"Dutch Bouquet,"©2014 Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern
Nine solo exhibitions in drawing, painting, assemblage and print featuring Terri Amig: Mercury and the Little Mysteries, Enrico Gomez: Paper Works, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern: Chamber Pieces, Eileen Ferara: Estuary, Jaz Graf: In Other Words, Carol Radsprecher: We’ve Esaped the Studio!, Eliot Markell: Imaginary Sculptures, James Prez: Bird(s) on a Wire, and Max Velez: Faces. This month each room in Drawing Rooms becomes a unique world in itself; each a reflection of a single artist’s creative investigation of both their experience of nature and of the nature of thought. These new sets of work by NJ/NY area artists explore the internal life by describing externals. Their work examines the natural environment as well as the very tools of narrative communication and thought, re-imagining all they see and endowing these images with meaning. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.