Category Archives: New Jersey artists

The Games We Played Remade – Dumpster Divers @ Historic Smithville Mansion

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Ellen Benson

Ellen Benson, “Snow Day“, mixed media.

The Dumpster Divers “The Games We Played Remade” @ The Historic Smithville Mansion inhabiting the game rooms (the pool room & bowling alley) of the 1875 estate is a melange of mixed media, metaphors, memories and wishes.  Alden Cole‘s Chinese Checkers is delightfully addictive, Ellen Benson‘s mixed media works are displayed with room to breath and absorb, Burnell Yow! squishes Barbie heads with badminton rackets – Super Fun!

 

Burnell Yow!

 

Burnell Yow! @ “The Games We Played Remade” in The Historic Smithville Mansion.

 

Games Remade

 

The bowling alley of the historic space is a perfect venue for the show; The Games We Played Remade is exhibiting some of Philly & SJs best mixed media, green artists in a quirky theme seemlessly matched with a truly beautiful space (there’s a rose garden and a Moose head in the card room) is definitely worth the short drive on Route 38.

Photo Op Op Op

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The Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art’s “Photo Op Op Op” presented their first all photography show with a collection of fine examples of how many ways photography can be utilized and interpreted from pin-hole camera to digital layering.  The old stone house on the Cooper River consistently presents outstanding shows, this time taking the “op”portunity to “op”timize the”op”tical observation of reality as mediated through photographic technology.  Melissa Panter created cyanotypes on wood by mixing emulsion with gesso, Ben Panter uses overlapping exposures to create unreal landscapes only visible if you swivel your head plus other creative takes on image-making by photographers Thomas Camp, Annette Defe, Ken Hohning, Christy Higgins, Emily Lash, Jeremy Niedt, Clarence j. Guienze and Sharon Harris.

Mellisa Panter

Melissa Panter @ Hopkins House Contemporary Art Gallery with her cyanotype mixed media.

Mellisa Panter

Melissa Panter, “Death and Sainthood“, cyanotype and mixed media.

Ben Panter

Photographer, Ben Panter with his panoramic landscape created with up to 30 shots then exquisitely mixed into a visual impossibility.

Photo Op Op Op

Annette Defeo, “No Maybe Yes“.

Photo Op Op Op

 Jeremy Niedt @ Hopkins House Photo Op Op Op.

Carol Prusa @ Stedman Gallery

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carol prusa

Carol Prusa draws the pattern on the surface of the dome then highlights with paint, drills holes and installs fiber optics that change pattern.  So spacy!  Prusa spends hours meticulously drawing the hypnotic patterns.  The passage of time and space is inherent to the work on view @ Stedman Gallery on the Rutgers Campus in Camden.