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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-31
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-31
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-25
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-25
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-25
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T160000
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-24
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-24
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-24
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-18
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010713Z
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-18
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-18
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T200000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20241218T121639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241218T121724Z
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SUMMARY:Flemington DIY Jazz Shows
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 schedule is as follows: \n– January 17: Nate Tota Quartet\n– January 25: Winard Harper & Jeli Posse plus tap dancer Megha Vadehra\n– February 22: Marel Hidalgo Quartet\n– March 16: Sasha Berliner Quintet\n– April 19: Olli Soikkeli NY Trio\n– May 17: Heyman \nAll shows kick off at 8pm with most advanced tickets $18 and $22 at the door. Shows are all ages and note alcohol is not permitted inside the space. \nFor tickets and more information\, visit www.flemingtondiy.org/jazz.
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/flemington-diy-jazz-shows/2025-05-17
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets,Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T005427Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-17
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010713Z
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-17
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011246Z
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-17
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250512T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T005308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T005427Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-11
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011140Z
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-11
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011246Z
UID:10013047-1746961200-1746975600@explorehunterdonnj.com
SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-11
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T005308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T005427Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-10
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011140Z
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-10
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011246Z
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-10
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T130000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250318T005136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T005136Z
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SUMMARY:HAM IT UP! Free Community Day
DESCRIPTION:Join Us for Our 9th Annual FREE Community Day: HAM IT UP!\n\n\nOur annual HAM IT UP event is a celebration of imagination\, creativity\, and community – all wrapped up in a FREE afternoon of unforgettable fun for the whole family (all ages welcome)! \n🎨 Abstract Painting Extravaganza:\nDive headfirst into a world where colors dance and shapes sing! Inspired by exhibiting artist Cynthia Carlson\, this is your chance to unleash your inner artist. Create stunning abstract paintings that go beyond the canvas\, exploring the profound meanings of shape and color in a way you’ve never imagined. \n📖 Folded Paper Book Magic\nEver dreamt of crafting your own book? Here’s your shot! Learn the art of bookmaking with techniques that trace back to Cynthia Carlson’s current exhibition at HAM\, Serious Play. Fold\, bind\, and create a book that tells your story\, handmade by you\, for you. \n✂️ Creative Word Collages \nBe inspired by exhibiting artist Kate Dodd and her use of encyclopedia pages for sculpture. Transform repurposed book pages and assorted materials into a breathtaking collage that speaks volumes\, blending texture\, color\, and typography into a narrative that’s uniquely yours. \n🌿 Plein Air Drawing Adventure\nBreathe in the fresh air and draw out your heart on our terrace\, guided by HAM’s expert instructor Lena Shiffman. Capture the essence of Clinton’s landscapes and infuse your sketches with the vibrancy of nature. \n…And That’s Just the Beginning!\nPrepare for an afternoon filled with even more surprises – from capturing laughter with caricatures to finding your zen with yoga\, plus other activities that will leave the whole family inspired and buzzing with creativity.
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/ham-it-up-free-community-day
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets,Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T005308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T005427Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-04
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011140Z
UID:10013074-1746356400-1746378000@explorehunterdonnj.com
SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-04
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T150000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011246Z
UID:10013045-1746356400-1746370800@explorehunterdonnj.com
SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-04
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T005308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T005427Z
UID:10013020-1746270000-1746374400@explorehunterdonnj.com
SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-05-03
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T194642
CREATED:20250305T010713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T011140Z
UID:10013073-1746270000-1746291600@explorehunterdonnj.com
SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-05-03
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Words That Start Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Words That Start offers a loose and idiosyncratic survey of 17 contemporary artists working with text in painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. The spectra — from literal to abstract\, demanding to dissolving\, traditionally functional to highly formal — unravel into spirals like cursive loops that begin to bump into each other and ultimately raise questions of how meaning is made in the first place\, and how it can be made to fall apart. This exhibition spans Studio Route 29’s Beauty Gallery and ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery. \nThe exhibition features work by artists Theo Baransky\, Judy Barnett\, Chris Corr-Barberis\, Carlo Daleo\, Kayla Ephros\, Gabriel Garza\, Peter Harris\, Otis Houston Jr.\, Olin Johnson\, Michael Mangino\, Mick McDonough\, Rotimi Osinubi\, Dorian Reid\, Barb Riddle\, Jennifer Chai Shear\, Eric Spencer\, and Marisa Takal. \nStudio Route 29 is located at 62A Trenton Ave. Public gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM or by appointment. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/words-that-start-exhibit/2025-05-03
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T160000
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SUMMARY:Alex Callender Exhibit: American Lawn
DESCRIPTION:In American Lawn\, Alex Callender imagines the ubiquitous familiarity of lawn grass as a conflicted terrain that holds ongoing questions of public and private space\, haunted vegetation\, and the legacies of colonialism and settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. \nThrough Callender’s reframing of historical materials in the painted plane\, we encounter fragments of flooding lawns that designate the iconic green turf of private property\, landscapes of leisure\, and idealized pastoral imagery. The monotone palette of industrialized lawn plants like Kentucky Bluegrass are interrupted by both plantation cane grasses (sugar) and wild grasses like Bluestems\, Lovegrass\, Vetiver… grasses that are self-seeding and drought-resistant\, cultivate soil restoration\, brace the flow of waters\, and offer refuge to pollinators and varied wildlife. \nIn these scenes of twilight and geographical uncertainty\, the landscape and the water’s edge merge closer together to reveal a historical Atlantic space — a place that loops. A site to explore American mythologies about land and conquest\, invoking the kinds of manufactured environments that have comfortably maintained and spatially defined structures of racial and ecological supremacy. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? \nHistorical materials like 18th Century merchant ledgers\, venture tourism steamships\, and the photos and company charters of the Boston Fruit Company (later\, the United Fruit Company)\, speak to us of the economic waterways connecting trade\, banking\, and financial instruments of the American Northeast to other slave societies of the Caribbean and Atlantic world. In this painted world\, spaces across geographical relations are layered\, tethered by shared social and ecological histories\, possibility\, and longing. The settler landscape becomes unsettled\, while figures emerge in the shadow of grasses to confront each other or sometimes hold each other. Often situated close to the foreground\, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space\, filled with historical remnants\, overgrowth\, and folds of blue fabric that look sometimes like rolls of colonial indigo textiles and sometimes like blue plastic tarpaulin\, a material that reminds us of both endless development and its aftermath. In these works the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — both foreground and background\, you stand on it and walk in between it\, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure the space bears witness to. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/alex-callender-exhibit-american-lawn/2025-04-27
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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SUMMARY:Soft as Earth Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:It starts with something as elemental as a lump of clay — rocks\, eroded over eons by water\, wind\, and heat that flow and settle in layers of sediment. \nSoft as Earth features the works of ceramic artists Janny Baek\, Brian Guerin\, and Tom Hubben. As artists\, their work represents different approaches to form — a vessel\, an object of the imagination\, a mountain. They are risk takers\, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of clay can contain both figuratively and structurally\, asking of it\, and its traditions — how flexible are you\, how can you be expanded\, what can you become? \nBaek\, Guerin\, and Hubben employ hand building as their primary technique\, and their work suggests a direct link between neurons and fingers\, translating and sculpting\, speaking a language of form\, scale\, materiality\, and wonder. These artists have navigated a precarious path through the demands of the material itself — preparing\, stretching\, forming\, carving\, adding and subtracting\, then a slow and careful drying process\, and several firings during which unexpected things can\, and do\, occur. Anarchic\, chaotic\, inspired accidents and wild experimentation tell a story of transformation that has taken a while to arrive here — 29\,000 years\, in fact\, of working with that lump of clay. \nLearn more HERE!
URL:https://explorehunterdonnj.com/event/soft-as-earth-exhibition/2025-04-27
CATEGORIES:Hunterdon Arts,Hunterdon Arts|Main Streets
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