Small Joys Studio

Inna’s studio will be open to the public on Saturday, April 30 from 11 AM to 5 PM.

150 Main Street, Flemington, NJ 08822

(908) 875-6223

I am a mixed media artist with a background in biological sciences. I paint and design jewelry. My work is a joyful reflection of the forms and colors found in both natural and urban environments.

I often combine acrylics, inks, pencils, newspapers and photo transfers on canvas or board to explore interesting light and composition in all sorts of subject matter. I want to capture the fleeting exuberance of flowers, beauty of ornate textiles, decadent urban decay, and people in their environment.

My one-of-a-kind and small-edition jewelry synthesizes elements from the worlds of biology, natural and urban environments. I like using silver, gold-filled wire, enamels, gemstones, acrylics on wood, and found objects to create unconventional and original designs.

Aylin Green Studio

Aylin’s studio will be open to the public on Saturday, April 30 from 11 AM to 5 PM.

100 Rocktown Lambertville Road, Lambertville, NJ 08530

(609) 933-7441

My art centers on exploring mythologies, dreams, scientific theories, and interpretations of events while gathering inspiration from the crusty tables of flea markets, the sewing boxes of fashionable women, and the colorful graffiti of city streets.

In many of my sculptures I play with multiple expressions of gender identity. The basic form is a pillow — an intimate object made solely for the purpose of the body’s comfort. You sense the absence of the person through the depression in the center but the object itself becomes a metaphor for the body. Layers of meaning are added through the use of crochet, lace, and the material of metal.

My mixed media paintings often tell a story, either real or imagined, through texture, imagery, and color. Many are based on vintage imagery of contortionists and circus performers with a mystical and otherworldly influence. These women are simultaneously acting and acted upon by their environment. They are the givers and the takers, the protectors and the warriors. Whatever is asked of them, they perform. The challenge is thrown down, and they take it up.

Bio:
Aylin Green is a mixed media artist, community organizer, educator, and curator. She has exhibited her sculpture and paintings at traditional and alternative art venues throughout the region for the last 20 years, and her work is held in many private collections. Public art projects have included murals in the city of Trenton and the grant funded “Trenton Art Puzzle” project.

Aylin holds a MA Ed from School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston/Tufts and a BFA in Sculpture from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the West Windsor Arts Council and is a longtime resident of Lambertville, NJ.

Valerie’s studio will be open to the public on Saturday, April 30 from 2 PM and Sunday, May 1 from 11 AM to 5 PM.

47 Leffer Hill Road, Flemington, NJ 08822

(212) 227-7055

People have used fingerprints for mark-making since the earliest recorded days of civilization. Yet fingerprints today are far more likely to be used for marking others than for stamping a claim of ownership or creation. They are most widely employed by the police and forensic labs, banking institutions, and government health services. Of course, interpreting these prints is an art in itself. And for all their apparent individual information, fingerprints tell us nothing about gender, age, race, income, or anything else about a person that can be used for enforcing social constructs that define categories of oppression.

Where fingerprints were once used as a symbolic action of pride, they have now become a passive action—we are fingerprinted. I am interested in bringing humanity back to the fingerprint—whether in obsessive repetitious patterns or the intimate setting of a personal bureau that houses our second skin.

The fingerprint work in this series is created with my right index finger. Each print is catalogued with the date it was created beneath it. The work revolves around identity—identifying and categorizing people into groups and subgroups within society.

It is the notion of a fixed self or our identification of others that I am challenging by the use of color, shape, and pressure of every print I create—along with its accompanying date.

James’ studio will be open to the public on Sunday, May 1 from 11 AM to 5 PM.

6 Hunting Hills Road, Annandale, NJ 08801

(908) 432-0904

My goal is to create art that pulls people in, by exploring the tension between opposing forces of natural and the abstract, the emotional and the representational. To achieve a tension between layers of paint, color, white space and mark-making which produces something a bit unexpected, drawing the viewer in, to look a little closer until they almost touch it.

The Large Glass

Todd’s studio will be open to the public on Sunday from 11 AM to 5 PM.

450 Cokesbury Road, Annandale, NJ 08801

(201) 320-1452

The works I chose for this studio tour are a response to the pandemic, isolation and loneliness. I have always drawn every day in one form or another. These cards allowed me to respond to an image of a person… one who sat still for a very long time in order to be captured on film. It was a moment of lengthy pause. I am reacting to their faces and what I can glean from their emotions and placing them in isolated or protected situations. The work very closely relates to my other interests in science, systems, connections and the absurd.