Professor Harry I. Naar featured in three art exhibits

Works by Professor Harry I. Naar are included in three major New Jersey art exhibits this fall. 

At Blair Academy’s Romano Gallery in Blairstown, Professor Naar’s works join those of Mel Leipzig and Judith K. Brodsky.

“With a background in 20th-century modernism, the artists’ work also includes representational and figurative elements of a 21st-century perspective,” said gallery co-director Rita Baragona about the exhibit. “Though their work often reflects similar origins and motifs, Mr. Naar, Mr. Leipzig and Ms. Brodsky create very individual artworks that often explore the intellectual, political and social issues of our time.”

In addition to cultivating their own artistic visions and careers, the three artists have played important roles in teaching and furthering the careers of young artists in New Jersey over the years. Naar joined Leipzig to meet with Blair’s student artists in their classes.  Blair Academy is in Blairstown, N.J.  The exhibit continues through Saturday, December 13.

Professor Naar’s work is also included in the exhibit “America, through Artists’ Eyes,” at the New Jersey State Museum.  The exhibit features works by contemporary New Jersey artists who were asked to define and depict America in the visual manner most appropriate to their own personal ideology, style and convictions. It includes newly created juried works by members of the Princeton Artists Alliance, as well as works by artists invited by the exhibition curator, Margaret O’Reilly.   It continues through April 5, 2015.

In Princeton, Naar’s painting “Waves at Matsushima” is also included in the Princeton Artists’ Alliance 25th Anniversary Exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton’s through November 26.