Somewhere Between Beginner and Picasso The Summer Students of Charles David Viera
August 26 - November 24
Located downstairs in the Lower Level Gallery.
“Summer 2015 was a creative time for the students at the Arts Council of Princeton and especially for those students of Painting and Drawing Instructor Charles David Viera. Presented here is a selection of artwork created by beginner and advanced students from these Summer 2015 classes.”
Classes with work on view include Drawing in Color: Beginner, Painting A.M., Landscape Painting, and Plein Air Painting at Morven.
More Exhibitions
Out of Character
I have a lifelong love affair with paper and have saved, catalogued and hoarded report cards, postcards, travel brochures, invoices, documents, medical records and books of travels, important personal events and several generations of my family’s ephemera. My investigations into portraiture through the use of original source documents and related material has its roots in the desire to record and capture time while exploring memory in order to establish identities and reveal new perspectives. Even as portraits typically evoke a likeness, filtered through personality or …
The Shape of Color
The Arts Council of Princeton presents The Shape of Color: Photographs by Walter Frank in the Solley Lobby Gallery. Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, October 6 from 3-5pm. “In 1970, I purchased a Honeywell Pentax 35m camera not long after arriving in San Francisco as a newly minted attorney. My sojourn in California lasted 4 years; Roughly 31 years later I finally bid farewell to my loyal friend and entered the digital age. All the framed pictures in this exhibit were …
Drawings by Mi Ju
The Arts Council of Princeton and the Princeton Public Library present a curated exhibition of paired poems and artwork. This exhibition demonstrates how the image and the written word can be in conversation with each other. Drawings by Brooklyn-based artist, Mi Ju. Poems by John Clare, Rita Dove, Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), and Dara-Lyn Shrager. Mi Ju is an internationally exhibited artist who lives and works in New York City.
Colloquy
Last year, in 2017, Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen collaborated on a series of sculptures that were shown at the Philadelphia Art Alliance; the works shown owed a lot to the thangka, a type of Tibetan Buddhist painting that represents a Buddhist deity or an image taken from the Tibetan religious imaginary. Buddhist imagery has been a part of American thinking and making for more than two generations now, so Boothe and Cohen belong to a well-established tradition in contemporary American art. Their work, a subtle …
