| Our Opening Reception Is Sunday WHERE: Hunterdon Art Museum,7 Lower Center Street, Clinton, NJ Join us at the Museum this Sunday (Sept. 29) from 2 to 4 PM for the opening reception of our fall exhibitions: "Santiago Cohen: Ex-Vida Project," "John Anderson: Large Works," "Anhi Kruger: Tempered Chaos" and our "2013 Members Exhibition.” Admission is free, and all are welcome. Wine and cheese will be served. Artist Santiago Cohen will discuss his work. Santiago Cohen: Ex-Vida Project
 When Santiago Cohen wanted to tell his two children the story of his life—as a Jew growing up in Mexico, and as a Mexican starting a career and family in New York—he decided to paint it. When finished, he had 1,150 oil paintings that tell a fascinating story. The paintings were completed in ex-voto style: a narrative form of painting, usually featuring religious imagery, found by the thousands throughout Mexico. Roughly half of these paintings cover the walls of the first-floor gallery. Read more here.
John Anderson: Large Works
 John Anderson creates sculptures from fallen tree branches. He strips the bark and carves the limbs into cylinder shapes of varying sizes. Anderson uses metal cables to string the wood together, and these cables are attached to metal plates that hang from the ceiling. The resulting sculptures can be large and imposing or delicate and ethereal. Recently Anderson started working with photography and printing on a large scale. Bite-sized beans resemble boulders, and small fragments of metal appear as colorful shapes much larger than their actual size. Read more about his work here.
Ahni Kruger: Tempered Chaos
 Ahni Kruger describes herself as a “bit of a whirling dervish,” and one needs only to view her solo exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum to catch a bit of her energy. Her paintings all begin with a delicately complex structure—a tapestry pattern from a 13th-century painting about St. Francis, the patron saint of the environment; Bach's reinvention of traditional music forms; and a honeybee hive. She disrupts regular patterns to evoke a sense of uncertainty and fragmentation which echo her concerns about the environment. To learn more, please visit our website.
2013 Members Exhibition
Discover the wonderful talents of the members of the Hunterdon Art Museum in an exhibition that features oil on canvas, photography, ceramic and steel sculptures, book art and much more. Yvette Hendler was selected for the 2014 Member Highlight solo exhibition, and Maria Yakov received the Juror's Prize.
Upcoming Events:
FAMOUS ARTIST FRIDAY
WHEN: Oct. 4, 1 PM Join us for Famous Artist Friday when Santiago Cohen leads a story time and drawing program on Oct. 4 at 1 PM at the Museum. This special program is for children ages 2 to 5 with an adult. For more information, please visit our website. FIRST FRIDAY
WHEN: Oct. 4, 6 PM The works of Liz Abrams-Morley, Jim Mancinelli and Courtney Bambrick will be featured at the next first Friday poetry reading on Oct. 4 at the Museum. "First Friday" poetry readings start at 6 PM and are free and open to all. The event will also feature an open microphone for anyone interested in sharing their poetry. Refreshments will be served. For more information call (908) 735-8415. To learn more about the poets, please visit the news page of our website.
Programs are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission, New Jersey Cultural Trust and corporations, foundations, and individuals. The Hunterdon Art Museum is a wheelchair accessible space. Publications are available in large print. Patrons who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired may contact the Museum through the New Jersey Relay Service at (TYY) 1 (800) 852-7899
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