PARLOR GALLERY

Since the gallery is currently closed for installation, we thought that it would be a good time to remind everybody of all the things that go on at Parlor Gallery. • Not only do we curate exhibitions at the gallery. we also curate artwork for people’s home and businesses and also for public spaces and collections. Most call it art consulting, we like to think of it as “art matchmaking”. • We also curate (and consult) for public art projects, including the @woodenwallsproject located on @theasburyparkboardwalk • We also offer our gallery to those that want a special place to host their special event. We can also help you host it and plan it. • Galleries in small towns and cities are super important for being a place to have experiences, to be inspired and have a place to gather…and most importantly, to fall in love with a new piece of art and artist and take the experience home with you. • To learn more about Parlor Gallery and to visit, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqL0MGruTCY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Since the gallery is currently closed for installation, we thought that it would be a good time to remind everybody of all the things that go on at Parlor Gallery. • Not only do we curate exhibitions at the gallery. we also curate artwork for people’s home and businesses and also for public spaces and collections. Most call it art consulting, we like to think of it as “art matchmaking”. • We also curate (and consult) for public art projects, including the @woodenwallsproject located on @theasburyparkboardwalk • We also offer our gallery to those that want a special place to host their special event. We can also help you host it and plan it. • Galleries in small towns and cities are super important for being a place to have experiences, to be inspired and have a place to gather…and most importantly, to fall in love with a new piece of art and artist and take the experience home with you. • To learn more about Parlor Gallery and to visit, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLzblIOhPO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Parlor Gallery will be closed this weekend and next week while we de-install The Cardboard Show and install our next exhibition… • In the meantime, enjoy these pictures from the last days of The Cardboard Show. • To learn more about Parlor and our upcoming exhibitions and events, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp78tuFu26k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

International Women’s Day is everyday at Parlor Gallery, which is owned and directed (and loved) by two woman,myself and Jill Ricci. • Located on the “arts bloc” of Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park, NJ, we are grateful to be surrounded by unique businesses that are also owned and loved by amazing women…And located in a City that is directed and loved by amazing women too. • We are so lucky to support and promote many talented women that create such wonderful work. They inspire us and make our gallery and our world a more beautiful place. Women make our world go round. • We thank all the wonderful women of the world, for their strength, love, support, courage and kindness. Happy International Women’s Day, each and every day. • Tag your favorite women to share your appreciation of our collective love of the feminine energies that inspire us all. • Pictures by @ellenstaggart & @randy_fotia (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiSPmaux6a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

What a fun day at the gallery. We met so many lovely people that came to see the art of the Cardboard Show. It’s so great to see how enthusiastic people are about the show at the work. • Super special thanks to Renn & Dave for making some amazing cardboard art of their own to share with us today. • We have extended this special show through the month since so many have expressed interest in coming to see it. • For more information on the Cardboard Show, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co3lHR0j_hu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We love showing the series, “Heads of State”, created by Gavin Benjamin. This whole collection, (an ongoing work in progress) takes inspiration from Gavins’s family and friends, honoring their lives and ancestry while marrying today’s culture with the past. It’s a colorful world, conjuring an intersection of media, fashion, politics, pop culture and design. • “Heads of State No. 57", 2022, mixed media collage on wood panel, limited edition of 5, edition 3/5, 20x16x2", available • Gavin Benjamin is a multifaceted artist who combines original analog photography and appropriated images with collage, paint, and varnish to create rich and luxurious works that call back to baroque traditions while incorporating elements of current culture to provoke, critique, and explore. • Born in Guyana, South America and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Benjamin received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. • For more information about Gavin, his process and his available work.. and to purchase work by Gavin, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFke2OOamL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

While the gallery has become a cardboard factory of magical sculptures, we have the task of taking down our last exhibition, “Local•ish”, a show celebrating our localish artists, including this beautiful piece by Suzanne Anan. • “Last Gods", 2018, oil on canvas, 40 x 60", framed, available. “Last Gods” was inspired from the sensual poem of the same name by Galway Kinnell. • Suzanne Anan is an Award Winning Contemporary Fine Artist. She studied in Italy and New York and exhibits her work internationally in cities from Paris to Tokyo.  Anan creates figurative compositions with women as her primary subject. She works in all mediums, but prefers the unpredictability of painting, and the humility and vulnerability required in every stroke of oil onto canvas. Her work is inspired by poetry and literature. Her raw material comes from real life. Her images are gloriously human, revealing the evocative expressions of her thought-provoking subjects.
• To learn more about Suzanne, her process and her available work…and to purchase work by Suzanne, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn54oFeDHfl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Perhaps you recognize Ann Lewis’s work from her large scale, site-specific mural “Protect Her Glory” on the historic Steam Plant Building on the @theasburyparkboardwalk for the @woodenwallsproject We are excited to be able to make one of her early pieces available for purchase. • “BeLove", 2015, spray-paint on aluminum, 17x34”, available. *A portion of this purchase will be donated to the Wooden Walls Project to support public art. • @ann.lew.is is a multidisciplinary activist artist often working in public spaces. She focuses her attention on social justice and environmental issues and is best known for her politically charged and sometimes un-commissioned takeovers of public space. • A multidisciplinary activist artist using painting, installation, and participatory performance, Lewis explores the American identity, power structures, and justice. Her work often incorporates repetition through graphic elements and a limited color palette. She is known for producing work that encourages dialogue and drives community participation. • To learn more about Ann; her process, her projects and her available work.. and to purchase Ann’s work, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnh55Wwpxzc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

While we are busy doing boring “house cleaning” this and that, there are some really amazing things happening at the gallery in preparation for our 14th Anniversary month coming up in February. • Be sure to stay tuned to learn more about this special pop-up opening in a few weeks. • And in the meantime, we are taking appointments for those that might like some one on one time to discuss art projects (for your home and business). • To learn more about acquiring art to add to your home or business, get in touch. We love art matchmaking, it’s what we do best. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXlmh6JuTZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

One of the pieces in our current exhibition “Local•ish” is a de- constructed and re-constructed piece by local favorite, Porkchop. • 4 years or so ago, a building across the street from the gallery (the current Saxony Building on the Arts Bloc of Cookman Avenue) was under construction. There were temporary walls put up and Porkchop asked to paint on them. • After the construction was done, Porkchop’s piece came down and then became two pieces. One piece lives in the lobby of the Saxony and the other one is at the gallery and is available. • "Tight Like Tiger", 2022, acrylic, spray-paint and resin on wood, 66x48", available • To learn more about Porkchop, his process and his available work….and to purchase work from Porkchop, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLXRojj648/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” is the debut studio album by Bruce @springsteen The album was released January 5, 1973, 50 years old today. • Many artists we work with are inspired by @springsteen music and create pieces from this inspiration. Art makes more art, including this homage from Kerry Smith. • "Bruce Springsteen / Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ", 2022, mixed media on Crescent board, 19x20x1”, framed, available. • To learn more about Kerry, his process and his available work… and to purchase available work, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDblWcpLpr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Here’s to a brand new year filled with art and shadows playing together so nicely on the walls of the gallery. • Here’s to a brand new year filled with more art, more artists, more art lovers and friends, more art experiences and happenings and more of the same and more of the different at Parlor Gallery. • Here’s to the new year. We hope you can join us. (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnBZJYUO3oW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Tis’ the Season…. • We are so thankful for all of our friends and family and art lovers and collectors. Thank you all for loving us, just the way we are and supporting all of our art endeavors. Happy happy Holidays to you and yours. • Special thanks to @larrycadillac for the super special Christmas tree. (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmnVNUdjNb8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

On the “10th day of Christmas Sale”, we are sharing all the sparkly gold and beaded beauty of the work by our very own Jill Ricci. • Jill has three small 12x12’s, one of which is a circle, all available for our Holiday Sale….And even though they may be small, you still get all the sparkly bits and lovely details and texture of the larger pieces. • Jill Ricci’s multi-layered work aims to recreate the beauty of her favourite visuals, old walls layered with papers, graffiti and text. She is interested in layers of time and decay and how these can be deciphered as though a form of modern hieroglyphics. Allowing pattern, texture, colour and structure to emerge organically, Jill works to create a harmonious amalgamation between East and West, high art and popular culture, text and image, figuration and abstraction, ancient and modern. “I want the pieces to evoke the walls of Morocco, a Renaissance church, a NYC subway wall and of a hint Malibu Barbie all simultaneously existing on one canvas.” -Jill in her own words • For more information about Jill, her process, and her available work, and to purchase work by Jill (including these 2 piece), get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmh-rssJu9P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

For the “7th Day of Christmas” Sale, we are happy to share the symbolic and iconic work by our friend and artist, Dylan Egon. You may recognize Dylan’s work from the @woodenwallsproject • “Saint America Head", 2019, acrylic on wood panel, 4” in diameter, available “Totem”, 2020, limited edition skate deck, (limited number available) "Petey Head", 2019, acrylic on wood 4x4', available • Dylan Egon addresses themes that include American values, pop culture, and issues of production and consumption, as well as referencing the history of fashion and design. Egon’s background in anthropology and archaeology is evidenced in the artist’s fetishistic approach to objects and his reverence for craftsmanship. His assemblage, Modern American Tomb, is comprised of classic Coca-Cola and Jack Daniels bottles, Marlboro cigarettes, a Rolex watch and a copy of the Bible, among other objects – all of which surround a full-scale brass skeleton. Egon also works with a vocabulary of modern graphic symbols of his own design, applying them to furniture items. • To learn more about Dylan, his process, his available work..and to purchase works by Dylan, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmaqK8XDKkg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

For our “8th day of Christmas” sale, we want to share the repurposed wood assemblages, created by our friend and local artist, Denis Randall • “Rhapsody of the Sentimental World", 2022, mixed media assemblage (reclaimed wood, vinyl and paper) on wood. 48x48", available. • Asbury Park local artist Denis Randall designs and creates art assembled from discarded objects and materials. • Inspired by wanting to repurpose the old, he combines pieces of abandoned items in ways that convert them from ordinary to enticing. • A mix of worn painted wood, rusted metal, and faded paper, even vinyl records, are saved from the landfill and given a new life. • Chaotic fragments are transformed into art, creating a harmonious sense of order through organized patterns, colors, and geometric shapes. • His creative talents also include graphic design, animation, and film editing, that span from the world of advertising to live events. • Even though the two mediums differ…one physical, the other digital…his design approach for both is the same; create something intriguing, approachable, and beautiful. • For more information about Denis, his process, his available work…and to purchase work by Denis, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CmYCYxhDNqd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

For our “5th day of Christmas” sale, we want to share super fun art that puts a smile on your face every time, thanks to artist and friend, Ray Geary. • "Little Devils ", 2022, tinted resin on wood, 36x24", available (it glows in the dark) • Ray Geary is a self taught mixed media artist whose large scale work in resin and acrylic feature graphic abstraction and iconic, obtuse faces in equal measure. His process-driven works being with pours, which become the subjects of his compositions, seemingly acting of their own accord. Blending European traditions of "primitivism" and a pop-inspired sensibility toward the abject, his anthropomorphized spills and puddles offer a playful investigation into materiality. • To learn more about Ray, his process and his available work….and to purchase work by Ray, get in touch. • Email: [email protected] Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmQhipquMEL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=