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A new exhibition of drawings at the Hunterdon Art Museum explores how we retell stories, and how information is lost or distorted when we consider the people and places in our lives. “To the best of my recollection” might sound like a phrase drawn from the Watergate Hearings or a television courtroom drama, but it also suggests the fallibility of memory. The four artists whose works are featured i...

The Hunterdon Art Museum will celebrate Jacobs’s work with an exhibition titled “The Collage Journal: The First Decade.” The collages are paintings with paper, theatrical stages of abstracted color and rhythms, layers that imbue surreal narratives, symbolism hidden in humor, social commentary, cultural irony and pure visual perception. Closed Monday

This exihibit shows the drishti in Clay’s work uses a point of focus in each of the compositions.Clay also sees these works as emblematic of the search for different ways of meditation, awareness, and mindfulness. Also included in the exhibition is an installation of the artist’s works from 2012 when she first used decorative paper techniques to create small-scale renditions of the welded “Cubi” s...

The sculptures of Jonas Stirner are by an artist who has developed his own approach and methodology in the creation of sculpture that is at once powerful in its presence yet inviting to the viewer in its seductive use of texture and color. Jonas, exhibiting with his father Karl for the first time, also prefers to use raw steel and scrap iron in his works. One of the main characteristics in Jonas’s...

This exhibition of Karl Stirner‘s sculptures is focused on the sculptor’s decades-long focus on welded steel as a sculptural medium. The sculptures of Karl Stirner have grown from his experience of the medium and his deep immersion in his sculpture. The principal difference in Stirner’s steel sculptures which stand him apart from Modernist thought is his choice to work primarily with the industria...

The most recent exhibition of Native American art features 69 baskets collected during the late Victorian era when a craze for Native basketry swept the United States. Ranging in size from an extremely large Apache Indian storage jar to a Pomo Indian basket as small as a tiny seed, the baskets on view in this installation were collected during the years when basket mania seized the nation. Closed ...

The museum is presenting these groundbreaking artworks that document a key period in the twentieth century. The prospect of seeing more parts of the Dodge Collection, as the Zimmerli periodically reinstalls the two floors of these generous galleries, ought to excite anyone interesting in appreciating the meaningful ways in which history and art can clash. The museum is closed Mondays, major holida...

The wall reliefs featured in this exhibition are drawn from a period of Lobe’s activity that spans over two decades. They stack upwards into the space, some cliff-like, some shelf-like from which some mythical forest “pan” might peer down at us. The wall reliefs combining rock and trees are often done in one sheet of metal to simplify and convey the idea of the created landscape. Included in this ...

This exhibit is the first thematic exhibition at the Zimmerli to chart the development of hyperrealism and photorealism in the Soviet Union during the late 1970s and 1980s. The works on view illustrate that Soviet Hyperrealism was a complex and multifaceted method that arose and developed in relation to the artists’ regional and creative backgrounds. In addition, the exhibition spotlights women wh...

In this exihibit - At first, Jae Ko’s monumental paper relief sculpture gently coaxes you into the brightness of the East Gallery. The composition starts as a trickle then quickly overtakes your height. You become enveloped by its spell, and your curiosity is engaged. What you perceive is something magical and constantly changing in color, line, and form beyond the white paper of which it is made....