EXHIBITIONS
​ARCHIVE 2008-10

​Victory Arts Projects at 545 Washington


Made From Earth is one of a series of exhibits presented by Victory Arts Projects at Newport's 545 ground floor lobby gallery, that allows artists to display a conceptual series of artworks related by a common theme.
Their individual investigations and ideas can be understood more clearly through the variety of seeing several of their works, and meaning is further enhanced as the viewer compares one artist's approach with another. The exhibit can be viewed both from the boulevard and the spacious lobby interior and can be visited any time night or day.Four artists working in ceramics, drawing and assemblage present exciting
series of images and objects exploring the primal spirit of nature, animals, and the inner self.

Sky Kim has exhibited in New York, New Jersey and Korea, she describes her own art as   “vaguely sensual, obsessively organic, and oddly alive."  Her detailed drawings make reference to the cells and structures of our bodies, exploring the relationship between the internal and physical self.

Bruce Morozko's ceramic figures of animals and invented creatures seem to act out their own rituals and play out their own relationships  with each other. A teacher and professional modelmaker in the entertainment industry, Morozko's ceramic works have been featured  in various museums and galleries in the NJ/NY area.
Demetrio Alfonso's artwork is bold, passionate and provocative. His paintings are abstract compositions of combined organic elementsand found objects. An immigrant from his native Canary Islands, Spain, his recent work, free from traditional forms of expression was selected as one of the choice few artists represented by the International Art Fair in Beijing and Shanghai, China in May 2006 and he won a Gold Medal Diploma at the Florence Biennale 2009 – Italy.
                                         
Dana Gannon's sculpture explores the  residual primal needs that connect us to  the animal world. "I focus on the commonality of humans and the rest of the animal kingdom,  and  our shared evolutionary origins. I try to challenge our aloofness to nature; our  belief that we can or should dominate or  conquer it."

6.22 - 8.03. 2010  open 24/7
at Newport's 545 Washington Blvd Lobby, Jersey City
across/north of Pavonia PATH  
lobby open 24/7

sea, sky and shore

Paintings drawings and photographs by four artists exploring the atmosphere, grandeur and memory of viewing ocean, sky and land.
Their approaches vary from the technical observation of Thomas Parker Williams' storm paintings, to Loura van der Muele's detailed renderings of childhood summers, to Donna Powers evocative worlds of color, shape and form.
The show is completed by Edward Fuasty's sublime dune photos, mysterious and precise records of a place we'd rather be
Picture
magic window
at Newport's 545 Washington Blvd.
Artists include
Vikki Michalios >
Nisha Drinkard
Peter Bill
Bonnie Gloris
GJ Lee
Sarah Dueth
Roslyn Rose
Jim Fuess
Sarah Aponte
Anne Trauben
Allison Green
Liz Cohen
Lorena Rios
SEEING IN COLOR- July 5 through August 12, 2009
Artists working in traditional materials or exploring new mediums or forms  drawing, photography, and digital imaging focusing on brilliance of color. Some start by using real forms and develop the abstract qualities-as in Brett Mathews nature photos and Wid Chambers digital reconstructions of real objects.  Some draw upon the patterns and designs of their cultural backgrounds as in Loura van der Meulle's Dutch inspired and Ritika Gandhi's India inspired works. Geometry and abstraction are employed in John Donovan and Justin Woods paintings and prints built from pure color itself.
Victory Arts Projects  presents
Building Cities
artists' views of city structures, city life and the process of building featuring photography, paintings and constructions by Tim Daly, Michael Tweedie, Mey Mey Lim, Daryl-Ann Saunders, Bill Rybak.
William Rodwell, Sandra DeSando, and Brooke Boroughs.  

at Newport's 545 Washington Blvd Lobby, Jersey City across/north of Pavonia PATH–
April 16th to May 30th 2009  
lobby open 24/7
Those of us who live in cities experience a cycle of rise and fall, growth, change, decay and amazing development. Our own city has been a center of this activity in the last decade. The challenges, issues and progress of city planning, and urban redevelopment and the experience of city-life are the concerns of  this exhibit.
The artists in Building Cities are fascinated by the edifices and activity growing around them, and their work creatively explores concepts of place, space, land and structure, systems of transportation and information, living spaces and people's movement through them.  Some, like Bill Rybak, Michael Tweedie and Daryl-Ann Saunders, start with existing constructions; buildings, plans, subway systems, and transform them into fantastic, abstract form.  Mey-Mey Lim's small paintings convey the sense of quiet city residetial streets. Tim Daly's realistic works
capture the light of daytime and night and give us a sense of a moment in time.  Sandra DeSando's photographs are painterly studies in light and structure.  William Rodwell wonderfully captures the perfect meeting of the passerby in the geometry of architecture, and Brooke Burough's present uniquely beautiful moments of city-living.
Lifecycles 2D-at 545 Washington St- Jersey City New Jersey
Sept 20 to October 18th 2008
Edward Fausty,  Gianluca Bianchino, Elizabeth Onorato, Katrina Bello, Margaret Weber, Geoff Sokol, James Post, Feng Xiao Liu,  Barbara Landes, Iris Kufert-Rivo
Victory Arts Projects continues its program of art in public places, highlighting the work of NJ/NY area artists and investigating current themes that motivate their work.
This exhibit emphasizes the role of the artist as an investigator into the nature of things:  the meaning of the world around or within them. We have gathered artists in the Jersey City/NY metro area who have a great interest in life-systems, the sciences: biology, anthropology, physics, botany, astronomy or whose work examines questions of origins, time and space, beginnings, ends, growth or eternity.