THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS:
A Juried Show at Powell Lane Arts .

On View: Saturday, June 7, 2025 through Sunday, July 27, 2025
Opening Party: Saturday, June 7, 2025 from 3 PM - 6 PM .

We love a weird piece. A unique piece. Pieces that are "a whirling dervish of works that reflect the artist’s message, their methods and their materials". And sometimes game just knows game: and Dr. Fred Adelson knows game. Like us, he has a lifelong obsession with art: he teaches it, he writes on it for the likes of the Courier Post, New Jersey Monthly and even the New York Times! We can't imagine a better partner in crime than Dr. Adelson. He has been a fantastic juror, and we are pleased to annouce his selections:

* Andie Olson * Audrey Jakab * Barbara Dove * Brian Hallas *
Cherie Lee * Cheryl Patton Wu * Darlene Foster * Denise Lewis
* Drew Scarpa * E Sherman Hayman * Ericka Midiri *
Herbert Appelson * Iris Holzer Richardson * Jennifer Mehm
* Jim Cottingham * Joyce Hagen * Judyann Affronti * Julia Day *
Karen Kiick * Kimberly Stemler * Lauren Cassidy * Liz Looker
* Liz Nicklus * Maria Morales * Maureen Bowie *
Rory Keough * Ruth Wolf * Sandra Benhaim * Sandra Koberlein
* Skeffington Thomas * William J Timmins III *

So let’s get together some great art with unique materials, unique designs and uniquely marvelous perspectives by wonderfully, talented artists.

Please join us in congratulating the selected artists at the
Opening Party, Saturday, June 7th, 2025 from 3PM-6PM.

P.S. We’ll be doing a toast, announcing Merit Award Winners and reading a statement on the show by our Juror, Dr. Fred Adelson at 4pm during the Opening Party.

Get to Know our Juror, Dr. Fred B. Adelson

Fred B. Adelson is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rowan University where he taught for many years.  He earned his Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, writing his dissertation on the landscape career of Alvan Fisher, (1792-1863), an early Hudson School artist who was based in the Boston area.  Adelson has curated exhibitions and written museum catalogs as well as approximately 200 articles dealing with a diverse range of artists like Berthe Morisot, Frank Lloyd Wright, Isamu Noguchi, Norman Lewis, and KAWS. Adelson covered art exhibitions at major venues in Philadelphia and New Jersey that resulted in numerous reviews published in the Courier-Post and The New York Times. He has also written about such celebrated American topics as Ben Shahn and the WPA in New Jersey, Annie Oakley, and Walt Whitman for New Jersey Monthly.