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TAAROU ADAA is a Wolof (Senegal) phrase that means "the beauty of art or culture". Wolof, the native language of of artist Ibou Ndoye, is credited with adding such colorful, casually insightful words to our culture as 'jive', 'dig', 'jamboree', and 'hip' or 'hep-cat'. The origin of this last, coming from the Wolof word 'hepikat', "one who has his eyes open" or "one who is aware"- captures best the spirit of these drawings. The artist sees more than we see in the everyday world we share and turns common sights into amazing, animate, icon-like forms; creating a lively sense of beauty in TAAROU ADAA. Ibou Ndoye creates beautifully primal, vibrant books of images that spring from his West African roots and reflect all the bustling energy of his experience of the NYC area. This publication is a reproduction of a unique book on cardboard made by Ibou Ndoye in 2011 created with acrylic and latex paints and drawing materials. New Drawing presents series of innovative, current images from artists whose work explores the visual and conceptual language of drawing. Victory Hall Press is a division of Victory Hall Inc., a not-for-profit arts organization producing exhibitions, events, education programs, public projects and publications, based in the NJ/NY metro area. features 31 full color drawings. Visit our website at www.victoryhallpress.org

The Universechild drawings combine elements from abstract expressionism, surrealism and psychedelic poster art into a fantastic existential comic narrative. Universechild was inspired by the early comic strip work of Windsor McKay (Little Nemo), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon), and later comic art by Will Eisner, Jack Kirby and others, and is loosely based on William Blake's drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy. In the inventiveness of its abstract elements and complexity of form it seeks to travel beyond comics, through contemporary art and into the unknown."James Pustorino synthesizes science fiction, comic books, Abstract Expressionism and psychedelic art, all in the service of approximating the profound mystery of existence. A mythic narrative about a being born into space, where he struggles to understand his surroundings and purpose."- - John Motley, The OregonianRevised June 2011 edition features 44 full color pages.

The Big Small Show 2014 represents a sampling of recent, innovative works by ninety artists in the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area, and it is clearly expressive of the exciting level of energy and interaction that is happening among the artists included here, an indicator of the activity of our larger arts community as well. For all of us who have been developing Victory Hall DRAWING ROOMS as an art center since 2012 it also is a celebration, the harvest of our continual efforts to make a place for creative visual artists in Jersey City, believing that when the Arts flourish, the city will also flourish. Curator Anne Trauben has done an amazing job of tirelessly seeking out and gathering paintings, sculpture, drawings, artist-made books, and most importantly people who make art and people who support art from across both rivers and north to Connecticut.

If we consider drawing as a visual language, then Hector G. Romero's are certainly essays, each one frothing over with impressions, unique characters, personal experiences; densely layered, packed together into captivating narratives and executed with a directness and elegance worthy of an ancient Zen calligrapher. These complex combinations of marks and movements, various pencils and paints, recall elements of graffiti art, surrealism, action painting and comic strip art but create their own, ever-evolving aesthetic form. New Drawing presents sets of innovative, current images from artists whose work explores the visual and conceptual language of drawing. See our website at www.victoryhallpress.org

For Ian Charles Scott, New York City seems only a larger version of the community he knew in his hometown of Wick- a bigger village.The works in this book cover the whole of Scottish artist's career so far and divide into distinct groupings. There are the recent images of familiar faces from both cities: the Catch-22 man Scott stopped coming out of a James Ensor exhibition in New York, and the harbormaster, old sailor, and postmaster of Wick. The current, ink pictures of boxers and other Bronx and Brooklyn neighbors are remarkable for their piercing gaze and clarity of color. Sections on Scott's studies of a few notable men follow, concluding with several very large, powerful works on wood panel that helped start-off his career, and all of which are in the collections of various Scottish museums.

New Drawing presents series of innovative, current images from artists whose work explores the visual and conceptual language of drawing. Carl Vierow's drawings, like poetry, are worked out thoughtfully and over time. Packed with back-stories, personal symbols, schematics and maps to a structure of his imagination, each is emphatically meaningful to him. For us they are messages left behind, like pictograms on a wall or a note for us to decipher and ponder. Apparently simple, they reveal themselves slowly, giving us clues to a perception of a reality different from the one we know. Victory Hall Press is a division of Victory Hall Inc., a not-for-profit arts organization producing exhibitions, events, education programs, public projects and publications, based in the NJ/NY metro area. features 41 full color drawings Visit our website at www.victoryhallpress.org

Peace Comes To Ajani 2A new school year begins and Ajani and Sonny find themselves in the middle of cultural misunderstandings. A new group of immigrants move into the city of Cunningham from the Dominican Republic. Language barriers and cultural differences cause a huge problem between them and the African American students in town. Meanwhile Sonny's father is enraged because a Japanese businessman is trying to open a restaurant nearby. But the Japanese businessman's family history is tied into the Kims' and there is bad blood between them. Ajani and Sonny find themselves racing around the city trying to keep Cunningham from exploding into cultural chaos!

Drawings from The Z Factor The Z Factor is a compelling story of how three generations involved in the creation of a new species of premeditated human evolution, consequently altered the future of the world, as we know it...forever. Beginning at the later part of the 19th Century, The Z Factor takes us on an historical journey throughout some of the most monumental movements in modern art. It carries the reader into our postmodern subsistence, and paves the way to an exceedingly surprising and unsettling future. Drawings from The Z Factor is a compilation of the original color illustrations and quotes from the novel.

Ibou Ndoye creates beautifully primal, vibrant books of images that spring from his West African roots and reflect all the bustling energy of his experience of the NYC area. This publication is a reproduction of a unique book on cardboard made by Ibou Ndoye in 2011. Created with stencil cut-outs, acrylic and latex paints and drawing materials, it is one of several from that year's output that employs masks and identity as a common theme. New Drawing presents series of innovative, current images from artists whose work explores the visual and conceptual language of drawing. Victory Hall Press is a division of Victory Hall Inc., a not-for-profit arts organization producing exhibitions, events, education programs, public projects and publications, based in the NJ/NY metro area. features 36 full color drawings. Visit our website at www.victoryhallpress.org

Jill Pustorino's drawings beautifully capture the feeling of a child's walk outdoors in this simple story on valuing Creation and caring for the natural world around us.

"In the dark, what do you see?" "In the dark, what do you hear?" Beautiful forms and colors and inventive type and text create a luminous journey through the dark. Young children can explore the sights, sounds and sensations they may experience at night in a way that reassures while enhancing their feeling of mystery and wonder.

Victory Hall DRAWING ROOMS, Jersey City, presents our Spring 2014 exhibition, gathering nine artists working in the NY/NJ area who have taken on the task of exploring and re-inventing abstract painting to make their own personal, visual statement. Featuring works by: Robin Feld, Stephen Cimini, Greg Brickey, Robyn Ellenbogen, Eileen Boxer, Glenn Garver, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Raymond Saa and Maria Pavlovska. Curated by James Pustorino Pictures of Nothing or Pictures of Everything? Does abstract art empty out content and subject matter, or does it pile on those concepts in order to make a painting that says even more than the thousand words a picture is supposed to have assigned to it? People are have been debating the simplicity or complexity of abstract painting for more than a hundred years, and continue to be moved by new abstract works in one way or another, both emotionally and intellectually. Several years ago Kirk Varnedoe, former Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, delivered an important series of lectures about Abstract art since the 1950s called Pictures of Nothing. Starting with the famous drip paintings by Jackson Pollock, he described how abstract painting moved from active, expressive imagery to the more rarified "empty" forms of minimal art and beyond. But what has happened since then? When we look around, much of the abstraction being made now seems full of content: ideas, emotion, form, color, drawing -- and sometimes even images that seem to be appearing or disappearing. In this exhibition we take a look at what is going on currently in the world of abstract art through the contributions of these artists, and the statement it suggests recalls the title of one of our exhibiting artist's paintings: Everything Included.