Opening Reception is September 8th from 1-4 PM
The September show will be on view through September 30th
See website for hours.
Studio – Members Choice
Gallery 1 – Anthony Ferraina “Coastal Birds and Wildlife at the Jersey Shore”
Anthony Ferraina, Wildlife Photographer, Writer and Naturalist, age 70 a graduate of Stockton University. Anthony is the senior photographer at Wetlands Wildlife Photography. I have always liked the woods and the beach as a young child, I would hike and bring my binoculars and try to spot birds and ducks then look them up in the birders guide to see what species it was. Now many decades later I still love to bring my camera and hike for hours in pursuit of wildlife. I have been an avid wildlife photographer for over 25 years. Wildlife Photography has always been my passion and the Jersey Shore has some of the best Wildlife in the country.
Anthony is a multi-award-winning photographer with awards from the likes of King Birder, Pinelands Alliance, Edwin Forsythe Wildlife and National Geographic your shot. Anthony has a large following on Quora.com where he has written many articles on photography and photography equipment, I have given Wildlife seminars at the likes of Stockton University and The Art Society of Monmouth County an organization in which I am a member of as well as a member of the Ocean County Artist guild and the Cape May Museum of Arts and Culture.
My Photography features local shorebirds, such as such as Egrets, Herons and Sandpipers. The photos capture the faces and emotions of the wildlife in which he is photographing. In my images I like the photo to be pleasing and tell a story and let the viewer decide what they think is happening. Wildlife Photography is a way to walk see nature and get exercise, do what you like, like what you do.
Gallery 2 – Dorothy Mateo and Sandra Brogan
SMALL WORKS IN PAPER by Sandra Brogan, Art forms without limits
I have studied the technique of making paper for two years at the DuCret School of Art located in Plainfield, NJ. Paper design is a subset of graphic design. Handmade paper is held together by cellulose fibers through a natural bond. Its texture is often irregular and tactile, imbued with unique fibers, a variation of thickness, opacity and surface.
Making paper is very labor intensive and requires multiple steps throughout the process. Through this process, I have expanded boundaries to create something unique; by using line, color, and different surfaces to mimic the architecture of nature.
Handmade paper has an organic quality shaped by plants from which it is made and using natural dyes to paint with or adding color in the process. In fact, paper making often utilizes recycled- waste materials. Much of this exhibit has come from years of studying and visualizing art work, as well as interpreting and projecting internal images from my mind. This flow from my mind transfers through my hand and releases my inner emotions to this artform.
With these small works, lines, colors, and shapes are developed through years of study and then grants the visual work to the viewer. I hope you will enjoy this type of art as much as I have enjoyed making it.
Dorothy Matteo
“Pop-up – Barbara de la Cuesta “Faces and Figures”
FACES AND FIGURES is a retrospective of 30 years of drawing, painting and clay sculpture from the model all done in the excellent life drawing and portrait workshops at the Guild. The paintings are in acrylics, and the sculptures are in burnished stoneware clay. The most recent paintings, are acrylics on acid free watercolor paper, and mounted on boxes. They are done from models in a setting, a new feature of the Sunday Portrait Workshop where I fondly paint armchairs, lamps, vases and textiles as expressions of the model.
Barbara de la Cuesta has studied art at the University of Delaware, the Boston Museum School, and The Radcliffe Institute, She later studied for a Masters of Art Therapy from Lesley University. There she worked independently at a women’s studio where she studied handbuilding in clay and painting, as well as writing a thesis about Joan Erikson’s work at Stockbridge. Her work has been shown at The Concord Art Association, OCAG, The Burlington County College, and the Lavallette Library. She has taken first place in the State Senior Show and in the State Juried Show at OCAG. She paints in acrylics and sculpts in stoneware clay.