Visual

Globetrotting master brings infinite rebellion to Alfa Art
Sebouh Gemdjian
Saturday, June 5, 2010

This may be a bit too removed from objectivity and a lack of vested interest for a review, so fortunately it’s not a review. It is a profile of an artist who happens to be one of the first people I ever met. Agop Gemdjian's solo exhibition at Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick opened last week and runs through the month of June.

This is after all an article, so let me start with an objective quote from an early review. It's by Roumen Serafimov, art critic for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Varna, Bulgaria. Writing in 1990, he said that Gemdjian is “an artist who has ever demonstrated his bent for vanguard and figurative thinking, and non-traditional plastic creation."

Alfa Art Gallery strikes a responsive chord in anniversary fete
Sebouh Gemdjian
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Alfa Art Gallery kicked off its second year anniversary on January 29 with “The Caged Bird Sings,” a jam session featuring six musicians in a cage – for 24 hours with only meal and bathroom breaks.

Dancers added a visual aspect to the music at the opening, and juxtaposed it to the works of the rest of the artists, which they used as props in their routines.

The unifying idea was Albert Einstein's claim that "everything in life is a vibration," as interpreted by local experimental musician Michael Durek.

Quiet Dialogue: Highland Park blends a weaver and a painter
Valeri Drach Weidmann
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
As a child, Susan Edmunds remembers weaving on a small hand loom. It wasn’t until 1996 that the retired test developer, picked up another small loom and needed to find out how to change the waft.
“I visited my friend’s shop in French Town and found myself in a room surrounded by spinning wheels and looms,” Edmunds said. “I felt so at home.”
Edmunds got the same feeling of being at home during the Arts Commission’s open studio this year when she visited artist Marsha Goldberg.

Visual installation unleashed on the Avenue
Contributed press release
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Starting October 18, in conjunction with the annual Highland Park Open Studios day, storefronts along Raritan Avenue will collectively form an outdoor gallery for artworks by 20 local artists.  This "Window Art" will stretch literally from A to Z (visit A Garden Party, 60-A Raritan Ave. at Cedar Ave., and finish up at Zeina Restaurant, 441 Raritan at North Fifth Ave.) The exhibition will remain on view through November 22, featuring installations of sculpture, ceramics, photographs and paintings. 

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