RED BANK: GODDESSES FROM BABYLON

The breathtaking paintings of Iraqi artist Saadi Babely go on display at the Oyster Point Hotel starting with a reception Thursday.

He hails from no less storied a place than Babylon — and we’re not talking Long Island. As a professor at Baghdad University and a member of the Iraq Freedom Art Movement, Saadi Babely escaped the regime of Saddam Hussein and its program of persecution of citizens involved in the arts, and would lose two of his siblings to Saddam’s troops. Educated in the United States, he made his way to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and eventually back to America, where the mythological figure of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar would once again take flight in his paintings.

Inspired by the deep history of his homeland while remaining contemporary in style and theme, Babely’s paintings are the subject of the latest art installation at Red Bank’s Oyster Point Hotel — Goddesses: An Art Collector Shares His Bounty. The exhibit — one of two debuting in town during the coming evenings — opens with a public-welcome reception this Thursday.

September 5, 2017 - 12:00 pm | Comments ()

RED BANK AREA: ART NEVER VACATIONS

Works by textile artist Lisa Lackey are on display through Sunday at the Monmouth Museum’s Nilson Gallery.

Vacation time is somehow never downtime for Red Bank-area artists and the spaces whose walls they festoon, and the mid-August interlude remains a busy one for visual creatives, with a number of exhibits opening or ongoing at venues around the Greater Green (even one that’s technically closed for the season).

August 11, 2017 - 6:00 am | Comments ()

RED BANK: FESTIVAL SERVES FILMS & EVENTS

A portion of the colorful mural painted earlier this month on the Catherine Street wall of Kitch Organic heralds the second annual coming of the Indie Street Film Festival, co-founded by Jay Webb, below.

To Wanamassa resident Jay Webb, losing oneself in the flickering lights of a hushed, darkened room is only part of the joy of a film festival for cinephiles. Another is getting together and gabbing about what they’ve seen, and who’s doing what in an art form wholly dependent on collaboration.

Which is one reason the schedule for the second edition of the Indie Street Film Festival, which returns to Red Bank next week, is studded with community events in between screenings of some 60 films.

July 21, 2017 - 4:15 pm | Comments ()

RED BANK: ARTISTS REUNITE AT OYSTER POINT

“Loving” by Edy Ottesen and “Choose Meaning Over Emptiness” by Tyrell Masse can be seen in the group show installation ‘Now and Then,’ opening Wednesday at the Oyster Point Hotel.

“It doesn’t take long to figure out that I love brilliant color once you have viewed a few of my paintings,” says Edy Ottesen. “But, I can slip off the wagon sometimes and go all greys and monochromatic.”

A Brooklyn-bred painter who divides her time between Red Bank and Boca Raton, Florida, Ottesen is one of several locally connected creative women who now and then assemble to display their wares in a group-show setting — and beginning with an opening reception this Wednesday evening, the “gang of four” will join forces for an eighth consecutive year with “Now and Then,” the latest in a series of art installations at Red Bank’s Oyster Point Hotel. Read More »

July 17, 2017 - 6:00 am | Comments ()

RED BANK: ART AND ABOUT, AROUND TOWN

“Joys and Blessings” by Annette Margulies (above) is among the works on display in “Embracing Change,” opening Thursday at the Oyster Point Hotel. MaryAnn Goodwin, whose “End of Season” is below, is one of two local painters spotlighted in a show at the Monmouth Arts Council

It’s an installation that reunites a quartet of local female artists for the seventh consecutive year, but when Annette Margulies, Tyrrell Masse, Edy Ottesen and Leona Tenebruso-Shultes convene once more Thursday evening at Red Bank’s Oyster Point Hotel, it will be all about “Embracing Change.”

Debuting with a public-welcome reception between 7 and 9 p.m. — and staying up on the walls and walkways of the riverfront hotel’s lobby and atrium through late August — the exhibit of paintings is the latest offering from curator Gerda Liebmann, the Swiss-born multimedia specialist who coordinates the ongoing series of art installations at the riverfront hotel.

It’s also one of several art events going on in and around Red Bank in the days ahead; take it around the corner for more.

July 20, 2016 - 1:00 pm | Comments ()

RED BANK: PAINTING THE WOMAN CARD

“Beach Ballerinas” by Karissa Harvey (above) and “Gingko” by Pat Hutchinson (below) are among the works on display in WOMEN PAINT WOMEN, the art exhibit that opens with a reception tonight at the Oyster Point Hotel.

As Ellen Martin tells it, “I started the Jersey Artist Registry (JAR), an online gallery, in 2013 to showcase the talent of New Jersey artists in a way that was immediately visually impactful and accessible (not three or four menus down).”

It’s an endeavor that led the Monmouth Beach painter, photographer and mixed-media specialist to mount her first group show of JAR artists at Asbury Park’s intimately scaled Hotel Tides in 2015. With the success of that show, and a move to the more expansive environs of Red Bank’s Oyster Point Hotel, Martin professes that her original thought was to again open the next exhibit to all artists, “but then thought I should do what I could to tip the balance of the male-dominated art world.”

May 5, 2016 - 12:00 pm | Comments ()

RED BANK: A BANQUET FOR THE EYES

STILL LIFE WITH BIRDS AND DESSERTS and other paintings by Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern are on display throughout the Oyster Point Hotel, beginning with a reception on Friday evening, May 15.

For the latest in a series of art installations at The Oyster Point — exhibits that have turned the hotel’s lobby and other common areas into a strolling gallery space — Swiss-born, internationally exhibited multimedia artist Gerda Liebmann has curated a banquet of sorts.

Officially opening with a public-welcome reception this Friday, May 15 (and remaining on display at the Bodman Place landmark through June 29), The Painted Banquet is a solo-show look at the work and worldview of area-based painter (and Brookdale Community College faculty member) Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern.

May 14, 2015 - 12:00 pm | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: LITERALLY!

Katie Corr, a hair stylist at Glen Goldbaum 72 in Red Bank, was “very young” when she started to do hair, but still loves it, she says – “especially when the clients leave the salon feeling much better then when they arrived.”

“It’s not just the hair,” she says. “Clients talk about their lives… sometimes I feel like a therapist.”

She’s seen here with client Lisette Lynch.

Video by Gerda Liebmann. Check out all the Clippings from the Green here.

October 27, 2014 - 11:00 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: THIS ONE BAKES THE CAKE

Gina Roselle-Broschart’s first love was gymnastics. Later, she studied nutrition at Rutgers, and then attended Culinary Institute of America to become a pastry chef. Today, Roselle-Broschart’s specialty is cake decorating. Here, and in the video below, she is at work at Antoinette Boulangerie in Red Bank, where she lives with her husband, backyard beef-smoker Scott Broschart.

“I found a connection between gymnastics and cake decorating,” says Roselle-Broschart. “They both require perfection and artistic liberty at the same time.” (Photo and video by Gerda Liebmann. Check out all the Clippings from the Green here.)

October 14, 2014 - 7:30 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: POTTER AT WORK

“In this chaotic world, making pottery provides balance for me,” says Red Bank potter Lauren Bellero, featured in the video below. Bellero creates unique wheel-thrown and hand-built functional and decorative stoneware pottery, with a specialty in ‘pit firing.’

The 17th annual edition of Bellero’s ‘Mudslingers Art Show & Sale‘ is scheduled for November 9, from 1 to 6 p.m. at her home studio at 39 Leroy Place.

October 7, 2014 - 7:00 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: POSTER BOY FOR LUNCH BREAK

An online auction of images by rock photographer Mark Weiss of Rumson begins Wednesday to benefit Lunch Break, the Red Bank soup kitchen.

The auction, which includes images of Ted Nugent, Sammy Hagar, Ozzy Osborne and Paul Stanley, as well as 20 others, will be conducted on Charitybuzz through October 15.

Lunch Break’s fifth annual gala, by the way, is October 20 at the Navesink Country Club in Middletown. For more information about the gala or the auctin, contact Petra Vanderven at pvanderven@lunchbreak.org or 732-747-8577, extension 3106. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause. And check out all the Clippings from the Green here.)

September 23, 2014 - 2:24 pm | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: GETTING SOME AIR ON THE BAY

Clippings took in some kitesurfing activity on the bay side of Sandy Hook recently. Intrigued by non-motorized watersports? The New Jersey Windsurfing and Watersports Association will host its annual fun fest opposite parking lot C at Sandy Hook from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Sunday, offering introductions to windsurfing and stand-up paddleboarding for $25, pizza included. For more info, call Tom at 862-268-3033. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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September 9, 2014 - 7:10 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: FAIRLY DELIGHTFUL

It’s not just about the food, of course – though you should check out PieHole’s story on THAT, too. For kids, and kids at heart, the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair offers some kinetic delights in the form of good old carnival rides.

The fair continues through Saturday night. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause. And check out all the Clippings from the Green here.

August 28, 2014 - 4:00 pm | Comments ()

LOCUST: CLIPPINGS GOES CRABBING

Four boys from Parisppany crabbing on Claypit Creek at Hartshorne Woods in Middletown on August 16, 2014.

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August 18, 2014 - 12:22 pm | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: MOVIE IN THE ROUND

Liz Stahl, Mary Ellen Dowd, Chris Lombino and Tom Smith – friends who met in a theater group – were all set for the July 8, 2014 movie screening in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park. But the event was rained out. They’ll get another chance with the Tuesday night screening of ‘Jaws,’ and a favorable weather forecast. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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August 5, 2014 - 9:06 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: LENSMAN BETWEEN THE LINES

Red Bank photographer Danny Sanchez on the newly rebuilt grade railroad crossing at Monmouth Street just outside his Bridge Avenue studio on July 19, 2014.

“This is a very interesting spot to take pictures,” he tells Cliipings, noting “all the lines and patterns, wires and buildings.” Check out all the Clippings from the Green here. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

July 29, 2014 - 11:55 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: HOT, STICKY, LICKY BESTIES

Gee whiz, you’d think they were besties or something. Scenes from the latest edition of Red Bank’s Dog Days of Summer series, held Tuesday night. The next one is scheduled for August 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Monmouth Street. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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July 23, 2014 - 4:00 pm | Comments ()

SEA BRIGHT: AWESOME SIGN OF JOY

Even as artist Jim Kovic put his John Hancock on the brilliant new mural he created in Sea Bright over the past month, passersby couldn’t wait to have their photos taken in front of it.

“‘Awesome’ is the word most people use when they view my mural,” Kovic told Clippings. “Some people say ‘joy.’ This mural brings them joy, you know, after Sandy.”

The mural is at the corner of Ocean and Peninsula avenues. Check out all the Clippings from the Green here. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

July 23, 2014 - 5:56 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: MAINTAINING A CLEAR VIEW

Clippings came across window-washer Eric Auerbach doing his thing in downtown Red Bank on July 12, 2014.

Auerbach was also featured in a redbankgreen interview in August, 2006. In the 20 years he’s been cleaning windows, Auerbach says, “not much has changed.” (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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July 14, 2014 - 2:49 pm | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: HOTELIER WITH A VIEW

Kevin Barry, operations manager of the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, gets the once-over from Clippings on June 26, 2014 as he looks out onto the Navesink River from the hotel patio. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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July 7, 2014 - 11:28 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: BEACH WATCH IN SEA BRIGHT

A beach day so nice it’ll make your head spin. Or something like that. A Vine video from the municipal beach in Sea Bright on June 27, 2014. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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June 30, 2014 - 11:38 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: STANDING TALL AT SANDY HOOK

National Parks Service spokesman John Harlan Warren at the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, which turned 250 years old this month. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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June 23, 2014 - 8:17 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: ARTIST IN THE ROUND

Artist Ellen Martin in her Red Bank studio on June 11, 2014.

Because she was born on Manhattan’s Museum Mile, “it was perhaps inevitable I become an artist,” says Martin. But it wasn’t until 2008, after years as a marketing director, an artists’ representative and an art consultant that she began painting. Her work may be seen here. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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June 16, 2014 - 6:55 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: THE VIEW FROM JOE’S BRIDGE

If you’ve never walked or biked out onto the Captain Joe Azzolina Bridge between Highlands and Sea Bright, well… here’s a taste of a magnificent, sweeping panorama that takes in the varied landforms of Sea Bright, Middletown, Highlands and Sandy Hook, as well as Sandy Hook Bay, New York City, the Atlantic Ocean and our beautiful Shrewsbury River – not to mention, a pretty stunning bridge, too. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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June 9, 2014 - 9:20 am | Comments ()

CLIPPINGS: LET YOUR THOUGHTS DRIFT

What is it about drifting clouds and moving water that’s so captivating? A contemplative view of the Shrewsbury River over to the Rumson side from Sea Bright on May 30, 2014. (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)

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June 2, 2014 - 6:11 am | Comments ()

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RED BANK: GODDESSES FROM BABYLON

RED BANK AREA: ART NEVER VACATIONS

RED BANK: FESTIVAL SERVES FILMS & EVENTS

RED BANK: ARTISTS REUNITE AT OYSTER POINT

RED BANK: ART AND ABOUT, AROUND TOWN

RED BANK: PAINTING THE WOMAN CARD

RED BANK: A BANQUET FOR THE EYES

CLIPPINGS: LITERALLY!

CLIPPINGS: THIS ONE BAKES THE CAKE

CLIPPINGS: POTTER AT WORK

CLIPPINGS: POSTER BOY FOR LUNCH BREAK

CLIPPINGS: GETTING SOME AIR ON THE BAY

CLIPPINGS: FAIRLY DELIGHTFUL

LOCUST: CLIPPINGS GOES CRABBING

CLIPPINGS: MOVIE IN THE ROUND

CLIPPINGS: LENSMAN BETWEEN THE LINES

CLIPPINGS: HOT, STICKY, LICKY BESTIES

SEA BRIGHT: AWESOME SIGN OF JOY

CLIPPINGS: MAINTAINING A CLEAR VIEW

CLIPPINGS: HOTELIER WITH A VIEW

CLIPPINGS: BEACH WATCH IN SEA BRIGHT

CLIPPINGS: STANDING TALL AT SANDY HOOK

CLIPPINGS: ARTIST IN THE ROUND

CLIPPINGS: THE VIEW FROM JOE’S BRIDGE

CLIPPINGS: LET YOUR THOUGHTS DRIFT