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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20130626T201646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:4513-1373738400-1373749200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - July 13 @ 6 - "A Summer Pavilion" - M-SHAC's juried exhibition DESCRIPTION:Juror: Jeffrey WechslerExhibition: July 1 to August 15Opening Reception: July 13\, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n \n\nAlfa Art Gallery is proud to announce its collaboration with M-SHAC in an upcoming juried exhibition entitled “A Summer Pavilion.” The exhibition will feature the works of many prominent members of the Millburn-Short Hills Arts Center\, and will be given judged by a panel with a monetary prize. There will be six awards including: Best in Show\, two Awards of Excellence\, and three Awards of Merit. The exhibition will run from July 1st to August 15th with a reception held on July 13th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. \nM-SHAC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the development of local artists. It was founded in 1940 and is the oldest art association in northern and central Jersey with more than 150 members hailing from cities and towns across the state as well as nearby New York and Pennsylvania. The members mainly work in oil\, watercolor\, pastels\, collage\, sculpture\, and photography. From the photography of Mike McKenna to the paintings of Dorothy Siclare and Michael Fenton\, there will be an array of mediums in this exhibition. \nThe host of the exhibition\, Alfa Art Gallery\, works to serve the community by integrating the visual arts with the surrounding area. The gallery’s goal is to connect art and the community through these collaborations. M-SHAC organizes several exhibitions annually at such venues as the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn and the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts in Morristown as well as at libraries\, hospitals\, community centers and corporate offices with all of their shows being free and open to the public. \nThe artists that will be exhibiting in the show include: \n\n\nAlison Hooper\nAnastasia Mancuso\nAnatoli Monov\nDorothy Siclare\nElizabeth Perez Diner\nFran Henig\nJeri Greenberg\nHarriet Leff\nHerbie Pabst\nIsabella Pizzano\nJack Quinn\nKat Block\nMargareta Greeley\nMichael Fenton\nMike Dziomba\nMike McKenna\nParvathi Kumar\nPaula Pearl\nPeter Alessandria\nRichard Baer\nRita Agron\nSusanna Anastasia\nTakayo Futamura \n\n  \nAwards for the MSHAC 2013 Summer Pavilion Exhibition  \nJuried by Jeffrey Wechsler \n  \nBEST IN SHOW: \n“Manhattan Mystery”\, by Kumar Parvathi \nJeffrey’s comments:   “This very interesting image has impact far beyond its small size.  At first\, the fragmentary “mystery” subject\, which turns out to be a partial view of someone’s legs\, engages the viewer.  But it is ultimately the visual power of the cropped arrangement of bright primary colors that creates a strong\, memorable composition.” \nAWARDS OF EXCELLENCE: \n“Night Shadows”\, by Paula PearlJeffrey’s comments:   This is a sensitively rendered\, highly atmospheric work\, with small details offering focal points within the darkness.  The subtle shading and slowly emerging subjects invite close looking. “11 Pipers Piping”\, by Mike DziombaJeffrey’s comments:    The vertical format strengthens this composition\, which is also marked by very carefully painted small details\, such as the flecks of sea foam and pebbles. \n  AWARDS OF MERIT: \n  “Red”\, by Dorothy Siclare Jeffrey’s comments:   This work is a good straightforward example of a classically composed still life\, heightened in effect by the careful positioning of the red fabric. \n  “Ruth”\, by Michael FentonJeffrey’s comments:     The intriguing combination of the three-dimensional steps with the painting is this work’s evident strong point\, which is enhanced by the textural quality of the painted imagery\, evoking decay and the passage of time. \n  “Nymph”\, by Harriet LeffJeffrey’s comments:     This sculpture’s appeal is derived from the quality of the carving technique\, enhanced by the active curves within the figure and the cloud-like environment. \n  \nMore information about the organization can be found at http://www.mshac.org/ URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-july-13-6-a-summer-pavilion-m-shacs-juried-exhibition-2/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/MSACH-BANNER.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130620T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130620T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20130523T192425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:4402-1371751200-1371762000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - June 20th @ 6 pm - “Colorful Expressions" - John Hawaka’s Solo Exhibition Opening Reception at The Heldrich Hotel DESCRIPTION:Exhibition duration: June 3 – September 6\, 2013Exhibition opening: June 20th @ 6 – 8 pmJazz: Saxophonist James Ohn \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is proud to present “Colorful Expressions\,” artist John Hawaka’s solo exhibition at The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick\, New Jersey.  Hawaka is a supremely accomplished artist\, possessing a number of awards for group and one-man juried shows throughout New Jersey\, New York\, and Pennsylvania.  Among his one-man shows\, four of them have been held in New Jersey\, and his “Nature in Abstraction” show received the highest award from the Black Diamond Arts Council in Lackawanna County\, Pennsylvania. \nWe at the Alfa Art Gallery are proud to announce that Alfa is the exclusive representative of Hawaka and his art.  Hawaka has been exhibited at Alfa multiple times in the past\, with exhibitions stemming as far back as April 2008.  Hawaka’s work has most recently been featured at Alfa in the September 2011 exhibition called “Spirit of Nature\,” which was a solo exhibition and catalog release.  Needless to say\, we at Alfa are immeasurably proud of Hawaka’s success\, and we are pleased to present his “Colorful Expressions” exhibition at The Heldrich Hotel. \nRegarding his art\, Hawaka is “happy when it agrees” with him\, noting the spontaneity of the lacquer medium\, a medium that is employed by few artists in North America.  Hawaka’s abstractions and expressions allow the viewer to explore a subjective realm of intimacy and innovation created through an amalgam of energetic forms and colors\, forms and colors that are “alive” with movement and with feeling. \nThe abstraction in Hawaka’s art effectively carries him to the forefront of modern art.  His ability to seemingly isolate a split second of movement through highlighting form and color creates an explosion of striking expression on the canvas\, which translates to an explosion of emotion in the viewer.  The subjective emotion in the work triggers a subjective emotion in the viewer\, and this juxtaposition creates an interesting and moving resonance; the art echoes\, and a split second of movement on the canvas is frozen – freeze-framed and still\, which directly contrasts what is happening with the viewer’s emotionality.  When considering Hawaka’s method of applying a color and simply going from there\, it’s incredible to realize that he has no blueprint – he only has a gut feeling.  And it’s even more incredible to realize how his singular gut feeling leads to the production of a work of art that inspires the viewers’ feelings.  Hawaka has said\, “Authors who stare at a blank sheet of paper for hours or even days are said to have writer’s block.  I’ve never had ‘painter’s block’ standing before a blank canvas.  Once I apply that first stroke of color\, I’m ready to go.” \nThe New Brunswick Jazz Project\, ardent supporters of Hawaka’s art\, will be sponsoring a jazz performance to accompany the exhibition.  The New Brunswick Jazz Project has employed one of Hawaka’s paintings as their logo\, exemplifying the seamless connection between music – jazz music – and Hawaka’s art.  Michael Tublin\, one of the New Brunswick Jazz Project’s founders\, is one of the biggest collectors of Hawaka’s artwork.  Regarding music\, Hawaka has said\, “Music is important when I paint.  I like jazz\, but I mostly listen to classical.  My favorite composers are Beethoven\, Sibelius\, and Shostakovich.”  Hawaka’s “Colorful Expressions” exhibition will be showing at The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick\, New Jersey\, from June 2nd to September 6th. \n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by:  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/colorful-expressions-john-hawakas-solo-exhibition-at-the-heldrich-hotel/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/John-Hawaka11.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130601T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185535Z CREATED:20130413T190826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185535Z UID:4294-1370113200-1370120400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 – June 1 @ 7 pm – "Reminiscent Brushstrokes" - Vesselin Kourtev's Solo Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Vesselin Kourtev Solo Exhibition Oil Color and Mixed Media Opening reception: June 1st   \nExhibition Duration: June 1st-June 29th  \n \nAlfa Art Gallery is proud to announce “Reminiscent Brushstrokes\,” the upcoming exhibition of Alfa Art Gallery’s founder and resident artist\, Vesselin Kourtev.  Following his last exhibition\, “The Messages\,” Vesselin continues to explore the abstract world he has created that connects what is seen by the eyes and the mind.  With the continued use of organic shapes and heavy references to traditionalist styles of the past\, Vesselin brings a new perspective in this exhibition by taking his paintings further into a spiritual realm.  With ethereal figures intertwining themselves within powerful strokes of vibrant color\, the viewer questions the relationship with the ghosts of the past and the present.  It is rare to see an artist merge figurative work with abstract work as seamlessly as Vesselin.  He creates energetic spaces in his paintings\, with faces peeking out from broad planes of lively color; figures emerge from sweeping abstract landscapes\, connecting the past and the present.  Vesselin’s work is harmonious – controlled but spontaneous\, abstract but organic\, and extremely true to self-expression.  His work appears to be sure of itself and meticulously thought out\, but there is still that quality of conceptualism that lends to its modern innovation – a modern innovation that nods to the past and looks to the future. \nA formally taught artist\, Vesselin’s paintings are heavily inspired by the ideals of the Symbolist and the Arts and Crafts Movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He has spent many years exhibiting around the world in Bulgaria and Europe\, and he has worked in the National School of Stage and Film Design in Plovdiv\, Bulgaria.  In “Reminiscent Brushstrokes\,” we will see a glimpse of Vesselin’s body of work throughout the years – we will see the development and evolution of his art and of a style that is characteristically unique.  \nHis new works will be unveiled at the opening on June 1st\, with a reception starting at 7:00.  The exhibition will be on view from June 1st through June 29th. \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-june-1-7-pm-vesselin-kourtevs-solo-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Vesselin-Banner-.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:20130307T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20130121T203706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:3764-1362679200-1362690000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - March 7 @ 6 pm - Alfa Art Gallery 5th Anniversary: Celebrating the Non-profit Idea with The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery & NBAS 2012 Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: March 7 @ 6 – 10pm\n Exhibition Duration: March 1 – 29\, 2013\n Curator:  Jeffrey Wechsler \nAwards Ceremony: Announcing the winners of the New Brunswick Art Salon 2012 Juried Exhibition \nOn March 7th we celebrate Alfa’s Fifth Anniversary and the Non-Profit Idea\, with an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Sylvia Wald and Kim Po Art Gallery. We will then continue with the Best in Show Awards Ceremony for the New Brunswick Art Salon 2012\, the awards for which were generously provided by the New Brunswick City Market. The exhibition\, curated by Jeffrey Wechsler\, will be open to the public from March 1st to March 29th. \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is a non-profit institution serving the New Brunswick community with exhibitions and multidisciplinary arts related activities since Jan 2008.  In this exhibition\, the Alfa Art Gallery celebrates the wide-ranging spirit of public service in the arts by featuring another non-profit gallery –  the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery\, located at 417 Lafayette Street\, in Manhattan.  \nThe common bonds between the two non-profit galleries are seen in their mutually shared activities and ideals: \n \n\nPresenting established and emerging artists and thematic group exhibitions\, including artists of regional\, national\, and international scope\nAdvancing art education through the engagement of interns pursuing careers in the visual arts\, communications\, design\, and related fields\nOffering educational and cultural programming for the general public\n\nThe Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery\, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization\, was founded by Korean-born American artist Po Kim and his wife\, American artist Sylvia Wald. The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery’s primary mission is to preserve\, maintain and perpetuate the legacy of the founders’ uniquely accomplished artistic careers and to exhibit the founders’ art works to promote and widen its public appreciation.  In 2009\, working with local and international cultural institutions\, the Gallery began to host special temporary art exhibitions covering a wide array of themes and media\, and now maintains an active schedule of such displays. \n \nDue to the significant status held by Po Kim within the field of modern Korean art\, as well as his continuing professional relationship with his native land\, the internship program at the Wald/Kim Gallery has focused on students from Korea who are pursuing degrees in the visual arts at institutions in the metropolitan area.  This exhibition presents work by Sylvia Wald and Po Kim\, along with work by six individuals who currently work at the Gallery: the interns Woojae Kang\, Tina Hyun Jin Kim\, Winter Gyeoul Kim\, Hwa Jin Lee\, and Suji Park – and also Sumin Hong\, the Gallery Manager of the Wald/Kim Gallery\, who had been an intern.  The works by the interns offer an intriguing look into the development of artists during the early years of their careers\, in media including painting\, drawing\, printmaking\, and sculpture.  In subject\, the works range from pure abstraction to mysteriously surreal figuration. \nThe art displayed by Po Kim and Sylvia Wald comprises a very small sampling from the many styles and techniques used by the artists during their long and productive lives.  Po Kim\, born in Korea in 1917\, came to New York in 1957; Sylvia Wald\, born in Philadelphia in 1915\, had been living in New York since 1937.  They met in New York in 1968 and married soon after.  Wald passed way in 2011; Kim continues to live and work in Manhattan.  \n \nDuring his first years in America\, Kim showed a direct engagement with his new art environment\, embracing Abstract Expressionism.  Yet his work was also visibly suffused with the aesthetic of his Korean heritage.  This is especially evident in the fluid\, calligraphic movements of his brushstrokes in a series of more than 180 small paintings on paper Kim produced from 1960-62 that feature independent and overlapping swirls\, thick and thin rapid gestures\, and elegantly dispersed blots.  The paintings concentrate within reduced surfaces the energy seen in his contemporary large canvases.  Never satisfied to work in one method and thus forgoing a signature style\, Kim abruptly shifted his approach in the 1970s\, creating highly realistic still life drawings of fruits and vegetables\, meticulously rendered in colored pencil\, such as Pear 3 and Celery 3 in the present exhibition.  From the 1980s onward\, Kim practiced variations on expressionist figuration and abstraction. \nSylvia Wald was always something of an artistic polymath\, concentrating on a particular medium – printmaking\, painting\, sculpture and assemblage – through stretches of time. Wald’s greatest reputation lay in the field of printmaking\, and this aspect of her work is featured in the current exhibition\, which includes silkscreens and woodcuts from the 1950s and 1960s.  She is particularly admired for her innovations with the silkscreen medium\, which made great use of the viscous properties of screenprint ink and its potential for a wide range of textural effects.  Wald’s prints often incorporated semi-spontaneous forms\, controlled within her compositions through her full understanding of her medium.  This is well demonstrated by her Abstract Expressionist silkscreens\, among the earliest and most coherent uses of the print media within that style.  Works like her Written in Sunlight I present the explosive linear and gestural power of “action painting\,” filled with linear motifs that zigzag through the image like lightning bolts.  Wald could also produce masterful prints with realistic subjects\, such as the carefully observed and subtly printed Sleeping Dog.  \nThe exhibition was curated by Jeffrey Wechsler\, who retired in 2011 as Senior Curator from the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hwa Jin Lee "Dream" 2010 16x20 Oil Pen and Ink on Canvas Panel \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Po Kim Pear Ca. 1975-7 13.5-x12.5 Colored Pencil on Paper \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Po Kim Abstract Ca. 1960-62 8.75 x 16.25 Oil on Paper \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Po Kim Abstract 182 1961-1962 Oil on Paper 18.75 x 23.75 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sumin Hong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sumin Hong "Untitled" 2011 26 x 56 Silicon Rubber \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sumin Hong Detail \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Suji Park "My Mother Doesnt Know How To Jump Further" 2012 5x14 Pencil and Acrylic on Paper \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sylvia Wald "Sleeping Dog" 1964 Woodcut on Paper 19.625-x-23.75 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sylvia Wald "Written In Sunlight" 1958 Silkscreen on Paper 26 x 28 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tina Hyun Jin Kim "Childhood" 2012 Installation Upper Cubes Approx 10 in lower cubes Approx 8 Woodcut \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Winter Gyeoul Kim "Untitled" 2011 66x60 Oil on Canvas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Woo Jae Kang "Untitled" 2011 58 x46 Acrylic Plaster Paper Pastel and Canvas Collage on Canvas \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n  \nImages from the opening reception \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alfa's 5th Anniversary Opening Reception 2013 \n \n \n \n 1\n2\n3\n►\n\n\n \n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-march-7-6-pm-alfa-5th-anniversary-celebrating-the-non-profit-idea-the-sylvia-wald-po-kim-art-gallery-the-alfa-art-gallery/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Alfa-Anniversary-Banner-GK.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130201T210000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20130104T230136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:3732-1359741600-1359752400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - Feb 1 @ 6 pm - Small Format Group Exhibition Opening at George Street Playhouse DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: Feb 1 @ 6 – 8 pmExhibition Duration: January 29 – February 24\, 2013  \nMeet the artists/Open Studio: Thursday\, February 7 @ 1pm \nThe Small Format Group Exhibition that debuted at the Alfa Art Gallery on November 30\, 2012 is ecstatic about its temporary relocation to George Street Playhouse on January 29th.  The Small Format Group Exhibition will be on display during George Street Playhouse’s theatrical run of “Good People”.  The subject matter of each artist’s works varies from a focus on objects and figures to abstract art.  Featured artists include: Agop Gemdjian\, Alyce Gottesman\, Colleen Gahrmann\, Dion Hitchings\, Francesca Azzara\, Hana Aviv\, Jo Bradney\, Joanie San Chirico\, Ken Hamilton\, Lea Cattan\, Miklos Sipos\, Nanci Hersh\, Tatiana L.Sougakova\, and Alfa Art Gallery’s own founder Vesselin Kourtev.  \nThe collection is filled with vibrant colors that catch the eye. The artists capture an enhance outlook on imagery with the usage of color and technique.  \nMany of the artists will be available to discuss their works with GSP patrons on Thursday\, February 7 at 1pm\, prior to the 2pm matinee. \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  \nInterview with Jo Bradney URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-jan-29-6-pm-small-format-group-exhibition-opening-at-george-street-playhouse/ LOCATION:George Street Playhouse\, 9 Livingston Ave\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception,Open Studio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2013-01-29-Small-Format-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T210000 DTSTAMP:20160731T211404Z CREATED:20130106T033012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T211404Z UID:3334-1359655200-1359666000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - Jan 31@ 6pm - Famous Russian Contemporary Artists DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: January 31 @ 6pm – 10pmLecture about presented artists: February 15 @ 7 – 9 pm Exhibition Duration: January 31 – February 26 \nThe Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our exhibition of Nina Tomczak’s Russian Fine and Decorative Artwork. The opening reception will be on January 31 at 6pm\, with an open studio and lecture about the presented artists on February 15 at 7pm.  \nNina Tomczak is a big collector of Russian Fine and Decorative Art. During a stay in Moscow\, Nina became an active member of the International Woman’s Club\, where she headed the Moscow Art Group. There\, she was given an opportunity to meet various famous Russian contemporary painters and to be exposed to a beautiful Russian Decorative Art\, which she began to collect. Nina’s collection of Russian Fine and Decorative Art\, being exhibited at Alfa\, highlights talented Contemporary Russian painters from several different cultures and background. \nThe exhibited artists in Nina’s collection include: Andrei Averyanov\, focusing on portraits and bodies; Irina Korsakova\, creating a unique style of art\, trying to stray away from other influences; Lev Dyakonitsyn\, painting a speculative presence in an inventive reality; Pavel Lazarev\, approaching canvases with an ornamental and almost geometrical form; Victor Kazarin\, creater of the new painting style of Russian post-suprematism; Vasily Shevchenko\, creating a modern folklore with his paintings; Oleg Tolstoy; and Yuri Grigorian.  \n \nAlfa Art Gallery will present Nina Tomczac’s collection of famous Russian contemporary artists: \n\nAndrei Averyanov\nAndrei Medvedev\nIrina Korsakova\nLev Dyakonitsyn\nOleg Tolstoy\nPavel Lazarev\nVasily Shevchenko\nVictor Kazarin\nYuri Grigorian\n\nAll exhibited artworks will be available for sale! \n  \nPhotos from Exhibition Opening! \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Artists Opening Reception \n \n \n \n 1\n2\n►\n\n\n \n  \nCan’t make it to the event? No problem! Just watch our LIVE event broadcast! \n Free desktop streaming application by Ustream URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2013-january-31-6pm-famous-russian-contemporary-artists/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception 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:20130105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130105T220000 DTSTAMP:20160731T211659Z CREATED:20130101T212927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T211659Z UID:3122-1357412400-1357423200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2013 - Jan 5 @ 7pm - Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition at the Alfa Art Gallery DESCRIPTION:Opening:  Saturday\, January 5 @ 7pm – 10pmExhibition Duration: January 5 – 8\, 2013 \nGreater Brunswick Charter School (GBCS) is delighted to announce the first public exhibition of two-dimensional art by its current elementary and middle school students.  This exhibition highlights the work students created in the first 70 days of school.  It represents students’ experiments and play with materials and techniques\, while it demonstrates the diversity of artistic visions within the GBCS student body. \nThe students at GBCS are some of New Brunswick’s most creative thinkers and makers.  They create well-developed\, dynamic images of the world in which they live. As contemporary artists\, they respond to their environment and their experiences by playing with lines\, shapes\, and colors until they best represent their ideas.  They are inspired by pop culture\, electronics\, observations of their environment\, frustrations\, fantasy worlds\, and familial relationships.  \nAs the students develop as artists\, they gain proficiency with their materials and develop methods\, marks\, and symbols that define their artistic voice. Some have chosen to work within one medium\, while others have embraced the full range of materials available to them. Because students at GBCS decide how\, what\, and why they create\, they learn to make choices and motivate themselves as practicing artists would.  They establish studio habits and creative thinking skills they can take anywhere. \nDiana Sanderson\, Art Educator at GBCS\, graduated in 2009 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an M.A. in Art Education.  She positions her teaching practice in the realm of relational and performance art.  Now in her third year at GBCS\, she has created a classroom environment that teaches for artistic behavior. She curated this exhibition in collaboration with Amanda Lyons. \nAmanda Lyons\, collage and fiber artist with a passion for storytelling\, is particularly enchanted by children’s art.  As a GBCS parent and former teacher\, she curated large-scale student exhibitions at GBCS. A New Brunswick native and Rutgers graduate\, she is delighted to have the opportunity to curate this exhibition with Diana Sanderson and share the beauty of GBCS with our New Brunswick Community. \nImages from the opening reception \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Greater Brunswick Charter School Student Exhibition URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/greater-brunswick-charter-school-student-exhibition-at-the-alfa-art-gallery/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2012-B.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121214T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121214T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20121201T232928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:3429-1355508000-1355522400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Dec 14 @ 6 pm - Small Format Group Exhibition - Meet the Artists DESCRIPTION:Open Studio – Meet the Artists: December 14 @ 6 pm – 10 pmExhibition Duration: November 30- December 22 \n \nOn December 14th\, there will be an Open Studio event where the artists will be present to discuss their processes and techniques… \nKen Hamilton\, Margie Samuels\, and Hana Aviv will show realistic watercolor paintings. Jo Bradney and Leroy White are exhibiting equally realistic paintings; Jo\, focusing on objects\, and Leroy\, on figures.  Agop Gemdjian\, Alyce Gottesman\, Chinyee\, Dion Hitchings\, Lisa Pressman\, Miklos Sipos and Tatiana L.Sougakova will also be showing works in a highly abstracted style and will encourage the audience to take a step into their personal thoughts\, as they create a scene directly from their minds. Francesca Azzara\, Nanci Hersh\, Jennifer Hines and Wade Miller will also be showing works that utilize an abstracted style; they use lines and shapes to create abstract forms in their works of art. Between these two drastic ends of the spectrum\, falls the works of several of Alfa’s exhibiting artists. Colleen Gahrmann\, Lea Cattan\, and Joanie San Chirico include identifiable forms and objects from everyday life in their abstracted paintings.  Ethan Sherman and Judith Cantor will be showing three dimensional works. Included in this show are also artists from across the country and the Atlantic\, Linda McCray and Ulf Koenig.  Finally\, Vesselin Kourtev\, the resident artist and founder of the Alfa Art Gallery\, is also presenting some of his small works in this exhibition.  \n  \n \n  \nExhibition contributors \nLinda Rosenblum\, Press Release and Event Coordinator Alexa Varga\, Curatorial Information and Event Coordinator Cam Jones\, Graphic Design Olympia Chritofinis and Susana Rivera\, Artist Communications Layla Cabrera\, Photography & Video Intern \n  \nPhotos From Open Studio \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 1 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 2 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 3 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 5 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 6 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 7 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 8 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Works Open Studio 9 \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n  \nThis program is sponsored in part by: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/friday-december-14-6-pm-small-format-group-exhibition-meet-the-artists/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Studio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-12-07-Small-Work-Exhibition-2-for-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121214T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121214T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20121201T232850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:3355-1355508000-1355522400@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 – Dec 14 @ 6 pm – George Street Playhouse Continues Collaboration With Alfa Art Gallery Presents New Exhibition “Reflections” DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: December 14\, 6pm – 10pmExhibition Duration: November 27 – December 23\, 2012 \nGeorge Street Playhouse and the Alfa Art Gallery continue their collaboration which began with the start of the New Brunswick Theatre’s season.  Produced in association with the New Brunswick Cultural Center\, the new exhibit is titled “Reflections\,” and features watercolors by Allen Taylor\, Ann C. Taylor\, John Wolff\, Judy Ballance\, Ken Hamilton\, Margie Samuels\, Marilyn Rose\, and Medy Bozkurtian.  The exhibit will be available for viewing during the hours when the Box Office is open\, beginning November 27 through December 23.  A reception celebrating the artists is slated for Friday\, December 14 beginning at 6pm.  In addition\, the work of local artists will be available for sale the same evening as the Playhouse hosts a Holiday Market\, presented by the New Brunswick Arts Council from 5:30 – 10:30pm.  Opportunities abound for holiday shoppers looking for unique items\, and all the paintings in the exhibit will be for sale as well. \n For 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 heart of New Brunswick’s dining and entertainment district. \nBe it docile boats resting in a harbor or a bird approaching its landing\, this collection of watercolors delicately captures common occurrences that are often overlooked.   Because of the medium’s transparent qualities and precious nature\, these works have a gentle kindness to them which produces a distinct calming effect. And as each luminous layer of liquid pigment sits clearly visible over the next\, few marks are left unseen. As a viewer one feels at ease\, as if peacefully floating in water\, reflecting on the beauty of moments overlooked.  All the artists are members of Essex Water Color Club\, NJ\, celebrating its 80th birthday this year. \nAlfa Art Gallery is a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and support of emerging and well-established artists.  A vital player amongst art organizations since 2008\, the gallery has established itself as a part of New Brunswick’s cultural hub and recently received an award from New Brunswick City Market for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Business Community. \nUnder the leadership of Artistic Director David Saint\, George Street Playhouse has become a nationally recognized theatre\, presenting an acclaimed mainstage season while providing an artistic home for established and emerging theatre artists.  In August 2011\, the Playhouse appointed noted arts administrator Norma Kaplan Managing Director.  Founded in 1974\, the Playhouse has been well represented by numerous productions both on and off-Broadway – recent productions include the Outer Critics’ Circle Best Musical Award-winner The Toxic Avenger\, the Outer Critics Circle\, Drama Desk and Drama League nominated production of The Spitfire Grill and the Broadway hit and Tony® and Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof by David Auburn\, which was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays.  George Street Playhouse programming is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State\, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts\, and by its lead season sponsor Johnson & Johnson.  The Star-Ledger is the 2012-13 print media sponsor of George Street Playhouse. \n Featured Artists \n\nAllen Taylor\nAnn C. Taylor\nJohn Wolff\nJudy Ballance\nKen Hamilton\nMargie Samuels\nMarilyn Rose\nMedy Bozkurtian URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-dec-14-6-pm-alfa-art-gallery-george-street-playhouse-present-reflection-watercolors-group-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/Watercolor-Exhibition-Oct-2012-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121207T220000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185549Z CREATED:20121201T225526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185549Z UID:2484-1354906800-1354917600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Dec 7 @ 7pm - Small Format / Affordable Art Group Exhibition Opening Reception & Alfa' 2012 Catalog Release DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: December 7 @ 7pm – 10pmRussian Fine and Decorative Art: December 13-15 & December 20-22 Open Studio – Meet the Artists: December 14 @ 6 pm – 10 pmExhibition Duration: November 30- December 22 \n  \nAlfa Art Gallery is presenting their holiday show\, The Small Format and Affordable Art Group Exhibition. This exhibition will feature submissions of 12 x 12 x 12 inches or smaller from artists of all different mediums. Not only does this show display a style of art for every taste\, but it provides the audience with the opportunity to purchase affordable\, original artwork following the opening reception. \nThe Alfa 2012 catalog boasts selections from over 40 local and international artists\, all of whom Alfa has been proud to represent in 2012. \nThe Opening Reception will take place on December 7th at 7pm.  \n  \nDuring this show Vera Raskin and Nina Tomczak will present and sale pieces from their private collections. \n\nVera Raskin will present The Raskin Collection of African Art.\nNina Tomczak will present her collection of Russian Fine and Decorative Art on December 13-15 and 20-22\, which will coincide with the Holiday Art Market at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick on December 14 at 6 pm.\n\nOn December 14th\, there will be an Open Studio event where the artists will be present to discuss their processes and techniques.  \n \n  \nAbout the artists\nKen Hamilton\, Margie Samuels\, and Hana Aviv will show realistic watercolor paintings. Jo Bradney and Leroy White are exhibiting equally realistic paintings; Jo\, focusing on objects\, and Leroy\, on figures.  Agop Gemdjian\, Alyce Gottesman\, Chinyee\, Dion Hitchings\, Lisa Pressman\, Miklos Sipos and Tatiana L.Sougakova will also be showing works in a highly abstracted style and will encourage the audience to take a step into their personal thoughts\, as they create a scene directly from their minds. Francesca Azzara\, Nanci Hersh\, Jennifer Hines and Wade Miller will also be showing works that utilize an abstracted style; they use lines and shapes to create abstract forms in their works of art. Between these two drastic ends of the spectrum\, falls the works of several of Alfa’s exhibiting artists. Colleen Gahrmann\, Lea Cattan\, and Joanie San Chirico include identifiable forms and objects from everyday life in their abstracted paintings.  Ethan Sherman and Judith Cantor will be showing three dimensional works. Included in this show are also artists from across the country and the Atlantic\, Linda McCray and Ulf Koenig.  Finally\, Vesselin Kourtev\, the resident artist and founder of the Alfa Art Gallery\, is also presenting some of his small works in this exhibition. \n  \nExhibition contributors\nLinda Rosenblum\, Press Release and Event CoordinatorAlexa Varga\, Curatorial Information and Event CoordinatorCam Jones\, Graphic DesignOlympia Chritofinis and Susana Rivera\, Artist CommunicationsLayla Cabrera\, Photography & Video Intern \n  \nFeatured Artists\n\nAgop Gemdjian\nAlyce Gottesman\nColleen Gahrmann\nChinyee\nDion Hitchings\nEthan Sherman\nFrancesca Azzara\nHana Aviv\nJennifer Hines\nJo Bradney\nJoanie San Chirico\nJudith Cantor\nKen Hamilton\nLea Cattan\nLeroy White\nLinda McCray\nLisa Pressman\nMargie Samuels\nMiklos Sipos\nNanci Hersh\nTatiana L.Sougakova\nUlf Koenig\nVesselin Kourtev\nWade Miller\n  \n\nRussian Fine and Decorative Art\nThe Raskin Collection of African Art\n\nPhotos from Exhibition Opening taken by Cam Jones \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-32 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-34 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-33 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-1 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-2 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-3 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-5 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-6 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-7 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-8 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-9 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-10 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-11 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-13 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-14 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-15 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-16 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2012-12-07-small-work-exhibition-17 \n \n \n \n 1\n2\n3\n►\n\n\n \nThis program is sponsored in part by: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-nov-30-7pm-small-format-affordable-art-group-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/web_banner_smallartwork.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:20121009T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121009T220000 DTSTAMP:20160729T222852Z CREATED:20121001T214620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T222852Z UID:2768-1349805600-1349820000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 – Oct 9 @ 6 pm – Alfa Art Gallery & The Heldrich Hotel Present “Temples” – Vesselin Kourtev’s Solo Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: October 9 @ 6:00 to 7:30pm @ George Street Playhouse\, New BrunswickExhibition duration: October 9 – January\, 2013 Public Gallery Two\, The Heldrich\, New Brunswick\, NJ \nAlfa Art Gallery &  Heldrich Hotel Present “Temples”\, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Vesselin Kourtev.  The exhibit will be on display at The Heldrich Hotel @ 10 Livingston Avenue\, New Brunswick\, NJ – second floor. \nAn opening reception celebrating the artist and the collaboration between the Alfa Art Gallery & George Street Playhouse &  The Heldrich Hotel  is scheduled for Tuesday\, October 9 @ 6pm the George Street Playhouse. \n  \nAbout the Exhibition\nThe exhibition brings together over 40 drawings introducing  Kourtev’s questions/thoughts: What are “Temples”?… What is the meaning of “Temples”?… The “Temples” and us…. Many years in the making\, this collection of work has deep roots in the artist’s personal history. Hailing from Bulgaria\, a country with ancient traditions and a spiritual past\, Vesselin takes the viewer on a deeply reflective and meditative pilgrimage with this series. 

 Much like the transcendental atmosphere of temples\, these works provoke feelings of mysticism and mysteriousness. The cutout collages offer windows into distinct realities. Scenes are cut off\, bodies are fragmented\, and paint seems to take on a life of its own\, spreading in terms of gravity and not the artist’s hand. We become the seer\, as if we are having a vision\, seeing into the confusing and disorienting landscape of another person’s thoughts.

 Though the composition may seem randomly scattered\, the placement of the windows is quite deliberate. Sometimes these fragmented boxes stretch across the piece\, creating a desolate landscape where pilgrims have settled and nomads still wander. Other times these windows are clustered and offer glimpses into an emotional yearning\, picturing ringing bells\, open palms\, crescent moons\, and cosmic skies. But the effect through these pieces is always deeply spiritual. As we piece together these segmented realities a mystical and ritualistic mood takes hold conjuring our deep desire for meaning. \nThe Heldrich Hotel\, 10 Livingston Avenue\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901George Street Playhouse\, 9 Livingston Avenue\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \nAlso in display at Public Gallery One\, The Heldrich\, New Brunswick\, NJ“Present & Past” – Encaustic Paintings and Prints by Diana González Gandolfi URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-oct-9-6-pm-alfa-art-gallery-the-heldrich-hotel-present-tamples-vesselin-kourtevs-solo-exhibition/ LOCATION:George Street Playhouse\, 9 Livingston Ave\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-10-09_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121009T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121009T193000 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20121001T214536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:2735-1349805600-1349811000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Oct 9 @ 6 pm - Alfa Art Gallery & George Street Playhouse Present “The Message” - Vesselin Kourtev's Solo Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Opening: October 9 @ 6:00 to 7:30pmExhibition Duration: October 2 – November 20\, 2012Cabaret Lobby Space/ George Street Playhouse/ 9 Livingston Avenue\, New Brunswick \nTwo New Brunswick-based Arts organizations (aided by a third) have announced a new partnership.  Alfa Art Gallery\, which has called New Brunswick home since 2008\, will partner with George Street Playhouse in presenting a series of rotating exhibits to be presented throughout the Theatre’s 2012-13 season.  The exhibit\, co-sponsored by The New Brunswick Cultural Center\, will be changed to correspond with the opening of each of the Playhouse’s five productions.  Located in George Street Playhouse’s Cabaret lobby space\, each display will be available to view during regular box office operating hours. \nThe exhibit will be on display at the New Brunswick Playhouse through the run of its first production of the season\, Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch\, and remain on view through November 20.  An opening reception celebrating the artist and the collaboration between the organizations is scheduled for Tuesday\, October 9 beginning at 6pm.  For 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 \, www.AlfaArt.org or www.kourtev.com. \nGeorge Street Playhouse is located at 9 Livingston Avenue in heart of New Brunswick’s dining and entertainment district. \n“I am delighted to help facilitate this wonderful partnership\,” said Norma Kaplan\, Executive Director of The New Brunswick Cultural Center and Managing Director of George Street Playhouse.  “Fostering this type of mutually beneficial relationship is one of my chief goals here in New Brunswick.  I couldn’t be more pleased.” \nThe inaugural exhibit in the series will be The Message\, a solo exhibition by Vesselin Kourtev.  First presented in April 2011\, this series takes place in an abstract world\, where each viewer gets lost\, wanders and\, eventually\, comes back to reality with his interpretation of what lies beyond the present. The fictitious world of Kourtev’s paintings is visually divided into two\, tangibly connecting what is seen by the eyes and the mind. His works also explore what lies beneath the surface. Kourtev imprints his canvases with powerful strokes that protrude\, hopeful hues and vague figures\, leaving the audience with the impression of the depth of the human experience and relationships. Kourtev’s message is relative and\, therefore\, a timeless memento\, unglued to any specific period. \nVesselin Kourtev is the Founder\, Director\, and Resident Artist of the Alfa Art Gallery. Born and raised in Bulgaria\, he received his MFA from the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of Veliko Turnovo. In 2002\, after many years of exhibiting in Bulgaria and Europe\, and working in National School of Stage and Film Design in Plovdiv\, Bulgaria\, Kourtev moved to New Brunswick. Five years later\, he founded the Alfa Art Gallery. Kourtev continues to work on oil\, watercolor\, and mixed media pieces. \nAlfa Art Gallery is a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and support of emerging and well-established artists.  A vital player amongst art organizations since 2008\, the gallery has established itself as a part of New Brunswick’s cultural hub and recently received an award from New Brunswick City Market for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Business Community. \nUnder the leadership of Artistic Director David Saint\, George Street Playhouse has become a nationally recognized theatre\, presenting an acclaimed mainstage season while providing an artistic home for established and emerging theatre artists.  In August 2011\, the Playhouse appointed noted arts administrator Norma Kaplan Managing Director.  Founded in 1974\, the Playhouse has been well represented by numerous productions both on and off-Broadway – recent productions include the Outer Critics’ Circle Best Musical Award-winner The Toxic Avenger\, the Outer Critics Circle\, Drama Desk and Drama League nominated production of The Spitfire Grill and the Broadway hit and Tony® and Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof by David Auburn\, which was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays.  George Street Playhouse programming is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State\, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts\, and by its lead season sponsor Johnson & Johnson.  The Star-Ledger is the 2012-13 print media sponsor of George Street Playhouse. \nCabaret Lobby Space/ George Street Playhouse | 9 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \nGSP Box Office 723-246-7717/ www.GSPonline.org \nBox Office hours: 12 noon – 6 pm Monday; 12 noon – curtain Tuesdays through Sundays \nAlfa Art Gallery 732-296-6720/ www.AlfaArt.org URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-oct-9-630-pm-the-message-vesselin-kourtevs-exhibition-opening-george-street-playhouse/ LOCATION:George Street Playhouse\, 9 Livingston Ave\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/vkourtev_2011_solo_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121004T220000 DTSTAMP:20160729T221653Z CREATED:20121001T214847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T221653Z UID:2476-1349377200-1349388000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Oct 4 @ 7pm - "Reflections" - Watercolors Group Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: October 4 @ 7pmExhibition Duration: October 4 – 30 \nAlfa Art Gallery is proud to present Reflections\, a group exhibition dedicated solely to the art of watercolor\, featuring the works of Allen Taylor\, Ann C. Taylor\, John Wolff\, Judy Ballance\, Ken Hamilton\, Margie Samuels\, Marilyn Rose\, and Medy Bozkurtian. Whether docile boats resting in a harbor or a bird approaching its landing\, this collection delicately captures common occurrences that are often overlooked.  \nBecause of the medium’s transparent qualities and precious nature\, these works have a gentle kindness to them which produces a distinct calming effect. And as each luminous layer of liquid pigment sits clearly visible over the next\, few marks are left unseen. As a viewer one feels at ease\, as if peacefully floating in water\, reflecting on the beauty of moments overlooked.  \n  \nFeatured Artists\n\nAllen Taylor\nAnn C. Taylor\nJohn Wolff\nJudy Ballance\nKen Hamilton\nMargie Samuels\nMarilyn Rose\nMedy Bozkurtian\n\n  \nOpening Presentation\n \n  \nArtist Interviews \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \nEvent Photos URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-oct-4-7pm-watercolors-group-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-10-04_watercolors_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120908T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120908T220000 DTSTAMP:20160729T222224Z CREATED:20120901T171206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T222224Z UID:2461-1347130800-1347141600@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - Sept 8 @ 7pm - "Temples" - Vesselin Kourtev Mixed Media Cycle Exhibition Opening DESCRIPTION:Opening reception Saturday\, September 8\, 7 – 10 PM VIP Reception: Thursday\, September 14\, 5 – 8 PM Exhibition duration: September 8 – October 2\, 2012 All proceeds go to the “Alfa Art Center a NJ Nonprofit Corporation” supporting “Alfa Art Gallery”. \n \nAbout the Exhibition\nAlfa Art Gallery is proud to present Temples\, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Vesselin Kourtev.  The exhibition brings together over 40 drawings introducing  Kourtev’s questions/thoughts: What are “Temples”?… What is the meaning of “Temples”?… The “Temples” and us…. \nMany years in the making\, this collection of work has deep roots in the artist’s personal history. Hailing from Bulgaria\, a country with ancient traditions and a spiritual past\, Vesselin takes the viewer on a deeply reflective and meditative pilgrimage with this series. 

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 \nHelen Zajkowski’s award winning sculptures comment on modern day enigmas and dilemmas. In her Found Objects series\, she juxtaposes unrelated objects in new and surprising ways\, creating imagery charged with irony and humor. The biblical cycle of creation and destruction is at the core of this body of work. Once functional and full of purpose\, these objects have since been discarded — an act that symbolically threatens their very reason for being. But by rearranging their components in peculiar ways\, Zajkowski manages to create fantastic amalgams full of new and surprising meaning. Helen received her MFA at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1994. She has since exhibited her work internationally\, and this past year\, her work was featured in the WCA National. \nMaria Giancola is a painter\, graphic artist\, and printmaker. Her abstract paintings and collages find their inspiration from contemporary magazine advertisements and the figure. These works feature extreme chiaroscuro lighting\, and are developed using an accidental approach\, in which she combines non traditional materials to produce unexpected results. Parallels between Giancola’s pieces and the non traditionalist pop art of James Rosenquist and Wendy White are especially fitting. Maria received her BFA at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2011 and currently works as a graphic artist with The Sawtooth Group\, an advertising agency based in Red Bank\, New Jersey. \nChristopher Minervini received his BFA at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2010. His passionate dreamlike collages combine photography with painting techniques to meditate upon the irreversible effects of war on both the environment and its inhabitants. These pieces mature and develop gradually\, blossoming at last with intimate significance. His vibrant and playful palette grapples with his blunt and sometimes conflicting imagery. The effect is a manifestation of cognitive dissonance — an eerie discomfort born from an attempt to reconcile idealistic hopes for a world burdened with harsh realities. \nJorge Cruz has been working in stained glass for over 20 years. His distinct figurative compositions cultivate powerful and emotional imagery in this historically charged medium. Although Cruz utilizes a minimalist aesthetic\, his works communicate a spiritual and mythological narrative. This is due to the stylized and primeval aura of his stained glass figures. Their palpable ethos make it difficult not to identify with their triumphs and tribulations. Jorge is currently the artist in residence and gallery director of Abbey Hill Gallery in Easton\, Pennsylvania. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nViernes\, 13 de julio a las 7pm – “Actualidad” – Recepción de Exposición de Arte Moderno\nInauguración: Viernes\, 13 de julio a las 7pm\nDuración de Exposición: 13 de julio hasta 11 de septiembre\nCuradora: Kathryn Meca \nAlfa Art Gallery se complace presentar Actualidad\, una exposición colectiva con las obras de Helen Zajkowski\, Giancola María\, Jorge Cruz\, y Chris Minervini. \nUna vanguardia aguda de las obras de grandes medios de comunicación\, Actualidad ofrece una muestra definitiva de la situación de la toma de arte moderno. Ya sea a través de sus procesos\, materiales\, o la materia\, estos artistas prosperan y responden a la cultura contemporánea de maneras innovadoras. \nLas esculturas\, ganadoras de premios\, de Helen Zajkowski comentan sobre los enigmas de hoy en día y dilemas. En su serie de Objetos Encontrados\, que yuxtapone objetos no relacionados de maneras nuevas y sorprendentes\, creando imágenes cargadas de ironía y humor. El ciclo bíblico de la creación y la destrucción está en el centro de esta obra de arte. Antes funcional y lleno de propósito\, estos objetos han sido descartados – un acto que simbólicamente pone en peligro su misma razón de ser. Sin embargo\, reordenando sus componentes de manera peculiar\, Zajkowski logra crear amalgamas fantásticas llenas de un significado nuevo y sorprendente. Helen recibió su Maestría en la Escuela de Mason Gross de las Artes en la Universidad de Rutgers en 1994. Desde entonces\, ha expuesto su obra internacionalmente\, y el año pasado\, su trabajo fue presentado en el Nacional de WCA. \nMaría Giancola es una pintora\, artista gráfico y grabadora. Sus obras abstractas y collages encuentran su inspiración de anuncios de las revistas contemporáneas y la figura. Estas obras muestran iluminación de extrema claroscuro\, y se desarrollan con un enfoque accidental\, en la que combina materiales no tradicionales para producir resultados inesperados. Los paralelismos entre las piezas de Giancola y el arte pop no tradicionalista de James Rosenquist y de Wendy White son especialmente oportuno. María recibió su BFA en la Escuela de Mason Gross de las Artes en la Universidad de Rutgers en 2011 y actualmente trabaja como artista gráfico con el Grupo Sawtooth\, una agencia de publicidad con sede en Red Bank\, Nueva Jersey. \nChristopher Minervini recibió su BFA en Mason Gross School of the Arts en la Universidad de Rutgers en 2010. Sus collages de ensueño apasionados combinan la fotografía con las técnicas de pintura para meditar sobre los efectos irreversibles de la guerra en el medio ambiente y sus habitantes. Estas piezas maduran y se desarrollan gradualmente\, floreciendo al fin con un significado íntimo. Su paleta vibrante y juguetona se enfrenta con su imagen contundente y a veces contradictorias. El efecto es una manifestación de la disonancia cognitiva – una extraña incomodidad nace de un intento de reconciliar las esperanzas idealistas por un mundo cargado con la dura realidad. \nJorge Cruz ha estado trabajando en los vitrales por más de 20 años. Sus composiciones figurativas distintas cultivan imagenes poderosas y emocionales en este medio cargado de historia. Aunque Cruz utiliza una estética minimalista\, sus obras comunican un relato espiritual y mitológico. Esto es debido al aura estilizada y primitiva de sus figuras de cristal. Su espíritu palpable de que resulta difícil no identificarse con sus triunfos y tribulaciones. Actualmente Jorge es el artista en residencia y director de la galería de Abbey Hill Gallery en Easton\, Pennsylvania. URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-july-13-7pm-currents-an-exhibition-of-modern-art/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-06-17_currents_main.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:20120525T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120525T220000 DTSTAMP:20160729T220742Z CREATED:20120519T131406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T220742Z UID:2313-1337974200-1337983200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - May 25 @ 7:30pm - Celebration of May 24th - Bulgarian Education and Culture\, and Slavonic Literature Day DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 25th at 7:30pm to celebrate the Bulgarian Education and Culture\, and Slavonic Literature Day. We will start out with a performance by Bulgarian-American children and then continue with Bulgarian music and dances. \nFeel free to bring snacks/food to share with everyone and don’t forget your dancing shoes. \n  \nWhy do we celebrate May 24th? \nMay 24 is the Day Of Slavonic Alphabet\, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture. This day has been celebrated for 161 years now – no other holiday was so long celebrated in Bulgarian late history. \nOn May 11 1851 a celebration was organized by Nayden Gerov at the eparchy school `St St Kiril and Methody` in the town of Plovdiv. This was the first time to be marked the Day of the Saint brothers Kiril and Methody – the creators of Slavonic Alphabet. Since 1857 this day has been celebrated every year in Plovdiv\, Tsarigrad\, Shumen and Lom and it was no by accident that May 11 was chosen – this is the common Church Holiday of the two Saints. \n24th of May is a Day that has no analogue among the other nations – the Day of literature\, enlightenment\, culture. It’s a holiday of spiritual rising\, perfection striving for scientific and cultural achievements. The letters created by Kiril and Methody\, their translations of the liturgical books\, their fight to protect the rights of all nations to do honour of God in their own languages have a historical significance to Bulgarian national developing and its prosperity. Their life work is human\, democratic\, and Slavonic. It becomes part of the general human idea for equality at the spiritual field… (click here to read the rest of the article) URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-may-25-730pm-celebration-of-may-24th-bulgarian-education-and-culture-and-slavonic-literature-day/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-24may_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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120429 DTSTAMP:20240725T164542Z CREATED:20120427T153426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240725T164542Z UID:2263-1335571200-1335657599@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - April 28 - Rutgers Day & NJ Folk Fest DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 28th\, Alfa will participate in the famous spring celebration called Rutgers Day\, that is a University wide event which happens every year and is incredibly popular in the area. With tons of great activities planned by various Rutgers departments and local business\, great food and good music\, it is the place to  be! \nOur booth will be in Voorhees Mall behind the Zimmerli Art Museum. We’ll be there between 10am-4pm. Come check out our booth! Our interns have been busy painting our banner and preparing for the event. We plan on having a Communal painting project\, where we will have 1 large canvas divided into lots of little squares and our Director and resident artist Vesselin Kourtev will start it off by painting the first square. Visitors can then paint the next square with something related to the previous square. This way in the end it will be like a running comic strip painted by many different people.  \nYou can follow us live on Twitter the day of the event – http://www.twitter.com/AlfaArtGallery. \nAlso dont forget to check out the NJ Folk Festival happening at the same time on Cook/Douglas campus. Each year they have ensembles of dancers and singers from a different country perform on the stage and this year it is Bulgarian folk music! Make sure to stop by and enjoy the music and great food from the vendors at the location. For more info go to: http://www.njfolkfest.rutgers.edu/ URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-april-28-rutgers-day-nj-folk-fest/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012rutgersday_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120422 DTSTAMP:20240606T185548Z CREATED:20120320T140558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T185548Z UID:2159-1334880000-1335052799@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - April 20 - Omega Sound Fix II DESCRIPTION:Experimental Music Festival resonates in New Brunswick art gallery \nOver fifteen innovative acts will perform at the bleeding edge of sound on April 20th & 21st at Omega Sound Fix II at the Alfa Art Gallery\, New Brunswick\, NJ. The festival began in 2010 when curators Mark Weinberg and Michael Durek sought to fill a void for a spirited festival of new and innovative music in central NJ. \nAmong the performers this year is spoken word artist\, Brick\, who was born deaf but now expresses himself with inspirational tones that he has created to cope with adversity. Brooklyn- based experimental trio Prehistoric Horse\, and danceable ambient artist $50 trumpet (also hailing from Brooklyn) will be generously sharing their skills on the bill. Avant-garde vets ArtCrime will take the stage on the opening night. And Chester Hawkins\, playing as Blue Sausage Infant\, will be there from Washington D.C.\, hypnotizing and stimulating with loops\, arpeggiated vibrations\, and everything in between. \nThe local element at the festival promises to be powerful. Blithe(doll)\, excavating their innovative electro/trip-hop siren calls\, will be returning for their second Omega Sound Fix appearance\, as will part-techno-part-down-tempo atmospheric laptop guru\, Borne. Asbury Park’s rising Wreaths will headline the first night\, displaying their warm and mystifying saturated drones. Fairychaser will stop you in your tracks with their heartbreaking combination of ethereal percussion and starkly classic vocal stylings. STRNGLV’s multimedia demonstration of nebulous pulses will take you on a trip to the astral plane\, but don’t float away… \n…because you don’t want to miss festival curators Mark Weinberg and Michael Durek\, who will combine sonic forces on day two for a memorable Trinitron/CloudCloud set. Trevor Pennsylvania and Jim Schmidt’s foray into no-wave\, a movement swaying you to the left of the proverbial dial\, will take shape as The Summer Dresses. 2673 will intrigue with his blissfully oppressive sound worlds\, ranging from barely there zero ambiance to speaker shredding walls of noise static. \nOpen your mind. Allow these unique transmissions to wash over you. There is water everywhere. This is the Omega Sound Fix. Your perfect prescription awaits.  \nTickets are $6 for one day\, $10 for a two-day pass. Doors open at 7 p.m. on Friday and 5 p.m. on Saturday.  \n  \nVisit omegasoundfix.com for full line-up and details \nFacebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Omega-Sound-Fix/336522986382754 (share with friends!) On twitter:   twitter.com/omegasoundfix URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/omega-sound-fix-ii/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Concert/Band Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/OmegaSoundFix2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120414T210000 DTSTAMP:20160729T213419Z CREATED:20120307T210616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T213419Z UID:1805-1334426400-1334437200@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - April 14 - Moments in Matter: Vesselin Kourtev’s Recent Works DESCRIPTION:Alfa Art Gallery is proud to present Moments in Matter: Vesselin Kourtev’s Recent Works. This collection encompasses three smaller bodies of work\, all unique yet intimately unified by their impulse to seize fleeting moments in material form. With two groups of oils\, the artist explores a more minimalist approach than he has in the past. He strives to reduce his overall mark making by maximizing his use of the palette knife. And\, with fewer voices on the canvas\, each resounds more confidently. His mixed media collages are more experimental in nature\, and pay close attention to line\, composition and representational imagery. All the while\, Kourtev remains true to his roots by incorporating both narrative drawing and abstract expressionist painting techniques into the works. \nVarying in theme and concentration\, these oils and mixed media collages expand his body of work to areas previously unrevealed. This group appears especially organic with heavy references to traditionalist styles of the past. A formally taught artist himself\, Kourtev is particularly inspired by the ideals of the Symbolist and the Arts and Crafts Movements of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Join us on Saturday\, April 14 to celebrate this exciting debut of these never before seen works. \nVesselin Kourtev is the Founder\, Director and current Artist in Residence at the Alfa Art Gallery. Originally from Bulgaria\, he is recognized internationally as an oil painter with a truly unique style. He uses traditional\, narrative drawing techniques paired with abstract-expressionist painterly qualities. His works pay homage to artists like Arnold Bocklin and Walter Crane\, and incorporate gesture and story telling. Vesselin currently lives and works in New Brunswick\, NJ\, where he continues to find new inspirations for his work.  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-april-13-vesselin-kourtevs-solo-exhibition-opening/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/vkourtev_apr2012_main.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120309T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120309T210000 DTSTAMP:20160809T185946Z CREATED:20120210T152745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160809T185946Z UID:2095-1331317800-1331326800@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 - March 9 @ 6:30pm - "Three Paths to the Abstract Image" - 4th Year Anniversary Exhibition & Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Duration: March 9 – April 13\nOpening Reception: March 9 @ 6:30pm\nCurator: Jeffrey Wechsler\nLive Music By: New World Order \nAwards Ceremony: Announcing the winners of the New Brunswick Art Salon 2011 Juried Exhibition\n(1st Place: Peter Arakawa\, 2nd Place: Darren McManus\, 3rd Place: Rita Herzfeld\, Honorable Mention: Dara Alter)  \nThis year’s Alfa Gallery anniversary exhibition present three artists who all create abstractions\, but with different approaches to technique and imagery: Chinyee\, Bertha (Bert) Thompson and Tony DiBella. Since its emergence as a viable and accepted form of modernist art near the beginning of the 20th century\, abstraction has continued to act as a method of image-making that seems essentially boundless in its diversity and potential to inspire imagination and technical experimentation.  Within the work of the three artists in this exhibition\, one can appreciate the flexibility of abstraction to accommodate differing and highly personal sensibilities and interests\, yielding particular exemplars of the range of abstract imagery\, whether painterly or geometric\, gestural or linear\, opaque or filled with light.  These artists also demonstrate how\, behind the immediate impression of abstraction\, sources drawn from the real world may be at work\, whether literal or symbolic.   \nOver a career spanning more than 50 years\, Chinyee’s art reveals a progression of vividly realized themes that are notably diverse yet equally reflective of a coherent\, lifelong vision.  While her earliest works show full mastery of traditional Chinese ink techniques and Western realism\, her major influence turned out to be Abstract Expressionism.  Within this style\, often known for aggressive paint-handling\, some artists preferred a refined and somewhat muted manner of expression\, using a lighter touch and more delicate and complex manipulation of color.  This style has been called “lyrical abstraction\,” and Chinyee’s art is appropriate to this label.  Always exploring and receptive to fresh insights\, she moves smoothly from medium to medium\, working with oil\, watercolor\, oilstick\, enamel\, acrylic\, China marker\, and collage.  Her abstractions derive in part from both the calligraphic and atmospheric traditions of Chinese art\, as well as the Western mode of color field painting.  While her art is basically abstract\, Chinyee’s Chinese heritage\, in which nature is the primary source of art and philosophy\, intermittently affects her imagery.  Open to all sources and sensitive to the feeling of life – or ch’i – which Chinese artists find essential to meaningful expression\, Chinyee allows references to nature to suffuse into her work\, which might be specific\, such as a lotus plant\, or general\, as in horizontal bands that suggest land and sky.   \nBert Thompson’s work has alternated between abstraction and realism; the current presentation concentrates on a group of abstract paintings she produced between 1992 and 1998.  These works are typified by geometric shapes and divisions\, often with large areas of black\, gray or white\, set off with color forms that are sometimes bright and primary\, but frequently muted\, rather like rock or sand.  The paint is laid down in impasto\, with rich and rather glossy surfaces built up with evident individual strokes.  Accompanying the large major compositional elements such as triangles\, rectangles and circles are scatterings of linear motifs that enliven the compositions and resemble graffiti or scratches into the walls of buildings.  Indeed\, these abstractions by Thompson are cogent\, if surprising\, painted reactions to the physical environment of Urbino\, Italy\, which deeply moved her emotionally and visually.  She has written: “The Ducal Palace had intricately carved marble around all the mantels\, doors and window frames – a light and airy feeling.  I found myself absorbing the colors – ochres\, umbers\, siennas; the textures and the effects I saw…. These I used in my abstractions.”  Thus\, these works are to some degree abstract translations of physical structures\, with the stucco-like or incised impasto surfaces mimicking the irregular stone of buildings\, in refined or weathered aspects.  To these features Thompson may add shapes that seem like symbols or letters\, providing further levels of interest to a series of paintings whose individual works are by turns active\, mysterious\, elegant\, and elegiac. \nAt a quick first glance\, the imagery of Tony DiBella might suggest subtly painted abstractions of the color-field variety\, perhaps produced by watercolor or airbrush\, given their smooth color transitions and flashes of light.  However\, inspection of DiBella’s intriguing compositions of hazy color and indistinct forms reveal images made not with paint and brush\, but through photography\, transforming quite ordinary objects and their details by carefully controlled use of out-of-focus imagery and lighting techniques.  In general\, his method involves illuminating an object with ambient light and carefully directed beams from small LED flashlights\, then moving around the object and manually changing his camera’s focus\, seeking the interplay that will produce a satisfying image.  Colors may be added by reflection of materials placed around or behind the subject.  From time to time\, he leaves just enough of his subjects in focus to allow the viewer to comprehend their original physical presence\, their solidity\, although rarely in amounts sufficient to easily reveal the identity of the objects.  Generally\, he titles his photographs not with their true source\, but rather with a form or concept suggested by the color miasmas and amorphous shapes in the final composition. For example\, The Dove is the result of photographing through a paperweight; Sandbar captures effects derived from a candelabra of square-edged\, modern design.  In DiBella’s work\, we find the path to abstraction moving straight through the real world\, and\, via the agencies of technology and imagination\, creating a new world of invented form\, color\, and light.  \n  \nSponsors: URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-march-9-630pm-three-paths-to-the-abstract-image-4th-year-anniversary-exhibition/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening Reception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/20120309_4th_year_anniversary.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120223T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120223T230000 DTSTAMP:20160729T222559Z CREATED:20120209T214439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T222559Z UID:2132-1330030800-1330038000@www.alfaart.org SUMMARY:2012 – Feb 23 @ 9:00pm – No Funny Business Comedy Show DESCRIPTION:This Thursday\, February 23rd @ 9pm\, live at the Alfa Art Gallery in downtown New Brunswick…Charlie K hosts the city’s best comedy showcase NO FUNNY BUSINESS… And you can join in the fun for just $5 at the door! \nThe lineup of comedians this week includes: \n\nJoe Conte\nDina Hashem\nFred Austin\nJohn Minus\nCraig Sharf\nMatt Jenkins\n\nAnd we’ve got a very special musical guest this week from NYC: Idgy Dean \nPlus this week\, Charlie sits down to talk with the latest viral video star\, Rutgers’ very own Matthew Ferguson. He skyrocketed to fame and fell back into obscurity in the time it has taken you to read this sentence. \nBut seriously his viral video already has 700\,000 views and caught the attention from CBS and the Huffington Post. Check it out here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJA-Tfbbtdg \nCome on down to the Alfa on Thursday Night. What else are you going to do? Cure morning breath and read to underprivileged kids? Then stay home and do it. \nOtherwise come out for a great show! \nYou can also follow No Funny Business on Facebook (www.facebook.com/groups/nofunnybusiness)\, Twitter (www.twitter.com/NFBcomedy)\, and on FourSquare (No Funny Business Comedy Show). \n  \nAbout No Funny Business \nNo Funny Business (NFB) is like no other comedy show you’ve ever seen before. It is an original\, live show that is guaranteed to keep things fresh and keep you laughing! NFB seamlessly blends stand-up from the best in local comedy with the staging and sit-down interviews of a late night talk show. Not to mention\, NFB will feature live musical acts and special guests from various industries to give its audience a complete night of entertainment. The comedy show has consistently drawn in a large\, diverse crowd comprised of students\, local civilians\, and professionals. So if you are looking for a fun-filled night that won’t break your wallet\, where you can let loose\, laugh\, and even learn something new\, then check out No Funny Business in downtown New Brunswick! \n  URL:https://www.alfaart.org/event/2012-feb-23-900pm-no-funny-business-comedy-show/ LOCATION:Alfa Art Gallery\, 108 Church Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.alfaart.org/wp-content/uploads/no_funny_business_new.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Galina Kourteva":MAILTO:galina@alfaart.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR