Oyster Point Gallery Exhibitions, originally conceived by President Kevin Barry, and currently curated by Ellen Martin, provide a prestigious and viable alternative gallery venue to artists from New Jersey and nearby locations.
Both emerging and established artists, many of whom are award-winning, have been included in the exhibitions that are shown in the public spaces of the first two floors of the Hotel.
The work is primarily two-dimensional and encompasses painting, photography, wall-mounted sculpture, collage, and collaborative work. The Gallery is an asset both to our community and guests of the Hotel.
Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025Cocktail Reception
Friday 4/11/2025 6:00 p.m.
In my Pictorial Essay series, I present a visual diary that encapsulates my imaginative perspective on the world. Each artwork serves as a testament to my observations and experiences. Employing a dip pen, I draw freehand on bookbinding paper, exercising precise control over the lines while allowing figures, objects, and ideas to materialize spontaneously. – Olga Nenazhivina
Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025Cocktail Reception
Friday 4/11/2025 6:00 p.m.
The thirteen New Jersey artists in this exhibit work in a gamut of styles of academic to expressionistic. The appeal of the still life is that it enables the artist to continually revise objects to find the desired composition before they start painting.
Feb 11, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025Dawn DiCicco is an award-winning artist from New Jersey who served as the Oyster Point Hotel’s Artist in Residence (AIR) in 2023. We are pleased to announce that she will return in 2025. Her upcoming AIR year will begin with a solo exhibition.
This individual experience brings me the most joy. Inspiration often starts with a subject already in mind or is gathered from various sources, such as personal experiences, reading, music, or discussions. I typically use brushes on canvas when I paint, sometimes beginning with minimal preliminary drawings.
Jan 2, 2025 – Feb 11, 2025As a painter, I primarily use acrylic paints. I express my subjects through a minimalist approach, utilizing color, line, texture, and shape to evoke the desired emotional response and convey my interpretation of the subject.
This individual experience brings me the most joy. Inspiration often starts with a subject already in mind or is gathered from various sources, such as personal experiences, reading, music, or discussions. I typically use brushes on canvas when I paint, sometimes beginning with minimal preliminary drawings.
Jan 2, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025My multi-media practice finds its psychological analogs in blurring beauty and grotesquery, nostalgia, and critique. I’m interested in the universal psychology of the every day, then making it my own. Using recognizable household objects, I paint and deconstruct them, transforming these banal objects into sculptures. I situate this practice in a place where high and low interact and cross-pollinate. In so doing, the work suggests an underground or alternative narrative of how and why visual ideas develop; because my language draws in such a large part from the private realm of domestic environments, the work elicits emotional responses that are both uncannily familiar and disarmingly strange.
Dec 3, 2024 – Jan 3, 2025In 2020, Don Harger was an artist with an inventory problem. He had hundreds of paintings which were headed to storage. He also had a good friend, Bob McKay. Bob called his art contacts to let them know Don’s plight. “And, by the way, how can you help?” he asked.
The Artist in Residence program will allow an artist to display work in the Hotel’s guest rooms for one year. The artist will be publicly acknowledged at the entrance to the Hotel and will also have an exhibit in the public spaces of the Hotel accompanied by a cocktail reception.
Browse through our expansive catalog of pieces currently for sale by our artists in residence.
“We have always sought to bring the community to our guests, and this will bring the work of a local artist right into their rooms. Having original work in a guest room is an engaging and enriching experience.”
