Memory and imagination are constructs of the mind. Memory is born out of experience, imagination builds on it. Our perception is not objective. This gives each of us space to be unique regardless of originality . My art making starts with focused intention: To create an object of presence in the now. There is no past or future when I am working, only now. This is not particularly a meditative state as many practices strive for, but rather a sensory heightened arena where my mind is intensely at serious play. A time will come for completion. A time of reflection, analysis, adjustment. The conscious act of completion is what differentiates the art of the insane and children from that of the discrete artist. For the viewer, focused presence is of equal importance. Your perception is essential, especially if the work is ambiguous. To remain present with the work simply as it is; defying the urge to define, conclude, and most commonly, to judge prematurely. My art is a nonverbal experience. To stay present is to allow oneself to experience it as such. A common thread throughout my work is the intent to place the viewer in a self conscious relationship with the piece, taking in the work as it directly relates to them, mentally and physically. I invite the viewer to stay awhile. If you experience a hint of self examination the piece has presence. The stronger that exchange and its ability to hold the attention of the viewer is the strength of the work.

Daniel Morowitz is a painter based in Jersey City, NJ with a Bachelor’s Degree Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and a Masters Degree, Montclair State University, Queer artist with a focus on Self Identification through painting. Creates figurative paintings by blending a mix of pattern, floral motifs, and glazing, resulting in narratives that move in between sexuality and abjectness, resulting is liminal spaces that are both playful and foreboding. Exhbitions include shows in Brookyln, NY at the Buggy Factory, Trestle Gallery, La Bodega Gallery. Jersey City NJ at Curious Matter, Hoboken NJ at Proto Gallery and Recently in Manhattan at Field Projects Gallery.

Markus Klinko is an award-winning, international photographer and director, who has worked with many of today's most iconic stars of film, music, and fashion.

Born in Switzerland, Klinko spent his early years pursuing his passion for music. He attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he became an outstanding classically trained harpist, and performed internationally with symphonies around the world. He received the Grand Prix de Disque for his recording of French harp music, with members of the orchestra of the Paris Opera Bastille. After a hand injury, Klinko decided to become a fashion photographer and retired from his international concert and recording career.

Klinko, often in collaboration with with Indrani, has photographed the likes of David Bowie (Album cover of Heathen), Iman (Photography for her book, “I Am Iman)”, Billie Eilish, Perez Hilton, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, Keanu Reeves, Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, Beyonce (Album cover of Dangerously in Love), Lady Gaga, Eva Mendes, Kim Kardashian, and Naomi Campbell.

Klinko’s editorial clients include Interview magazine, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, and the London Sunday Times.

With his interesting life and talent, Klinko himself is often the subject of interest in numerous publications including: The Daily Beast , Private Air Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Contact us for the current 2023 limited edition catalog.

Klinko’s work is offered in limited edition, and include a Certificate of Authenticity.

Susan MacDonald is a photographer who explores the beauty and complexity of everyday life. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, she now lives in Jersey City, where she captures the extraordinary in the ordinary. She works in black and white and color, creating images that evoke emotion, inspire contemplation, and challenge perception. Her photography is a means of expression and communication. She invites viewers to see the world in a new light through her lens. She believes "photography is the art of seeing what others don't" and strives to share her vision with the world.

To inquire regarding these stunning works from Susan MacDonald’s Floral Arcanum series, please call 201-744-6713

(Stay tuned for updated accomplishments, exhibitions and awards by our artists as we get past the pandemic)

Lex Heilijgers received art training at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam, but is largely autodidact. To date, there are three discernible artistic periods in his career:

• 1975-1985: In this early period Lex’s art work consisted mainly of paintings in oils. His style of painting was surrealistic and naturalistic;

• 1985-1995: Gradually, Lex felt himself bound and limited by the requirements of naturalistic painting. He experienced this style of painting as a barrier to his artistic expression and possibilities. In 1985 Gallery Coninck in Amersfoort, Holland, invited Lex to become one of its permanent artists. The inspiring and strong ties between the owners of the gallery and Lex, and the successful sales through this gallery, resulted in a productive phase. Unfortunately, the gallery closed down in 1995;

• 2005-present: Following years of severe stagnation in his work while attending to his ill son, Lex started working in a large and inspiring studio in Driebergen, some 16 km away from Utrecht. Since then, he has been producing a fresh and representative collection of works on canvas and paper, some of which were recently shown in his solo show, “WALKING ALONG LINES AND COLOURS” at NOVADO GALLERY.

Anne Novado is an artist and gallery owner who obtained her MFA in Painting in 2004, and a BFA in Illustration in 1990, both from Syracuse University. Her graduate program led her to study under professors Michael Sickler, Steven Zaima, Sharon Gold, Jerome Witkin, and studio critiques with Lawrence Weiner, Peter Plagens, Alexis Smith and Michael Fried. In addition to her studio work, she previously taught art and design courses at Syracuse University, Cazenovia College and Onondaga Community College. She curated exhibitions for Limestone Gallery in Fayetteville, NY, where she exhibited numerous artists including painter and Williamsburg Oil Company founder Carl Plansky, painter Donalee Peden-Wesley, sculptor Stefanie Rocknack and multi-media artist Jim Ridlon.

Carving out studio time to balance out her gallery ownership, Novado’s art has taken a non-linear path from previous work, where she has embraced creating non-traditional art based on cultural commentary in addition to continuing her layered mixed media abstract paintings and her biomorphic graphite drawings on vellum.

Recent exhibition history includes: solo shows at: The Theroux Gallery at Franklin Pierce University, Drawing Rooms (Jersey City), Finger Lakes Community College, Exhibit A Gallery, New England College Art Gallery, Houghton Art Gallery, Fenton Art Gallery at Onondaga Community College, and group exhibitions include: Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Everson Museum of Art’s Biennial “The Object and Beyond”, and Iceland’s Gallery Svartaloft “Light Night” festival exhibition.

Artist Statement

Inspiration for my work’s content often starts with small and mundane things. I find meaning can be contained in the smallest things, and poetry in the simplest moments. My practice is bound in phenomenology and my focus is directed at experiences with the natural world – its space, time and physicality. My works are drawn and painted to present and reflect upon prosaic objects and moments in order to bring attention to the ignored, the forgotten, and the unseen. It is the microcosms that are entries to greater understandings.

'RCA' (c.1970) offered for sale via Novado Gallery on behalf of the original owner.  This "New Realist" work has never been exhibited, is considered unfinished by the artist, and is in need of some restoration.  Regardless, this is an amazing opportunity to own a rare early work by Minter.  The work is currently unstretched, and can be re stretched depending on the buyers wishes to restore or maintain the work in its current condition.

Education:

Pratt Graphic Center, New York, NY, 1985-1986 Ceramic Work Center, Heusden, The Netherlands, 1984 Academy for the Visual Arts ‘Sint Joost’, Breda, The Netherlands, 1975-1980School for Design and Decor ‘NIMETO’, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1971-1975

Statement

For thirty years, I have lived and worked in the old warehouse district of downtown Jersey City. During that time, I witnessed the rapid development of the neighborhood.

As new glass towers were built and replaced the old industrial buildings, I started to appreciate the industrial architecture of the past and became interested in the urban landscape. To pay homage to these industrial buildings, I made the architectural details, like the patterns of the brickwork, rusted doors, and old textured walls, focal points of my recent work.

Patterns and textures have always been themes in my work, and they continue into this new series.

My preferred media are oil pastels on paper, sometimes incorporated with graphite and acrylic paint. The process of adding and removing layers can result in sudden unforeseen textures and discoveries.

Paul Leibow works in painting, sculpture, mix media and film. A documentary art video about his archival process was selected into the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (program for art on film). Over his art career his work has been selected for art books and exhibitions by curators form the Whitney Museum and Met. Leibow has created art works for recording artist Bruce Springsteen for his world tour, including books, branded icons / logos utilized for his concerts. 2019 awarded art residency at Tamarind Institute New Mexico, two editions archived in the New Mexico Art Museum (UNM). 2020 artworks featured in Artmaze Magazine’s Winter Issue 16.

1961 Born: New York City

1983 School of Visual Arts - NY, BFA, / 1983 Summer Works: Art and design program–NY State / 1985 Studied with designer Milton Glaser.

Photography is my journey of life, the camera becomes the channel for telling one selves desires and view of life. As for me, woman is the main protagonist in my portraits and landscapes, I identify the female figure as the possibility for rebuilding a society, a research and proposition for a new life trough photography, in a way, my objective is giving emotions to the viewer. I use photography as a possibility of singing stories about moments of lightness and inspiration.

Originally from the town of Camporeale, about 47 kilometers from Palermo, in 2010 he began his career as an amateur photographer and in a short time, his remarkable work made him become an established professional in the Italian territory. His passion for photography stems from wanting to share and talk about his research through landscapes with its ups and downs that allow him to tell about himself and the journey of his life. In 2016, this journey takes him to approach the BOUDOIR, a style with which he identifies himself thanks to his interest in overcoming himself by embracing his passion for the female figure as the perfection of the human race, a liturgical form, a mystical being that allows human beings to transcend their common senses to enter the spiritual dimension to reach the divine. His great skill led him to be recognized in Italy as "IL MAGO DEL BOUDOIR” (The magician of Boudoir). He immediately decided to combine his first love with the boudoir, creating landscape portraits such as "LA DEA", "VENUS" now on display at the Novado Gallery.

Candy Le Sueur is a painter and a printmaker. The inspiration for her work draws on imagery from the natural world, particularly light, clouds and sky. Pushed to a point of abstraction, the sensation of the work is mostly ethereal landscapes. Some feel slow and meditative like quiet spaces to drift into and daydream - away from the constant stimuli we are presented with each day. Others feel rapid and gestural - an attempt at capturing a fleeting moment.

Process driven, Le Sueur deliberately builds each piece layer by layer, allowing her intuition to guide her through choices in color, form, and composition. By emphasizing space and depth, and delineating the picture plane, the artist presents these luminous renditions as landscapes.

The layering of both her paintings and prints helps to achieve a push and pull between foreground and background creating movement and perspective. There is an ebb and flow within her body of work where these two elements are, at times, more and less. The artist oscillates between playing with atmospheric perspective and a more flattened picture plane through her use of techniques and application. Light washes, bold marks, tonal color, and vibrant hues echo throughout.

Candy Le Sueur lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. She received her Fine Arts Degree from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and continued her studies at the National Academy School and various printmaking studios in New York City. Le Sueur has exhibited in South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. The National Academy Museum of New York, Jersey City Museum, and Art Hamptons among other venues, have exhibited her paintings and monotypes. Her paintings are featured in several private collections both home and abroad.

Artist Statement

“The streets of urban environments offer an abundance of material from the banal to the unusual from which I compose my photographs. While my work has often been categorized in the photographic genre of “urban landscape”, my work branches out beyond that traditional classification. Most often, my images are bereft of people, and offer a consideration of formality in creating their composition. My intent is to identify and bring attention to patterns, shapes and lines that may escape the ordinary eye. My images are a result of intuition and multi-sensory experience. “

“We look at the world and we see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect, but as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.” (Aaron Siskind)

Artist Bio:

Brian Gustafson is an artist living and working in NY metro area. He enjoys the activity of making objects and fabricates works that he refers to as devices that heighten human awareness and sensitize viewers to the experience of empathy. He often utilizes simple natural phenomena such as wind, water, and light. His work consists of interactive and kinetic devices, sculpture, and installation, and his fondness of glass and metal is found throughout his work.

Brian Gustafson received his MFA from Illinois State University and his BFA from Tulane University. He has exhibited nationally and received numerous awards, including the New Jersey Council of the Arts Fellowship. He is currently the Assistant Professor of Sculpture at New Jersey City University. 

ROBERT GLISSON ,“JOURNEYS” April 3 - May 15, 2021

Exhibition List

Glisson’s Artist CV

My paintings begin outside; most are completed in the studio. When painting landscapes en plein air, I am interested in conveying moods or expressing emotions. I focus on the atmospheric effects, light, and time of day that make up the profound qualities of nature. My colors are often exaggerated to emphasize these emotions and I push spatial relationships so that the viewer can journey within the picture. My paintings have a combination of strong forms and the dissolved for emphasis. I paint the line between realism and abstraction.

The time spent in my studio enables me to rely less on the literal and more on memory and intuition. If I am unsatisfied with a painting, I turn it upside down, and start over. The picture immediately becomes abstract and full of possibilities. I find shapes and color relationships that are partially realized that I may not have found any other way.

STATEMENT

Urban landscapes and geometries start with points, then evolve into lines and curves. Interactions between these create intricate patterns and shapes. These shapes then become alive through their interaction either with each other or with the sky. The latter is a canvas onto which architects can compose their art. This background is an ever changing scene depending on the time of the day or night and the ambient weather conditions. Architecture and its materials interact with this background offering a well thought complex yet natural scenery and harmony. Concrete, glass, metal, or other materials are the media to paint on this canvas and give a texture to the complete structures. They absorb, reflect, or diffract light from the sky as well as from surrounding buildings and urban elements, integrating them into their own structure.

BIO

French photographer based in New York City. I developed a passion for photography very early on. With a background in physics, I focused in optics and application of lasers. I was always fascinated by light, its propagation, and its interaction with materials. I never stopped taking pictures but it is after I moved to New York City in 2010 that I developed a passion for shooting urban landscapes. My photographs span from street photography to architecture. I like exploring abstraction and geometries, I use the urban sceneries as a mean to experiments those subjects. I have traveled in several European and American cities where I document their different districts.

“Having an artistic practice requires that one will not only reflect on life, but also use artistic media, means, skills and conventions to create a metaphor for life. My interest lies in the expressive force of mark making.

In the time that has elapsed since my childhood on Shelter Island, my life has grown profoundly. I have been given such a wealth of experiences and influences on which to reflect, and therefore use them to create that metaphor. Art, like music, does not rely on narrative for its meaning.”

Michael Alfano is known for creating figurative and surrealistic sculpture that goes beyond the literal, adapting the human form to convey philosophical ideas and abstract concepts. He cites his major influences as Salvador Dali, Jo Davidson, and Jean-Antione Houdon, as well as Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi, and other eastern philosophy and literature.

“When I dig into the clay, I pull out a vision that previously existed nowhere but inside my head, or some other place I don’t know but am in touch with.”