Curators Choice 2019
Please join us this week for the artist’s reception, Thurs. May 9th, 6-8pm

May 7 – June 21, 2019
Location: Casa Colombo, 380 Monmouth St. Jersey City, NJ
Hours: Tues/Weds/Thurs 10am – 4pm
Artist Reception: Thursday, May 9, 6-8pm
Piano Concert: Sunday, May 19, 4-6pm
Panel Discussion with selected curators: What Makes a Top Pick Portfolio
Sunday June 2, 3-5pm
Closing Reception: Friday, June 7, 6-8pm (JC Fridays)

This exhibition features the work of artists selected during Pro Arts’ signature one-day portfolio review, Meet the Curators. This professional development opportunity enables local artists expand their network and receive feedback via individual sessions with NJ/NY gallerists and curators. At day’s end, reviewers selected nine artists to be presented in the 2019 edition of our Curators Choice show.Curator: Peter Delman

Artists selected to participate from left to right: Winifred McNeill, Santiago Cohen, Alaine Becker, Bennett Gerwirtz, Paul Federico, Hao Feng, Gannon Leigh Crutcher, Candy Le Sueur, Gail Winbury

Meet the Curators 2019 Reviewers
• Virginia Fabbri Butera, PhD, Director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, NJ
• Edward Fausty, Photographer, affiliated with Inquiry Art Gallery, Boonton, NJ and Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
• Robinson Holloway, Founding Chair of the Board of Trustees of the JC Arts Council, heads the Visual Arts Committee, which created 14C Art Fair, and owner/curator of Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
• Kathryn Markel, Director of Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC and Board Chairperson of GlassRoots, Newark, NJ
• Andrea McKenna, Artist and Curator of the art gallery at Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
• Tom Nussbaum, Sculptor and recipient of NJSCA individual artist fellowship and MacDowell Colony Fellow
• Dot Paolo, Owner and director of Rabbet Gallery, Inc., Branchburg, NJ, photographer and printmaker
• Paul E. Pinkman, Photographer, Curator, VP of Visual Arts Programming and Board Member at the Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
• Jim Pustorino, Artist, Curator, Arts Organizer and Director of Victory Hall DRAWING ROOMS, Jersey City, NJ
• Emma Wilcox, Photographer, writer and Director of Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ