More than 40 Artists to Show at Bloomin†Art in Bayonne

 Show Runs Weekend of April 26, 27, 28 at Bayonne Community Museum

Bayonne will be blooming when more than 40 artists come together to show their work at the BLOOMIN†ART show running for just one weekend, Fri, April 26 through Sun, Apr. 28, at the Bayonne Community Museum on 9^th Street.

The Art Circle will be presenting the show which is curated by Patty Mulligan-Zbylut and her committee: Bill Zbylut, Anthony Sienkiewicz, Elsie Sienkiewicz and Susan Sienkiewicz.

“The Art Circle does art shows twice a year, in the spring and fall,” Curator Patty Mulligan-Zbylut says. “The shows give local artists an opportunity to show their work and network. The artists are amazing; there are so many different styles. And itâ€s a great time to see art, see beauty — its nourishment for the soul.”

Bloomin†Art will feature artists†works in several media including oils, acrylics, pen & ink, mixed media, artisan jewelry, photography, sculpture, woodworking and felting.

“We usually get a great turn-out,” Mulligan-Zbylut says. “All the wine goes, and the food goes, and if those go, that means we had people!”

There are more than 40 artists exhibiting. They include Silvia Aviles, Tommy Bardzinski, Lucas Barraza, Davina Barlow, Barbara Beeman, Karen Carattini, Carol Chacon, Christine Crowley, Kevin Delaney, Kimberly (Latinsilver) Diaz, Joanne Fedor, the Fernandezes, Kristie Anna Fitzpatrick, Jibin George, Gerry Glover, Carlos Iobaina, Erin Kachmar, Joseph John Taras Kushnir, Julie Lomba, Rich Maczuga, Svetlana Martisova, Volha Mikhnevich, David Miley, Alpana Mittal, William Ortiz, Angie Pulgarin, Jessica Robertson, Alex Rivas, Edwin Salgado, Anthony Sienkiewicz, Elsie Sienkiewicz, Susan Sienkiewicz, Debby Szersin, Patty Mulligan-Zbylut, and Bill Zbylut.

Artists from the Walking Through Art Foundation will also be exhibiting Mulligan-Zbylut says. The exhibition is free, with music provided by DJ Adam Semanchik. Refreshments will be served.

“We will also be remembering a dear artist who lost her battle with brain cancer this year,” Mulligan-Zbylut says. “A wonderful woman, talented artist, mentor and friend, Ann Tedeschi.”

If you go

Fri, Apr. 26, 6-9 pm; Sat, Apr. 27, 12-4 pm;

Sun, Apr. 28, 12-3 pm

BLOOMIN†ART

Bayonne Community Museum

229 Broadway (corner of 9^th St), BOHO

For more info: contact Patty Mulligan-Zbylut

 at pjmulligan@mac.com

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“Cheesesteak Stand” by 
Ken Delaney

 By Sally Deering

 On the weekend of July 16 & 17, Hendricksonâ€s Corner on 31^st & Broadway will be serving its usual menu on its main floor while upstairs it will host a feast for the eyes when the “We the People” Art Show gets underway.

For two days,  13 artists will exhibit paintings, photography, jewelry and other crafts in the collaborative art show curated by artist and Bayonne resident Kevin Delaney whose Bar Napkin Art was recently trademarked by the U.S. Patent Office..  

“The title of the show, We the People, is not anything political,” Delaney says. “Itâ€s just an art show for the regular everyday person who gets forgotten about. The single mother trying to raise her kids, the artist trying to get by, just us, regular everyday people trying to survive for the day.”

Artists showing their work that weekend include Delaney, Ryan,  and Patty Mulligan, Billy Zbylut, LatinSilver, KristieAnn Fitzpatrick, Ann Tedeschi, Erin Kachmar, Moscato, Joanne Fedor, Jeff Ware (Klone Killa) and Christine Crowley.

“United States of Comics”

By Dave Ryan

“For the Hendricksonâ€s show, Iâ€m mixing it up,” Delaney says. “From artists that do pen and ink, to those who do oils, and photography. Weâ€ll have handmade jewelry, too, and an artist from Brooklyn who custom paints sneakers. . Itâ€s a good network of artists. Dave Ryan, for a living he illustrates comics, Iâ€ll have his stuff in the show. Itâ€s a nice mix, so when the public comes, theyâ€ll see a lot of different stuff. Itâ€s a professional show, but laid back and fun, not any stuffed shirt gallery.”

Delaneyâ€s Bar Napkin Art will also be on exhibit along with his canvases.

“I was always an artist,” Delaney says. “I did graffiti, calligraphy. In college, I just stopped. Then in November of ‘99, I just started doing it. I thought it was so much fun. People were hanging them up, bringing them up. I just kept doing them. I got a registered trademark from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Itâ€s like Nike and Apple, its registered. Bar Napkin Art. Itâ€s my brand, my logo.”

 Several photographers will be exhibiting in “We the People” including Patty Mulligan, whose work includes Jersey City statues that seem to be Photoshopped, but theyâ€re not, she says. One photo in particular, the statue of a soldier carrying another soldier, a photograph  Mulligan took  in downtown Jersey City, contains an image of the Statue of Liberty in the background – and the two statues almost seem to be touching.

 “I just got a new camera that has some special effects,” Mulligan says, “and Iâ€ve been experimenting with different scenes in illustration and watercolor modes. Iâ€ll be showing some of my new photos with my new camera.”

All the artists are from Bayonne and Mulligan says the Boho art scene is thriving. A lot of new residents have joined the ‘artist circle†an ever-expanding group of artists that live in Bayonne and new places like the Artist Den, run by owner Tiffany Patrice, are offering artists workshops and a place to create.

“Pride” by Christine Crowley

“Thereâ€s definitely a concentration of artists here,” Mulligan says. “I know some people have come from Jersey City. We are making progress. The Artists†Den just opened recently. Itâ€s not an art studio where you show work, but one where artists can do painting, sculpting, there are live models on Tuesday nights. Different things every night. We have several new artists that have come in this year, and thereâ€s word of another art studio in the works that may be opening downtown. Everybodyâ€s eager this year to be part of the Boho art scene.”

Photo by Patty Mulligan

And what exactly is Boho? Well, the name is a play on “Soho” and was coined by a River View Observer writer in a story a couple years back. Since then, the downtown area from the Bayonne Museum on 9^th Street to Boho Yoga on 4^th Street is considered Boho. And on July16^th & 17^th Boho artists will bring a little downtown uptown to Hendricksonâ€s Corner for a two-day art extravaganza.

 “Kevin does this twice a year at Hendricksenâ€s,” Mulligan says, “and the owners are wonderful and give us the whole second floor. The lighting is great. Everything is on tables and easels. Itâ€s really nice. And thereâ€s a bar upstairs if somebody wants to have a drink. The owners are just fabulous.”

“Bungle in the Jungle” by Latinsilver

“You can come in see the art and have food downstairs,” Delaney says. “Itâ€s free to get in. Itâ€s for the city of Bayonne, and the artists of Bayonne to put them on the map. Weâ€re giving people a night out and having fun. Itâ€s a really good vibe and Iâ€m glad Iâ€m part of it.”

  If you go                                                                            

Sat, July 16, 4-10 pm; Sun, July 17, 1-4 pm

We the People Art Show

Hendricksonâ€s Corner (2^nd Floor)

671 Broadway, BAY

(201) 437-4955

Free Admission

 

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Photograph by Patricia Mulligan for “Bayonne: The Peninsula (Water Colors).

 More than 30 Artists to Exhibit at Bayonne Museum – One Day Only

By Sally Deering 

 For one day only, the work of more than  30 artists pops up at the Bayonne Museum in “Bayonne: The Peninsula (Water Colors)” art show where each artist has a 4-foot display area to make their own.

On Sat, Oct. 25, from 1-10 pm, some pretty terrific painters, photographers, sculptors and mixed-media artists will display and sell their works, many depicting Bayonneâ€s beautiful vistas. The exhibit is a joint venture between Deb Peveler and Lou Segura of All Fit Studios in

Bayonne and Patty Mulligan and the grassroots group Beautify Bayonne, along with the support of Mayor Jimmy Davis and his new administration.

“Bayonne is a peninsula city at the southern end of the Gold Coast,” Mayor Davis says.  “Our communityâ€s location and natural surroundings provide great inspiration for artistic expression.”

Artists exhibiting at the Bayonne art show are Elliot Appel, Eric Bujnowski, Bill Bunn, Elom Bowman, Mary Ellen Givens-Calcaterra, Bryan Cicalese, Christine Crowley, Wayno Draino, Joanne Fedor, Fernando Fernandez, Eddy Amaya G., Sharon Harvey, Erin Kachmar, Caryn La Greca, Nicholas Macchia, Alpana Mittal, Charlann Meluso, Sidney Montanez, Patty Mulligan, Richard Ondrey, Volha Opossume, Renzo, Eugene Rotter, Maka Samkharadze, Magdalena Swioklo, Christopher Taylor and Bill Zbylut.

Zbylutâ€s oil paintings “My Back Porch,” and “The Big One” will be on display on the 25^th.

An accomplished artist with a Bachelorâ€s degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Zbylut recently sold his painting of comedy legend Jackie Gleason as the ‘Man from Spaceâ€, a character Gleason portrayed on his 1950s TV show THE HONEYMOONERS. (Back in the day, when Gleason taped the show in NYC, he was a frequent visitor to Bayonneâ€s nightlife.)

“Iâ€m looking forward to the show,” Zbylut says. “It wonâ€t be the first time Iâ€m displaying at the museum; Iâ€m normally there with the Bayonne Art Circle.”

Teaming with Peveler and Segura is Patty Mulligan of the grassroots group Beautify Bayonne, which recently recruited 300 volunteers and several small business owners to go from one end of Bayonne to the other and remove small refuse. Mulligan, a photographer, will show images sheâ€s taken of the Statue of Liberty. (All art work in the Bayonne show will also be exhibited on the Beautify Bayonne Facebook page.)

“As members of Beautify Bayonne, we try to get the community together to appreciate the great things Bayonne has to offer,” Mulligan says.

Bayonneâ€s First Street Park is where photographer Sidney Montanez of Jersey City took her digital camera and shot the image “Purple Haze” a landscape that will be featured in the Bayonne art show. Montanez first heard about the show from her boyfriendâ€s dad who takes yoga classes at All Fit Studios, she says. A member of the artists†group Pro Arts in Jersey City, Montanez is a professional photographer who does weddings, corporate events and portraits. Her studio Sid Designs is on Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City; and she just exhibited her photographs in the Jersey City Studio Tour. Montanez says she first started taking pictures at 16 when her dad gave her a camera.

“I like bringing my work to the public, having them see it and enjoy it,” Montanez says.

The idea for the art show sprouted from Segura and Pevelerâ€s yoga studio where they frequently exhibit artwork by local artists. The couple decided to expand the viewing from a yoga mat to a museum.

“Weâ€re like Desilu,” Peveler says, referring to 50s TV power-couple Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnez.

The show will also feature Tuan Tran from Beeâ€s Art Studio in Bayonne. Tran will also be doing pencil portraits of attendees, if they are interested. .

“We also have a jewelry designer, Natalya V. Oleshkevich, who will be making and showing her conceptual art jewelry at the show,” Peveler says.

Admission is free and there will be music and refreshments to go with all that art. Peveler says:

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Bayonne has a great story.”

If you go:

Sat, Oct. 25, 1-10 pm

“Bayonne: The Peninsula (Water Colors)”

The Bayonne Museum

229 Broadway (corner of 9^th and Broadway)

Free Admission

(210) 436-3848

For more info: (201) 424-4016

All Fit Studios

196 Broadway (between 6^th and 7^th)

Bayonne

(201) 851-2349

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