Opening This Saturday 7/31

Face Value – The Art of Portraiture Summer Show. A juried exhibition exploring portraiture, opening July 31st. Open to TAWA members using any medium. Juried by LonnBraender, Director BOI’s Gallery, New Hope, Joanne Donnelly, Director Gallery 125, Trenton and Martha Press, Director Farnsworth Gallery, Bordentown.

Please join us for our opening reception Saturday July 31, 2010
5pm to 8pm

Featuring TAWA artists David Ackerman, Robert Girandola, Katie Hector, Justin Jedrezejczyk, Neil Larsen, Concetta Maglione, Carol Magnatta, Sharon MastroSimone, Gretchen Schroeder, Kathy Schumway-Tunney, Allison Singer, Andrew Werth, Jadwiga Wrolewska-Jedrezejcyk, Rhoda Yanow, and Ewa Zeller

The Trenton City Museum
Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park
Trenton, New Jersey
Phone: (609) 989-3632 Fax: (609) 989-3624
Director: Brian O. Hill

The show runs:
July 31, 2010 through September 5, 2010

Museum Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 11AM to 3PM
Sunday: 1 to 4 PM
Closed Monday and Municipal Holidays

TAWA Face Value - Opening & Show

Face Value – The Art of Portraiture Summer Show. A juried exhibition exploring portraiture, opening July 31st. Open to TAWA members using any medium. Juried by LonnBraender, Director BOI’s Gallery, New Hope, Joanne Donnelly, Director Gallery 125, Trenton and Martha Press, Director Farnsworth Gallery, Bordentown.

July 31, 2010 through September 5, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday June July
5pm to 8pm

Please join TAWA artists David Ackerman, Robert Girandola, Katie Hector, Justin Jedrezejczyk, Neil Larsen, Concetta Maglione, Carol Magnatta, Sharon MastroSimone, Gretchen Schroeder, Kathy Schumway-Tunney, Allison Singer, Andrew Werth, Jadwiga Wrolewska-Jedrezejcyk, Rhoda Yanow, and Ewa Zeller

The Trenton City Museum
Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park
Trenton, New Jersey
Phone: (609) 989-3632 Fax: (609) 989-3624
Director: Brian O. Hill

Museum Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 11AM to 3PM
Sunday: 1 to 4 PM
Closed Monday and Municipal Holidays

TAWA Art & Soul Opening & Show

Past President Aubrey J. Kauffman (Left), President Robert Girandola (Left Center) and Board President Dan Aubrey (Right) presenting 'Best in Show' Award to Gretchen Schroeder for her mixed media piece 'Inner Spirit.'


Past President Aubrey J. Kauffman featured at the TAWA Art & Soul exhibit on display until July 25, 2010

There is still one more week to get out to 'Art & Soul' Art Moved By The Spirit Summer Show. A juried exhibition exploring art and spirituality, opening June 25th. Featuring TAWA members using any medium and of all spiritual beliefs. Juried by visual artist and director of the Villanova University Art Gallery, Reverend Richard Cannuli. There were two very nice reviews, one by Ilene Dube of Time Off and another by Janet Purcell of the Trenton Times. Thanks so much to member D.J. Hazlett for doing a great job as our public relations person. Also congratulations to member Gretchen Schroeder for being awarded 'Best in Show' and to Aubrey J. Kauffman for his wonderful featured exhibit. It was really wonderful to be able to celebrate his 30 years with TAWA with the incredible photographs on display.

TAWA at Artworks Art All Night 2010

President Robert Girandola (left) & Mark Schreiber (Right) at Art All Night

Mark chilling

Treasurer Julian Kerns and Dora Golfetto charming the crowds

New member Wyman Brantley at the TAWA art all night sponsor table. Many people came by, signed up for our blog, got a free catalog or t-shirt for doing so. It was a lot of fun.

Thanks to all those who signed up for this mailing. Please try and make our next show 'Face Value' opening Saturday July 31, 2010, 5pm at the Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park, Trenton, NJ

CALL FOR ARTISTS

CALL TO ARTISTS

25th Annual International Juried Show

Open to all artists, all media

JUROR

Joan Young, Associate Curator Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum

ENTRY DEADLINE

October 1, 2010


$2,500 BEST IN SHOW


New for our 25th anniversary year, the Best in Show cash prize has been

increased to $2,500. Best in Show also includes roundtrip travel with one

night hotel stay in Summit, New Jersey plus lunch with Juror.*


The 25th Annual International Juried Show is being presented at the Visual

Arts Center of New Jersey, January 14, 2011 to March 18, 2011. To receive

an official entry form by mail, send a self-address stamped envelope to

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 68 Elm Street, Summit NJ 07901 or email

kmurdock@artcenternj.org or download the prospectus at www.artcenternj.org

(See Exhibitions, Juried Show)

* Travel accommodations will not exceed $2,500 US dollars; travel must

take place from January 14, 2011 to March 18, 2011.

Neil Larsen - TAWA Award Ellarslie Open

The show is just coming down now so if you didn't get a chance to see it, you missed some beautiful work at both Artworks and the Trenton City Museum for the 28th Ellarslie Open. This year we wish to congratulate Neil Larsen for receiving the TAWA Award for his photograph 'Remember the 50's'. Neil has this to say about his work:

“I prefer the intimacy of the small size print. I don’t always want a faithful representation of reality, sometimes I just yearn for a dream. The image and emulsion transfers go into another dimension - the small size and close viewing enhances that intimate feeling.

I’m not so much interested in cameras as I am in what the camera can produce. Usually, the standard photograph is not enough for me. Maybe that’s a deficiency of mine, but I’ve always felt that there was a better way for me… When I discovered the instant film image transfer I knew immediately that that was one way for me to get the most from my images. Not every photograph works as an image transfer, but the ones that do work are the ones I like in the first place – an intimate picture that is a step away from reality into a pleasant dream or memory.”

Neil has displayed his work in juried and curated art exhibits at Atlantic Artisans, New Jersey Visual Arts Center, the NJ Photography Forum, The Guild of Creative Art, Brookdale Community College, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, the Edison Arts Society, the Mountain Art Show, Soho Photo Gallery, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Somerset Arts Association, Perkins Center for the Arts, D&R Greenway Land Trust, Watchung Arts Center, Gallery 125, and Art Works in Trenton.

He is a member of the New Jersey Photography Forum and The Trenton Artists’ Workshop Association.

Neil makes pigment prints on watercolor paper but prefers to use instant film image and emulsion transfers in portraying his impressions of the many nature, landscape and cityscape, and historic scenes available in New Jersey.

Look for his work among many other TAWA artists at the upcoming 'Art & Soul' show opening this Saturday June 26 at the Trenton City Museum.

David Rivera at TAWA Workshop

I have thoroughly enjoyed the workshop with
David Rivera teaching the Secrets of the Old
Masters. Their grissaile method is an
exciting way to prepare an image. The 15th
and 16th century artists produced radiant pieces
of work using limited number of pigments. The
underpainting executed in shade of one color,
usually gray, molds the form and its tonal values
give an illusion of sculptural relief.

Given countless examples of grissaile painters -
from van Eyck's brothers to Vermeer to Ingres,
we were to choose an artist to study and learn
his technique. I have found Andrea del Sarto's
small piece especially graceful and was eager to
see how much I can learn from him.

This new method that stresses good drawing and
tonal values was in direct contrast to my older
'all prima', direct method of painting. Subsequent
color glazes over the underpainting created luminosity
never experienced before. Guided patiently by
Mr. Rivera, we were discovering the genius
of oil paints - their potential to create
really brilliant detail in jewel like colors.

Old Masters have secrets to share for patient
and devoted students. It was really a pleasure
to participate in this inspiring gem of a workshop.
Many thanks to Mr.Rivera and TAWA .

Jadwiga Wroblewska-Jedrzejczyk