Art Center Painting Affiliates

The Painting Affiliates of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey is an organization of 31 professional painters committed to contemporary artistic expression in a broad range of styles and techniques. They exhibit individually and as a group in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. We hope you enjoy looking at the work and welcome your comments. Purchasing information is available on individual artists' pages.

The Art Center is a fine arts school and gallery providing professional-level instruction to adults and children in all manner of media. The Art Center is home base to four affiliate groups - Painting Affiliates, Sculpture Affiliates, Watercolor Affiliates, and Printmaking Affiliates. It is located in New Milford, New Jersey and is wheelchair accessible. Complete information is at our website: www.artcenter-nnj.org

Pauline Chernichaw

Painting allows me the freedom to create in my quiet space, while photography allows me to create out in the world..

Marjorie Shaw Kubach

Mary Yim Kliauga

Painters try to achieve happiness through perfection, which is impossible to realize, and that is why I keep going back to my studio and squeezing my paints. Web site: http//myimkliauga.com

Herb Stern

Surprise is one of the most satisfying aspects of the creative endeavor. No matter how completely imagined or planned, painting allows the artist to experience the shock of the new.

Dail Fried

In painting I wish express the essence and heightened emotion of a past experience or remembered fleeting moment. Using paint and mixed media the end result can be compared to listening to music, whether classical or jazz....a deeply felt moment. Intuition and spontaneity are my tools as I experiment with endless variations of line, form, color and texture as I strive to capture the inner landscape that resonates within me.

Renée Lerner

I have been exhibiting since 1987 here and abroad. At first my art was abstract painting, then collage, then free-form which evolved to today’s 3-D paintings. In 1991/92 I received a Painting Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA); and in 1993 an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Fellowship Recipients Exhibition. I have been a member of the Painting Affiliates for over 10 years. I am associated with the Walter Wickiser Gallery in NYC. I live and work in Englewood Cliffs.

Lou Spina

My paintings represent everyday life and thoughts I have about life. Some of these thoughts run into fantasies and frustrations relating to subjects in many of our lives.

Alice Harrison

The creative process for me is intuitive – starting with materials and/or marks that I make. I like putting things together – sometimes pieces that seem not to go together. Combining things with a former life with new materials is a wonderful challenge. My work has been exhibited widely in galleries and universities throughout the United States and also has been shown in Europe, Mexico, South Africa, Israel and New Zealand and am one of 40 artists featured in the book Masters: Collage, Major Works by Leading Artists published by Lark Books. www.alicenharrison.com

Sol Zaretsky

Each form needs to have a space divulging aspect. A tilt in space helps define the space.

Art Center Painting Affiliates

An exhibiting group of professional artists who are members of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey.