October 20, 2023 – November 26, 2023
10th Annual Highlands
Juried Art Exhibit
On View October 20, 2023 – November 26, 2023
The Highlands is a geophysical province, a component of the Appalachian Mountains, spanning western Connecticut, southern New York, northern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. In New Jersey, the region has an astonishing diversity of landscapes. The NJ Highlands includes the rolling farm fields of Warren and Hunterdon counties, communities along the Delaware River, a vast, ecologically healthy forest rich in biodiversity to the north of highway I-80. Both rural and urban communities are rich in pre-Revolutionary history.
Several factors have protected these landscapes from the uncoordinated development that much of New Jersey has experienced, including the passage of the 2004 Highlands Act, the state’s focused investment in Highlands open space and historic and farmland preservation, and the century-old development of reservoir systems which serve New Jersey’s eastern cities. The natural settings of the Ramapo Mountains that once inspired artists of the mid-nineteenth century Hudson River School look very much the same today – just one example of the incomparable natural beauty protected in the NJ Highlands. The Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit is a celebration of the region’s natural beauty and the artists who are inspired by it.
Artists whose works are on display in this exhibit include:
| Peter Allen | Seth Ruggles Hiler | Karcsi George Piedl |
| Peter Aldrich | Mary Hodgson | Erica Engfer Pizza |
| George Aronson | Benjamin Janis | Tom Stillman |
| Jane Biron | Marv Kaminsky | Elie Porter Trubert |
| Nancy Boney | Joe Kazimierczyk | Jeremy Travers |
| Mitchell Brozinsky | Judith A. Lieberman | Miroslav Vrzala |
| Jessica Cavaliere | Lisa Madson | Debra Wallace |
| Charles Dexter | Rich McGuigan | Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt |
| Todd Doney | Michael McFadden | J. Michael Williams |
| Doris Ettlinger | Jack R. Moore | Michael Wolf |
| Bruce Frazier | Elaine Norman | Barry Zawacki |
| Quinn Haltmeier | Ardys Pedersen |
The exhibit is curated by Donna Compton, gallerist and Art Program Curator for the NJ Highlands Coalition with Anne Ricculli, Ph.D., Director of Exhibits and Collections for the Morris Museum. A panel of prominent local arts professionals served as jurors for this anniversary show, including exhibit founder Dwight Hiscano, Ginny Butera, Ph.D., Donna Compton, Elliott Ruga, Dick Eger, Mitchell Rosenzweig, Paul Jach, Kristy Brucale Jach, and John Castronovo.
For exhibit information visit Highlands Art.
The Highlands Art Exhibit is a program of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition.
Image Caption: Michael McFadden, Golden Hour (2023). Flashe vinyl on linen, 24″h x 30″w. Image used with permission. On loan courtesy of Michael McFadden.
