CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
Duets Too / Solo Project Space
Visit us for Mana Open Studios Day: Sunday 5/17/26, 12-6p
Opening Reception: Saturday 5/2/26, 6-8p with Music by Eldad Tarmu
Meet the Artists Sunday, 5/10/26, 3-5p
Join us for wine, refreshments and discussions with artists Amy Rubinger, Miriam Jacobs, Maggie Hinders, Dorit Shmuel and Gail Vachon, and Artist Talk by Solo Space Artist, Andrew Schwartz. see more
Duets Too / Solo Project Space
Visit us for Mana Open Studios Day: Sunday 5/17/26, 12-6p
- Closing Reception Sunday 5/24/26 4-6p
Opening Reception: Saturday 5/2/26, 6-8p with Music by Eldad Tarmu
Meet the Artists Sunday, 5/10/26, 3-5p
Join us for wine, refreshments and discussions with artists Amy Rubinger, Miriam Jacobs, Maggie Hinders, Dorit Shmuel and Gail Vachon, and Artist Talk by Solo Space Artist, Andrew Schwartz. see more
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Gallery Hours:
Thurs/Fri, 4-7p Sat/Sun, 2-6p EVENTS
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Drawing Rooms is excited to announce Five Shows running from 4/30/26 - 5/24/26!
“Duets Too” a group exhibition in the Terrarium Gallery
Andrew Schwartz: “Psychic Geography” Solo Project Space
Deepa Mahajan: “Scatter Drawings”, Gail Vachon: "Color Stripes and Bars", Jonathan Ricci: “Tribute to the Midnight Sun” in the Alcove Gallery
All shows were curated by Anne Trauben.
“Duets Too”, a group exhibition in the Terrarium Gallery
Duets Too is an exhibition where artists choose a Duets Partner artist to exhibit with!
This group show is a pairing of many Duets Partners arranged and installed in a way that highlights connections between the pairings, as well as strengthens the work individually.
For many artists, working alone is a preferred, and sometimes essential, condition for deep creative focus, though it may be accompanied by the challenges of social and professional isolation. Yet artists require community, collaboration, and support, and can make deep connections with one another's work.
In keeping with our love of music, “Duets Too” is dedicated to the song “Just the Two of Us” by pop singer Bill Withers, known for his baritone vocals and soul arrangements. "Just the Two of Us" is a classic 1981 soul/jazz fusion hit that highlights themes of love, companionship, and committed partnership to overcome life's obstacles. Withers has been widely sampled by hip-hop and pop music artists, including Will Smith, Chubb Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Tupac Shakur, Jennifer Lopez, and more. “Just the Two of Us” has had a resurgence in recent years, generating many new cover versions. It's one of those feel-good songs (like his ever-popular "Lovely Day"), and we like it.
Duets Artists:
Amber Ceffalio - Amy Rubinger
Andrea Epstein - Miriam Jacobs
Cara London - Miriam Jacobs
Cara London - Sasha Silverstein
Daniele Lorio - Diane Lorio
Dorit Shmuel - Joan Knauer
Doug McAbee - Katherine Rumminger
Eva Weiss - Eugenio Espinosa
Karen Abada - Ann Antoshak
Karen Abada - Cara London
Kathleen Dunn Jacobs - Melanie Carr
Maggie Hinders - Tom Zuk
Miranda Mote - Patricia Kucker
Sean Burns - Cynthia Egle-Grant
Shawn Bourdon - Mike Adams
Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space:
Andrew Schwartz: Psychic Geography
Andrew Schwartz is a New York based painter. His work investigates the possibilities of abstract visual language using a process-based painting approach that privileges discovery over predetermined outcomes. Working primarily in acrylic on wood panel and heavyweight paper, Andrew creates layered compositions that emerge through improvisation, repetition, and chance. Each piece becomes a site for gesture, erasure, residue, accumulation, excavation, and transformation.
In the Alcove Gallery: 3 Solo Bodies of Works
Deepa Mahajan: Scatter Drawings
Deepa Mahajan is a New York City-based multimedia artist whose practice explores areas of the mind where thoughts and emotions stay unresolved. Through drawings, collages, objects and installations, she explores this unresolved space as both a held state and a state oscillating between two conditions. Her work gives form to this unsettled inner space through material, form and space, exploring anxiety, inner conflict, worrying thought patterns and inner push-pull.
Gail Vachon: Color Stripes and Bars
Gail Vachon's paintings stack horizontal colors, then disrupt and allow colors to bleed into other colors. Color were built up, wiped out, erased and renewed, leaving glimpses of what might have come before. Strips of pattern and texture cut from magazines were added, hinting at the possibility of something recognizable or something not to be seen. In some cases, the bands of color completely abandon their orderliness and whatever they were concealing is crushed.
Jonathan Ricci: Tribute to the Midnight Sun
Jonathan Ricci lives in New Jersey where he works as an artist and educator. His paintings, inspired by color, explore the harmony of relationships on an emotional and physical level. His process begins with a pair of colors arranged in a checkerboard pattern. After changing and layering the paint and finding balanced coexistence in the composition, the addition of found collage elements from bird encyclopedias, clothing patterns, maps and travel documents completes the piece to create a nonlinear story.
ABOUT THE ARTIST RECEPTION
Please join us for a reception for the artists on Saturday, 5/2/26, 6-8p.
“Duets Too” a group exhibition in the Terrarium Gallery
Andrew Schwartz: “Psychic Geography” Solo Project Space
Deepa Mahajan: “Scatter Drawings”, Gail Vachon: "Color Stripes and Bars", Jonathan Ricci: “Tribute to the Midnight Sun” in the Alcove Gallery
All shows were curated by Anne Trauben.
“Duets Too”, a group exhibition in the Terrarium Gallery
Duets Too is an exhibition where artists choose a Duets Partner artist to exhibit with!
This group show is a pairing of many Duets Partners arranged and installed in a way that highlights connections between the pairings, as well as strengthens the work individually.
For many artists, working alone is a preferred, and sometimes essential, condition for deep creative focus, though it may be accompanied by the challenges of social and professional isolation. Yet artists require community, collaboration, and support, and can make deep connections with one another's work.
In keeping with our love of music, “Duets Too” is dedicated to the song “Just the Two of Us” by pop singer Bill Withers, known for his baritone vocals and soul arrangements. "Just the Two of Us" is a classic 1981 soul/jazz fusion hit that highlights themes of love, companionship, and committed partnership to overcome life's obstacles. Withers has been widely sampled by hip-hop and pop music artists, including Will Smith, Chubb Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Tupac Shakur, Jennifer Lopez, and more. “Just the Two of Us” has had a resurgence in recent years, generating many new cover versions. It's one of those feel-good songs (like his ever-popular "Lovely Day"), and we like it.
Duets Artists:
Amber Ceffalio - Amy Rubinger
Andrea Epstein - Miriam Jacobs
Cara London - Miriam Jacobs
Cara London - Sasha Silverstein
Daniele Lorio - Diane Lorio
Dorit Shmuel - Joan Knauer
Doug McAbee - Katherine Rumminger
Eva Weiss - Eugenio Espinosa
Karen Abada - Ann Antoshak
Karen Abada - Cara London
Kathleen Dunn Jacobs - Melanie Carr
Maggie Hinders - Tom Zuk
Miranda Mote - Patricia Kucker
Sean Burns - Cynthia Egle-Grant
Shawn Bourdon - Mike Adams
Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space:
Andrew Schwartz: Psychic Geography
Andrew Schwartz is a New York based painter. His work investigates the possibilities of abstract visual language using a process-based painting approach that privileges discovery over predetermined outcomes. Working primarily in acrylic on wood panel and heavyweight paper, Andrew creates layered compositions that emerge through improvisation, repetition, and chance. Each piece becomes a site for gesture, erasure, residue, accumulation, excavation, and transformation.
In the Alcove Gallery: 3 Solo Bodies of Works
Deepa Mahajan: Scatter Drawings
Deepa Mahajan is a New York City-based multimedia artist whose practice explores areas of the mind where thoughts and emotions stay unresolved. Through drawings, collages, objects and installations, she explores this unresolved space as both a held state and a state oscillating between two conditions. Her work gives form to this unsettled inner space through material, form and space, exploring anxiety, inner conflict, worrying thought patterns and inner push-pull.
Gail Vachon: Color Stripes and Bars
Gail Vachon's paintings stack horizontal colors, then disrupt and allow colors to bleed into other colors. Color were built up, wiped out, erased and renewed, leaving glimpses of what might have come before. Strips of pattern and texture cut from magazines were added, hinting at the possibility of something recognizable or something not to be seen. In some cases, the bands of color completely abandon their orderliness and whatever they were concealing is crushed.
Jonathan Ricci: Tribute to the Midnight Sun
Jonathan Ricci lives in New Jersey where he works as an artist and educator. His paintings, inspired by color, explore the harmony of relationships on an emotional and physical level. His process begins with a pair of colors arranged in a checkerboard pattern. After changing and layering the paint and finding balanced coexistence in the composition, the addition of found collage elements from bird encyclopedias, clothing patterns, maps and travel documents completes the piece to create a nonlinear story.
ABOUT THE ARTIST RECEPTION
Please join us for a reception for the artists on Saturday, 5/2/26, 6-8p.
See our NEW ONLINE exhibits on on Artsy.net
Microcosmic Abstractions: A new collection of intriguing small works of unique abstract worlds from artists: Jim Goss, James Kozlik, Susan Tompkins, Sophie LaBell, Lars Westby, Elizabeth Walsh, and Maria Gil Lucientas.
Microcosmic Abstractions: A new collection of intriguing small works of unique abstract worlds from artists: Jim Goss, James Kozlik, Susan Tompkins, Sophie LaBell, Lars Westby, Elizabeth Walsh, and Maria Gil Lucientas.
DRAWING ROOMS
926 Newark Ave, #T101
Jersey City, NJ Enter on Newark Ave.
www.drawingrooms.org
Accessible-please call ahead 201 208 8032 for wheelchair access
ABOUT US
Drawing Rooms is a nonprofit art space and gallery in the Topps Building on the Mana Campus in the Journal Square neighborhood in Jersey City. We show two and three-dimensional works by emerging and mid-career artists in NJ and the NY metropolitan area. Our innovative and exciting exhibitions, public programs and publications enrich the lives of our community through an appreciation of and involvement with contemporary art.
Drawing Rooms is operated by Victory Hall Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization producing exhibitions, programs and public art projects in the NJ/NY area since 2001.
926 Newark Ave, #T101
Jersey City, NJ Enter on Newark Ave.
www.drawingrooms.org
Accessible-please call ahead 201 208 8032 for wheelchair access
ABOUT US
Drawing Rooms is a nonprofit art space and gallery in the Topps Building on the Mana Campus in the Journal Square neighborhood in Jersey City. We show two and three-dimensional works by emerging and mid-career artists in NJ and the NY metropolitan area. Our innovative and exciting exhibitions, public programs and publications enrich the lives of our community through an appreciation of and involvement with contemporary art.
Drawing Rooms is operated by Victory Hall Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization producing exhibitions, programs and public art projects in the NJ/NY area since 2001.
