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ABOUT
DRAWING ROOMS is a contemporary art gallery for drawing, painting and print located in vibrant downtown Jersey City, minutes away from NYC. DRAWING ROOMS features continually developing exhibitions of exciting new works by artists in the NY/NJ area.
A former convent that has been transformed into an arts space, DRAWING ROOMS boasts ten rooms of artist exhibition spaces, project rooms, artist's books and a tea shop. We serve as a vital catalyst for the arts.
DRAWING ROOMS
180 Grand Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Contact Us
HOURS
Thursday & Friday: 4p - 7p
Saturday & Sunday: 2p - 6p
STAFF
Executive Director: James Pustorino
Curator: Anne Trauben
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Chair: Margaret Weber
Ed Fausty
Elizabeth McKeown
Keungsuk Sexton
Anne Trauben
Loura van der Meule
DIRECTIONS
There are numerous ways to get here. You can take public transportation, drive, ride your bike, or walk. We are really close to NYC. You can walk from the PATH, ferry and lightrail stops, and if you are coming from the Holland Tunnel via car, we are just minutes away.
PATH TRAIN from NYC 33rd, 23rd, 14th, 9th Sts (along 6th Ave), Christopher St: Take the Nwk/Journal Sq bound PATH and get off at GROVE ST. Get out of the station via Columbus Dr exit.
Walk toward Starbucks. Take a right onto Marin Blvd and then take the 3rd left onto Grand St. 180 is on the left.
PATH TRAIN from NYC WTC:
Take the Nwk/Journal Sq bound PATH train and get off at EXCHANGE PLACE. Head west on Exchange Pl toward Plaza 3. Take 1st left onto Hudson St. Take 2nd right onto Grand St. 180 is on the right.
FERRY from NYC WFC, Midtown W. 39th St or Pier 11/Wall St:
Take the ferry to PAULUS HOOK. Head south on Hudson St toward Morris St. Take 1st R onto Greene St. Turn left onto Grand St. 180 is on the right.
Driving from NYC:
We are minutes away from the Holland Tunnel. After exiting the Tunnel, turn left onto Manilla Ave. Turn left onto 12th St. Turn right onto Marin Blvd. Turn left onto Grand St. 180 is on the left.
DRAWING ROOMS is the latest project run by Victory Hall, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization that engages with visual arts and artists by producing exhibits, arts education, and multimedia projects in museums, public buildings and outdoor spaces. Victory Hall, Inc. also operates Victory Hall Press, a small book publisher of images by current artists working in drawing, photography, painting and print, as well as Rainbow Thursdays Program, a community-based arts education program that connects developmentally disabled adults with professional artists who provide them with materials and training to express themselves through art.
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January 30 - March 16, 2014
Artists' Reception: Sunday, Feb. 16th 3-6pm
How can an artist convey not only what it is they are seeing but how they are seeing it? This exhibition of works in drawing, painting and photography explores the concepts of looking and seeing. The emphasis in these artworks is on how the artist sees over the importance of the object itself. Each of these artists has created bodies of work concerned with the experience of seeing; elements of observation, distortion, reflection, movement and chance are all engaged to not only create their imagery but to bring the viewer into their experience. Through these works, the viewer can share in the view of the artists and make discoveries of their own.
The following nine artists will exhibit their work in this show as solo exhibitions in nine rooms:
Agnes de Bethune: Art in America Painting Series
Edward Fausty: At Home in the Woods Photographs
James Pustorino: Place in Space Drawings
Janet Tsakis: Self-Portrait Drawing
Jennifer Krause Chapeau: Road Series Paintings
Leona Strassberg Steiner: Kefitzat Haderech Photographs
Robert Preston: Diana Paintings
Sandra DeSando: Palisades Drawings
Susan Evans Grove: Used Cars Photographs
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Sat & Sun 12/14-15, 12p-6p
follows our Friday the 13th Fundraiser, featuring paintings from The BIG Small Painting Show and, in our gift shop, crafts by Maggie Ens, Joyce-Z, Sandra DeSando, Marcia Langley, Ibou Ndoye, and more, prints by Margaret Weber and artist cards by Anne Trauben, Cheryl Gross, Ed Fausty, Glenn Garver, Heidi Curko, Ibou Ndoye, James Pustorino, Jill Scipione, Ke Se, Loura van der Meule, Maggie Ens, Margaret Weber, Megan Klim, Ross Bonn, Xanda McCagg and Winifred McNeill. December 13, 7p-10p featuring live music and desserts, including chocolate lollipops from Lee Sims Chocolates and much more.
We have had a great first year, exhibiting great art by hundreds of artists! Join us for an evening of gallery tours, music and desserts to close our fall season.
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7- 8pm
GALLERY TOURS
with Director and Assistant Director James Pustorino and Anne Trauben- get the curator's views about the paintings on display and meet some of the artists and enjoy a glass of wine or cup of tea.
8- 10pm
MUSIC AND DESSERTS
Join in an African Drumming Experience with Ibou Ndoye and Gerri Gaines and a special presentation by Con Vivo guitarist, Martin Moretto, and friends, cakes, and hundreds of chocolate lollipops courtesy of Lee Sims Chocolate, JC.
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African Drumming Experience with Ibou Ndoye and Gerri Gaines
Purchase a ticket online at victoryhall.org
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Martin Moretto, one of New York’s active Argentine guitarists, composes, arranges, collaborates, and most notably, is a member of the legendary Argentine Progressive Tango group, Alas (Wings). |
With Tour beginning 7pm $15
General Admission 8pm -10pm $10
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The entire ten rooms of our exhibition space will be devoted to this large array of small works by a diverse gathering of artists, whose work crosses barriers of subject and style in order to produce an exhibition that is a true survey of recent painting in our area.
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Abby Levine, Aimee Hertog, Alan Walker, Alberte Bernier, Andy Castillo, Anne Trauben, Beatrice Lebreton, Beatrice Mady, Buck Henri, Carol Radsprecher, Cecile Brunswick, Cheryl Gross, Claudia Waters, Dave Dziemian, Eileen Boxer, Eileen Erbeck, Eileen Ferara, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Elaine Hansen, Eliot Markell, Elizabeth Onorato, Elizabeth Sowell-Zak, Emily Barnett, Erin M. Burke, Fafar Bayat, Fermin Mendoza, Francesca Azzara, Glenn Garver, Gerri Gaines, Grigory Gurevich, Ian Mack, Ian Scott, Ibou Ndoye, Iris Kufert-Rivo, Jane Dell, Janet Merrell McCaulie, Janet Tsakis, Jeanne Tremel, Joan Palmer, John Ruddy, Judith Kalina, Kay Kenny, Keungsuk K Sexton, Kit Sailer, Len Merlo, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Manuel Macarrulla, Maria Pavlovska, Mary Grossman, Megan Klim, Michelle Doll, Milosz Koziej, Mollie Thonneson, Orlando Reyes, Peggy Klineman, Peter Bill, Peter Delman, Richard White, Robert Otto Epstein, Robin Feld, Sara Wolfe, Sabina Lazarz, Sandy DeSando, Shira Toren, Soonnam Singer, Stephen Cimini, Tamara Wyndham, Theresa DeSalvio, Thomas Parker Williams, Tim Daly, Tim Heins, Veronique San Leandro, William Stamos, Xanda McCagg, Yvette Cohen, and more!
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Thursday, 10/31/13 8-10p
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Our special Halloween version of this event will be a costume party and we suggest guests come as your favorite artist or artwork (ie: dressing in the same color scheme as a Rothko painting, Brancusi's Sleeping Muse, Yayoi Kusama's polka dots, or perhaps your own art-work....).
Dressed-up dogs (accompanied by owners with leashes, please) will also be welcome.
Wine and holiday refreshments will be served. Admission is free.
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Activity Highlights:
· a reading by noted poet John Keene, Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Rutgers. He is the author of the poetry collection Seismosis (2006, with art by Christopher Stackhouse), and the novel Annotations (1995).
· African Djembe drumming by Senegal artist, Ibou N’doye.
· a music performance by saxaphonist Zach Herchen, the new artistic director of Jersey City’s chamber music group, Con Vivo, a not-for-profit organization that produces free concerts in the diverse neighborhoods of Jersey City.
Also Featuring
* Mask Making with Margaret Weber
* A Sea Experience with Eileen Ferara
* Ghost-Story Readings - Booooo!
* Halloween Face-Painting with Maggie Ens
* Raw Drawing and Rainbow Thursdays Artists exhibitions
Don't miss this very special Halloween Happening!
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The art of drawing engages a multitude of ideas, and can be a direct visual expression of a concept, impression, or emotion. The exploration, interconnection and interaction of drawing as visual thought is the subject of RAW DRAWING.
For this year's JC Artist Studio Tour, DRAWING ROOMS RAW DRAWING exhibition assembles a true cross section of the Jersey City artist community, individuals who are involved and invested in their art careers as well as in furthering the arts, education and good government in our city area. Some are teaching in elementary schools, high schools and universities. Some have run art-spaces and galleries or organized exhibits and public art projects. There are several involved in city government, and some who have helped build programs in the arts with a variety of organizations and institutions around the city. All are people who draw.
Eileen Ferara, Elizabeth Onorato, Ibou Ndoye, Steve Singer, Margaret Weber, Sandra Desando, Maggie Ens, Mike Markman, Kim Wiseman, Greg Brickey, Jasmine Graf,
Glenn Garver, Orlando Reyes, Winifred McNeill, Phil Pellicane, Nyugen E Smith, Heidi Curko, Anne Trauben, Loura van der Meule, Demetrio Alfonso, Geraldine Gaines,
Cheryl Gross, Jill Scipione, Stephanie Daniels, Megan Klim.
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About 40 artists from our program for developmentally disabled adults at Windmill Center, Bayonne will have their amazingly inventive and imaginative drawings and watercolorsworks displayed. |
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To kick off the evening's events, there will be music performed by Brother Paul and street art by Guerilla Haiku Chalk artist Caley Vickerman, outside, from 6 to 6:30pm.
Inside, from 6:30 - 8pm, Suprina has created "Whispers 1" to accompany her sculptures
for the evening; Jane Dell will have poetry readings in her space;
there will be an interactive game in Mollie Thonneson's exhibition room;
Pam Cooper will be offering an interactive response work for her installation;
Tatiana Lopez will create a mandala. And more!
Come join the excitement and have a glass of wine with us!
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PRO ARTS JERSEY CITY and DRAWING ROOMS presents The Curators Choice Exhibit
For our first Fall Season exhibition, DRAWING ROOMS presents Pro Arts Curators Choice
spotlighting six artists selected by six curators from museums and galleries throughout the state.
CURATORS
Ann Aptaker
Jeanne Brasile
Virgina Butera
Kathryn Markel
Margaret O'Reilly
Judith Page |
ARTISTS
Pam Cooper
Alaine Becker
Suprina
Krista Svalbonas
Christine Barney
Jane Dell |
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an exhibit of proposals presented at the Art Eat-Up hosted by Pro Arts and Sustainable JC |
DRAWING ROOMS will also host a special exhibit curated by Eileen Ferara, Meredith Lippman and Laurie Riccadonna and produced by Sustainable JC, where artists explore sustainability– what it means to them, and ways to make the community more sustainable.
Artists include (L-R images above): Tatiana Lopez, Mollie Thonneson, Sorana Tarmu, Jordan André De Liso, Cathleen Parra, Melida Rodas
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John Meagher Rotunda Gallery, City Hall
280 Grove St., Jersey City, NJ 07302
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The Artists of Victory Hall DRAWING ROOMS
John Meagher Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, 280 Grove St. Jersey City, NJ from 8/4/13 - 8/31/13
Reception: Tuesday, August 13, 6-8pm
DRAWING ROOMS CIRCLE is an exhibition featuring the artists involved in making projects and programs happen both in the art center and out in the larger community, and also includes works by some of the artists in Victory Arts Project's Rainbow Thursday Program for the disabled at Windmill Center, Bayonne.
The artists involved:
Margaret Weber, Keungsuk Sexton, Loura van der Meule, and Edward Fausty are all on the DRAWING ROOMS steering committee.
Anne Trauben is the Assistant Director, James Pustorino is the Director. Feng Xiao Liu assists in operations and classes.
Kim Wiseman, Maggie Ens, Jill Scipione and Ross Bonn have taught classes and been involved in public art or publishing projects.
Elizabeth Onorato, Ibou Ndoye, William Stamos, Sandra Desando, and Eileen Ferrara have all been involved in public projects, publishing projects and in the running of the art center.
Our Rainbow Thursdays Artists include over 40 adults participating in our weekly class at Windmill Center, Bayonne. Artists in this exhibition are Paulette, Ed, Angela, Louis, Christopher, John, Carol and Debbie.
 Hope you'll join us on Tuesday August 13th for the Opening Reception at City Hall! |
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What's Happening! is a DRAWING ROOMS event that features an evening of unique presentations in each of the exhibition rooms of our current show, including spoken word, music performances, artist demonstrations and interactive art-making. Wine will be served. Admission is free.
What's Happening at our MULTIPLICITIES exhibition features the following events:
Trish Symanski's play: "A Legend of Communipaw" at Loura van der Meule's room.
(Yvonne Hernandez and Carrington Lopez will read a scene about Dutch culture influence in JC)
William Stamos takes you on his "art trip". His "Buddha Machines" generate sounds of "poetic noise" and "confrontational tranquility". Find loops which connect with his TranceFormations.
Liz Cohen and France Garrido's "The Doll Happening". Cohen will bring a dollhouse and dolls that she has made and doll muse Hazel. All are invited to join in and play– dolls love company.
Bill Rybak and James Pustorino's room of structural works will host vibraphonist Eldad Tarmu's expansive jazz compositions.
John McEveety Woodruff will read selections from his poem cycle "Of Death and the Planets" in Winifred McNeill's room.
Megan Klim will host a "free association circle" word and drawing exercise.
Vincent Salvati's room will feature music that inspired him to create his grid works– Glenn Gould playing Bach's Goldberg variations.
Other artists include Nyugen E. Smith, Greg Brickey and Max Velez.
 Will you see Milosz Koziej make his giant spin-art paintings?
No- but you can make little ones of your own! |
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Starts JULY 19th and continues every Friday from 5:30-7pm through August 9th with jazz vibraphonist Eldad Tarmu, an internationally known artist who has performed in over 25 countries and recorded 7 albums. Admission is free.
Bring your friends and join us for live music every Friday afternoon on our shady front lawn. Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine as you wander through the galleries and view our summer exhibition: MULTIPLICITIES. If it rains, don't worry, we'll move it all indoors!
Hope to see you on Fridays!
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On Friday, July 12 from 5:30 to 8pm, the public is invited to meet the artists and enjoy refreshments at an Opening Reception for MULTIPLICITIES, featuring internationally celebrated vibraphonist ELDAD TARMU, whose jazz singles have reached the top 20 in US radio charts. Come by and enjoy wonderful art and music, along with a glass of wine!
MULTIPLICITIES: an exhibition of imaginative visual systems. In philosophy, multiplicity can be defined as the multi-faceted nature of reality. The writer Italo Calvino described the concept of multiplicity in literature as seeing the world as a system of systems.
In our MULTIPLICITIES exhibition this summer, our Drawing Rooms walls will be covered with engaging systems of numerous, various and re-occurring aspects; arrangements of multiple shape, form, color and image.
Building with both simple and complex graphic forms through repetition and variation, pattern and contrast, each artist creates a cohesive vision expressive of their own perspective, yet enveloping the viewer in new experience.
MULTIPLICITIES features artists who are fascinated by the interplay of repeatable parts, pattern, and structure. This exhibition features drawings, paintings, wall installations by Milosz Koziej, Megan Klim, Bill Rybak, Loura van der Meule, Nyugen E. Smith, Vincent Salvati, William Stamos, Liz Cohen, Winifred McNeill, Greg Brickey, Max Velez and James Pustorino.
Milosz Koziej- His gigantic spin art paintings develop intensity like rising notes in a musical composition. The inscribed notation of a Chopin Nocturne becomes calligraphic marks spiraling out from the center of the multi-layers of colors, generated using a motor to spin the canvas.
Bill Rybak’s latest work is composed of 77 individual print-outs taped together, each a section of a whole a 3D construction created rendered entirely on a computer program, a system unseen by the viewer.
Nyugen E Smith’s Borderlines series is comprised of many small drawings on shaped paper, stitched together with thread, like pieces of a puzzle. Raised in Trinidad, Smith’s technique underscores the concerns of his art, which investigates the psychological, cultural and social implications of colonialism.
Loura van der Meule’s striking portraits of her grandparents display a richly developed visual language set in a system of layered, drawn, painted and collaged imagery derived from Dutch design heritage.
Winifred McNeill’s system of drawn and cut-out layers, which both obscure and reveal ,are suggestive of windows or portals: multiple stories or events occurring simultaneously that may or may not affect each other.
William Stamos’ fantastical light-into-dark drawing animates the repeated form of the classic artist’s palette, turning the space within and without into celestial, cosmically charged alternate realities.
Greg Brickey – In his Circle paintings, he uses both structural templates and systematic painting techniques that work to counter his loose, colorful painting style, producing a remarkable visual tension.
Vince Salvati - His expressive, bold drawing style to a system of grids, in works that engage the space of the page and also group together to engage and energize the space of the room they fill.
Megan Klim’s intriguing pieces use the repetition of small linear forms and changes in scale to suggest a map or aerial view, one that evokes rather than clarifies, and makes us look longer, revealing a bit more with each viewing.
James Pustorino – Some have described this artist’s bold, complex and colorful work as a melding of high brow sci- fi and comic book art. Pustorino uses graphic, abstract and realistic form to explore concepts of narrative and spatial/structural composition.
Max Velez creates complex compositions through a myriad of graphic marks, text, and descriptive rendering. In his drawings, multiplicity is evinced to create a transformative narrative.
Liz Cohen’s obsessive ball-point drawings mirror her latest project and obsession: creating a world inhabited by dolls that can bridge time and culture. Using varied forms and characters that move through her compositions, the intensity of fine lines heighten the drama of their interaction.
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What's Happening! is a DRAWING ROOMS event that features an evening of unique presentations in each of the exhibition rooms of our current show, including spoken word, music performances, artist demonstrations and interactive art activities. Wine will be served. Admission is free.
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Sandra DeSando's room features Amelia Hollander-Ames of Con Vivo, performing a viola solo from 6:15p - 6:45p
Amelia Hollander-Ames is the conductor for the ISO Trinity-Florentine Orchestra. She is also the founder and artistic director of Con Vivo, a not-for-profit organization that produces free chamber music concerts in the diverse neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ.
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Amelia Hollander-Ames of Con Vivo |
Throughout the evening: Heidi Curko's interactive stone drawing exercise. Steve Singer will conduct a Portrait Clinic. Ross Bonn's room features Maggie Ens's look-like-a-Ross-Bonn-Painting make-over (face painting).
Tomomi Ono's room features Anne Trauben's sound installation. Margaret Weber's room features Momento Mori activities
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Kay Kenny's room features a special vibraphone performance by Eldad Tarmu from 6:45p - 7:30p
Los Angeles born vibraphonist and composer Eldad Tarmu was professor of Jazz Studies at the "Richard Oschanitzky" Jazz School, Tibiscus University, in Timişoara, Romania. He currently teaches World Music Studies at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, New Jersey. He has performed in over twenty-five countries around the world in various festivals and concert tours and has recorded seven albums. Check him out here.
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Mike Difeo's guitar loop performance for his Pyrology room exhibit from 7:30p - 8:00p
Tim Daly's room features spoken word by Joel Lewis with an interview with Tim Daly, i-pad slideshow & free seedling plants at 7:30p
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Artists featured in the "NIGHT & DAY" EXHIBIT include:
• Tim Daly, whose mastery of light in his modern landscapes have been described by one art critic as "bordering on the religious"
• Steve Singer, a Pollock-Krasner Award-winning artist, paints sunlit scenes of urban life
• Michael DiFeo, an artist, cinematographer, and pyrologist, who uses a camera shutter to "paint" with fire and urban lights
• Kay Kenny's night photos incorporate dark, mysterious spaces, where mists come, stars streak, and moons rise and fall
• Tomomi Ono captures nature floating in air or sinking into a dark space, evoking the transience of existence
• Heidi Curko explores foreground and background, light and shadow, in her drawings of inanimate objects
• Sandy DeSando explores dawn in breathtaking, atmospheric paintings |
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Artists featured in the SPECIAL PROJECT ROOMS include:
• Ross Bonn's intriguing portraits that uncover the masks people wear to reveal the persona beneath
• Margaret Weber's exploration of the nexus of memory and fantasy in her striking Dark Passage series of intaglio prints
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Make a DONATION
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS have included:
Jersey City Cultual Affairs
Jersey City Redevelopment Agency
Provident Bank
Pamrapo Bank
Metrovest, K Hovnanian
Equity Realty
General Growth Properties
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.
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