"Dream in Color" a 2-person show with Joe Kazimierczyk and Gail Bracegirdle at Artists' Gallery in Lambertville, NJ July 10 - August 3, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 5-8 pm Closing Reception: Sunday, August 3, 2-5 pm

left: "Sunflower" by Gail Bracegirdle right: "Imagined Sky #15" by Joe Kazimierczyk

This July I'm teaming up with Gail Bracegirdle for our first show together at Artists' Gallery. The show entitled "Dream in Color" is my biggest show this year so I hope you get a chance to see it.

"Dream in Color" runs July 10 though August 3, 2014 with an opening reception on Saturday, July 12, 5-8 pm at:



Gail Bracegirdle is an amazing watercolorist who is always exploring media and technique. For this show, Gail is exhibiting a series of florals painted on crinkled paper. The paper adds a wonderful sense of mystery to the work:

Gail Bracegirdle "Tulip" watercolor on crinkled paper

Most of what I'm showing is a new body of work - a series of "Imagined Skies". Skies can change so quickly that when I paint on location, I'm usually painting how I remember the sky looking at some earlier point in time. So I took that idea one step further and created this series of paintings done entirely from memory and imagination. It's the biggest series I've ever painted and I don't think I'm finished yet. I'll be showing a good number of imagined skies - all small works. I'll also be showing a few pieces painted more traditionally, but all with a big emphasis on the sky.

A few of the paintings I have on display (click for larger):

"Imagined Sky #17" 8x10" oil on linen	"Imagined Sky #3" 5x7" oil on canvas	"Imagined Sky #11" 5x7" oil on canvas
"Mount Airy Sunset" 12x36" oil on canvas

If you can't make the opening reception, I hope you can see the show sometime during the month. If you can't make it during normal gallery hours, please let me know and I can arrange to open the gallery at a time convenient for you. Finally, we are having a small closing reception on the last day of the show, Sunday August 3, from 2-5pm.

Joe Kazimierczyk "Sunrise, Hopewell" 11x14 oil on canvas

I hope to see you there!
 

Shows at Ellarslie "Trenton Then & Now: Contemporary Views" "Small Works"

I also have 2 paintings in "Trenton Then & Now: Contemporary Views", one of the shows at the Trenton City Museum commemorating New Jersey’s 350th anniversary. The show includes work by nineteen regional artists whose work interprets Trenton's history in a variety of ways, depicting people and places both past and present. "Then & Now" runs June 28 through September 14 at:

Joe Kazimierczyk "Canal Reflections" 8x10 oil on board

My work in this show depicts the D&R Canal and towpath with a railroad bridge crossing overhead - a reference to the transportation and industry which played a big part in Trenton's past and present.

Also at Ellarslie, my "Small Works" show has been extended and I have 10 pieces still on display. Originally scheduled to end June 15, this show will remain up through mid-July or longer.