Everyone is invited to view, Celebration, an exhibition expressing the exhilaration of finally having a hob'art venue to exhibit the art of 57 Northern New Jersey artists. The gallery is located at the Monroe Art Center, 720 Monroe Street, Suite E208, Hoboken. The hours are Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 5pm and by appointment. Please join the members this Saturday, February 25th, 5-8pm, at the gallery during the Grand Reception to really celebrate this long awaited event space. The artists have joined to show art that is full of joy and color. Acrylic, oil, pastel, and colored pencil have been used by Constance Ftera, Heather Corey, Kim DeAngelo, Donna Doherty, Janet Kolstein, Myrna Micheli, Jim Feuss, Erich Heinemann, Kathleen Fagan and Patrick Deshaye, to express feelings of happiness and euphoria. Photographers Roslyn Rose, Don Sichler, Hank Gans, Laurel Brooks, Tom Egan, Ann Kinney, Matthew Seydel Connors, and Howard Berelson made use of the new mediums of digital capture and manipulation to depict color and delight. Collage, mixed media, and paper were explored in the works by Liz Cohen, Carla Cubit, Leslie Rubman and Jody Zulueta. Artwork, using sculptural themes, included France Garrido's telephone, Ibou Ndoye's guitar, Abby Levine's and Miriam Untoria's wood assemblages, as well as the masked busts jointly made by Erik Attia and Gailene St. Amand. The curator of this first show is Liz Cohen. She can be contacted at 201-424-1275 or conchart@aol.com. Gallery information can be obtained on the website www.hob-art.org or from the Director, France Garrido, 201-319-1504 or director@hob-art.org. [more information]
