Studio Montclair presents the exhibit, ”By Chance” to run from April 3 through April 29, 2017, at the Montclair Public Library Gallery, 50 S. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ. An opening reception will be held at the library on Monday, April 9, 2018 from 6:30 to 8pm.

The show features work in a variety of visual media in which chance played a major role in the creative process, inspiring the artist to examine their work in a new way or take a different approach moving forward.

Explains curator Matt Roberts, “Artists fall ‘victim’ to mishaps and random occurrences all the time, whether it’s spilling something on the canvas they are working on or failing to set their camera’s exposure speed properly. For all of the artists in the show, ‘mistakes’ were not a message to start over; rather, they provided a starting off point – an impetus to a new direction and a new fusion of energy into the work.”

Participating Artists
Linda Aldrich, Danielle Cartier, Trish Classe Gianakis, Leslie Connito, Stephanie Cortazzo, Elizabeth DeMarco, Theresa DeSalvio, Andrea Epstein, Leslie Ford, Emily Gilman Beezley, Michelle Harpster, Daniel Hughes, Jeannine Hunter Lazzaro, Marquise James, Ann Kraus, Rachael Krehel, Lisa Madson, Larry McKim, Paul Nisenson, Arthur Paxton, Katharine Philip, Sima Schloss, Douglas Smith, RoByn Thompson, Coleen Tyler, Ashley Warner, Andrew Wohl, Tony Zaza