The Hutchins Galleries
The Hutchins Galleries are a home for the Lawrenceville School's permanent collection of art and a host for rotating exhibits of working, regional artists.
We hope to integrate art into the lives of people, inspiring individual reflection, community dialogue, and historical and cultural awareness. We believe in the power of art to stimulate creative thinking, aesthetic appreciation, and enjoyment. The exhibitions and programs of the galleries are intended to inspire and challenge the school community while offering a resource for teaching in all disciplines.
Current Exhibition | Jan 28 - MAR 4, 2026
2026 Student Exhibition
Work by Lawrenceville Students
Gallery Reception
January 30, 2026
6:00pm
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The Hutchins Galleries
The Lawrenceville School
2500 Main Street
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
The Galleries can be accessed through the entrance to the Gruss Center for Art and Design (GCAD). The main entrance for the Hutchins Galleries is at the rear of the building, and can be accessed during open viewing hours.
| Monday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Thursday | 12 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Saturdays | by appointment |
| Contact |
hutchinsgalleries@lawrenceville.org |
2026 Student Exhibition
Work by Lawrenceville Students
January 28 - March 4, 2026
An exhibit of student work featuring two-dimensional artwork, ceramics, photography, 3D models, designs, and video created by Lawrenceville students.
Past Exhibits
2026
Iceblink Ballet | November 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Iceblink Ballet
Work by Scot J. Wittman
November 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Iceblink Ballet explores the fleeting beauty of natural resources and human talent through photography, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and ice. Rooted in the artist’s fascination with the dancer as a symbol of human drive, the exhibition highlights moments of balance between nature and technology, reality and artifice, the ordinary and the extraordinary. This installation includes new works created specifically for the Hutchins Galleries, presented alongside earlier pieces to form a dialogue of art, innovation, and possibility.
Comprising sculpture, video, and photography Iceblink Ballet offers a suite of experiences celebrating the human condition amidst challenges of today’s world. Drawing from my TEDx Talk and an ongoing global photographic project, I am primarily showcasing photographs where I have collaborated with dancers around the world. I have been recording celebrated ballerinas at their most graceful moments in the air, amidst striking landscapes. While the dancer is photographically frozen at the most beautiful moment, so too is the landscape captured at its apex – at a more profound scale. At its heart Iceblink Ballet reflects on what it means to leap (or fly!) – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – in today’s uncertain world. From the frozen moments of the dancer in a photograph, the Lawrenceville gallery goer will also experience frozen moments more literally; a statue of dancer encased in ice offers meditation on impermanence, transformation, and the intersection of the body and environment. Video projection of slow-motion dance movement will poetically reinforce notions of melting, preservation, and perseverance.
This is the third iteration of this traveling exhibition, and I am extremely happy and grateful to be showing my work in the most exciting space of the three. "JUST ICE" was featured in Boston two years ago, and "Fondu & FREEZE" was featured earlier this year. Ongoing discussions lead towards the next iteration returning to Boston, because I am currently collaborating with Harvard University faculty to create works using new technologies. The yin to that yang will be traditional dance incorporated into the show’s experiences offered.
It is my hope that here at the Lawrenceville School Iceblink Ballet invites viewers to pause, ponder, and witness beauty – in motion and in stillness. As dancers leap, hopefully so too do viewers’ imaginations...landing somewhere between art, nature, and the sublime.
2025
- Iceblink Ballet | November 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
- Tunnel #3 | September 1 - November 14, 2025
- NOHASARK | September 11 - October 25, 2025
- Releases | May 8 - June 5, 2025
- Amplifying Voices | March 24 - April 25, 2025
- Moments From My Life | March 24 - April 25, 2025
- 2025 Student Show | January 31 - February 27, 2025
- Rhythms of the Land | December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Iceblink Ballet | November 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Iceblink Ballet
Work by Scot J. Wittman
November 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Iceblink Ballet explores the fleeting beauty of natural resources and human talent through photography, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and ice. Rooted in the artist’s fascination with the dancer as a symbol of human drive, the exhibition highlights moments of balance between nature and technology, reality and artifice, the ordinary and the extraordinary. This installation includes new works created specifically for the Hutchins Galleries, presented alongside earlier pieces to form a dialogue of art, innovation, and possibility.
Comprising sculpture, video, and photography Iceblink Ballet offers a suite of experiences celebrating the human condition amidst challenges of today’s world. Drawing from my TEDx Talk and an ongoing global photographic project, I am primarily showcasing photographs where I have collaborated with dancers around the world. I have been recording celebrated ballerinas at their most graceful moments in the air, amidst striking landscapes. While the dancer is photographically frozen at the most beautiful moment, so too is the landscape captured at its apex – at a more profound scale. At its heart Iceblink Ballet reflects on what it means to leap (or fly!) – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – in today’s uncertain world. From the frozen moments of the dancer in a photograph, the Lawrenceville gallery goer will also experience frozen moments more literally; a statue of dancer encased in ice offers meditation on impermanence, transformation, and the intersection of the body and environment. Video projection of slow-motion dance movement will poetically reinforce notions of melting, preservation, and perseverance.
This is the third iteration of this traveling exhibition, and I am extremely happy and grateful to be showing my work in the most exciting space of the three. "JUST ICE" was featured in Boston two years ago, and "Fondu & FREEZE" was featured earlier this year. Ongoing discussions lead towards the next iteration returning to Boston, because I am currently collaborating with Harvard University faculty to create works using new technologies. The yin to that yang will be traditional dance incorporated into the show’s experiences offered.
It is my hope that here at the Lawrenceville School Iceblink Ballet invites viewers to pause, ponder, and witness beauty – in motion and in stillness. As dancers leap, hopefully so too do viewers’ imaginations...landing somewhere between art, nature, and the sublime.
Tunnel #3 | September 1 - November 14, 2025
Tunnel #3
Sandhogs
Work by Tom Grimes '78
September 11 - November 14, 2025
For more than a century, a brotherhood of urban miners - known as sandhogs - has toiled in the shadows beneath New York City. Far below the streets, they dig and blast through bedrock, laying the foundations for bridges, subways, sewers, and water tunnels that keep the city alive.
The name comes from their earliest job: digging the caissons for the Brooklyn Bridge, burrowing into the riverbed “like hogs in sand.” From those first foundations, sandhogs have shaped nearly every major piece of underground infrastructure: the subway system, the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the city’s vast sewer network, and the monumental water tunnels that still bring fresh water from upstate reservoirs.
These workers endure darkness, dust, deafening noise, and the constant press of the earth itself. Their labor is dangerous, their craft precise, and their camaraderie legendary. Every tunnel is a story written in stone—one of sweat, skill, and stubborn persistence.
This portrait series documented by photographer Tom Grimes ‘78 offers a rare glimpse into their world: the grit on their faces, the geometry of their machinery, and the hidden landscapes carved by human hands. Step inside, and meet the men who built the veins of the city you walk above every day.
Today, the sandhogs are still at work, digging new tunnels for water, transit, and power—projects that ensure New York can keep pace with its millions of residents and withstand the pressures of the future. They are the unseen builders of the city’s lifelines, maintaining a tradition of labor, ingenuity, and grit that spans more than a century.
NOHASARK | September 11 - October 25, 2025
NOHASARK
Work by Louis Park '26
September 11 - October 25, 2025
NOHASARK is an invitation to step into the liminal space between childhood and adulthood—the middle ground where each choice writes the next line of who we are. Borrowing its name from both the biblical ark and part of my name “Kyungnoh,” the title suggests shelter, passage, and personal authorship as Noah’s Ark becomes NOH‑AS‑ARK, a vessel each viewer may claim as their own. Just as Noah saved only what could survive the flood, I perceive adolescence to be a time that demands that we decide which parts of our former selves to carry forward and which to release. The works in this show trace that selective journey of growth: objects are paired with absences, bright surfaces conceal fragile cores, and interactive pieces invite visitors to choose and even discard elements, continually asking: What will you take with you? Conceived as a guide for fellow Lawrentians and a compass for anyone facing life’s thresholds, NOHASARK offers a chance to discover your own ark—a personal bearing amid the shifting waters of happiness and hardship, beginnings and departures.
Releases | May 8 - June 5, 2025
Releases
Works by Christopher Tenev '09
May 8 - June 5, 2025
Through his pictures, Tenev invites viewers to reflect on their own humanity and to wonder at their surroundings. He portrays people, social interactions, natural features, and landscapes in silver gelatin prints, giclee prints, transparencies and projections, instant positive film, and motion picture film, all from a perspective of surrealist naturalism.
Christopher Hingston Tenev is an artist based in Lambertville, New Jersey and New York City who works primarily as a photographer, and as an electrical engineer and musician.
His approach to the technical aspects of photography is based largely on the writings of Ansel Adams, and on Tenev's own training and practice as an audio and electrical engineer. He aims to use a foundation of thorough technical proficiency to create pictures of maximum emotional impact.
All of Tenev's art - his pictures, music, records, and electrical designs - is composed as communication amongst humans, and between humans and their surroundings. His expressions are informed by this pursuit of human communication; and by a desire to promote social evolution, peace-making, and environmentalism.
Amplifying Voices | March 24 - April 25, 2025
Amplifying Voices
Global Feminism
March 31 - April 25, 2025
Amplifying Voices was organized by a consortium of private schools and led by Lawrenceville Fifth Formers Michelle Zhang and Churan Xu. Through this exhibition, the student curators not only bring into light the philosophies of modern-day feminists through art but also provide an opportunity for student artists to showcase their work. This exhibit highlights the critical importance of artistic expression in creating social change.
"The exhibition seeks to highlight diverse and creative voices through the unique mediums of art. While acts of restorative justice, activism, and education about women's rights often come from speech and writing, art can present an alternate method of approaching the subject," said Zhang. “Churan and I hope the exhibition generates conversations around the topics of beauty standards, the historical oppression of women, women in the media, and more. And finally, we hope that the collaborative nature of the exhibition, created and presented by various artists across the nation and internationally, can add to Women’s History Month by illustrating an intersectional and nuanced picture of women's empowerment.”
Moments From My Life | March 24 - April 25, 2025
Moments From My Life
Works by Sahoko Okabayashi
March 24 - April 25, 2025
Sahoko Okabayashi H’95, a longtime teacher in the Language Department at The Lawrenceville School, presents "Moments From My Life," a collection of paintings that capture the world around her. "I paint the world around me flat by freeing the colors and shape of the space to speak on my canvas," she explains. An honorary member of the Class of 1995 and recipient of the 2021 Harkness Award, Okabayashi brings a thoughtful and vibrant perspective to her art.
2025 Student Show | January 31 - February 27, 2025
Rhythms of the Land | December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Rhythms of the Land
Works by Susan Hoenig
December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Through paintings, forest compositions, leaf sculptures, cross sections of trees, and wildlife reliefs, "Rhythms of the Land" connects earth and art to reveal the relationship between habitat, plant, and animal life. Hoenig explores the impact of ecological issues, engaging the viewer to see the relationship between humans and the environment that sustains them.
Website: SusanHoenig.com
Facebook: Susan Hoenig
Susan Hoenig
Susan Hoenig is an ecological artist connecting Earth and art to make visible the relationship between habitat, plant, and animal life. Susan’s career has included work with a bird bander, which was pivotal in her knowledge of forest life.
Hoenig teaches at the Princeton Arts Council and in Art Out-Reach programs. She is presently artist-in-residence at Mountain Lakes Preserve in Princeton where she is collaborating with Friends of Princeton Open Space to draw attention to the value and beauty of native trees.
2024
- Rhythms of the Land | December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025
- The Creative Life | October 18 - November 23, 2024
- Visible Traces | September 3 - October 9, 2024
- UNCATEGORIZED | April 29 - June 8, 2024
- Views of Florence | April 29 - June 8, 2024
- Chasing Turner | February 24 - April 19, 2024
- Student Exhibition | January 26 - February 17, 2024
- Uneasy Balance | November 27, 2023 - January 11, 2024
Rhythms of the Land | December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Rhythms of the Land
Works by Susan Hoenig
December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Through paintings, forest compositions, leaf sculptures, cross sections of trees, and wildlife reliefs, "Rhythms of the Land" connects earth and art to reveal the relationship between habitat, plant, and animal life. Hoenig explores the impact of ecological issues, engaging the viewer to see the relationship between humans and the environment that sustains them.
Website: SusanHoenig.com
Facebook: Susan Hoenig
Susan Hoenig
Susan Hoenig is an ecological artist connecting Earth and art to make visible the relationship between habitat, plant, and animal life. Susan’s career has included work with a bird bander, which was pivotal in her knowledge of forest life.
Hoenig teaches at the Princeton Arts Council and in Art Out-Reach programs. She is presently artist-in-residence at Mountain Lakes Preserve in Princeton where she is collaborating with Friends of Princeton Open Space to draw attention to the value and beauty of native trees.
The Creative Life | October 18 - November 23, 2024
The Creative Life
Works by Heather and David Ferreira
October 18 - November 23, 2024
Heather and David have been working in creative fields for over twenty years. The work seen here represents a variety of markets, as well as more personal works.
Heather and David met in art school in Massachusetts where Heather was a Graphic Design major and David an Illustration major. Over the years they have created and overseen many projects for clients spanning the corporate world of publishing and advertising to comics and fine art.
Heather Ferreira: Heather Ferreira Design
David Ferriera: David W. Ferreira | Illustration, Visual Development, Storyboards
Heather Ferriera
Heather is currently a Creative Director for a marketing agency. Over the course of her career Heather has worked with many brands creating and art directing campaigns, video shoots, website design, social ads and a variety of print work. When not making work for clients, Heather can be found painting, sketching, designing patterns for textile applications. She draws inspiration from nature, science and history. She also enjoys printing original works on her 1910 #11 Golding Pearl Letterpress.
David W. Ferriera
David is an award winning illustrator. His professional work focuses on storyboarding and strategic planning for the advertising world, while his more personal work explores themes of nature, science, and the paranormal. He has exhibited his paintings and illustrations in many galleries and public spaces throughout the country. David is also an accomplished teacher, and has instructed courses in drawing, figurative anatomy, illustration and comics and sequential art for institutions throughout the Northeast.
Heather and David live along the Connecticut River with their two children and dog Winslow. With “The Creative Life” they hope to illuminate the many possible avenues for careers and opportunities in the creative world.
Visible Traces | September 3 - October 9, 2024
Visible Traces
The Art of Pinhole Photography
Works by NJ Pinhole Club Members
September 3 - October 9, 2024
Pinhole photography is a historic form of photography using a rudimentary lensless camera, often handmade from recycled and reused materials, to capture an image through a small, pin-sized hole on light-sensitive material. This exhibit showcases diverse photographs captured through a range of processes by the members of the NJ Pinhole Club: Heather Palecek, Jeff McConnell, Marissa Blossom, Sharon Harris, Maurice Fitzpatrick, Gul Cevikoglu, Chris Marinari, Kris Sebring, Christian Fiedler, Suzanne Leap, Jim Provenzano, Joe Ditchett, and Jacob McGuinness.
Website: NJ Pinhole Club Web Page
Instagram: #njpinholeclub
UNCATEGORIZED | April 29 - June 8, 2024
UNCATEGORIZED
Fortune Favors the Bold
Works by Chi Modu '84
April 29 - June 8, 2024
In August 2013, larger than life photos by renowned photographer Chi Modu began appearing on the exterior walls of select NYC buildings in SoHo, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side, as part of an ongoing installation called UNCATEGORIZED. The massive images included a rarely seen photo of hip hop legend Tupac Shakur, a never released shot of 21 year old Snoop Dogg, a dramatic image of Method Man, an iconic photo of Notorious B.I.G. standing in front of the World Trade Towers, and a riveting image of young boys in the back of a church in Modu’s native Nigeria.
Modu, who is best known for his iconic photos of major hip hop artists, was searching for a way to make his art accessible to more people. According to Modu, “The art world tends to be very exclusive and full of obstacles for both the artists and the public. My goal is to make art more inclusive by pulling an end run on the galleries, breaking down the barriers, and bringing the art directly to the people. Like graffiti, but legal.”
Website: ChiModu.com/
Instagram: @chimodu
Chi Modu
Photojournalist, Documentarian and Cultural Observer
Chi’s training as a photographer together with his unique perspective on life make him an uncanny observer of human nature, and a natural at mining provocative insights. As the founder of the strategic think tank Diverse Insights,Chi and his team bring insights to life using brilliant photography, a technique he calls Visual IQ™. Chi counts major ad agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi and advertisers like General Mills, Reebok, and Miller Beer among the companies that have benefitted from his fresh perspective.
Chi Modu passed away on May 19, 2021 at age 54.
As to why he called the exhibit Uncategorized—“People always want to put art and artists into neat little boxes. My work does not fit into any one stereotype and neither do I. I wanted to create something that is the opposite of putting labels on everything and make a statement against stereotyping in general. I don’t see this as just an exhibit. I want to start a movement.”
The first four images that went up in August of 2013 included two in SoHo – a 12’ x 9’ rarely seen photo of hip hop legend Tupac Shakur, and a riveting 25’ x 16’ photo of young school boys in the back of a church in Modu’s native Nigeria, and two in Brooklyn – a 16’ x 22’ photo of 21 year old Snoop Dogg shot in 1993 and never released, and a 22’ x 16’ shot of Method Man with smoke curling out of his mouth. In November, an iconic 22’ x 16’ photo of Notorious B.I.G. standing in front of the World Trade Towers went up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Within 5 years of this photo being taken, both Biggie and the Towers would be gone.
In the summer of 2014, UNCATEGORIZED moved overseas to Finland, where it was the main exhibit at the Pori Art Museum and drew record breaking crowds. Yielding to public demand, Modu published a photography book in September 2016 entitled Tupac Shakur: UNCATEGORIZED.
Since the book was launched, UNCATEGORIZED has shown up in dramatic new ways in Seoul, Korea; Bangkok, Thailand; Oslo, Norway; Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Barcelona, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Los Angeles, CA; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Dubai, UAE and Lagos, Nigeria. His sponsors and collaborators have included everyone from Adidas to Budweiser. What began as making a bold statement in New York City has become a global movement, with Modu’s loyal fans traveling from city to city to see both him and his latest incarnation of UNCATEGORIZED.
The first four images that went up in August of 2013 included two in SoHo – a 12’ x 9’ rarely seen photo of hip hop legend Tupac Shakur, and a riveting 25’ x 16’ photo of young school boys in the back of a church in Modu’s native Nigeria, and two in Brooklyn – a 16’ x 22’ photo of 21 year old Snoop Dogg shot in 1993 and never released, and a 22’ x 16’ shot of Method Man with smoke curling out of his mouth. In November, an iconic 22’ x 16’ photo of Notorious B.I.G. standing in front of the World Trade Towers went up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Within 5 years of this photo being taken, both Biggie and the Towers would be gone.
In the summer of 2014, UNCATEGORIZED moved overseas to Finland, where it was the main exhibit at the Pori Art Museum and drew record breaking crowds. Yielding to public demand, Modu published a photography book in September 2016 entitled Tupac Shakur: UNCATEGORIZED.
Since the book was launched, UNCATEGORIZED has shown up in dramatic new ways in Seoul, Korea; Bangkok, Thailand; Oslo, Norway; Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Barcelona, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Los Angeles, CA; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Dubai, UAE and Lagos, Nigeria. His sponsors and collaborators have included everyone from Adidas to Budweiser. What began as making a bold statement in New York City has become a global movement, with Modu’s loyal fans traveling from city to city to see both him and his latest incarnation of UNCATEGORIZED.
Views of Florence | April 29 - June 8, 2024
Views of Florence
from the Collection of Phillip Ellis Foster '56
April 29 - June 8, 2024
A well-known capital city with ancient Roman roots and located in the region of Tuscany, Florence (Firenze) has inevitably seen many changes since its settlement in 59 BC. The home of Dante in the Middle Ages and the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence was a place for aristocrats to learn about art and history on the Grand Tour from about the 1600s. With the advent of rail and steamship transportation in the 1840’s and the publication of guide books, it became a popular destination of tourists. In 1861 when the nation-state of Italy was formed, Florence became the capital of Italy and was celebrated as its cultural center and Republican spirit. The interest of visitors changed again in the ensuing years which is reflected in this exhibition, from the earliest view by George Loring Brown which presents the city as a place in nature, to the most recent by Franchina Tresoldi which removes the buildings of Florence from their context to create a conceptual image of the city.
Chasing Turner | February 24 - April 19, 2024
Chasing Turner
Works by C. a. Shofed
February 24 - April 19, 2024
"Increasingly my eye has been pulled towards abstract scenes, how reflections in pools of water or in the glass landscape of large cities brighten or distorts colors and shapes. This in turn has me experimenting with abstract photography. Ordinary shapes and forms twisted while being reflected towards my lens. It has been quite an education chasing the light on any given day for the best color in a certain reflection or capturing color filtered by one sunset or sunrise. Time, clouds, weather, or season has a profound impact on each piece I create. Suddenly I realize that my camera is more of a paintbrush then a piece of technology built to reproduce exactly how we see the world and why my influences are painters such as J.M.W Turner or Maurice Pendergast."
Website: amphorartworks.com/
Instagram: @shofedart
Fine Art Photographer C.a. Shofed
C.a. Shofed studied Advertising Design in college. "It was college that first exposed me to photography." Before he had a real chance to explore photography as a career, he took a summer job as a computer installer and never looked back. "I spent the next 25 years as an IT Professional. Although my professional life had focused on technology, I maintained an interest in photography, always carrying my camera with me, taking photographs whenever the opportunity presented itself or whenever a particular scene or object inspired me."
After moving to Trenton, NJ, C.a. Shofed began to notice the city's vibrant, raw art scene. He began volunteering at Artworks Trenton becoming highly involved in Art All Night. Sometime after his second kidney transplant he made the decision that he was not going back to his 9 to 5, he would make art his career. "I'm surrounded and supported by the best art community in the country here in Trenton. There is no better place then right here to start this new chapter in my life". It took C.a. awhile to find his "style". "I became increasingly aware that my attention was drawn to ordinary objects pressured by nature and time, people began to be described my photography as "industrial meets nature". I was enjoying finding beauty in things that are not naturally considered beautiful". It was C.a. Shofed's first solo exhibit "Double Take" which included ten photographs of fire hydrants as they appeared "in the wild" that really refined his style. "Things really clicked for me after that exhibit. I began refining how I took pictures trying my best to only use the editing features within my camera to create my art. I enjoy pushing the boundaries of photography and my camera. I am not worried so much about the technical aspect and perfection of a picture. I'm more concerned with capturing a moment and sharing that moment with my audience."
Student Exhibition | January 26 - February 17, 2024
Uneasy Balance | November 27, 2023 - January 11, 2024
Uneasy Balance
Works by Eileen Ferara
November 27, 2023 - January 11, 2024
Nature and its underlying systems and patterns amaze me. My current work is an exploration of our relationship to urban wild spaces through a multidisciplinary art practice which includes painting, printmaking, installation and sculpture. My process involves time spent sketching, taking photographs and writing about plants and other organisms in nature, then developing work in the studio. Drawing is the beginning for much of my work, and even when I am using paint, sandpaper or glue, I express myself using a combination of marks on a surface and an interest in reinterpreting my subject matter.
Website: eileenferara.com
eMail: eileenferara@gmail.com
My current work evolved out of personal observations of invasive species in the US, which began when I became fascinated with the seed pods of an invasive water plant, known as Devil’s head pods, while exploring the bank of the Hudson River. My attention has expanded to other non native plant species considered invasive to the NYC metropolitan area. The narrative around these plants is not simple and It is important to think about who and what defines them, and how humans should try to manage and protect local ecosystems. I feel a connection to the leaves, flowers, roots and seed pods of these plants and my paintings are created through a study of the plant life combined with a spontaneous process, shifting from abstract lines and shapes to representational imagery in a process I think of as visual poetry.
The story of these plants involves migration and overpopulation, a result of human being’s expansion and disruption of the planet. I am attracted to their beauty and my work is inspired by the exquisite design of these natural objects. I hope to encourage reflection on the fragility of balance in the places we live and our impact on the environment.
EILEEN FERARA is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work is focused on the human relationship to the environment. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she creates paintings, paper installations and sculptures based on observation, research and imagination.
Ferara’s work has been included in numerous exhibits in the United States. In 2022 she received a Jersey City Arts and Culture Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Puffin Foundation grant for her outdoor paper making project. Ferara was an artist-in-residence at Fire Island National Seashore in New York and an Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation resident artist at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City in 2019. She was awarded a 2017 Puffin Foundation grant supporting her paper and print installation on the invasive plant species Trapa Natans L., also known as Devil’s head pods. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, The King St. Stephens Museum of Hungary, Memorial Sloan Kettering and many private collectors. Ferara holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born in the Bronx, she currently lives and works in Jersey City.
2023
- Uneasy Balance | November 27, 2023 - January 11, 2024
- Three-Part Inventions | October 13 - November 11, 2023
- A Brush with Reality | September 1 - October 7, 2023
- Ansel Adams: Sharply Focused | May 1 - June 10, 2023
- From North Africa to North America | February 10 - April 8, 2023
- Hope from Within | February 10 - April 8, 2023
Uneasy Balance | November 27, 2023 - January 11, 2024
Uneasy Balance
Works by Eileen Ferara
November 27, 2023 - January 11, 2024
Nature and its underlying systems and patterns amaze me. My current work is an exploration of our relationship to urban wild spaces through a multidisciplinary art practice which includes painting, printmaking, installation and sculpture. My process involves time spent sketching, taking photographs and writing about plants and other organisms in nature, then developing work in the studio. Drawing is the beginning for much of my work, and even when I am using paint, sandpaper or glue, I express myself using a combination of marks on a surface and an interest in reinterpreting my subject matter.
Website: eileenferara.com
eMail: eileenferara@gmail.com
My current work evolved out of personal observations of invasive species in the US, which began when I became fascinated with the seed pods of an invasive water plant, known as Devil’s head pods, while exploring the bank of the Hudson River. My attention has expanded to other non native plant species considered invasive to the NYC metropolitan area. The narrative around these plants is not simple and It is important to think about who and what defines them, and how humans should try to manage and protect local ecosystems. I feel a connection to the leaves, flowers, roots and seed pods of these plants and my paintings are created through a study of the plant life combined with a spontaneous process, shifting from abstract lines and shapes to representational imagery in a process I think of as visual poetry.
The story of these plants involves migration and overpopulation, a result of human being’s expansion and disruption of the planet. I am attracted to their beauty and my work is inspired by the exquisite design of these natural objects. I hope to encourage reflection on the fragility of balance in the places we live and our impact on the environment.
EILEEN FERARA is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work is focused on the human relationship to the environment. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she creates paintings, paper installations and sculptures based on observation, research and imagination.
Ferara’s work has been included in numerous exhibits in the United States. In 2022 she received a Jersey City Arts and Culture Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Puffin Foundation grant for her outdoor paper making project. Ferara was an artist-in-residence at Fire Island National Seashore in New York and an Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation resident artist at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City in 2019. She was awarded a 2017 Puffin Foundation grant supporting her paper and print installation on the invasive plant species Trapa Natans L., also known as Devil’s head pods. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, The King St. Stephens Museum of Hungary, Memorial Sloan Kettering and many private collectors. Ferara holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born in the Bronx, she currently lives and works in Jersey City.
Three-Part Inventions | October 13 - November 11, 2023
Three-Part Inventions
Works by Jamie Greenfield
October 13 - November 11, 2023
This exhibit is divided into three parts, each focusing on an aspect of my work over the years & reflecting observation, memory, and imagination.
In much of my work, objects, like thoughts, are held in tenuous relation to one another, seemingly unrelated yet anchored in a structured pictorial space. Some affinities are provided to the viewer, while others remain ambiguous and, as in dreams, may be the result of memory, longing, or prescience.
Website: www.jamiegreenfield.com
eMail: jrosegreenfield@gmail.com
Gallery 1
First Floor
Paintings and Portraits
Recent portraits of family and friends, accompanied by what I like to think of as "portraits" of flowers, as they, too, seem to have personalities of their own.
Gallery 2
Second Floor
Moth Memory
I draw upon inner sources of personal history in combination with close observation of light and form. Much of the time, I have no preconceived plan for the image other than to draw to the requirements of an internal logic that begins to present itself as I go, a progression of possibilities that may initially be engendered by something written, something said, or something experienced. The environment evolves as a dialogue between inner and outer spaces, presided over in many cases by a visual narrator. The moth is a potent metaphor, a much maligned yet often conjured insect. Beautiful and dangerous, its metaphoric power persists in the literary imagination: the brevity of its life, coupled with its incessant movement toward the light, seems to capture so eloquently our own human dilemma.
Gallery 3
Second Floor
Figures
The human body in a pictorial space offers opportunities for the viewer to engage with, decipher, or create meaning. When I work directly from the model, I try to create an environment in which shape and space/meaning and metaphor can coexist.
JAMIE GREENFIELD was born in New York City. She graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a BA in Studio Art, and received her Master’s degree in Fine Art from the State University of New York at Albany.
She taught Studio Art and Art History at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey from 1988-2016 on the George R. Bunn ‘34 Family Distinguished Teaching Chair, and was Director of the School’s Hutchins Gallery. She now maintains a studio in Lawrenceville, NJ.
She has taught art at Rider University, the Arts Council of Princeton, SUNY Albany, and at the Albany Academy for Girls, and worked as an antique porcelain restoration artist in Philadelphia.
Having exhibited throughout New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Greenfield’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Rider University, The Lawrenceville School, the Wm. & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Delaware, The College of New Jersey, SUNY Albany, and the State University of New York at Fredonia.
A Brush with Reality | September 1 - October 7, 2023
A Brush with Reality: The Mundane and Disturbing but with Hope
Works by ShinYoung An
September 1 - October 7, 2023
"I love working in oil paint to express my feelings and ideas. Reading and listening to continuous bad news can be disturbing. So, rather than getting frustrated by my inability to effect significant changes, I channel my emotions into my work using cutout news articles as a background collage."
Website: an-shinyoung.com
Instagram: @painteran
To work in a style that involves the viewers, I paint portraits or hands doing mundane tasks, like clipping nails, polishing nails, washing hands, searching on a smartphone, playing a video on a tablet, etc. These figures are painted in front of a collage of disturbing news stories glued to the canvas as a background.
Viewers may only see the painted figure in the foreground when seen from a distance, but when they approach, they see the articles behind it. Perhaps they were unaware or indifferent to the subject of the articles, but now they can study the articles up close and even become involved. Therefore my artwork can be influential which can make a difference. Hopefully, it was a novel way of expressing my opinions and spreading awareness about abuses in our current society.
Ansel Adams: Sharply Focused | May 1 - June 10, 2023
ANSEL ADAMS "Sharply Focused" highlights more than 70 photographs that make up "The Museum Set," which includes the most classic and iconic images of this famed photographer, writer, teacher, advocate, and environmentalist. The exhibition features a self-portrait and one of Adams’ earliest photographs from San Francisco, made in 1915.
Generously loaned to The Lawrenceville School by alumnus Glenn H. Hutchins '73 for his 50th class reunion, the ANSEL ADAMS: SHARPLY FOCUSED exhibit includes Adams' "Museum Set." Curated by Adams in the last years of his life, he selected a medley of expansive landscapes, candid portraits, environmental still lifes, and iconic architectural images that demonstrated his ability to capture photographic sharpness, texture, and gradients of light in the American West. Gradients - separated into eleven tonal categories from absolute black to white - formed his famous "Zone System" which became the foundation of his artistic method.
Ever the innovator and experimenter, Adams regularly embraced new technological advances during his career such as the 35mm camera to further his endeavors. Ultimately, Adams' photography and natural adoration for the wilderness and its inhabitants led him to become both an award winning environmentalist and human rights advocate. Ansel Adams' sixty-year career at the forefront of photographic practices and governmental policies helped to establish a legacy of art spurring advocacy that many continue to follow in the 21st century.
Vernal Fall, Yosemite Valley, California (c 1948) | Photograph by Ansel Adams | ©The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
From North Africa to North America | February 10 - April 8, 2023
From North Africa to North America: Journey of a Story Teller
Work by Alia Bensliman
February 10 - April 8, 2022
"My artwork is contemporary art drawings that reflect my view of life and my sentiments about the current state of our society, socio political issues, taboos, religion, relationships, health, and human rights. It is also a depiction of my past experiences and how they have influenced me. My artwork is also a sort of diary of my everyday life. I like to use a combination of intricate lines, shapes and repetitive patterns that I usually enhance with colors, ink, gold and silver paint and watercolors to create the desired textures and intensity mostly on Arch paper."
AliaBenslimanArt.com
eMail: info@aliabenslimanart.com
Hope from Within | February 10 - April 8, 2023
Hope from Within
Work by Vincent Bush "VCAB"
February 10 - April 8, 2022
"I create art that’s all about love. I believe the heart is the universal sign for love and no matter what culture, religion, color, or walk of life you belong to, you can recognize that symbol and what it stands for. As a result, I am motivated to create heart designs, so that I can continue to remind people about this key ingredient in life."
VCABdesigns.com
eMail: vince@vcabdesigns.com
2022
Somewhere Special | October 13 - December 3, 2022
Somewhere Special
Work by Sean Carney
October 18 - December 3, 2022
"I paint places I love. The buildings, the boats and shorelines are just place markers for memories that I share with special people in my life. I enjoy taking in my surroundings and imagine painting them. These paintings are my connections to the past and an unbreakable bond to my work. I paint with Minwax wood stain and a Dremel, it is a process that is mine and mine alone. My paintings look like traditional paintings from a distance, but upon closer inspection you gain a realization that they are not traditional at all. It is that moment of contemplation that drives me to continue my growth and development."
CarneyStudios.net
Instagram: @carneystudios
Featured Works
"Griswold House" 16x20, 2022 Minwax wood stain on panel
"Woodhull House" 18x24, 2022 Minwax wood stain on wood
"The Other Corner" 18x24, 2022 Minwax wood stain on wood
"Mystic Memories #2" 24x36, 2021 Minwax wood stain and Dremel on wood
Inside/Outdoors | September 1 - October 7, 2022
Inside/Outdoors
An exhibit by Eva Mantell, Joel Beck, and their Collaboration, greenworldx2
September 1 - October 7, 2022
Inside/Outdoors emerges as a record or reflection on two-plus years of largely homebound life, when isolation necessitated rethinking the rooms we inhabit. In this time of jumbled chock-a-block life the experience of work, school, studio all piled onto normal home-life. Our home studio became a hothouse for ideas and associations about re-thinking spaces. Artwork was called to lend support, and we now realize how painting and sculpture can form zones of activity with panache. We can view architectural spaces as less fixed; they can spontaneously change with this artistic intervention. Space is re-visualized, re-experienced by connecting art, design and environment.
Instagram: @evamantell | @joel.s.beck | @greenworldx2
Inside/Outdoors continues this pan-art/architectural vein, probing for enlivened engagement with our direct surroundings. Our studio objects still wear several hats, as images, ideas, and also links in the architectural continuum. They surface as paintings, sculptures, as lighting and furniture, connecting to and shaping architectural space and its relation to landscape. Blurring boundaries between inside and outside, between the natural and the man-made, our collaboration aims to spark new connectivity. The various spaces that compose
The Hutchins Galleries create a singularly interesting location allowing a site-specific installation of connected spaces incorporating these interests along with our individual works.
greenworldx2
greenworldx2’s immersive installations, lighting and design interventions have been presented at the Van Alen Institute in Gowanus, Brooklyn, The Mariboe Gallery at the Peddie School, Head Hi Gallery, and Brooklyn’s Walkabout Oyster Theater Company.
Eva Mantell
Eva Mantell creates sculpture from everyday materials, finding an unlikely suitability as potential art material that parallels the unlikely possibility of forms in nature. Eva’s artwork implies an energetic potential — the forms she creates suggest complex possibilities that remain open to the imagination.
Eva's work in sculpture, installation, video and performance has been seen at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, LaMama Experimental Theater, the Jersey City Museum, P.S.1 The Arts Council of Princeton, and more. Eva has a BA from Penn and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She teaches Art As Activism at Rutgers University and runs Arthouse, an arts enrichment program over Zoom.
Mom to Sam Noden, Lawrenceville Class of 2017, Eva's late husband Merrell Noden was class of 1973.
Joel Beck
Joel Beck is specially concerned with painting while allowing that its ideas, using images, light, color, volume and space to shape experience have fully escaped the bottle, accepting art as a state of vivid experience in constant flux, in the process of being constantly re-informed and re-contextualized.
Born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Joel works in Brooklyn and in Princeton, NJ, Known as the Founder/Co-Owner and Director of Roebling Hall Gallery, and an earlier iteration Salon75 Gallery, and has been a Guest lecturer at Christie's Education, NYC and at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Joel's paintings have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Harcus-Krakow Gallery and the Portia Harcus Gallery in Boston. Awarded numerous grants and prizes, including an NEA grant, Joel is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Collection and Spaces
The generosity of Glenn H. Hutchins '73, provided the gift that allowed the Hutchins Galleries to be instituted on campus. The Hutchins Galleries are a gift of the Hutchins Family Foundation in honor of Marguerite and James Hutchins. The Lawrenceville School's art collection is made possible through the generosity and goodwill of its alumni and parents; The collection has grown rapidly in the past decade to well over 500 works of art that include an impressive collection of photography, sculpture, paintings, works on paper, ancient artifacts and textiles. Education remains the primary focus for the growth of Lawrenceville's collection.
Renovated and reopened in 2021, the Galleries will continue to provide arts education and a welcoming community space through rotating exhibitions of working artists and display of our permanent collection. The permanent collection is also intended to be a resource to the entire faculty, to encourage object and inquiry-focused opportunities that lend themselves well to the Harkness style of teaching. Through exhibition work, the Galleries will be yet another area on campus where students, faculty, alumni, and the local community are provided the opportunity to explore and appreciate the perspectives and identities of others, as well as their own.
