Artists’ Gallery is moving to a new location in the heart of Lambertville!  Beginning with our March 2010 exhibition, we’ll be at:

Artists’ Gallery
18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ 08530.

In addition to work from all of the artists at the gallery, the GRAND REOPENING exhibition will feature landscape paintings by Joe Kazimierczyk and Michael Schweigart.  Please join us for this special reception:

Saturday, March 13
From 5-8pm

Our new location is just steps from the bridge linking Lambertville to New Hope, right in the heart of the shopping, dining, and gallery row section of Lambertville.

The August 12, 2009, issue of the U.S. 1 newspaper has a very nice, detailed profile about my artwork by Susan Van Dongen.  U.S. 1 is the business and entertainment newspaper of the Princeton area Route 1 corridor.  You can read the text version on their site here or you can click on the preview below for a larger image of the newspaper, reproduced with permission of the author.  Don’t forget there’s an opening reception this Friday night (August 14) from 6-9pm for the group show, “Dreaming,” at Gallery 125 in Trenton (125 South Warren Street, Trenton, NJ).

A Former Computer Engineer Picks Up a Brush, US1, August 12, 2009

I’m happy to report that my painting Expectation will be included in the Trenton Artists Workshop Association’s 2009  Summer Show, this year being held at Gallery 125 in downtown Trenton.  The title for this exhibition is “Dreaming”.  I recently played a little game where you grab the book nearest to you (you’re not allowed to find the coolest book), turn to page 56, find the 5th sentence on the page, and then set it to your status on Facebook.  I picked up the book Teach Yourself to Dream, sitting on the desk next to me, and found the following sentence:

It is partly because of these deep aspirations that flying is one of the most exciting dream experiences open to us.

Not a bad sentence to go along with this painting in a show about dreaming.

This painting is different from many of my other works in that it’s painted on a solid (very heavy) piece of wood (which in fact was once a table top), approximately 18″ high by 60″ wide, and it hangs a few inches off the wall because of some wooden spacers that were once part of the table.  (These dimensions also make it hard to exhibit properly here on the web site…)

Expectation, acrylic on wood, 18x60 inches

Here’s a detail of the work:

Expectation (detail)

The show, Dreaming, will be up at Gallery 125 (125 South Warren Street, Trenton, NJ) from August 14 through September 4, 2009.  There will be an opening reception on Friday, August 14, from 6-9pm.

I’ve used a portion of my wall space at Artists’ Gallery during this month’s exhibition, The Art of Seduction, to show some photographs.  Although I focus mostly on painting, I’ve been taking thousands and thousands of photos over the past 10 years and hope to occasionally show a few prints in Lambertville or elsewhere.  Here are the photos I’ve exhibited this month:

Moderately Spicy, from last year's garden

The Road Ahead, taken in Madrid, 2007.

A Walk in the Park, Roosevelt Park, Edison, NJ.

If you’re interested in prints of these photos, you can reach me directly here.

If you haven’t yet made plans for Valentine’s Day, why not come out to Lambertville, NJ, for some art and some chocolate?

The Art of Seduction

Artists’ Gallery Members Group Show
This show runs from February 6, 2009 until March 1, 2009
Reception:Valentine’s Day February 14th from 6:00 – 9:00

The Artists’ Gallery will seduce you with a captivating collection of traditional and contemporary art. A sumptuous chocolate buffet will be provided for the opening reception on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Tantalizing French Truffles and other irresistible chocolate confections will be donated by The Chocolate Box at 39 North Union Street.

This Valentine’s Day make the opening reception at the Artists Gallery part of your evening out in Lambertville or New Hope. Before or after drinks or dinner stop by the gallery (32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ) and allow yourself to be seduced by the wide range of creative expression. The artwork represented is an alluring mix of abstract, modernist, Impressionist, and traditional realist art in a variety of mediums, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography and glass sculpture.

Gallery members Beatrice Bork, Gail Bracegirdle, Jennifer Cadoff, Merle Citron, Richard Harrington, Charles Katzenback, Joe Kazimierczyk, Alan Klawans, Florence Moonan, Alla Podolsky, Marc Reed, Materese Roche, Carol Sanzalone, Douglas Sardo, Bonnie Schorski, John Treichler, and Andrew Werth will be attending the reception and will be pleased to share their inspiration with you. So drop by, say hello and contemplate the perfect Valentine gift—a work of art from the Artists’ Gallery.

Acrylic on panel, 20″x16″, 2008

I’m happy to report that I have two paintings that will be included in the upcoming TAWA Summer Show at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, in Cadwalader Park, Trenton.  The show runs from June 28 through July 27, with an opening reception this Saturday, June 28, from 5pm – 8pm.  Hope to see you there!

The two paintings in this show are Phenomenal Character and Strange Loops 4.

I’ve just launched a completely new design for AndrewWerth.com — whew! There are still a few kinks to work out (especially here on the blog page, which uses different software from the rest of the site), but I hope you’ll like the new look. It should be cleaner, better looking, and easier to maintain. Most importantly, I hope it will display the paintings more clearly and without the high-chroma distractions of the previous version of the web site.

Yesterday was an art-filled day from start to finish. I took the train in to NYC where my first stop was MoMA to see the “Color Chart” and “Design and the Elastic Mind” shows. From there, I headed north to the Whitney Museum for the preview day of the Biennial. Pushing forward, I hoofed it up to the Met to check out the Jasper Johns “Gray” show. With a little bit of time left before needing to catch the train back home, I slogged through the Courbet and Poussin installations at the Met, probably not giving them enough time but without any interest in going back for more. Finally, after returning to Jersey, I attended the opening reception for the “Mercer County Artists” show at The Gallery @ Mercer County Community College. I’ll report further on these in separate posts.

I’ve decided to finally enter the blogosphere. In this blog, I expect to focus mostly on the following topics:

• Upcoming exhibitions that include my paintings
• New paintings as they’re added to the website
• Art reviews of other exhibitions (if I’m feeling particularly bold; if not, I’ll just make mention of shows I feel are worthwhile)
• Reviews of books that relate to my work or my artistic/philosophical interests

Please bear with me as I tweak the design and interface of the blog!

Enjoy!