On The Verge Of A Story: Paintings and Collages by Linda Hillringhouse and Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Join us Saturday, November 2 from 12 noon to 1 pm for an Artists’ Reception at the Passaic County Community College historic Hamilton Club. View the vibrant exhibition “On The Verge Of A Story: Paintings and Collages by Linda Hillringhouse and Maria Mazziotti Gillan,” and meet the artists. All artworks will be on sale at a discount of 20 per cent off the original price.
Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter and award-winning poet. She has exhibited her work at the Newark Museum, Paterson Museum, Yale School of Art, Ben Shan Center for the Visual Arts at William Paterson University, the Sandy Bennett Gallery at the Bergen Performing Arts Center, Englewood, NJ, among other venues. She is included in the 20th Century Self-Taught Artists Archive at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. Hillringhouse says of her work that the figures she paints “seem stunned by the miraculous visible world but somehow know they are bound to the invisible world. My paintings seem to occur on the border between these realms.” Her book of poetry, The Things I Didn’t Know to Wish For (NY Quarterly Press, 2020), was shortlisted for The Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in 2021. lindahillringhouse.com
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an award-winning, nationally known poet with more than twenty books to her credit, the latest being When the Stars Were Still Visible (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021). She is the founder/executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She is Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at Binghamton University, SUNY. Gillan is a self-taught painter and collagist who says of her work: “My art comes from an instinctive place. In my watercolors and collages I try to do what I do in poetry—that is to let go, to allow the wise old woman who lives in my belly to take over.” She has exhibited her work at various venues on both the east and west coast. mariamazziottigillan.com
The exhibition runs until December 20, 2024 and is open Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm, or by appointment. The Hamilton Club is located at 32 Church Street on PCCC’s Main Campus in historic downtown Paterson, New Jersey. The Gallery is located on the second floor. There is a handicapped entrance to the building on Church Street and an elevator to the second floor. For more information, please call 973-684-6555 or 973-684-5444.
Admission to both the exhibition and the reception is free.
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