The Gallery at the Glen Rock Public Library is proud to showcase the artwork of Pat Smythe for the month of January.  Smythe studied Art and Graphic Design at Pratt Institute and later Typography and Book Design at the Art Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. In her career as a book designer and Art Director, Smythe worked in book publishing at Harcourt Brace & lovanovich, Macmillan and Pearson. In the late 90’s, she began studying watercolor at the Ridgewood Art Institute with Charles Brandenburg. She has also taken painting workshops with nationally known watercolor artist lan Pollard. Smythe has traveled a great deal in Italy and strives to capture the wonderful vistas.  Many of Smythe’s subjects are houses, flower gardens and landscapes.  The artist accepts commissions for painting pet portraits and house portraits. Her work has been exhibited at several local galleries including the Ridgewood Art Institute, Barn Galleries in Ridgewood and the Valley Hospital Art Gallery. She won Best in Show at Art in the Park event, sponsored by the Pascack Art Association. Smythe’s painting of the Inn at Philip's Mill was exhibited at the Kent Art Association Gallery in Kent, CT, where she also won an award. She recently exhibited her work in the Bergen County Art Amble in June 2022 and Arts Fest in Glen Rock.  Smythe is a member of the North East Watercolor Society, Creative Bergen and the Arts Council of Glen Rock.

For Smythe, “Watercolor painting is an amazing outlet.”

We welcome the illustrations of Jerry Winick to The Gallery at the Glen Rock Public Library for the month of December. Jerry Winick is an artist who uses a pencil as a painter uses a paintbrush.

Winick spends many hours at the drawing board creating each of his pieces. It is not unusual for him to spend three months on a single drawing, constantly building and developing it to its conclusion. Winick’s style of photorealism is so unique that most people, when viewing his work for the first time, find it difficult to imagine that these drawings are done with only a pencil. The sharp point that Winick uses is ideally suited for the exacting detail he desires in his drawings.

The artist has been drawing for most of his life and is a teacher of pencil drawing at Pencilworks Studio, which he owns. He has won more than 300 awards for his drawings and his works may be found in numerous private collections as well as in museums in the New York metropolitan area.

In addition to his other accomplishments, Winick’s drawing of Barack Obama will be hanging in the Obama Presidential Library when it opens in 2023.

The Winick collection is available as signed and numbered limited edition lithographs and giclees.

For the month of November, the Friends of the Glen Rock Public Library Gallery welcome the art of Tony Schwab.

Tony Schwab and his wife Deborah have lived and raised their children in Teaneck since 1982. Soon they will move to San Diego, California. After inspiring high school art classes in Mamaroneck, NY where he was raised, Schwab taught himself painting starting in 1975. An appreciation of multicultural art history has been a main pursuit for 45 years and remains, each week, a significant venue for response, expression and understanding. Schwab’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Ridgewood Art Institute, New Jersey galleries and Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY.

We welcome the art and photography of Bill DeNoyelles to The Gallery in the Glen Rock Public Library for the month of October.

Bill DeNoyelles received his BFA from The School of Visual Arts, NYC - where the prevailing aesthetic was one of innovation, exploration & experimentation with materials. In addition to his professional accolades as a writer and poet, Bill’s artwork has been shown consistently throughout the Hudson River Valley & beyond including Habitat for Artists (Carmel, CA), Create Community (Cold Spring, NY), The Woodstock School of Art (Woodsrock, NY), The Greene Art Gallery (Gulford, CT), Catalyst Art Gallery (Beacon, NY), Volition (Orangeburg, NY), The Garrison Art Center (Garrison, NY), Geoffrey Young Gallery(Great Barrington, MA.) & at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ. He won the First Place/Mixed Media Award for three consecutive shows in a row (2019-2020) as part of Bergen Art in the Park.

Bill considers the poet and author Bernadette Mayer the singular most important influence on his life as an Artist and Photographer. In her words:

“Bill DeNoyelles is consistent, prolific and reliably beautiful. He can connect with others so rapidly and let them perceive concepts they had only previously dreamed of - I've seen it happen. He is unrelenting in his devotion to the truth. This, along with his observational powers, creates in him an objectivity not often found in many artists."

The exhibition features local artists’ interpretation of books published in 1922. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Henry Ford, Emily Post, Beatrix Potter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Hesse, James Joyce, and many more of the giants of literature, 26 entries include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and poetry that have been updated to reflect each book’s theme, story lines, characters, titles, and the authors themselves. Each entry expresses the individual artist’s vision that will surprise and create a gallery experience that is not only engaging but promotes literature in a different context. Favorite storybook characters are represented in a variety of Velveteen Rabbits, giant sea snails aiding Dr. Doolittle, and Cecily Parsley.

Art Show to Benefit UnitedWithUkraine at The Glen Rock Public Library Gallery

Glen Rock resident and artist Oxana Katsov has partnered with The Friends of the Glen Rock Public Library to show her artwork in The Gallery during the months of July and August. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of Ms. Katsov’s artwork will go to her Ukrainian aide volunteer group UnitedWithUkraine. The exhibition is a compilation of Ms. Katsov’s personal experiences growing up in the former Soviet Union, immigration,and her life in Glen Rock with her husband and two children.

“Art was always an important part of my life. It’s where your inner journey gets reflected on the canvas. As years go by, I want to go deeper and wish to see the invisible to get to the core of life. My latest works are more abstract and are the reflection of this search.” Ms. Katsov describes her life in Glen Rock for the last five years as idyllic- until the start of the war In Ukraine.

Ms. Katsov felt the urgent call to service, and with the help of eight other American women with roots, families, or friends in Ukraine began the non-profit group UnitedWithUkraine. Through their UnitedWithUkraine Facebook group, they post news regarding the families they are able to help, share valuable information, and tell stories about fellow volunteers in Ukraine. Within the first three months on its inception, UnitedWithUkraine was able to help 147 families with food, hygiene products, medication, and money.

The goal is to help the most vulnerable groups: families with children, elderly people, people in the places that lost gas and power, those who lost their homes and had to move.