Three fall exhibitions to open at The Center for Contemporary Art

BEDMINSTER, N.J. - Aug. 20, 2019 - PRLog -- The Center for Contemporary Art is excited to announce its fall exhibitions which begin on September 13 and run through October 26. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 14^th from 3-5 p.m.

Amy Faris: Memory and the Explorer is a site-specific installation that references the artist's childhood fascination with stories of expeditions. Faris (Locust, NJ) is a visual artist who uses drawing to explore the formation of identity within the home environment, where it is subjected to the combined pressures of memory, domestic relationships and confinement.

Bascha Mon: New Land explores diversity and the current state of humanity. In this series of 288 paintings, Mon (Long Valley, NJ) encompasses the entry of new places that are both real and fantasy. They comment and reflect on humanity as individuals and as a whole in current issues involving politics or humanitarianism. Mon also invited other artists to participate by designing Flags for the New Land, which resulted in multitudes of ideas and imagery, and 76 flags, which will also be on view.

Both Bascha Mon: New Land and Amy Faris: Memory and the Explorer will be curated by Wes Sherman, painter, curator, professor and chair of The Exhibitions Committee at The Center for Contemporary Art.

Four Women from Trenton features work by Priscilla Snow Algava, Elizabeth Aubrey, Terri McNichol, and Marge Miccio and is curated by Trenton artist  Mel Leipzig.

Priscilla Snow Algava's work is about layers of time and memory that explore grief and the difficulties of living a passionate life. Algava (priscillaalgava.com (http://www.priscillaalgava.com/)) lived, taught and made art in Argentina, Germany, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and from 1983 until her death in spring 2019, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Elizabeth Aubrey's work combines objective and abstract imagery to evoke the changing landscapes of New Jersey by integrating images from childhood memories of open spaces with urban images that have evolved in recent years.

Terri McNichol's passion for art began with watercolor portraits. Her work reflects her deep American roots and continuing passion for painting the New Jersey landscape and figurative subjects reverently engaging in religious rituals.

Marge Miccio is the owner of Artifacts Gallery. Her work consists mostly of oil paintings and pastels, and names contemporary figurative painter Neil Welliver as an influence, along with modern realist Philip Pearlstein, contemporary realist Janet Fish, and Mel Leipzig.