In the Main Gallery
January 7 - March 31, 2012
Opening Reception - Saturday, January 7, 1-4pm
The Continuous Thread: Storytelling On and In Paper
The Artists in the exhibit:
Aileen Bassis, Jersey City NJ
Marion Behr, Branchburg NJ
Marcia Widenor, Sea Cliff NY
Robroy Chalmers, Seattle WA
Guest Curator - Pamela Cooper
Aileen Bassis, Aristotle, 2010, 31x 43" paper lithographs with mixed media, thread
Marion Behr, Life's a Circus, 23x29" pen on paper
Marcia Widenor
Robroy Chalmers, Sporozoan Swarm I,
torn prints, drawings and pins
In the Library Gallery
Seedlings
Featuring 2011 Konrad Artist-in-Residence, Carlos Frias
Chlorophyll, collograph on paper, 20" x 16"
Curator's Statement on The Continuous Thread
We think of storytelling in the form of the written or spoken word, but from the beginning of the human race stories have been told in the form of drawing, painting and sculpture. Homage to the hunt in the caves of Lascaux, images engraved on the walls of the Pharaoh's Tombs and Newspaper Rock in Eastern Utah, all tell us narratives.
Artists have continued to tell stories through paintings and sculpture commissioned by the church and the nobility. In the last two to three hundred years artists have selected their own subject matter and created political, historical and social comment. The four artists I have chosen approach storytelling in different ways.
Marion Behr keeps a daily dairy, drawing with pen on paper just letting the thoughts flow, mulling over the events of the day. These form the inspiration for a series of prints. Robroy Chalmers repurposes dark dense prints and drawings referencing his recent move across the USA, making them fly and lightly swirl around the room. Marcia Widenor's knitted paper clothing charges the viewer to wonder about the stories that inspired the fabrication of these beautiful objects. Aileen Bassis asks viewers to draw places from the past on acetate, 'Memory Maps'. Thinking about the nature of memory and how this has fascinated people throughout time she decided to use quotes from different philosophers, along with the photographs taken at the time, to document their experience of memory.
Pamela Cooper
PREVIOUS SHOWS:
Giving Pause Reflecting Still
October 29 - December 23, 2011
In the Library Gallery
October 29 - December 23, 2011
Lyrical Three Dimensional Intaglio Prints by Lin Carte
Clay Monoprints: Pigments of My Imagination
Mitch Lyons Solo Exhibition
August 27 - October 22, 2011
PCNJ's 36th Annual Member Exhibition
June 11th - August 20th, 2011
Claire Simon, Boulder Mountain Variation 5
BLANKET STATEMENTS
March 26 - June 4, 2011
Featuring prints by four artists: Shelley Thorstensen, Dan Welden, Marco Luccio and Debra Luccio. Pictured: Antarctic Thirst (2008), Solarplate print by Dan Welden.
MEMORY: CALL AND RESPONSE and
IN A LAND FAR AWAY (WHICH IS OFTEN TO BLAME): Recent works by Caroline Garcia Ziegler
January 8 through March 19, 2011
In our Main Gallery, Memory: Call and Response is a photography exhibition featuring works by three New Jersey artists Terry Boddie, Lorena LaGrassa and Carol Rosen. Terry Boddie's work, "Ferry", is pictured at left.
The Library Gallery will feature "In a Land Far Away (Which Is Often to Blame): Recent works by Caroline Garcia Ziegler". She was the 2010 Artists-in-Residence at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey, where she completed the current body of work. A detail of "Of Love and Legumes" is pictured.
A REVERENCE FOR WATER A Special Collaboration with ANJEC
October 23 - December 5, 2010.
Guest Juror & Environmental Pioneer Candace McKee Ashmun.
This unique exhibition brings together the arts and the environment through a partnership with the Association of NJ Environmental Commissions (ANJEC).
Pictured above: Agua, a collagraph by Nadia M. Martinez.
MYTHS & MARKS: Archetypes throughout the Ages.
Saturday, July 31 through October 9, 2010.
Opening Reception: July 31, 1:00 to 4:00 pm. 
Artist Sally Spofford, the juror for this exhibition, feels that our culture seems cut off from its past without myths or heroes. Her fascination with history and other cultures has taken her on a search for beginnings, essences, and links to contemporary culture. MYTHS & MARKS features works that respond to these ideas and universal questions such as, who are we and how did we get here?
Of Another Time,
by Margaret Kennard Johnson
May 15 - July 24, 2010
"Where Have We Been?"
The 35th Annual PCNJ Member Exhibition.
Come and see where our members have been this past year.
Going Home, Anthony Lazorko
GRANDE
An Exhibition of Large-Scale Prints and Photographs
Featured artists: Anne Dushanko Dobek, Yashua Klos, Jonas Kulikauskas, Maria Lupo, Kathryn Maxwell, Szilvia Revesz, Bobby Rosenstock, Bill Rybak, Erin Sweeney, Keren Zaltz.
Art as Action features works by five acclaimed printmakers whose passion for complex social, economic, political, and environmental issues spills over into their art.
Featured Artists - J. Catherine Bebout, Karen Guancione, Curlee Raven Holton,
Doris Nogueira-Rogers, and Erik Ruin.
December 12, 2009 through February 20, 2010.
October 10 - December 5
BELOW THE SURFACE
A collaborative exhibition between PCNJ & The Book Arts Roundtable
Participating artists: Seth Apter, Aileen Bassis, Barbara Brewton, R.D. Burton, Lynne Buschman, Mary-Ellen Campbell, Pat Cudd, Pat Feeney Murrell, Marleen Grabowsky, Janet Hautau, Shellie Jacobson, Randy Keenan, Lynn Keffer, Eryn Lewis, Debra Livingston, Karen McDermott, Chuck Miley, Arlene Gale Milgram, Kenneth Schnall, Leokadia Stanik, Jean Stufflebeem, Judy Tobie, Susan Walkley Topper, Cynthia Weiss.
August 8 - September 19
What Does It Mean To Be Human?
PCNJ Member Print Exchange
PCNJ is proud to present "What Does It Mean To Be Human?" as the American half of an international traveling print exhibition exchange with printmakers from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Image: Wind, linocut by Lea Goldman
June 6 - August 1
Reclaiming Lives - Print Exchange Exhibition from Johannesburg, South Africa
Dancers (Ndzhauuko indzuti wa xigaza I), etching by Phillemon Hlungwani
