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Unique Artisans
Featuring: Eric Laxman ~ Juanita Yoder ~ Melissa Bronwen Pyle ~ Faith Hochberg ~ with additional artists
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Opening August 11 thru September 15, 2007:: Reception Saturday August 11, 6-8 p.m.
111 Main Street, Allenhurst, NJ
All works are available for purchase. Please contact the gallery for information and pricing. |
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Eric Laxman
resides in New York State with a working studio in the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center. With his chosen materials of metal and stone substantial elegant pieces are created. Mr. Laxman’s sculptures and functional art grace the homes and gardens of several Hudson Valley and Connecticut estates, as well as some company headquarters and select US art galleries. |
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| Mr. Laxman has been influenced by early modern art and tribal art as well as Greek, Egyptian and Buddhist sculpture. Awards include Rockland County Executive Art Award in Visual Art 2007, Art in Public Places, Rockland County, NY 2006 & 2003. Exhibitions include the Uma Gallery, NYC, Fieldstone Gallery, NJ, Yonkers Public Library, NY, Vermont Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, VT, and Rockland Center for the Arts, NY. |
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Juanita Yoder
a resident of Robbinsville, NJ creates paintings on silk for liturgical interiors, public spaces and private collections. Celestial, figurative and natural forms provide the foundation for the imagery in her work. Symbols for the basis elements of fire and water are also used as integral parts in these paintings. |
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| Exhibitions and commissions include the Princeton University Chapel, NJ, Lawrenceville School, NJ, “Art Without Border” International Salon, NYC, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Boniface Gallery, NYC and the Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC. |
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Melissa Bronwen Pyle
a Monmouth County resident, currently exhibiting The Looking Glass series. These nine new works in resin bring a fresh aesthetic sense to the rhythm and rhyme of old and new. Elements both organic and found travel between glass-like layers with kaleidoscope movement and light. |
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| Ms. Pyle, a graduate of Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia PA blends her training as a textile designer and mixed mediums to bring depth, motion, and the unexpected to line, color and form. Recent exhibitions include Walt Disney Imagineering, CA, the Audubon Artist Juried National exhibition, and the Salmagundi Club, NYC, Ms. Pyle was awarded a listing in Who’s Who in American Artists. |
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Faith Hochberg
a resident of Lakeville Hills in the Berkshires is exhibiting her one of a kind “Wearable Art”. Multi-toned, Abstract and Freeform are just a few of the designs Ms. Hochberg creates her signature pieces with using an extensive array of natural stones including antique crystals.
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"Amethyst Necklace"
Natural materials |
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"Lampwork Blue"
Natural materials |
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"Mahogony Tigereye"
Natural Materials |
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"Tigereye Dragonfly"
Natural materials
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| This multitalented artist that uses color to also create works in oil and watercolor and recently she has begun to create works in the traditional method of Byzantine mosaics. Her works hang in private collections in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Charleston and in the New England and the metropolitan New York area. |
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Additional Artists |
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"Six Degrees" detail
Christina Sanes |
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"Sand Dollar"
Buren Gilpin |
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"Double Rim"
Buren Gilpin |
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"Merging Black & White Series"
Eleanor G. Miller |
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"A Brush With Spring"
Susan I. Winters |
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"Colliers"
Istvan
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