Skip to content

A town square for an unsquare town

redbankgreen

Standing for the vitality of Red Bank, its community, and the fun we have together.

RED BANK: SELFIES KICK OFF ARTFUL WEEKEND

mirrored_bob300-3121554A selfie by Bob McKay is among the works on display in the group show FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE opening Friday at Gallery 135 in Red Bank.

Leave it to Gerda Liebmann – the Swiss-born, internationally exhibited multimedia artist (and redbankgreen Clippings correspondent) – to discern the beauty in so tawdry a device as the cellphone selfie.

Liebmann, who established Gallery 135 in the second-floor space shared by Red Bank Community Church, has employed this maybe-misunderstood signifier of 21st century life – and its cousin in succinct cinema, the Vine – as the basis for her new group show, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Opening with a reception at 7 pm on Friday, the multimedia installation “will give viewers the opportunity to reconnect with the special intimacy and self-revelation that self-portraits uniquely offer,” she says.

wheniwasalittlegirl-9883186“When I Was a Little Girl,” above is among the graphic and book-inspired works discussed by Kate Okeson at Brookdale’s Center for Visual Art Friday night.  Mike Quon’s colorful rendering of the Dublin House, below, is among the works highlighted in a Saturday evening event at the Oyster Point Hotel.

quondub-220x142-9535453Combining works by Liebmann, Ellen Martin, Robert J. Vanderbei, Elisabeth and Bob McKay and others with Vine vids from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan and Kuwait, the effect is to rescue the art of the self-portrait from the “narcissism and exhibitionism” of the typical Facebook fish-lips snapshot, Liebmann says.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made continues through the weekend, with additional exhibit hours on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 3 pm. Call Liebmann at (732) 687-3580 for more info.

Also tempting the art-hungry eyeballs on the greater Green this weekend…

A visual artist and educator at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Kate Okeson has specialized in words, print and “the book as construct” in crafting a body of works that “frequently address otherness, queerness, and are a critique on experiences that are normalized in our culture,” she says.

Having recently expanded her view of “book arts” into video, performance and installation, Okeson visits the Center for the Visual Arts Gallery at Brookdale Community College as part of the school’s Visiting Artist Program on Friday to discuss her creative process in a 7 pm event for which additional information can be obtained by calling (732)224-2520.

The artist returns next Friday, May 2, for a 6 pm appearance at Canvas Studio Art in Rumson, where she’ll spotlight her book-related art and conduct a workshop designed to “guide artists in creating their own personal narrative in book form,” from 12 to 3 pm on Saturday, May 3.

Before heading to Brookdale CVA, stop in at the Monmouth Museum (adjacent to the Brookdale Performing Arts Center) for the opening reception of the latest in the New Jersey Emerging Artists series, a display of pencil and charcoal portraits by Hackensack-based Alphonso Dunn. It’s a fascinating collection of faces, the most striking of which pair the (mostly unsmiling) adult subjects with the colorfully crayoned dreams and nightmares of children’s art. Reception’s on Friday from 6 to 8 pm, and the show remains on display during regular Museum hours through May 25.

Also on Friday, the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury plays host to its annual group show of works by students of Red Bank Regional High School. Several of the artists will be on hand for the opening reception from 6 pm to 8 pm, and the exhibit continues during regular gallery hours through May 7.

The late afternoon and early evening of Saturday, April 26 brings graphic designer and illustrator Mike Quon back to the Oyster Point Hotel, where his bold brushwork visions of “Red Bank landmarks, streetscapes and favorite locations” are currently on display at in an exhibit of “dynamic and colorful new paintings on canvas, watercolors, works on paper, mixed media, collage and drawings.”

The son of a golden-age Disney animator (and student of Pop Art mover and shaker Ed Ruscha), Quon will be joined by veteran newspaperwoman Eileen Moon in a “Landmarks and Legends” event that finds the author of Legendary Locals of Red Bank reading from her collection of historical and contemporary profiles that spans the show people and shopkeepers, the politicians and professionals, the vivid personalities who gave Red Bank its unique character. The event runs from 4 to 6 pm — and you can read more about Moon and those Legendary Locals, right here on redbankgreen.

From the Oyster Point, take it downtown to Christine Zilinski’s Salon Concrete, where the salon owner teams with restaurateur and chef Marilyn Schlossbach of Kitschens Hospitality Group for a Saturday evening of spring cuisine samplings, hair technique demos and the surfboard print artworks of Schlossbach’s husband and business partner, artist and avid surfer Scott Szegeski.  The 6 pm event benefits the nonprofit Thousand Locks Charity Hair Drive — and you can read all about it here, on the All Good pages of redbankgreen.

Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
Partyline
STREETCORNER SERENADE
An Irish doodle named Cheddar listens to native New Jerseyan, singer/songwriter and former Houston resident Tom Foti, (identified in the hea ...
Red Bank 5K Fun!!!
Red Bank Classic – June 14th, 2025 (photo by Partyline contributor Adam Kaplan)  
RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Saturday, before and after the storm that rolled through town. (photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)    
Mini Ballers Bring the Heat at Fusion Basketball School
As the temperatures heat up, so does the competition in the mini baller clinic at Fusion School of Basketball. These little tykes are intens ...
DOZENS OF PLEIN AIR ARTISTS “PAINT RED BANK”
Plein air artists take over town for first ever "Paint Red Bank" event. (click to read)
RED BANK: SIGN ON ICONIC DANNY’S STEAK HOUSE COMES DOWN
The sign hanging from the shuttered Danny's Steak House comes down ten months after a manager reported Danny's Steakhouse would be back "bet ...
FOR YANKEES FANS, GOOD TRASH PICKIN’
A collection of framed photographs of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and other New York Yankees greats was placed curbside along with a ...
RED BANK: NEW HANDICAPPED PARKING, WEST SIDE MEETING PLANNED
New handicapped parking sign West Side advocate had pressed for is installed, with meeting planned to discuss other concerns. (click to read ...
SUNSET AT SUMMER’S START
Crazy sunset clouds shot from Monmouth Boat Club on the Friday evening at the start of Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer. ...
SIDEWALK GOES FROM WORST TO FIRST
P (photo by Brian Donohue) What had been, in our estimation – and apparently in the eyes of the several people who have emailed and te ...
RED BANK: PEERING FROM ON HIGH, ACROSS THE DECADES
Roofers on the Azalea Red Bank top off the project in the shadow of a sculpture depicting another generation of construction workers who toi ...
BRICK FACELIFT CONTINUES ON MONMOUTH STREET
A million-dollar brick sidwalk makeover of Monmouth Street in Red Bank continues.
JAY AND SILENT EAGLE
A very loud blue jay squawks at an indiferent bald eagle in a treetop alongside the Swimming River in Red Bank this week. (Partyline photo b ...
PIZZA LOVING SQUIRREL SPOTTED IN RED BANK
Pizza squirrel spotted in Red Bank. (click to read)
GET YOUR MA SOMETHIN’ NICE AT THE RED BANK FARMERS MARKET
It’s a beautiful and sunny Mother’s Day for the first instance of the farmer’s market, held every Sunday, beginning in May ...
SIGN? WHAT SIGN?
Folks in Red Bank Wednesday exercising their riparian rights to access tidal waters first encoded into Roman law in 500 AD and later adopted ...
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Partyline contributor captures photo of backyard fox.
STRIPER RUN AT MARINE PARK
An angler pulls in a striped bass from the Marine Park bulkhead Tuesday evening. (photo by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
COLD AS CANADA? CHECK.
A pair of goose sculptures propped atop an air conditioning unit on River Street in Red Bank.
SUNRISE OVER A GLASSY NAVESINK
Sunrise over the Navesink River, seen from NJ Transit Train 3320. (photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim)