Driving America's Art Scene - Hunterdon County, NJ USA

McNamara

McNamara

Terri McNamara

Terri McNamara

Mixed Media

 

The Large Glass

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

450 Cokesbury Road, Annandale, NJ 08801

(908) 323-3376

Terri McNamara is a nurse, a mom, an artist, a musician and a writer. She has a fierce sense of commitment to anything she puts her mind to. Terri holds a number of degrees from English to Nursing and is even finishing a Master’s degree as you read this. She grew up watching her father paint and her mother make ceramics and their family farm was never without an abundance of studio materials, other artists or music.

Miller, MaryAnn L.

Miller, MaryAnn L.

MaryAnn L. Miller

MaryAnn L. Miller

Mixed Media

 

Lucia Studio

MaryAnn’s studio will be open to the public on Sunday, May 1 from 11 AM to 4 PM.

18 George’s Place, Clinton, NJ 08809

(908) 391-0347

The work has become its own inspiration. It has become less a partnership with randomness and more an intentional harnessing of design elements. I compose as I go along keeping my developing design as a guide to what will come next. I have faith that each choice will lead to the correct arrangement. This work is as identity free as I can make it.

Miller, Colleen

Miller, Colleen

Colleen Miller

Colleen Miller

Mixed Media

 

Green Cottage Studios

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

Canal Center, 278 North Union Street, Suite 108, Lambertville, NJ 08530

(609) 468-1494

My mixed media art represents a visual language that I use as a bridge to communicate emotions to the viewer. My goal is for the viewer to be able to access my internal worldview through my artwork.

Throughout all the mediums that I use to do artwork, there are several common threads. My style centers around richly detailed, layered images which engage the viewer and encourage him/her to spend time absorbing more than the surface level. I frequently refer to my style as “more” – I use more tools, more techniques, and more visual components to bring depth to the pieces. I employ colorful patterns to strike at the viewers’ emotions and I obsess over the details. I believe if viewer’s see all of the parts, patterns and details, it brings a more comprehensive and emotional image to bear.

I don’t limit myself to specific tools or mediums. To me, mixed media equals freedom.

Colleen grew up in New Jersey and currently resides in Lawrence and has a studio in Lambertville. She exhibits in local shows and has work in local retail shops. Colleen also volunteers for HomeFront’s Artspace.

Irvine

Irvine

James Irvine

James Irvine

Mixed Media

 

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.

Huhn

Huhn

Valerie Huhn

Valerie Huhn

Mixed Media

 

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.

Green

Green

Aylin Green

Aylin Green

Mixed Media

 

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.

Lambrix

Lambrix

Todd Lambrix

Todd Lambrix

Mixed Media

 

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.

Schwarzenberger

Schwarzenberger

Mary Schwarzenberger

Mary Schwarzenberger

Mixed Media

 

Mary Schwarzenberger Fiber Art

Mary’s studio will be open to the public on Saturday, April 30 from 10 AM to 6 PM, and Sunday, May 1 from 10 AM to 4 PM.

59 Bridge Street, Milford, NJ 08848 

(908) 625-7827

In my fiber art, I try to create moods with color and texture that sooth or stimulate. Dyeing silk fabric in a palette of aqua and ocean colors provides raw material for exploration of texture in fabric. Manipulation of the surface using a faux-chenille technique replicates the overlapping ripples and waves in a body of water. A continuing theme in my work is fascination with the sea. The ocean’s ability to engage all of the senses and instill calm and exhilaration simultaneously is a never-ending source of solace.

Dzhanibekova

Dzhanibekova

Inna Dzhanibekova

Inna Dzhanibekova

Mixed Media

 

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.

Modern Fossils

Modern Fossils

Judith Marchand

Judith Marchand

Mixed Media

 

Modern Fossils Environmental Art

Judith’s studio will be open to the public on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 from 10 AM to 6 PM. 

207 Milford Road, Frenchtown, NJ 08825

(908) 247-6422

Mankind’s interaction with its natural environment is the basis and subject of this work. Just as natural fossils are the imprints of prehistoric life on earth, Judith and David have created “Modern Fossils”: pieces that ponder the substances we are currently leaving behind in our environment, to be unearthed far in the future. These artists were inspired by the embellished metal manhole and storm drain covers that are found in their local river towns. With these in mind, they create original plaster artworks, which represent their community’s impact on the waterways that sustain us and give us life. During clean-ups of local waterway environments, these artists collect both natural materials and man-made detritus, which they then use to create the images in their pieces. The resulting wall-hangings embody the modern dilemma of mankind’s struggle to maintain a balanced relationship with nature. Their artworks also proclaim the vital environmental message stressing the necessity of keeping our waterways clean and healthy. Modern Fossils have their roots in Judith’s love for the environment and her local river town community, combined with David’s 20+ years of experience in creating and casting environmental sculptures in his native NYC and in cities around the world.

 

 

Trisiano

Trisiano

Laura Trisiano

Laura Trisiano

Mixed Media

 

Laura Trisiano Art

Laura’s studio will be open Sunday, May 1 from 11 AM to 5 PM.

3 Wildwood Road, Califon (Tewksbury, Township), NJ 07830  

(908) 268-5933

My art is inspired by nature, architecture, and the yogic arts. My creative process begins by collecting things that “speak to me,” whether of man-made or natural materials. I resonate with what has been around for a while and conveys the passage of time. I use old metal, wood, concrete, worn shells and rocks, silk, bamboo, and rare beads, to name a few. There’s a mystery about older places and things that tell a story that is all their own. I find things in nature, antique shops, flea markets, and while walking along the road or in the forests. Giving new life to discarded objects that I see as beautiful is fulfilling and joyful. Although there’s always challenges putting the pieces together, I like to stay out of my head and let my heart and intuition guide me. The figures in my art represent all of us journeying together, yet alone, back home.”