One River Gallery in Englewood to Celebrate the Creative Spirit of Childhood with "Lady Macbeth's Bat Mitzvah"

One River Gallery in Englewood, northern New Jersey’s premier exhibition space for contemporary art, will present “Lady Macbeth’s Bat Mitzvah”, a multimedia show featuring works by six compelling emerging artists that captures reflections of their youth. The show will run from January 15 through March 7, and is curated by Adrianne Rubinstein.

“I’m thrilled to have Adrianne curating for us’,” says Matt Ross, founder of One River. “She exemplifies what’s right about the art world, and the artists who she’s chosen embody the spirit of what we strive to teach at our school, and share at our gallery.”

“Lady Macbeth’s Bat Mitzvah” will include works by:

• Alex Chaves makes romantic portraits with still life tableaux
• Al Freeman uses large sticks to make stretcher bars for monochrome paintings
• Alicia Gibson embeds precious objects into text and image paintings
• Chris Hood uses a reverse staining process to create conceptual tie dye cartoons
• James Yakimicki creates dystopian aerial landscapes that are influenced by the board games Risk and Civilization
• Adrianne Rubenstein’s abstract paintings “resemble Kandinsky in a junk drawer”

Adrianne Rubenstein completed her undergraduate work at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Derek Eller, David Petersen Gallery in Minneapolis, et al. in San Francisco and CANADA, New York, where she is the Director.

“All of the artists in ‘Lady Macbeth’s Bat Mitzvah’ love children for their creative innocence and quirky motor skills, but the thing we love most about them is stealing their ideas!” says Rubenstein. “We’re all using vintage relics in our works and trying to reconnect with the purity, playfulness, and tomfoolery of our childhood experiences.”

“Lady Macbeth’s Bat Mitzvah” will run from January 15 and run through March 7 at One River Gallery, 49 N.Dean Street in Englewood. An opening event will take place on Thursday, January 15 from 6 to 8pm. For more information, contact the Gallery at (201) 266-5244 or visit OneRiverGallery.com.