New Hope Arts League Juried Show 2011

"Rainbow Run Winter"
Rainbow Run Farm on Rainbow Hill Rd, Clover Hill, NJ
12x24" oil on canvas

These two painting are in the New Hope Arts League Annual Juried Show being held at:

Prallsville Mills
27 Risler St (that's Rt 29 just north of town)
Stockton, NJ
(map)

The show runs Nov 16-27, 2011 and is open daily 11am to 6pm (closed Thanksgiving Day.)

Opening Reception is Friday, Nov 18, 6-9pm

"Autumn Gold"
A woodland stream off of Wertsville Rd, East Amwell Twp, NJ
16x20" oil on canvas

These 2 paintings are scenes located very close to my home, just like most of the work in another show I have going on right now:  "Get Lost" at Artists' Gallery in Lambertville.

Get Lost #1

"Cider Mill Winter"
by Joe Kazimierczyk
12x24" oil on canvas

"Fall Flyer"

by Beatrice Bork

watercolor painting

These are some of the paintings available at "Get Lost" - a 2 person show with Joe Kazimierczyk and Beatrice Bork, running November 11 - December 4, 2011 at
at:

Artists' Gallery
18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ
map & directions

Gallery hours: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm

13th Annual Holiday Small Works Show at Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery

"Thomas Clarke's Barn"
at Princeton Battlefield Park
5x7 oil on board

I have 2 paintings in this holiday group show at:

Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery
1093 General Greene Rd.
Washington Crossing, Pa 18977
(map)

"Hortulus Farm"
at Hortulus Farm & Gardens in Bucks County, Pa
14x11 oil on canvas

This show features smaller scale works by the Canal Frame Gallery artists, and runs from November 13 to December 31, 2011.

Opening Reception is Sunday, Nov 13 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.

Get Lost Begins

Getting ready for an art exhibition is always a lot of work, so I've been very busy the past week.   But now, the show is hung and the doors are open!  Today is the first day of "Get Lost", my 2 person show with Beatrice Bork.

I have 21 pieces in the show, painted at 20 different locations.  (One of the paintings is a larger studio version of a small plein air painting).   Visitors to the gallery are generally interested in knowing the location of my landscape paintings, so I created this map for the gallery wall:

I know that my paintings are all very local, but I was surprised to see that over half of the paintings I have in this show are scenes located within 5 miles of my house.   I am fortunate to live in such a beautiful area!

Here are some shots of our paintings hanging in the gallery:

Joe Kazimierczyk - landscape paintings in oil

Beatrice Bork - animal art in watercolor

Opening Reception is tomorrow, Saturday, November 12, 2011 from 5-8pm at:

Artists' Gallery
18 Bridge Street
Lambertville, NJ
map & directions

Gallery hours: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm

I hope to see you there!

Get Lost this November

Beginning 11·11·11

"Get Lost"
a 2-person show with Joe Kazimierczyk and Beatrice Bork
at Artists' Gallery in Lambertville, NJ

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November 11 - December 4, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12, 5-8pm
Closing Reception:  Sunday, December 4, 2-5pm

Top: "Go With the Flow" by Beatrice Bork
Bottom: "Mercer Park NW" by Joe Kazimierczyk

This month, I'm having a 2-person show with Beatrice Bork at Artists' Gallery in Lambertville, NJ.  I'll be showing my newest work, where I continue to explore the local landscape with an emphasis on skies and cloudscapes.  Beatrice is a very accomplished, award winning animal artist who paints birds and other animals in watercolor - the creatures who inhabit my landscapes but never seem to make it into my paintings.

The show runs November 11 through December 4, 2011.

Opening reception is Saturday, November 12 from 5-8pm at:

Artists' Gallery
18 Bridge Street
Lambertville, NJ
map & directions
Gallery hours: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm

"Winter Sunset, Skillman"
by Joe Kazimierczyk
20x30 oil on canvas

Get Lost?  Painting is much more than holding a brush in your hands, it requires a great deal of exploration, observation and discovery.   Through field and forest you explore, discover and be inspired.  You get lost in the moment, tune out your everyday worries and really see what's in front of you.   It's in this "getting lost" where the artwork is born.    Beatrice and I invite you to Get Lost this November at Artists' Gallery!


Over the next few weeks, I'll post some more of the paintings that I have in this show, just so you don't forget about it.   :-)

Friends in Field & Forest

"Coventry Farm"
11x14" oil on canvas on board

"Friends in Field & Forest: Celebrating Partners in Preservation" - an art and photography exhibit highlighting partnership lands protected by D&R Greenway in Princeton:  Greenway Meadows, Coventry Farm and The Institute Woods.  With a special exhibit of plein air paintings created on Green Acres lands, in celebration of the New Jersey Green Acres Program's 50th anniversary.

"Cedar Ridge Fields"
at Cedar Ridge Preserve, Hopewell, NJ
8x10" oil on board

I have 14 of my plein air paintings in this show, all of which are on land preserved by the D&R Greenway.  The show runs October 24 through December 2, 2011 at:

D&R Greenway's Marie L. Matthews Gallery
at Johnson Education Center
One Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609-924-4646
[map & directions]

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 4, 4-6pm

"Farm Lane"
at the St. Michael's Preserve, Hopewell, NJ
5x7" oil on board

Please note: Other than the opening reception, there are no weekend hours for this gallery.  The Marie L. Matthews Gallery is open Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm, but it's best to call the Greenway at 609-924-4646 first to confirm that the facility is not being used for other purposes.

"Mount Rose Boulders"
a very rocky trail off Crusher Rd, Mount Rose, NJ
8x10" oil on board

Lambertville Area Paintings

Gallery artists hang new paintings each month at Artists' Gallery and I usually don't try to have a theme for my own work, but last month I hung all winter paintings and had a lot of fun with that.  So this month I'm doing another theme:  Lambertville and the surrounding area - paintings done in town or fairly close by.

Here are a few of the paintings I'm showing for September:

The Lambertville Station restaurant - as always, I somehow manage to paint busy, bustling city scenes without getting a single person in my painting:

"At Lambertville Station"
8x10" oil on board

From the Lambertville Boat Club, looking across the Delaware at New Hope:

"Bucks County Playhouse"
8x10" oil on linen

This is the D&R Canal Bridge at the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead at the northern end of Lambertville, with the Rt 202 bridge in the background:

"D&R and 202"
11x14" oil on board

Thanks to the recent rains, the Delaware River is very high, but flood waters were nowhere near the gallery - we remain high and dry.  If you visit this weekend, Saturday from 4-8pm is the opening reception for Artists' Gallery's current show, "Freewheeling", featuring Rich Harrington and Charles Katzenbach.   For this show,  Rich and Chuck created artwork inspired the by the bicycle.   Cycling is my favorite way of seeing the countryside, so I can really appreciate this show - I hope you get a chance to see it too.

Winter in August

This month at Artists' Gallery, I'm showing nothing but winter snow scenes.  Hopefully this will make visitors feel a little bit cooler during August.   This group of work will be up through Sept 4, 2011.  (At Artists' Gallery, we rotate wall space and hang new work each month).

As I was hanging these, it occurred to me that many of these are very close to my home, like these three in particular:

"Winter Afternoon, Sourland Mountain"
8x10" oil on board

This is the road I live on and my house is just beyond the crest of the hill.

"Winter Drive"
24x18" oil on canvas

This is my driveway, looking out toward the road.

"Amwell Valley Winter"
18x24" oil on canvas

And this is the farm field just across the street from my house - the same field you can see in the distance of "Winter Drive".

I guess I don't travel very far on snowy winter days!

Also at Artists' Gallery: this month's featured artists are Paul Grecian and Materese Roche in a show entitled "A Sense of Place", with an opening reception this Saturday, August 6, from 5-8pm.   Visit the Artists' Gallery website for more information.