patrocinado en parte por: \n \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-june-8-630pm-new-brunswick-art-salon-spring-2012-part-ii/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012_nbas_spring_part2_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120511T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120511T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20120507T135049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:2271-1336761000-1336770000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - May 11 @ 6:30pm - "Spaces Occupied" - New Brunswick Art Salon\, Spring 2012 - Part I DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, May 11 @ 6:30pmExhibition Duration: May 11 – June  6Curator: Kathryn Mecca  \nReaching from the historical “salon” style exhibition\, Spaces Occupied provides local artists with a chance to simultaneously unveil their recent works to both their contemporaries and the public. Since opening its doors in 2008\, Alfa has held these biannual Art Salons. Each juried exhibition features new artists and celebrates their exchange of ideas. Central to this group is the careful consideration of space\, and the figures\, forms and narratives that inhabit it. \nAlaine Becker’s pastels on oversized paper deal with damaged people. The psychological drawings combine with pure color to create deeply vulnerable and intimate portraits. Heavy layers and transparencies reflect the subject’s fragility and leave the surface textured with complexities. We are at once familiar with and alienated by these personal vignettes. And with the subject’s identity always undisclosed\, the viewer is given the freedom to create their own narrative. Alaine Becker received her BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1981. She recently completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and has been exhibited extensively throughout the Northeast Coast. \nAlyce Gottesman received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in and has been painting for over 30 years. She captures a unique organic essence in her work by focusing on formal issues\, such as space and dimension. Her abstract paintings appear atmospheric. Forms inhabit the space\, and a clever play with perspective gives the illusion of spacial depth. In combination with her heavy use of drawing\, and subtle yet bold color choices\, the viewer becomes absorbed into an imaginary world. The works capture the spirit of nature on an energetic level\, by using abstractions to communicate vital messages. Alyce Gottesman lives and works in Montclair\, NJ. She currently teaches Art at Bergen Community College in Paramus\, New Jersey and is a member of the Young Scholars Program of Newark\, NJ. \nCarole Krinsky is a self taught artist working primarily in pointillism. Her dot and circle filled acrylic paintings exercise bold color choices and intricate arrangements. Finding inspiration from the aboriginal works native to Australia\, her paintings offer universal messages which are powerful and primitive. These confident works convey a broad range of themes\, often spiritual and personal in nature. And\, each theme is provoked by and changes with the artist’s daily life experiences. Carole Krinsky lives and works in East Brunswick\, New Jersey. She is a full time business owner\, mother of three\, and a student of the Highland Park Academy of Art. \nJonathan Horowitz is both a writer and painter. His heavily conceptual but vibrant paintings combine abstractions with familiar cultural references. Their composition is carefully designed so that movement radiates throughout the canvas. His paintings are the result of countless preparatory sketches\, a process which allows him to hone his shapes and designs. Emotion is provoked by his choice of tone\, and a dramatic effect is achieved by his use of loud\, complementary colors. Jonathan Horowitz lives and works in Highland Park\, and has exhibited extensively throughout the area. \n  \nThis event is in part sponsored by: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-may-11-630pm-spaces-occupied-new-brunswick-art-salon-spring-2012-part-i/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,New Brunswick Art Salon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/nbas_spring_2012_part1_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR