From Amy Tan and Marcel Proust to pole dancers and pinup girls, Bonnie Gloris does it all. This Jersey City-based fine artist and illustrator works on both sides of the much-discussed art/commerce divide, with her work appearing both in galleries and in commercial venues like magazines.
The Miss America Diner, the sounds of George Jones and painting … welcome to the world of Jersey City painter Scott Taylor, whose work spans whiskey-soaked Americana to high European classicism. We recently caught up with him to learn more about his work.
Artists take note: the Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance will be hosting two landscape painting sessions this Saturday and next from 10 am to 12:30 pm. Organizers say those who attend the first session will have priority for the second session. No painting experience is necessary.
The class will be taught by local artist Marge Colavito, [...]
- Kenny Sentenced: Former Ward B councilman Phil Kenny has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for accepting two bribes from a would-be developer. He must also serve two years of probation; he will report to prison by June 21. The sentence is six months less than the minimum recommended under [...]
Editor’s note: A version of this story appears in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW. You can download the entire issue here, or find a print copy at one of our many distribution locations.
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Editor’s Note: We’ve got a new columnist to introduce this afternoon. Starting today, Sophie Penkrat will be bringing the Independent’s readers her occasional nightlife dispatches from art shows, special events and more.
Now that every other movie is in 3D and consumer electronics companies are scrambling to come out with 3D TVs (better than HD they [...]
Gülick, center, spends some quality time with her bunnies (photo by Virginia Kamenitzer)
A larger-than-life severed stuffed bunny head and a bowl of chocolate eggs greeted patrons at the door of LITM last Tuesday night for the opening reception for Megan Gülick’s “Battered Bunnies.” Inside, Alice in Wonderland was projected onto a wall to pulsing mariachi [...]
Jersey City’s Ermis Atzemoglou is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to visual arts — the School of Visual Arts grad and native of Greece creates everything from surreal paintings to gritty comics. His work has been displayed around Jersey City at LITM and White Star Bar.
Day job: Mainly freelance art-handling, but I have also worked [...]
Christopher Silk is a 29-year-old visual artist from Jersey city who works in a variety of mediums, including painting, mixed media, video art and sculpture. He currently has a two shows hanging downtown: at the White Star Bar (230 Brunswick St.) and at Leo Cooke Wine Cellar (140 Bay St.).
Day job: Freelance Package Designer
What’s the [...]
William Stamos makes art that is most certainly surreal, and at times fantastical – some of his paintings look like they could be the cover of a weird, tripped-out underground sci-fi book. The 53-year-old artist from Jersey City says his goal is “to blur the boundaries between ‘inner’ space and ‘outer’ space,” and he does, [...]
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