Opening Reception: Thursday, September 20, 5-7 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, September 27, 7 p.m.

This exhibition will focus on both the abstract constructivist images and his pure abstract color-field images.

Born in England in 1921 he received his degrees from The London University Teacher Training College, The Hammersmith and The Central Schools of Art.

Stroud came on the art scene in the late 50’s early 60’s creating outstanding abstract relief construction and pure conceptual abstract paintings.  He has participated in numerous group and one-person exhibitions such as:  Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Galerie Muller, Stuttgart–West Germany–Gallerie Creuze, Paris, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland.  In 1965 he was selected by William C. Seitz to participate in the groundbreaking exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art called, “The Responsive Eye.”

As an educator Stroud was Chairperson at the progressive art program at Bennington College teaching with Tony Smith, Isaac Witkins, Ad Reinhardt and Clement Greenburg.  In 1971 Stroud became Chairperson of the Art Department at Douglass College and in 1984 Director of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 1, 5-7 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, November 8, 7 p.m.

Gary Saretzky has exhibited regularly in solo and group shows since “New Jersey Photographers” at the Rutgers University Art Gallery (now the Zimmerle Art Museum) in 1974.  Since 1998, his solo exhibits have included, “Dreams of Italy,” “Photograms of Nature,” and “Blues Musicians.”  Saretzky’s photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Educational Testing Service, Historical Society of Princeton, and numerous other public and private collections.  Saretzky joined the Trenton Artists Workshop Association in 1985 and served as Associate Director for Public Relations, 1985–1987, and Chair, TAWA/Soviet Exchange Committee, 1988–1990.  He has taught photography and the history of photography at Mercer County Community College since 1977 and lectures on photography through the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.  Saretzky is profiled in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Art, and The Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators.

This exhibition will present for the first time a selection of the different subjects that he has photographed for over thirty years.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 24, 5-7 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, January 31, 7 p.m.

Professor of Art at the College of New Jersey, Rigby has been included in over 180 exhibitions nationwide.  He has been the recipient of numerous research grants and two sabbatical leaves of absence from the College of New Jersey.  He has also received a Fellowship in Painting from The Artists League of Central New Jersey and The New Jersey State Council of the Arts.

His work is included in numerous public collections:  New Jersey State Museum, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Johnson and Johnson Corporate Center, City Corp Bank, and City Federal Savings Bank.

This exhibition will be a retrospective spanning forty years of artistic development in the areas of painting, drawing and printmaking.

Rigby is considered one of New Jersey’s important realist painters.  He is known for painting pictures of classic cards focusing on the abstract reflective patterns, shapes and forms found on bumpers and high-gloss lacquered finishes.  He has also extended his photo-realistic interest in creating paintings that focus on sidewalks, walls and structural fault pattern surfaces.  Upon first appearance these paintings appear to be pure abstractions.  Closer reviewing we begin to recognize that the colors, shapes, patterns and design come from the experience of close up observation of reality.  By focusing on these specific areas, Rigby forces the viewer to reexamine and question the relationship between reality, nature and abstraction.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6, 5-7 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, March 13, 7 p.m.

Still-life paintings are considered one of the important forms of instruction within the classroom especially in teaching foundation courses in drawing and painting.  It is the building block for students learning about seeing, understanding formal ideas about composition, design, color and light.

This exhibition will present the realist work of the contemporary painter Nancy Hagin, who came upon the New York scene in the early 60’s when painting in the abstract mode was at its height and painting realistically, especially the still-life image, was considered out of fashion.  Along with painting the still-life, this exhibition will also focus on two very different medium, acrylic painting on canvas and watercolor.  Hagin received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1962 and her MFA from Yale University in 1964.  She has exhibited her work in numerous one person and group shows.  Her work is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Yeshiva University, Delaware Art Museum, National Academy of Design, New York City to name but a few.

• OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 21 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
• ARTIST’S TALK: Thursday, September 28 - 7:00 p.m.

• 4:30-6:00pm – Panel: “Views of the City”; Moderator: Peter Campion, poet and critic; Marshall Berman, Distinguished Professor, CUNY; Jed Perl, Art Critic, The New Republic; John Dubrow; Mari Lyons; Deborah Rosenthal
• 6:00-7:30pm – Opening Reception in the Rider Art Gallery, with film, “Climate of New York” by Rudy Burckhardt
• 7:30pm – Talk: “Art, Artists, and the City” – Jed Perl (held in Cavalla Room, Bart Luedeke Center)

• OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 25 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
• ARTIST’S TALK: Thursday, February 1 – 7:00 p.m.

• OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 1 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
• ARTIST'S TALK: Thursday, March 8 – 7:00 p.m.