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Breaking Through

Nancy Boney

acrylic

14"h x 12"w

$150

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I am a former fiber artist working to create soft sculptures and wall hangings.  Because working with fabrics is quite time consuming I am now working with acrylic paints and  variety of markers.    I add a lot of  collage to my pieces as well. I find it similar to moving fabrics around to create a satisfying composition. I love the trees and forests of the Highlands which inspired my to create the piece in this exhibit.

Bio
I live in Bedminster, NJ and am heavily influenced by nature: trees, flowers, all sorts of native plants.   I regularly exhibit at Frontline Arts, Farmstead arts Center and various libraries in the area.  In the past I have been the
Director of The New Jersey Craftsman’s Guild and Executive Director of the Printmaking Center of NJ (now called Frontline Arts) 

Great Swamp

Jessica Cavaliere

wet felted and needle felted wool and silk fibers  

19 1/2"h x 19"w

Not for sale 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Growing up in Somerset County, I was fortunate to have the Great Swamp so close by. While I have always admired its beauty and peacefulness, it was during Covid that the Great Swamp captured a new and special place in my heart- it became a quiet refuge where we could leave behind the world and our worries for at least a little while.  

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 Jessica Cavaliere is a fiber artist, art educator and animal lover. Through her artwork, she strives to capture the beauty, movement and abundance of color found in nature. Taking the time to slow down and see the beauty in every day has inspired her to focus on animals and landscapes in her work, using only wool as her medium. 

Jessica’s artwork is created through the process of needle felting, a method similar to that of tattooing. Rather than using ink, her medium is unspun wool. Using a barbed needle tool, the wool is forced into a fabric backing, which serves as a canvas. Recently, Jessica has begun incorporating wet felting techniques into her artwork, a process where wool fibers are bound together through agitation with soap and water to form a firm, felted canvas. Needle felted details are then added to create an almost three-dimensional look in her wool paintings.

Jessica’s artwork has been exhibited in shows at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, as well as Arts on Main Gallery in Rockaway, The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, and the Guilford Art Center in Guilford, Connecticut. Her piece, Rainbow Lorikeet, was included in “Felt: Fibers Transformed” in the Summer 2022 issue of Fiber Arts Now magazine.  She was featured on Morris County Artists Network’s website as its August 2022 artist of the month and her artwork has also appeared on the cover of the Bridgewater-Somerville edition of The Connection magazine.  Her work, Glacier National Park, won Honorable Mention at the NJ Art Association member exhibition at the Art and Design Gallery at the Sherman H. Masten Learning Resource Center, County College of Morris.

She is regularly commissioned to create animals and landscapes with wool, and specializes in pets.

Litchfield Hills

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt   

oil

13 1/2"h x 15 1/2"w

$4,000

ARTIST STATEMENT

I spend time in Litchfield County for part of each year. The surrounding beauty is captivating. I often paint and draw the landscape around me. This painting was created using a palette knife within the environment it depicts. 

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Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt, a native New Yorker, received her M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She earned her B.A., Magna Cum laude, Art Department Honors, at Queens College/CUNY. Lisa Has been awarded six national Artist-In-Residence Scholarships and has received a New York City Artist Corp Grant, September, 2021. She has also been the recipient of NYC Public Arts Grants and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Weinblatt’s painting series SCHOOL LUNCH has been exhibited in over 40 solo exhibitions, including the NYC Armory Show, with recent solo exhibitions at Waterworks Art Center/ Museum, NC, Karpeles Museum, NY, Morris Graves Museum, CA, Woodstock Museum, NY, Delaplaine Art Center, MD, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, PA, Judy Black Memorial Gallery /Gardens, CT. Lisa’s upcoming solo exhibitions include Central Piedmont College, Charlotte, NC, 1/1-12/31/22 and Googleworks Art Center, Reading, PA 2023. SCHOOL LUNCH will be published in the Winter/ Spring issue of ‘Palaver’, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Lisa has been awarded the Grumbacher Gold Medal for Painting. The Nabisco Corporation Gallery, NJ has twice featured SCHOOL LUNCH, both on the announcements for and in exhibition of ‘Faces of America: Celebrating Diversity & Multi-Culturalism for Black History Month”.

The Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT has produced a You Tube video of Weinblatt’s artwork – https://youtu.be/ULzF80zU9j4.

Stephanie H. Plunkett, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Norman Rockwell Museum, MA comments “Weinblatt’s ability to transform specific experiences into powerful images which communicate to a broad audience is nothing short of extraordinary… riveting images implicit of the energy and tensions of human experience.”

Swamp   June 17 2:01 PM    

Todd Doney

oil on linen

30"h x 30"w

$3,500

ARTIST STATEMENT

Watch this very special video about Todd and his work:  http://youtu.be/eDwBb8ZxGKs 

The inspiration for “Swamp, June 17, 2:01 PM” was viewed just inside the Great Swamp on my way home from work. 

Nature has been a vehicle of artists throughout the ages to express themselves and it is the impetus of my work as well. To be more precise, the nature that has inspired the majority of my work is the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge which is situated adjacent to my home. Many of the images that form my work are inspired by hikes, dog walks, bike rides, and drives through the swamp. 

The titles of my work depict the exact moment that I viewed the scene. For example: “Swamp, Feb 27, 5:03PM”. My paintings are an attempt to freeze in time nature’s ephemeral flux and their titles suggest that. Nature is fleeting and constantly changing. Not only seasonally and daily, but even hourly. Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote, "All things are flowing” and “You cannot step into the same river twice...." 

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Reflected Trees Feb 15 5:08 PM  

Todd Doney

oil on linen

48"h x 48"w 

$9,000

ARTIST STATEMENT

Nature has been a vehicle of artists throughout the ages to express themselves and it is the impetus of my work as well. To be more precise, the nature that has inspired the majority of my work is the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge which is situated adjacent to my home. Many of the images that form my work are inspired by hikes, dog walks, bike rides, and drives through the swamp. 

The titles of my work depict the exact moment that I viewed the scene. For example: “Reflected Trees Feb 15 508 PM"  My paintings are an attempt to freeze in time nature’s ephemeral flux and their titles suggest that. Nature is fleeting and constantly changing. Not only seasonally and daily, but even hourly. Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote, "All things are flowing” and “You cannot step into the same river twice...." 

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Todd was born in Chicago, IL and grew up in the near-north suburbs. He attended the prestigious American Academy of Art in Chicago where he was awarded the Union League Scholarship Award. After graduating, Todd immediately started his career as an illustrator. He worked as an illustrator until 2006; the year he started his gallery work. Con't >

 Todd's gallery work includes one person shows at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery, NY, NY, & Boonton, NJ, Morris Arts, Morristown, NJ, and The College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, among others. His paintings have also been exhibited at Drumthwacket, the Governor’s official residence, in Princeton, NJ, The Paterson Museum in Paterson, NJ, The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, The Arts for the Parks National Competition in Wyoming, and the Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibitions in New York, to name a few. Todd's work is being represented by Broadfoot & Broadfoot located in Boonton, NJ.Currently, he is an associate professor of art at the County College of Morris in Randolph, NJ, where he teaches drawing, painting, and foundation classes.
Todd lives with his family in Gillette, New Jersey. His home is situated adjacent to the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, which is an inspiration for much of his work. 

Wishing, Hoping, Thinking

Erica Engfer Pizza

encaustic and collage on wood

11"h x 34 1/2"w (overall including frames in this triptych of 10"x10" panels

$895 

ARTIST STATEMENT

"My work challenges personal observations of everyday life through a multidisciplinary approach to painting, printmaking, and assembly. In our fast-paced lives of perpetual doing and not enough BEING, I value slowing down to observe and record the beauty in the ordinary. Translating these daily phenomena in my work allows me to share my insights about the world in a deeply introspective and personal manner.  My work is inspired by and rooted in the art of bookmaking. It is where I first explored the concepts of repetition, mixed media, and assembly. This foundational inquiry evolved into challenging the idea of a book while respecting its integral properties. For example, my imagery often repeats like book pages and is stitched together somehow, but typically it is hanging from the wall or the ceiling. The story of the work is often flexible and is intended to be interpreted by the viewer. 

"Growing up in a lake community in the NJ Highlands was a magical experience. I have always been awestruck by the lake landscape - deep blue and green waters, rolling mountains in the distance, with exciting skies that evolve in extraordinary ways throughout the day. As an adult, I planted roots in another lake community so my children could grow up in similar surroundings. The NJ waters and mountains provide peace, solitude, and rejuvenation to their inhabitants. As a designer and printmaker, I see the world through edges and color; and look for shapes and values in the landscape. These three abstracted encaustic panels move the viewer with the water and through the trees and mountains. "

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B I O

Erica Engfer Pizza lives and creates in Northern New Jersey. She received her BFA in Design from The College of New Jersey and her MFA from Montclair State University with a concentration in Metalworks and Jewelry. Her work has appeared in galleries and museums throughout NJ in both group and solo shows. Her solo show, Slow Down, traveled across the country as part of an installation for The Creativity Caravan. She has organized and curated several exhibits celebrating the work of contemporary female artists. She is also an active member of Studio Montclair, where she served as an exhibits coordinator for several years. 

She is also a proud public school art teacher and the department chair of Creative and Professional Studies for Parsippany Hills High School. Through teaching and mentoring, her work is further influenced by her students’ creativity and perspectives on the world. From 2016 through 2018, she was the recipient of two grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Through these grants, she was able to provide professional development to art educators throughout her 14-school district. She also worked directly with Master Printer, Eileen Foti, to develop and execute a student-led printmaking installation exploring each individual’s heritage, traditions, and future goals.

AWARDS

Artist in Residency Grant | NJ State Council on the Arts 2018

Honorable Mention Best In Show Viewpoints | Studio Montclair 2018

Distinguished Faculty Award | Parsippany Troy Hills School District 2017

Artist in Residency Grant | NJ State Council on the Arts 2017

E D U C A T I O N

Residency | Abstracting the Landscape with Encaustic | Vermont ‘23

Residency | Exploring Landscape With Encaustic | Vermont ‘22

Residency | Artist Educator Forum | Savannah College of Art and Design ‘19

Residency | Artist Teacher Institute | NJ State Council on the Arts ‘15 and ‘16

Master of Fine Arts | Montclair State University | Metalworks and Jewelry ‘09

Certificate of Teaching | College of St. Elizabeth ‘04

Bachelor of Fine Arts | The College of New Jersey | Graphic Design ‘03

OCCUPATION

Creative and Professional Studies Department Chair | Parsippany Hills HS ‘22 - Present

Fine Arts Education | Parsippany Hills High School ‘03 - Present

Fine Art Education | Morris County Library System ‘17 - ‘22

Autumn in the Great Swamp

Mary Hodgson

mixed media (fluid acrylics, acrylic inks, marker and collage paper)

11"h x 11"w

$250

ARTIST STATEMENT

This piece came about because I was intrigued by this tree leaning over, but not yet fallen. It is surrounded by brush, water and the vibrant fall colors. The lighting was so beautiful on the water. It evoked the feelings of resiliency and awe. 

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Sunflower Magic

Mary Hodgson

mixed media (fluid acrylics, India ink, oil pastel and paper)

14" h x 14"w

$300

This piece, Sunflower Magic, is inspired by the sunflowers seen throughout the NJ Highlands. It wasn’t until I was surrounded by these beauties that I noticed they were filled with character. There were holes, tears, a lack of uniformity and curling of the petals. That is when I started painting sunflowers.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

"I believe we all have a creative spark inside of us, and when it is lit the artistic magic happens. I believed for decades that I couldn’t capture what I was seeing and translate that into a painting.  But, I continued to have the longing to draw, paint and create. In my 50s I explored art as part of my journey of discovering who I was and who I wanted to be in the next phase of my life. Art gave me the freedom to pursue that and taught me the importance of just being me.

"A lot of my work is inspired by my frequent walks in the NJ Highlands.  I have lived near The Great Swamp for 40 years.  It is where I go to rejuvenate, find my calm, observe and experience the gifts of nature. It is that awe that is invoked when you reach the top of a mountain and look out at the beauty in front of you that enriches and influences my art.

"My work is abstract realism. I use mixed media as it gives me the freedom to continually add new drawing tools to my repertoire as I continue to learn and explore. My favorite paints are fluid acrylics. I love the richness of the paints. Their vibrant, beautiful colors are prominent in my pieces. 

I am a member and volunteer of MCAA, the Morris County Art Association. I have shown my paintings at Morristown Performing Art Center, County College of Morris, corporations, hospitals, art fairs, craft fairs and the Great Swamp Education Center among other places"

Mary Hodgson has been a professional artist since 2015. She is passionate about the creative process and expressing herself through her art. Her work can be described as abstract realism. She works in mixed media and enjoys the vibrant colors she gets when combining fluid acrylics with collage papers.
Mary is a horticulturalist and brings her knowledge and love of flowers to her paintings. She is an avid hiker, and spends a lot of time in nature seeking inspiration for her artwork.   

Kittatinny Summer

Joe Kazimierczyk

oil

17 1/2"h x 29 1/2"w

$1,200

Looking north over Mahlon Dickerson Reservation from Bowling Green Mountain 

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Winter Trek

Joe Kazimierczyk

oil

16 1/2"h x 19 1/2"w

$800

 Hiking around Merrill Creek Reservoir 

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Downpour

Judith A. Lieberman

mixed media (oil on canvas with box assemblage of objects, glass)

11 1/4"h x 11 1/4"w

not for sale      

Downpour is a mixed media assemblage developed from a sketch portraying a pasture in Tewksbury Township, Hunterdon County. Grazing horses are surprised by a sudden spring shower. 

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Flyway

Judith A. Lieberman

digital pigment print on Crane's Museo rag paper    

20 1/2"h x 47"w

$1,200

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There are four “flyways” followed by birds migrating through the United States: the Central, the Mississippi, the Pacific, and the Atlantic. The Atlantic Flyway is a bird migration route that generally follows the Atlantic Coast of North America and the Appalachian Mountains, crossing over the densely populated region of the Northeast. The Atlantic Flyway is located over much of the Highlands of New Jersey and New York. Flyway represents the Springtime migration of thousands of birds of different species, traveling north together. Usually occurring in the evening, the flight overhead sometimes continues for hours, with the birds calling to each other as they fly. 

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My assemblages are playful, thoughtfully executed, and well-crafted.  I want viewers to think, “How beautiful!”, or “How fun!” or “How did she do that?”  I think about how best to represent rain, or snow, twilight, or an invisible virus.  Then I go for it, employing whatever materials seem to work. 

In 1980, I visited the Joseph Cornell retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Inspired by Cornell’s work, I began incorporating boxes into my paintings, a way to combine aspects of both 2- and 3-dimensional images. I also found that sometimes the box assemblage stands alone without a surrounding canvas. 

My digital prints are usually landscapes, sometimes with a geometric element, such as a house, or a figure, human or animal, with an emphasis on the sky. Usually the inspiration is something I have actually seen, but sometimes the image is entirely imaginary, and sometimes narrative. I try to distill and pare down the image to achieve an equivalency to a kind of intensified seeing. There is an inherent beauty in commonly observed views which I am trying to portray in a fresh and innovative way.

Although I currently live a few miles from the technical southern border of the Highlands, I spent fourteen years in a spot near Hell Mountain in Tewksbury Township called Cold Hill. My work at the time was in tune with the surrounding landscape, populated by the cows, sheep, deer, birds and fish living there, but especially the horses.  Con't >

 Rural living offered many bucolic views of animals, including cows cooling off in a summer pond, or horses running in a pasture or caught in a sudden spring rain. The sketch for Downpour is from around 1985. I was lucky enough to find tiny horse figures that had the almost the same poses as the horses in my sketch. The idea, along with the horses, was stored away for more than thirty years until finally being executed. 

The first iteration of Flyway was a 3 x 12 foot triptych assemblage with about one hundred tiny birds suspended on “invisible” thread in three oblong boxes, created for my MA Thesis Exhibition in 1982. Thirty-three years later I realized I could, with the medium of digital printing, better portray the hundreds of birds migrating up the Atlantic Flyway, which covers a large portion of the Highlands.

I realize my Highlands experience is informing my work to this day. Fortunately, I am still close enough to refresh the memories by periodically driving through Tewksbury Township.

EDUCATION

Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, TX, B.S. Chemistry, 1965Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA , B.A. Art, 1976 Art Students' League, New York, NY, 1979-80, Studied Painting with Isaac Soyer  New York University, New York, NY,  M.A. Studio Art, 1982 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, M.F.A. Painting, 1987 

Fireflies

Lisa Madson

mixed media (steam printed leaves with watercolor and firefly print)

40”h x 28”w

$550

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ARTIST STATEMENT

"The season of the firefly is the cusp of summer. The sun sets yet the air is still balmy. Relax, unwind, and enjoy this scientific marvel/gift of wonder from nature. Happy this creature is native to my region.

"Fireflies is done with a steam transfer process called eco dyeing. The materials are gathered and depending on the location or time of year the quality of the print is affected.  Materials gathered are steamed with the paper using a mixture of ink and dye. The image is transferred and finished with watercolor. All prints reflect the area where the materials are gathered, and this piece reflects the environs of North Jersey, where I grew up in the Highlands region spending time hiking rocky trails through forested area, and in the evening watching the sparkling fireflies drifting across the evening dusk. "

LIsa is a member of the international Nature Printing Society, and currently teaches at Maccullough Hall Museum in Morristow.

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EDUCATION

Montclair State University

Supplemental Workshops

PCNJ (Printmaking Center of New Jersey)

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Center for Contemporary Art

EXHIBITIONS

LBIF Water Stories juried invitational 2023

New Jersey Arts Annual:Mother Nature vs Human Nature: The Inequality of Climate Resilience at the Noyes Museum 2023

Farmstead Arts group show 2023

Atlantic Highlands Gardened - juried invitational 2023

ArtVenture juried invitational 2022

LBIF Elemental Effects juried invitational 2022

Highlands Art juried invitational 2021

Tewksbury Historical Society juried invitational 2021

Hunterdon Art Museum/juried invitational 2021

Somerset Chamber of Commerce exhibition 2021

Hunterdon Art Museum/ juried invitational 2020

Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Project volume 15 2020

Somerset Chamber of Commerce exhibition 2020

Morris Museum Natures Splendor juried group show 2019

Bernardsville library New Jersey solo show 2019

Frontline Arts 2019 Line and Form/juried invitational

Barron Arts Center 2018 The Earth Speaks/invitational

Frontline Arts 2018 Struggle To Exist/juried invitational

Morris Library, New Jersey 2018 solo show

John James Audubon Center 2018 juried/honorable mention

Saint Catherine of Bologna 2018 juried/honorable mention

Studio Montclair 2018 group show

Wingtip Press print exchange 2018

Historic Flemington Small Works art show 2017

Saint Catherine of Bologna 2016 juried/honorable mention

Bernardsville Library New Jersey solo show 2016

PCNJ member show 2015

Somerville New Jersey Library 2015 juried selection

Monmouth art Museum 2010 juried selection/honorable mention

Noyes Museum 2010 group show

PUBLICATIONS

Bridgewater Lifestyle Magazine February 2022 feature

Nature Printing Society 2021 featured article

Nature Printing Society newsletter 2018 featured article

Skyland's Visitor Magazine cover/featured 2017

Nature Printing Society newsletter 2016 cover/feature

 Golden Hour

Michael McFadden

Flashe vinyl paint on linen    

25"h x 31"w

$3,500

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ABOUT Golden Hour

My studio is in a mill on the west bank of the Musconetcong River in the village of Imlaydale in Warren County. At sunset golden colors are projected onto the steep eastern bank. The broken dam and the river banks create a protected space where natural dramas unfold. Each year two Canada geese nest on a broken bridge pier in the middle of the river. High above, from the windows of the mill, I watch a merganser chase fish under water while the male lazily drifts on the surface above her.  

ARTIST INFO

Michael McFadden is a fine artist, master craftsman, and educator. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Mr. McFadden studied at Carleton College, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin where he received his MFA.

 In 1978 he established an art studio and fine furniture workshop in the Tribeca area of New York City. In 1987 Michael and his wife Doris Ettlinger, also an artist and educator, moved their studios to an 18th Century grist mill in western New Jersey where they raised their two children, Ivy and Benjamin. Recently Michael retired from teaching engineering, architecture, and fine art at Hunterdon Central High School.

Michael’s images are inventions based on memory and imagination. He transforms his personal experience of poignant events and shared experiences into abstract images. Michael’s paintings are constructed from a personalized vocabulary of marks and shapes. He creates a visual environment that invites exploration. His color harmonies, composition, and calligraphic brush work result in expressive, high contrast images that engage the viewer through shared impressions and experience. (con't)

PROCESS - How I make art.

When an idea or image captures my imagination, I save it in a sketch. If an idea has potential, I develop it using more sketches and collages. I use collage as a means for expression and discovery, it helps me find what I otherwise might not imagine.

Using ink and watercolor on rice paper fragments I build a vocabulary of abstract parts. I use the parts to find the images and build the composition. My work is the product of many decisions. It is through my choices that I find and express myself. I value honesty and transparency as I make these choices.

I favor intuition, improvisation and accidental discovery while composing. As the image develops the parts are glued into place to form a structure for the painting. The collage may be part of a painting or the subject of a painting.

Casein, oil paint or Flashe are used to create the painting on linen, canvas, or wood.

SUBJECTS - What do I paint?

My goal is to transform the experience of poignant events into expressive abstract images.  Although motivated by personal experience, my paintings build on our shared memory of poignant places and experiences.  The images in my work are invented using memory and imagination but they are based on experience.  

My work is often based on traditional or personal themes which I repeatedly explore.  I work with themes and subjects which I experience emotionally whether they are poignant or mundane.  My goal is to transform these experiences into expressive abstract images. 

Influenced by Latin American authors of Magic Realism, my paintings are meant to evoke emotions and intensify memory by compressing time and space. They are unfinished stories that that evolve, completed by the viewer's associations.

WHY... do I paint?

I paint for knowledge and pleasure. I am happiest when using my mind and my hands. I use my mind to discover and solve problems so that my hands can work. I challenge myself to do the best work I am able. The challenge I enjoy the most is to make something out of nothing.

My emotional response to places and events motivates me to re-imagine them in poignant images. The riverside environment where I work often provides inspiration. I also enjoy reimagining traditional themes, like a jazz musician playing standards.

Morning Call

Jack R. Moore

digital painting, archival pigment (Archival Limited Edition Print, created with 3D   Digital Sculpting and Digital Paint Brush) 

19"h x 23"w

$1,250   

ARTIST STATEMENT

This image evokes the warm memory of a time in the 20's, 30's and 40's when the artist's lake community was a place people spent their summer weekends to get away from hot city apartments. A Greyhound bus schedule picked up before boarding the bus for the lake sits on the table, a hat and tie - elements of city life - are set aside for now. Rather than a call from the office on the vintage telephone, a peaceful bird chirps a Saturday morning greeting from outside the window. The lake provides our guest with an inner peace, looking outside to the environment, and inside to the soul, illuminated on the horizon. 

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The Golden Hour

Jack R. Moore

digital painting, archival pigment on canvas (created with 3D Digital Sculpting and   Digital Paint Brush    

27"h x 44"w

$2,000

ARTIST STATEMENT

The Golden Hour An interior scene within the context of a waterscape - the Golden Hour refers to the hour or so before sunset when the sun’s light appears warmer, brighter and more sharply focused, creating dramatic contrasts of light and shadow. This fleeting time serves as a gentle reminder of life’s most basic and yet confounding Truth: the interrelationship and dependence of opposites. The carpet leads us to the open doors of this Arts and Crafts lakefront home, enticing us to walk out, grab the canoe paddles and immerse ourselves in the magical glow of the Golden Hour floating on the lake. 

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East Meets West at  Cedar Lake

Jack R. Moore

linoleum block print

18"h x 14"w

$200

ARTIST STATEMENT

A full moon illuminates this familiar boat landing where the two main roads of Cedar Lake West and Cedar Lake East meet up. It’s an homage to the ancient Eastern art of Japanese Wood Block printing. Blue-ish moon lit scenes are common subject matter in this tradition. Using the more modern Western technique of carved Linoleum block printing, this image merges the two worlds depicted on a serene summer evening. 

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Jack R. Moore is inspired by familiar places captured at the magical moments of twilight and dawn, Moore pushes his artistic vision - contemporary realism bordering on surreal - yet keeps the spirit and warmth of memories experienced or imagined. He explores still life interiors with exterior views that invite a narrative evoking reminiscences of the past with rich detail. These popular images have been exhibited in a long running solo show as well as several group shows.

Moore grew up in both Hoboken and Sussex county, New Jersey. On weekends and during summers, his mom and dad built their house in Byram by themselves. As a city kid, being exposed to the country was a wonderful experience. Days filled with playing in the wooded hills and streams left a lasting impression and an appreciation for natural wonders. This experience is what informs his art. He currently resides in Morris county.

Moore is the recipient of several prestigious graphic design and illustration awards, creating images for the advertising and publishing industry for over 35 years. In his formative period as a traditional painter, Moore’s media of choice was acrylic paint on canvas and board. He progressed to develop a unique combination of electronic brush painting and 3D digital modeling. Not a quick technique, but effective in creating the highly detailed imagery that emanates from Moore’s fertile imagination. [see “Golden Hour” and “Morning Call”]

Currently, Moore seeks to create artwork with a more physically hands-on process. He is exploring Linoleum block carving and printing with a hand press. The imagery is simplified using the Japanese design concept Notan, breaking an image down to its essence using just 2 to 4 values and still being recognizable. This is the polar opposite of his extremely detailed, digital 3D modeling technique. [see “East Meets West at Cedar Lake”]

 Bobcat in Spirit

Seth Ruggles Hiler

oil on canvas

42"h x 30"w

$3,000

ABOUT THIS PAINTING

 I have always wanted to see a bobcat in person in the New Jersey Highlands. Friends have reported sightings through the years, but these animals are quite illusive. This painting is an imagined encounter with this mysterious legend of a creature. 

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 I paint moments of experience. Through layering of imagery, I encourage viewers of my art to unearth their own emotional takes, metaphors and narratives. As I move into more expressive abstraction in my painting, opportunities for dimensional layering of my experiences grow. This creative process of stacking moments became essential during the pandemic. At times, the most vivid way to connect to the outside world was through memory. We unfolded and rearranged moments from our past, and then we connected them to our surreal present.  When we step out into nature we are given the freedom to connect with a force that does not speak the language of scarcity.  My paintings attempt to reflect the abundance of the fields and skies which put the world into perspective for me.

Seth Ruggles Hiler is an artist located in Brooklyn. His first inspiration was the nature of northern New Jersey farmland. While at Syracuse University, Hiler’s creative interests bloomed into portraying the spirit of humans and the communities they create.  He went on to study figurative oil painting at the New York Academy of Art.  Hiler is a drawing and painting professor for the Bard Early College Network. 

EDUCATION

2005 - MFA

New York Academy of Art

2002 - BFA    

Syracuse University