Westminster Arts Center - Art Gallery

Finding Beauty in the Ordinary
The Photography of Tom Schopper
This exhibit showcased the works of Tom Schopper whose photography tends to run a gamut of subjects; it is sometimes nature, wildlife, and landscapes, sometimes cityscapes, abstracts and macros, and sometimes portrait and life. Tom uses modern day technology, capturing art through his lenses, displaying beauty in unusual places.

The Telling Hybrid:
The Work of Beth Shipley
Shipley is an adjunct professor at Bloomfield College and has worked very closely with the students in the CAT department for years. CAT department chair, Lynne Oddo says “Beth’s work is quite yet vibrant with marks that repeat and travel throughout the picture plane. There seems to be a motion in the composition of her shapes of color and a depth that appears to draw the viewer into her work.”

An Exhibition of Fantasy and Illustration of the Artistic Persuasion
Rick J. Bryant
This exhibit focused on the works of Rick J. Bryant who has been an artist dealing in pencils, inks and computer-generated graphics for years, basing his work in that of the comic book world.

Amaze Labyrinth
Eliza Fernbach
Artist in Residence
An interactive, hand drawn labyrinth incorporating video, image manipulation and motion sensors. Developed at Bloomfield College after initial testing at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Labyrinth is an experimental navigation based on a Classic pattern. "To suggest the ancient, I drew a primitive labyrinth after the formal Avalon model," says Fernbach. "Technologies including video, motion sensor and animation map time and space with a view to revealing the coordinates of consciousness increasingly unavailable on the burgeoning techno highway. I imagine the revelation of a delicate, observed destination. A physical experience or memory drawn out of the high velocity paths we describe our lives with."

Travels of Eve: Works by Women on the Move
This exhibit focuses on the works of four local female artists; Amanda Burzynski (Bloomfield, NJ); Donna M. Grande (Montclair, NJ); Rachel Leibman (Montclair, NJ); and Bascha Mon (Long Valley, NJ); all who individually are powerful, provocative, and progressive and collectively display a visceral approach to feministic artwork that explodes when shown together. The exhibit is part of Bloomfield College’s celebration of Women’s History Month

Uncut Funk: A Retrospective of 1970’s Black Cinema Poster Art
A stunning exhibition of large format posters from the hey-day of Blaxploitation films, including rare international releases. Curated by Pamela Thomas.

Defying Boundaries:
The Many Moods of Roberto Osti
This exhibit rebels against the general tendency of the art world to compartmentalize art and its creators. Osti continues to explore his passion for painting in both oils and watercolor. “I blend the categories of scientific illustration and Fine Art for a more promethean vision of the world,” says Osti. “My work, whether for scientific or purely aesthetic goals, stems from the same source: a desire to capture the world around me, and interpret it in as many ways as I can.”

About the Westminster Art Gallery

The Westminster Art Gallery is a disabled access facility, located in the Westminster Arts Center on the Campus of Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey, on Fremont Street, between Franklin Street and Austin Place, in the Bloomfield Town Center.

For information, please call (973) 748-9008, xt. 279.
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