News & Events 2005-2006

“Paintings: Indoors and Outdoors” in Romano Gallery

“Paintings: Indoors and Outdoors” by Paul Carrellas and Leslie Hertzog will be on display in the Romano Gallery of the Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts until December 10.

Carrellas said of his work: “My paintings are a counter-balance of still life forms and light. There is luminosity in everything. Each object has a luminous presence of its own from within and yet is clearly defined by an exterior light source. I work under the spell of tradition.” He notes that he subverts what at first appears to be an unprejudiced, indiscriminate delight in the appearance of things. His describes his compositions as “carefully structured situations where pears co-mingle with light bulbs, and vases and plaster busts inhabit a tabletop; wall patterns and flowers intertwine in shape and line.” Hertzog, who is married to Carrellas, considers herself a landscape painter, though most of her subjects are both landscape and architecture. She said, “By painting plein air, I seek out the common intersection between the domesticated world and the wilder terrain of the natural landscape. I am intrigued by the scale of the land and its inhabitant buildings and how various forms reveal their locations through spatial relationships. While outside, I am engaged with the living landscape where changes in the light vary by the hour and with the season. I aim to paint the effects of the light rather than the identity of the objects that I see.”

Carrellas received his BFA from the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Mass., and his MFA from Queens College in New York City. He is an adjunct professor at both Pratt Institute and Lehman College of the City University of New York. Hertzog earned a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Hawaii. Both artists have exhibited at numerous solo and group shows in the New York metro area.

The Romano Gallery, located within the Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts on the campus of Blair Academy, 2 Park St., is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; other hours by appointment. For more information on this exhibit, please call (908) 362-6121.

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