Past Exhibitions – Upper Gallery
Patterns in the Palisades: The Pen & Ink Drawings of Peter Fiordalisi
August 13-September 17, 2023
Peter Fiordalisi was born in Union City in 1904 and had a deep connection to Hudson County, living many years in Weehawken. As a child, Peter was inspired after seeing a man painting the New York Harbor. Peter was never without his sketchbook and spent…View Details
“Hoboken: Studio and Garden, Paintings by Bill Curran”
May 21, 2023 – June 25, 2023
"Hoboken: Studio & Garden, Paintings by Bill Curran" opened in our Upper Gallery on Sunday, July 2 with a reception from 2-5pm. To get us ready for the exhibition, Bill Curran was interviewed by Maggie Hinders for an online Artist Talk on Thursday, June 29…View Details
COMMUTE: photographs by Anthony Jannelli
May 21, 2023 – June 25, 2023
"COMMUTE: photographs by Anthony Jannelli" opened in our Upper Gallery on Sunday, May 21 with a reception from 2-5pm. Jannelli joined Museum Director Bob Foster for an online Artist Talk Friday, May 19 at 7pm. It can be viewed below, as well as on Facebook.…View Details
Shipyard Marina: watercolors by Patrick Neill
April 8, 2023 – May 14, 2023
"Shipyard Marina: watercolors by Patrick Neill," opens in our Upper Gallery on Saturday, April 8 with a reception from 2-5pm. Patrick joined Museum Director Bob Foster for an online Artist Talk Thursday, April 6 at 7pm. It was livestreamed on YouTube here and Facebook here.…View Details
“From a Yuppie’s Typewriter” – Poems by Pierce Logan
February 26, 2022 – April 2, 2022
In conjunction with our Main Gallery exhibit, “The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982,” the Museum is pleased to present the work of Pierce Logan of QWERT Poetry in our new Upper Gallery exhibit, "From a Yuppie's Typewriter," from February 26 through Sunday, April 2. With this one-of-a-kind…View Details
“(UN)ERASED” by Christopher López
September 11, 2022 – October 20, 2022
In conjunction with our Main Gallery exhibit, “The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982,” we are proud to present an accompanying installation by Christopher López. (UN)ERASED, our new Upper Gallery exhibit, has its opening reception Sunday, September 22 from 2 - 5pm. This installation received support from the…View Details
“Making the Sinatra Bust” by Chris Dahlberg
September 11, 2022 – October 20, 2022
On Sunday, December 11, we kicked off the House Tour with the unveiling of our new bronze bust of Sinatra by master sculptor Chris Dahlberg. The bust can be viewed until Friday, December 23 in our Upper Gallery where you can also view large scale…View Details
Unclassical: Contemporary Still Lifes by Deborah Pohl
September 11, 2022 – October 20, 2022
We are thrilled to present recent paintings by a longtime Hoboken resident. Our new Upper Gallery exhibit, "Unclassical: Contemporary Still Lifes by Deborah Pohl" has its opening reception Sunday, September 11 from 2 - 5pm. The show's run has been extended until until Sunday, November…View Details
Carol Halebian: When We Were Young
July 10 2022 – September 4, 2022
We are thrilled to present photography by Carol Halebian, in our new Upper Gallery exhibit, "When We Were Young." We're showing select images form the Kodachrome film she shot of Hoboken Street life between the late 70s and early 80s. The exhibit opens Sunday, July…View Details
Lou Carbone: COVID
May 7, 2022 – July 3, 2022
We are thrilled to present the recent work of Hoboken master painter Lou Carbone. "COVID" debuts in our Upper Gallery on Saturday, May 7 with an opening reception with the artist from 2 - 5pm. The exhibit consists of 25 16 x 20 acrylic paintings…View Details
Liz Ndoye and Ibou Ndoye – “Adjacent”
March 6, 2022 – May 1, 2022
The artwork of Liz Ndoye and the artwork of Ibou Ndoye are featured in our Upper Gallery exhibit, "Adjacent." The show runs from Sunday, March 6th until Sunday, May 1st. There is an opening reception on Sunday, March 6 from 2 - 5pm. Ms. Ndoye…View Details
Karen E. Gersch – “CIRCUS LIVES: Hovering Above, Balancing Below”
January 9, 2022 – February 27, 2022
To highlight its current exhibition “Washington St.” and to bring attention to the prestigious circus school that once operated there in the late 1970’s, the Hoboken Historical Museum is bringing a visual spectacle to its Upper Gallery. “CIRCUS LIVES: Hovering Above, Balancing Below” by celebrated…View Details
Frank Hanavan – “The Sidewalk is the Studio”
November 14, 2021 – January 2, 2022
Frank Hanavan’s last exhibition in the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery showcased his temporary departure from painting with acrylics into working with watercolors. The resulting series of watercolors were beautiful, but he has since returned to painting with acrylics – always en plein air, French for…View Details
Joan Michel – “Cavemen Built My Skateboard”
September 19, 2021 - November 7, 2021
Joan Michel is an award-winning professional photographer-filmmaker with an impressive list of clients in the fashion world and other businesses. After starting her photography studies at School of Visual Arts in New York nearly a decade ago, she recently completed her Bachelor of Arts degree…View Details
Donna O’Grady – “Light at Play in Hoboken”
August 1, 2021 - September 12, 2021
Perhaps because she has traveled so much, Donna O’Grady sees the warm glow of community everywhere she looks in Hoboken. As she walks with her dog Asher from her apartment in uptown Hoboken to her studio at the Neumann Leathers complex, she says, “I find…View Details
Gary Spector – “Portraits of Essential Workers – Hoboken Hospital 2020”
May 2, 2021 - July 4, 2021
A silver lining of the Covid 19 pandemic has been the opportunity for artists to focus on personal projects while their work routine was disrupted. Freelance professional portrait photographer Gary Spector credits the pandemic lockdown for giving him an incentive to turn his talents to…View Details
McKevin Shaughnessy – “The Hidden Faces of Hoboken”
March 14, 2021 - April 25, 2021
Mascarons. That’s the term for an architectural ornament in the form of a face -- realistic, idealized or mythical -- adorning a building facade. They are omnipresent, but easily overlooked by people hurrying along, amid the profusion of signs and other visual stimuli in a…View Details
Duquann Sweeney – “Dignity, Beauty and Everything Between”
January 17, 2021 - March 7, 2021
Jersey City community nonprofit leader Duquann Sweeney has the gift of seeing people's inner beauty. As a photographer, his images reflect the rapport he builds with his subjects because he approaches everyone with a sense of love and connection. “My photographs are the reflections of…View Details
Mika Endo – “Pen and Brush Works”
November 8, 2020 - January 10, 2021
**Extended through January 10, 2021.** With delicate watercolors and detailed pen-and-ink drawings, Mika Endo gives viewers a chance to appreciate Hoboken’s unique beauty through a newcomer’s eyes. Even the ubiquitous utility poles bristling with electric wires are rendered in loving detail. While most locals learn…View Details
Ray Guzman – “Hoboken Tempest”
October 3 - November 1, 2020
In 1979, young Ray Guzman was living an artist’s life in Jersey City Heights, in a top-floor apartment on Ogden Avenue at Congress, with sweeping views of Hoboken and the big city beyond it. Having finished an art degree with honors at New York’s School…View Details
Bill Curran – “If Not Now, When?…”
August 30 - September 27, 2020
When the Covid-19 pandemic temporarily closed the Hoboken Historical Museum, Bill Curran’s job as Museum Associate went virtual. He suddenly found himself at home with more time to paint, yet, ironically, deprived of the inspiration he usually finds along his daily walks through Hoboken: flower…View Details
Lily Zane – “The Thread That Binds”
July 26 - August 23, 2020
From an early age, Lily Zane knew that art and "making" would be part of her life’s story. Making is how she makes her living, in the textile industry. She says that the art element would come later in life, in part to mend the…View Details
Jack and Peter Mecca – “Hoboken – Late 1970s”
April 5 - May 31, 2020
Jack and Peter Mecca grew up in Hoboken in between its industrial boom in the first half of the 20th century and its economic decline and rebirth near the end of the century. In the late 1970s, they would load their cameras with Kodachrome film, pick…View Details
Alex Morales – “Hoboken: A Retrospective”
February 16 - March 29, 2020
It’s not often the Hoboken Historical Museum exhibits work by a local artist with an international reputation, but Uruguayan artist Alex Morales returns to the Museum’s Upper Gallery in February 2020 for his second exhibit in a year when his work is attracting international recognition.…View Details
Meredeth Turshen – “New Views of Old Hoboken”
January 5 - February 9
The Museum's Upper Gallery space opens 2020 with an exhibition of works by artist, teacher and writer Meredeth Turshen. All are invited to a free opening reception on Jan. 5 from 2 - 5 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through Feb. 9. Turshen…View Details
Kelli Glancey – “Lackawanna”
November 10 - December 29
Artist Kelli Glancey moved to Hoboken in 1985 to study at Parsons School of Design in NYC, where today she is a part-time assistant professor. She says that residing in Hoboken is distinctive in many ways and is so rich historically. “I am a visual…View Details
Steven Vizena – “Cloud Zombies Visit the Museum”
September 21 - November 3
Artist Steve Vizena has been dazzling neighbors and passers-by every Halloween for over a decade with his thought-provoking 3D assemblages in his garden at the corner of 11th and Garden streets. (He also dazzles passers-by with his ever-changing garden from early spring through late fall!)…View Details
Anita Heimbruch – “The Amazing Color Photographs of Hoboken”
August 4 - September 15
Step back in time to mid-century Hoboken through the vivid Kodachrome images shot by Anita Heimbruch (1908 - 1995), a long-time employee at Hoboken's Keuffel & Esser factory at Third and Adams Streets. Her photographs portray the daily lives of working-class Hoboken: at festivals, on…View Details
Hiro Takeshita – “Cut Paper into Art”
June 16 - July 28
Hiro Takeshita wields an exacto knife with more finesse than many painters with brushes and oils. He creates dazzling works of art with layers of precisely cut paper in saturated hues. The resulting works of art appear to be painted, but they’re all executed in…View Details
Greg Miller – “Unusual views of Hoboken from above”
April 28 - June 9
Greg Miller’s career in publishing, spanning 46 years, started summers during his college years when he reported for the Westwood News. For the first eight years after graduating from college, he averaged 3,500 photos a year for the newspaper, processing negatives in his personal darkroom.…View Details
Tom Zuk – “Work/Seven Portraits”
March 17 - April 21
Photographer Tom Zuk earned his living mainly from a mix of corporate, editorial and travel assignments –– often giving CEOs and senior executives the full celebrity photo shoot treatment. For passion projects, however, Zuk applies the skills he’s honed over decades of street and studio…View Details
Issa Sow – “Hoboken, from Old to New”
January 27 - March 10, 2019
Issa Sow is a Hoboken artist in the truest sense of the word. Before moving to Hoboken from France about 7 years ago, he had never created art. He had always been an avid collector of traditional and contemporary art from his native Senegal and…View Details
Jim Fallon – “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken”
November 11 - December 23, 2018
The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, the end of World War I, with the opening reception for a WWI-inspired art exhibit by veteran Jim Fallon: “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Monoprints on Combat Paper.” The reception is Sunday, Nov.…View Details
Gary Spector – “Hoboken Halloween”
September 23 - November 4, 2018
The Hoboken Museum is pleased to present our latest Upper Gallery art exhibit: “Hoboken Halloween: Portraits by Gary Spector (2011-2017).” Spector started the project on Halloween in 2011, when he set up a drape and some lights for a temporary photo studio in front of…View Details
David White – “Bootleggers Under Glass”
August 5 – September 16, 2018
David White moved to Hoboken when it was thick with vestiges of its gritty, mid-20th century “On the Waterfront” period. He moved here after college in 1983, already an accomplished street photographer, having grown up in Manhattan with a love of the medium. He had…View Details
Laura Alexander – “Reunion”
June 2 – July 29, 2018
Laura Alexander is best known for her large-scale, vividly colored oil portraits. Visitors to the Hoboken Museum in 2012 might remember the striking, four-foot-tall portraits in her “Mostly Rosemary” exhibit. She also had a solo exhibit titled “Portraits” in 2005, featuring a charismatic redhead named Olivia,…View Details
Tom Zuk – “Rear Window”
April 15 – May 27, 2018
Tom Zuk has made photographic art from the rough materials of the urban cityscape outside his Hoboken apartment window. A wall of crumbling masonry, a clothesline with pulley, a patio, a street corner, a church with steeple, hi-rise apartment, just the sky filling the window…View Details
Marcella Conti – “Hoboken Sensations”
February 25 – April 8, 2018
Even though Hoboken is very close to the Big Apple, the city has its own personality and charm. There's a sense of familiarity, a warm environment where foreigners are welcomed to be themselves and keep their traditions alive. Small, family-owned businesses are an important part…View Details
Erik L. Burro – “Legacy of Remembrance”
January 7 – February 18, 2018
As the commemoration of the centennial of America's involvement in World War I continues into 2018, a new photography exhibit in the Museum's Upper Gallery documents one man's quest to bring attention to the wealth of fine statuary and other monuments erected by New Jersey's…View Details
Anna Pinto – “30 Years of Snow”
November 18 – December 31, 2017
A hand-crafted card is a gift in itself, in an age when computer-generated “hand-writing” typefaces attempt to mimic the personal touch without quite pulling off the illusion. Hoboken-based lettering artist Anna Pinto has produced snow-themed calligraphic holiday cards for more than 30 years. “My holiday…View Details
Frank Hanavan – “Hoboken”
September 24 - November 12, 2017
A plein air painter’s life isn’t easy, especially in an urban setting. Imagine lugging around close to 20 pounds of art supplies, including an easel and bulky canvases, perched on a bike or squeezed into public transit, just to capture a scene in the right…View Details
Artists on the Move – “In Transition”
August 6 - September 17, 2017
Art teacher Liz Cohen has been teaching weekly classes at the Hoboken Shelter and St. Matthew's lunch program, as a volunteer. After retiring from 40 years of teaching in a private school, she enjoys working with Hoboken’s transitional population, helping them explore their own talents…View Details
William Magruder – “The Walls of Hoboken”
May 28 - July 2, 2017
An architectural illustrator by profession, William Magruder has an irrepressible artistic imagination that expresses itself in fantasy-infused drawings, reminiscent of one of his favorite artists, Windsor McKay. A recent series was inspired by Hoboken’s inundation during Superstorm Sandy. Magruder and his wife had lived here…View Details
Robert Nardolillo – “The Essence of Hoboken”
April 15 - May 21, 2017
Join us for a free opening reception for our latest Upper Gallery art exhibition: "The Essence of Hoboken: Watercolors by Robert Nardolillo." These dynamic and moody watercolor paintings by the Brooklyn-born artist who now lives in the suburbs, express the urban energy of the Mile…View Details
Jean-Paul Picard – “Hoboken Sweeps”
March 4 - April 9, 2017
The versatile artist Jean-Paul Picard specializes in web design and digital photography. He teaches courses in these technical skills in evening classes at the Hudson County Schools of Technology. But he started out as a graphic designer and photographer back in the days when you…View Details
Elliot Appel – “Mile Square Colors”
November 6 - December 30, 2016
Elliot Appel has always been interested in capturing the myriad interesting architectural details embedded in the urban landscape. On weekends, and in the margins of his workweek in Midtown Manhattan, he prowls the city’s more colorful neighborhoods, camera in hand, looking for eye-catching subjects. He’s…View Details
Donna O’Grady – “Hoboken Scenes”
September 18 – October 18, 2016
While most of us are busy documenting our travels and daily lives with cameras that fit in our pockets, Donna O’Grady carts along a full pochade box, a traditional painter’s supply case with attachable tripod easel, to capture scenes from her travels and her favorite places in her…View Details
Bill Curran – “Extraordinary Hoboken”
April 9 - May 29, 2016
When most of us pass a flowerpot in full bloom on a stoop or a cat sunning lazily in a window, we might make a mental note of these moments of unexpected beauty, but they are soon forgotten, buried under a pile of errands and…View Details
Alex Morales – “Watercolor Paintings”
January 10 - February 14, 2016
The Uruguayan artist Alex Morales has been making art in a wide range of media from an early age, studying and refining his skills at the Museum of Fine Arts in the state of San Jose de Mayo in his home country. He earned a…View Details
Judy Schmitt – “Capturing Hoboken”
May 10 - July 5, 2015
The accomplished artist Judy Schmitt may be based in Cape Cod, but since her daughter and son-in-law moved to Hoboken 15 years ago, this city has been a second home for her. Inspired by the artistic tradition of Provincetown, Mass., and many of the experienced…View Details
Walter Barco – “Litopintura”
March 22 - May 3, 2015
Ecuadoran artist Walter Barco creates extraordinary “rock-works” that evoke nostalgic memories of his native Guayaquil’s colonial architecture and 19th century homes, using a technique he describes as "la litopintura," or stone-painting. With incredibly fine detail, including tiny figures in the windows of these three-dimensional paintings, he brings 12…View Details
Kids Map Hoboken Artwork
January 25 - March 15, 2015
Hoboken is a kid-friendly city -- just ask a kid! We asked hundreds of children who visited the Museum with their school groups, scout troops and Family Fun Day participants to list their favorite places in town, and the result is the third edition of…View Details
Lou Carbone – “New Paintings”
November 9 - December 23, 2014
With diverse influences that include cubism, surrealism and the Mexican muralists, Lou's paintings are a series of pictorial spaces borne of personal experience as filtered through dreams and illusions. The images of anonymous figures in common settings depict ritual happening combined with feelings of sexual…View Details
Ibou Ndoye – “Art for Life”
September 21 - November 2, 2014
Ibrahima Ndoye, who goes by “Ibou,” has been an artist all his life. Born in Senegal to a family who expressed their creativity in tie-dying, embroidery, welding and dressmaking, Ndoye learned from an early age that nearly any material can lend itself to creative hands.…View Details
Tracie Fracasso – “Artworks”
August 3 - September 14, 2014
In an age of digital media, Tracie Fracasso’s artworks demand to be seen in person – a flat screen cannot do them justice. Her works are multilayered, two-dimensional images carefully arranged in a three-dimensional space within a glass-fronted frame. She calls it, half-joking, “two-and-a-half D…View Details
Adam Rodriguez – “Clubhouse Requiem”
July 14 - August 18, 2013
You’ve probably seen Adam Rodriguez’s art, without knowing it. As a professional artist with the New York-based graphic design firm Success Apparel, he’s created designs for some of the most recognizable brands in the world, including John Deere Apparel, Dickies and Yo Gabba Gabba. In…View Details
Jennifer Place & Jodie Fink – “Local Motion”
May 18, 2014 - July 6, 2014
Bowerbirds don’t merely “feather their nests” — they create elaborate art installations to impress prospective mates, using colorful materials collected from around their environment, such as cast-off bottle caps, buttons and trinkets. Jennifer Place identifies with the impulse to collect. The artist and her friend…View Details
Tim Daly – “Important Clouds”
March 23, 2014 - May 11, 2014
Most of us deliberately tune out the scenery along New Jersey highways as we drive past the railroad and highway bridges crisscrossing the Meadowlands marshes. It’s hard to categorize what we’re seeing—neither planned architectural landscaping nor unfettered nature, it’s a hybrid environment that evolved haphazardly.…View Details
Robert Forman – “Uncommon Threads”
January 26, 2014 - March 16, 2014
From a distance, an artwork by Robert Forman appears to be many paintings at once, layered in some mysterious way. Up close, the mystery deepens: Instead of paint, the surface is composed of many colored threads, laid downwith as much complex color theory as any…View Details
Hiro Takeshita – “Slices of Beauty on the Hudson”
December 15, 2013 - January 19, 2014
Hiro Takeshita was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and from an early age was interested in art and American culture. Born two years after the atomic bomb blast in his native city, he can still recall his mother’s searing memories of that day. However, he also…View Details
Peter Gutierrez – “Let It Fly!”
November 3 - December 8, 2013
Ever since his mother took him to an airshow and let him take a ride in a B-24, at age 9, Peter Gutierrez has been fascinated by airplanes. He started making drawings of aircraft, and then his grandfather, a civil engineer who spent a career…View Details
John Cheney – “Spontaneous Hoboken”
August 25 - September 29, 2013
Hoboken resident and longtime Macy’s Parade Studio float builder John Cheney loves the challenge of drawing in ink. “Ink won’t allow you to go back and erase – you can accommodate errors, but just like in life, you can’t go back and erase a mistake,”…View Details
Benjamin Roman – “A Child’s Innocence”
May 5 - June 30, 2013; June 9, 4 pm: Artist Talk
Growing up in the Bronx under the watchful eye of a very protective grandmother, Benjamin Roman Jr. and his sister had a lot of time to while away indoors. He would fill hours sketching scenes of his apartment, images from TV, whatever was in front…View Details
Mac Hartshorn – “Photographs”
March 17 - April 28, 2013; April 13, 4 pm: Artist Talk
The Museum is pleased to open a new Upper Gallery art exhibit on the same day as Hoboken's 3rd Sunday Gallery Walk, March 17, with "Mac Hartshorn, Photographer," an exhibit of artistic photographs of babies and children by professional portrait photographer, Mac Hartshorn. The exhibit…View Details
Thomas F. Yezerski – “Meadowlands, A Wetlands Survival Story”
January 27 - March 10, 2013
For Tom Yezerski, all roads seemed to lead to the Meadowlands. Literally. As a recent transplant to New Jersey from Allentown, Pa., Yezerski moved to Rutherford 14 years ago seeking a reasonably affordable community close enough to New York City for him to pursue his…View Details
Raymond Smith – “En Plein Air: Seeking a Sensation”
November 11 - December 23, 2012
Hoboken’s physical character is known for its storied waterfront, its compact and walkable streets, and its rows of well-preserved late-Victorian homes. But not since the Elysian Fields were converted to industrial use in the early 1900s has it been known for its natural vistas. The…View Details
Roslyn Rose – “Hoboken from Afar”
September 15 – November 4, 2012
Sometimes you have to get away—far away—to see your hometown from a fresh perspective. Or, you can stop by the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery this September to see Hoboken From Afar: Photomontages by Roslyn Rose. A New Jersey native and longtime Hoboken resident, Rose credits…View Details
Ricardo Roig – “Hoboken in Print”
July 29 – September 9, 2012
Ricardo Roig, a young artist who moved to Hoboken in 2009 after finishing college, has long been an admirer of the Impressionist painters. Hoboken became his muse, he said, in part because its architecture reminded him of the Belle Epoque street scenes and interiors featured…View Details
Puppet Heap – “Strange Neighbors”
March 18 - April 29, 2012
Did you know that Hoboken is home to one of the stars of the puppet-making world? The cover story from the Fall 2011 issue of The Puppetry Journal features Hoboken’s own Puppet Heap, an innovative design and fabrication studio that creates and brings to life…View Details
Beth Lucas – “Ta-Da!”
May 6 – July 1, 2012
For head scenic artist Beth Lucas, the Macy's Parade Studio's move from Hoboken to Moonachie last year was bittersweet. While the new facility offers better lighting and working conditions, she misses being surrounded by historic details scattered throughout the architectural landscape of Hoboken. Her keen…View Details
Laura Alexander – “Mostly Rosemary”
January 29 - March 11, 2012
Hoboken artist Laura Alexander’s Monroe Center studio is a fixture on the annual Artists Studio Tour. In addition to her paintings, her studio walls are covered with colorful and interesting pop culture artifacts, which are fun to look at, but it’s her large portraits that…View Details
Liz Cohen – “Walkabout”
November 13 - December 23, 2011
Artists’ muses can assume unexpected forms; the artist’s challenge is to be open to the muse’s inspiration. For artist Liz Cohen, a handmade doll from her childhood has emerged as a significant influence in her art. As a little girl, she had wanted one toy…View Details
Barbara Mauriello – “Unfolding Landscapes”
September 25 - October 2, 2011
An artist with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in painting, Barbara Mauriello hadn’t given much thought to how the books she loved to read were constructed until she took a class in bookbinding. She had done 10 small paintings and wanted to…View Details
Louise Gale – “Mixed Media”
August 7 - September 18, 2011
www.louisegale.com/art/ As a child growing up in South London, Louise Gale was encouraged to be creative, spending hours after school and during the summer drawing, painting, and creating patterns with her beloved Spirograph. She loved making decorations for Christmas, Easter, and birthdays. Gale was accepted…View Details
Jennifer Place & Jodie Fink – “Friends & Relations”
April 30, 2011 - June 12, 2011
Hoboken artists Jennifer Place and Jodie Fink have been friends for so long, it’s hard for them to remember exactly when and where they met, but their long, close friendship is evident in the simpatico evolution of their artwork. They are collaborating on a show of…View Details
Sterne Slaven – “Deconstructing Hoboken”
January 30 - March 6, 2011
Artist/photographer Sterne Slaven has an eye for the industrial soul of Hoboken. When he moved here in 1983, after graduating art school, he found himself drawn again and again to the old factory buildings in his uptown neighborhood: Ferguson Propeller Works, the old Shipyard machine…View Details
Bill Curran – “A Passion for the River”
May 2009
A born artist, Bill Curran was fascinated with the interplay between shapes, colors, and light on the Hudson River from the moment he laid eyes on it from a stunning new vantage point, the Stevens Institute of Technology campus overlook. “Within a week of moving…View Details
Robert Burczy – “Poster Art”
May 2006
If you travel Hoboken by foot, you no doubt have seen those eyecatching posters on telephone poles and empty storefronts around town promoting local artist Robert Burczy. An art form of their own, these promotional posters have become a fixture of the local cityscape, which…View Details
Bill Curran – “A View for All Seasons”
November 13, 2005
“Down all the side streets, people have wonderful hidden gardens,” artist Bill Curran told a reporter from The Hudson Dispatch in 1986. Today, the painter says, “Seeing other backyards helped me see my own.” Curran loves nature and looking out the window, so, being an…View Details
Ben Fernandez – “Shipyard”
September 2005
Acclaimed photographer Benedict J. Fernandez went to work at Hoboken’s Bethlehem Steel Shipyard right after high school. His father, who had gone to work at the yard in 1936 and stayed until it closed, got him the job. Ben Fernandez worked alongside Moneybags John, Willy…View Details
Antonio DeJesus – “The Town”
March 20,2005
A native of the Dominican Republic, painter Antonio DeJesus moved to Hoboken only three years ago. When he first arrived, DeJesus took long walks around town and developed an appreciation of Hoboken’s architecture. His paintings of local architecture and highly realistic streetscapes are so sharply…View Details
