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Come join our Photography Exhibition from January 14 - February 29! Thanks to the donations from numerous organizations, such as, Amboy Bank, the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Magyar Bank and the New Brunswick City Center, we hope viewers will be encouraged to come out and see the beautiful photographic and abstract work. 

New Brunswick Art Salon 2018 – Oil Color and Mixed Media: “An Expanse of Expressionism” Exhibition Duration: April 24th, 2018 — June 16th, 2018 Opening Reception:  Friday, April 27th, 2018 @ 6:30pm

FREE ADMISSION

Beginning on April 24th, Alfa Art Gallery will commence one of its flagship exhibitions, the 2018 New Brunswick Art Salon for Oil Color and Mixed Media. This display, celebrating the aesthetic mastery of six gifted painters, will be initiated with a cozy and intimate opening ceremony to be held on Friday, April 27th at 6:30pm and hosted by Alfa. Attendees of this event will become familiarized with a diverse array of wondrous artworks spanning the colorfully abstract to the otherworldly and surreal.

Though expressionism is a substantial theme of our Oil Color & Mixed Media Exhibition, the featured artists at Alfa will boast a wide array of visual aesthetics ranging from the impressionistic to the abstract style that expressionism is renowned for. Charity Henderson’s body of work serves to explores various psychological states through mixed media impressionistic paintings of the human face. Similarly, Debora Thedinga utilizes impressionism in order to manipulate light, color and space thus crafting a landscape that can be viewed successfully through the small window of the canvass. Sue Barrasi also explores the capabilities of impressionistic painting styles through the creation of still life works portraying the innate beauty of nature. In slight contrast to her fellow featured artists, Tricia Miho offers a more surrealist aesthetic with paintings reminiscent of Salvador Dalí. Her work explores the progression of images and how such progression enables the transformation of metaphysical creations.

Alfa’s Oil Color & Mixed Media Exhibition will also display artworks that are more consistent with expressionism, particularly in the realm of the abstract. Colleen Lineberry’s works celebrate natural beauty as captured through her mind’s eye resulting in in vibrantly colorful motifs presenting near otherworldly landscapes. In a fashion akin to Lineberry’s abstract aesthetic, Enrique Zaldivar utilizes color and inspiration from the natural worlf to illustrate issues inherent to human beings and satisfy his constant need to express himself. Kathleen Shaver’s artistry can be described as a quest for the beauty which lies within human impulse and the primal. Leona Tenebruso-Shultes similarly explores this primality by adorning her canvasses with impassioned brushstrokes and expressive colors and finally, Pat Cresson utilizes multifaceted mediums of both digital and analog origin in order to craft texturally rich abstract pieces rich in complexity and exquisitely balanced hues.     

Devotees to the likes of Salvador Dalí, Wassily Kandinsky, and Helen Frankenthaler will especially find a great deal to love scouring Alfa’s artwork adorned walls.

Alfa Art Gallery opening ceremonies feature complimentary live music, hors d’oeuvres, and wine. Drawing inspiration from Parisian exhibitions from the Baroque era bearing the same name, Alfa Art Gallery’s New Brunswick Art Salons are held a number of times each year always with the express goal of lessening the divide between artists and the community, especially in the diverse city of New Brunswick. With the help of grants given by organizations such as Amboy Bank, the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Magyar Bank and the New Brunswick City Center, Alfa is confident that all attendees and viewers of 2018 New Brunswick Art Salon for Oil Color and Mixed Media will leave with a healthier interest and appreciation for the artistic contributions of talents spanning the New Brunswick, the state of New Jersey and beyond. The exhibition and opening ceremony is free and open to the public.

We hope you're as excited as we are for our next exhibition: "Contemporary Realism" exhibition featuring teachers and students from the "Princeton Academy of Art" on March 9 @ 6:30pm!

The artwork included in the poster is by Iliya Mirochnik . We are very thrilled to have her work featured in this upcoming exhibition! For my info about Iliya Mirochnik, visit her website: http://www.alfaart.org/our-artists/iliya-mirochnik