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 Gallery Hours: MAIN GALLERYCore Exhibitions Program
24th International Juried Show This renowned and highly acclaimed annual juried exhibition draws many entrants from around the world, whose work reflects every art medium. This year, the Art Center received approximately 2,000 entries, representing the mediums of painting, drawing, textiles, pastels, prints, ceramics, sculpture, mixed media, watercolor, and photography; 139 works were accepted into the show. In addition to the submissions that came from every area of the U.S., entries were received from Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, Columbia, England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and Venezuela Each year, a distinguished member of the arts community is chosen as juror; the Art Center proudly welcomed Susan Kismaric, Curator, Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, as this year’s juror. She first joined the Museum in1976 as Study Center Supervisor and subsequently worked as Assistant Curator and Associate Curator. She served as Acting Director of the Department from 1980 to 1981 while its former Director was on sabbatical. Ms. Kismaric attended Pennsylvania State University and worked for five years in the picture collection at Time & Life Corporation. She has periodically been a visiting Senior Critic of Photography at the Yale School of Art since the early 1980s, and most recently in the winter of 2008. She is the author of many books and has contributed essays to a variety of major books published by the Museum. MITZI and WARREN EISENBERG GALLERYFaculty Exhibition Series The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey’s Faculty Exhibition Series serves to display the current work of its distinguished faculty throughout the year.
Lisa Pressman
Lisa finds creative inspiration within a mark, a color, a word or a page from an old journal. As her art making process evolves a relationship unfolds between intent and accident. Through drawing, painting, layering, covering up, sanding and scraping she discovers her image. The history of the art making process is inseparable from the exploration, through image, of time and memory. Mark-making and collage elements add to an abstract narrative of marked time, places lost and found again.
MARITÉ AND JOE ROBINSON STROLLING GALLERY IIAspiring Artist Series The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey’s Aspiring Artist Series serves to display the current work of students enrolled in classes at the Art Center.
Encaustic Students of Lisa Pressman
This exhibition is comprised of students in Lisa Pressman’s various encaustic classes and workshops. Encaustic is a centuries old method of painting with molten beeswax or wax and pure pigment, resulting in luscious, vibrant colors. Students of Lisa Pressman explore various encaustic techniques and are encouraged to take risks, let go of preconceived ideas, and most of all, have fun exploring this versatile medium.
SCULPTURE PARKThe 5,040 square foot sculpture park is designed to be an outdoor gallery that celebrates the relationship between contemporary sculpture and nature. The space will feature a contemporary sculpture artist each year on a rotating basis and in a variety of media.
On view at the Art Center’s Elm Street Entrance
Markus Baenziger has been living and working in New York City since 1984. After receiving his BFA from Parsons School of Design he attended the graduate program at Yale University where he received his MFA in 1989. Subsequently he had several solo exhibitions at Cohen Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, and Edward Thorp Gallery. His work has been represented in numerous group exhibitions, including the Rose Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, the Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Edward Thorp Gallery, the Swiss Institute, C/O Gallery in Oslo. His sculptures are in prominent collections such as the Walker Art Center and the Agnes Gund collection, and he is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Artist Residency Fellowship, the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship, and the Yale Norfolk Fellowship. Baenziger’s work has been written up in the New York Times, the New York Sun, the Art Newspaper, the Village Voice, Artforum, Art in America, Arts & Antiques, Sculpture Magazine, and others.
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