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SUMMARY:Gallery opening: Rooted in Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in Bloomby Prajakta Joshi\nOn View: August 29 – October 3\, 2026Opening Reception: Wednesday\, September 9\, 5-7pmGarden Club Collaboration on view starting Friday\, September 25\nArtist statement: \nBorn in Mumbai\, raised in Dubai\, and with years in the fast-paced design worlds of India and New York\, New Jersey\, Prajakta Joshi’s life has been an ongoing study in perspective. While her career led her to build her own design agency\, her creative soul remains anchored in something gentler and far more enduring: the elemental wisdom of the natural world. \nAs a practitioner of Yoga and Ayurveda\, Prajakta sees life not as a series of fixed moments\, but as a quiet\, rhythmic dance between Earth\, Fire\, Water\, Air\, and Space. These elemental forces do not simply surround us; they flow through our minds and bodies\, shaping how we experience growth and change. \nIn Rooted in Bloom\, Prajakta turns her lens toward this subtle energy. Her paintings move beyond traditional depictions of flowers and landscapes\, seeking instead to translate the invisible pulse of living things. Her work honors the forces of nature that guide us through transformation\, using bold color and gestural forms to translate the emotional and physical impact of movement onto the canvas. Through the softer gradients\, gestural forms\, she captures the delicate impermanence of nature—the swift rush of air\, the subtle shift of light\, and the fleeting beauty of a moment caught just before it becomes a memory. Her work reminds us that to truly bloom\, we must first allow ourselves to be moved by the quiet forces that sustain us. \n								\n									artist website\n					\n														\n									artist instagram
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LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
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SUMMARY:Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction
DESCRIPTION:Commit to Memory: The Precipice of ExtinctionBy Cheryl GrossOn view: June 5-July 3Opening: Fri\, June 5 | 5-7pm\nExhibition statement:Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction is a multi-platform\, social commentary addressing the shifting and eventual disappearance of our culture using animals as metaphors with overall goal being socially relevant as well as visually compelling. \nUsing animals on the endangered species list I have created a multi-media graphic audiovisual representation of society teetering on the verge of collapse. Artistic depictions of animal species as victims illustrate the decline of the American democratic system. Use of the word “extinction” throughout the narrative is the blueprint of this project. \nThe Elephant alludes to the destruction of family and community. Scientists have long used footage of elephant rescues to measure humanities ability to feel empathy. This aspect of the project questions the impulse to kill animals that make us feel “love.” \nThe Penguin explores the disappearance of societal structures. With the destruction of the artic certain penguins are left with nowhere to go except man-made exploitive habitats such as Sea World. What is life when our last option resembles a prison? \nThe Frog alludes to complete extinction caused by disease through globalization. The African Bullfrog was brought to the Americas for one purpose—to be living pregnancy tests for humans. These creatures\, used to predict life\, eventually became the destruction of an entire species of frogs as they carried a fungus eradicating the indigenous golden frog. This is reminiscent of indigenous peoples succumbing to European diseases. \nThe Tiger explores the emotional impact due to the fact of how home and territory is rapidly being diminished by development. By obliterating our environment\, we are left to somehow adjust to new social order and redefine the norm. The contributing factors such as war\, globalization\, gentrification and handouts\, continue to pave the way but it is not without consequence. \nA quote by Nicelle Davis explains my statement rather clearly: \nDeath is a charmer; nothing makes us feel more alive than brushing shoulders with him at a bar\, in our cars\, or at 5\,000 feet in the air. Every time we risk and survive there is a thrill. We feel like we won more life because we are not the ones dying. \nThere is something sexy about Death\, how when poachers take a machete to the face of an elephant\, how sex is always better once it’s gone\, or when whalers take a grenade harpoon to a whale—even more so when an entire species is gone\, how life looks for life even inside a zoo. \nBut Death is a trickster. We can never win at his game. We might be living\, but our humanity is dying. Soon\, there will be nothing of our lives worth living for. \nAbout the artist:Brooklyn native Cheryl Gross is an illustrator\, painter\, writer and motion graphic artist living and working in the New York/ Jersey City area. She is a professor at Pratt Institute. \nCheryl’s work has appeared in numerous films\, TV shows\, publications\, and graces the walls of many corporate and museum collections including: Zebra Poetry Film Festival\, Berlin\, New York Times\, Riverside Museum\, Riverside\, Ca.\, The Museum of The City of New York\, Mississippi Museum of Art\, Laforet Harajuku Museum\, Tokyo\, Japan\, Artist-In-Residency\, Kunstlerhaus\, Saarbruken\, Germany. Finalist Elizabeth Hulings Foundation\, 2014\, Artist-In-Residency Program\, Dilsberg\, Germany\, 2015\, four-time recipient Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation Residency\, Jersey City\, 2018-2020\, Art fair 14c 2021-2023. 2023- Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction\, Louis K. Redding Gallery\, Wilmington Delaware\, Curated by The Bridge Gallery\, 2023\, The Z Factor: The Hybrid Realms of Cheryl Gross\, MANA Contemporary\, Jersey City\, NJ\, Curated by Kristin DeAngelis\, Design: Kele McComsey\, 2025\, The Ethereal Realms of Mythology: Past & Present\, Art House Productions Gallery\, Jersey City\, NJ\, Curated & Design: Andrea Mckenna \nWebsiteInstagramFacebook
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LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
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