Put Your Best Brush Forward: NR Living and Guttenberg Arts Host Guttenberg Green Urban Art Mural Contest

Call for Entries: Local artists can now submit a piece of art to be considered for a mural that will be on 

public display on the exterior of the new Green Urban Residential Development in Guttenberg and a $5,000 cash prize


Submit today at: https://bit.ly/2N4OeXD 

GUTTENBERG, N.J. – (Feb. 18, 2021) – NR Living, an entity of New Jersey-based National Realty Investment Advisors (NRIA) and a leading developer in luxury real estate on the east coast, invites local artists of New Jersey’s Guttenberg and Hudson County area to participate in the Guttenberg Green Urban Art Mural Contest, now through Thursday, April 15, 2021. In partnership with the Guttenberg Arts Council, NR Living is inviting local artists to submit one-of-a-kind artwork to be considered for a mural, which will be displayed on the exterior of Green Urban, a new luxury lifestyle community located in the heart of Guttenberg’s flourishing arts district. 


The Guttenberg Green Urban Art Mural Contest will be free and open to the public for all submissions, from area middle and high school students to local professionals. Along with having their artwork prominently displayed in a mural-sized reproduction on the exterior of the Green Urban building, the winner will also receive a $5,000 cash prize. Each participant is allowed to submit one piece of original art to be considered by the review panel. Deadline for submissions is by 4 p.m. ET. on Thursday, April 15.

The winner will be chosen by three local judges, including Matt Barteluce, Director of Guttenberg Arts Council – and announced at the Green Urban’s groundbreaking event on Friday, April 30, 2021.

“We are so excited to able to support local Guttenberg artists in this way,” said [NR Living spokesperson]. “Our area artists provide the community with inspiration, enthusiasm, and character. We hope that by displaying their artwork on the new Green Urban building, we can further embody the vibrant lifestyle of the community.”

Artists are invited to create artwork that embraces any subject matter while also incorporating the “Green Urban” logo. Only visual art mediums including paintings and drawings will be considered and should be submitted as a JPG. Additionally, the image size must be at least 768 pixels on the longest side and not exceed 1200 pixels. For a complete set of rules and guidelines, please visit the NR Living Guttenberg Green Urban Art Mural Contest page.


“Our main mission at Guttenberg Arts is to give our local artists the exposure they deserve,” said Matt Barteluce, Director of the Guttenberg Arts Council. “Art is such an important part of our community and, after a challenging year, we are happy to be partnering with NRIA to expand on that mission.”

Green Urban is located at 6903 Adams St., West New York, NY. The completed development will feature a nine-story luxury lifestyle building with top rental amenities including a full entertainment roof deck overlooking the Hudson River, a gym and Peloton room, built-in advanced and eco-friendly technologies, and pandemic hardened™ safety designs and features.

For full contest rules or to submit a piece of art for consideration, visit the events page at www.nrliving.com.

ABOUT NRIA

Founded in 2006, NRIA has grown to be one of the nation’s leading specialists in institutional-caliber private real estate investment management with over $1.25B AUM, focusing on luxury townhome, condominium and multifamily acquisition and developing in many supply constrained, high barrier-to-entry markets along the east coast.  

ABOUT NR LIVING

NR Living is a member of the NRIA family, and offers a sophisticated, luxury lifestyle in prime locations across the East Coast. NR Living has a reputation for developing single-family homes, townhomes, and luxury apartment rentals featuring premium amenities and are located in attractive neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn, NY, Northern NJ, Philadelphia, PA and Palm Beach County, Florida.

ABOUT GUTTENBERG ARTS

Guttenberg Arts is dedicated to increasing opportunities for artists that encourage artistic evolution while creating cultural experiences for the community that promote creative thinking. Since 2014, the organization has promoted the visual arts through providing practicing artists with the space and time to develop their work, engage with the public, and expand their community. Guttenberg Arts also a dynamic array of public programing that includes, free community workshops for all ages, panel talks and artist lectures providing diverse perspectives and actively engaging a range of audiences inspiring new dialogs. 

Deep Waters by Amanda Thackray

Guttenberg Arts Gallery is pleased to present Deep Waters, an exhibition of work by artist Amanda Thackray. On view from September 5th - September 27th, 2020 at the Guttenberg Arts Gallery. To promote social distancing Guttenberg Arts is now open by appointment only and virtually on their website.  Patrons can schedule their visit or view the virtual gallery by going to www.guttenbergarts.org/exhibitions.

Amanda Thackray employs hand papermaking processes as a primary medium in her practice to create complex forms referencing microscopia. She derives the content for her work through lengthy periods of research, guided by the tenuous relationship between the utility and detritus of human-made artifacts, focusing on our burden of plastic waste. She is equally terrified and fascinated by the ability of plastic to break down into smaller and smaller microplastics, while never actually degrading.

Thackray’s research into the pervasiveness of plastics in our environments and our bodies is visualized as large scale installations of quasi-fictional landscapes. Explored through simulacra of handmade paper, projects telescope between the spaces of the microscopic human body and the vastness of worldwide bodies of water. These dimensional landscapes present themselves as detailed yet ambiguous fiber studies and fictitious maps of overwhelming polluted ocean. Thackray utilizes imagery of netting to convey multilayered references attributed to both organic bodily material and human-made, rigid, immortal plastic - the net is a malleable grid concurrently acting as a trap and a sieve.

Through working with handmade paper, Thackray engages with water - often site-specific water - to create imagery that is directly tied, both materially and conceptually, to that same water. Revealing a murky space occupying parallel bodies - human bodies and bodies of water - this narrative foreshadows new territory for her practice and begins to build a conceptual bridge between microplastics-polluted waterways and human bodies filled with the same microscopic plastics.

Amanda Thackray is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, based in Newark, NJ, whose practice sits at the intersection of craft, sculpture, and environmentally-based social practice. Thackray’s projects have been exhibited at The Newark Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Montclair Art Museum, The NARS Foundation, and The Knockdown Center. She is the recipient of a 2020 Creative Catalyst Fund Artist Fellowship. She has been awarded numerous residencies including The Arctic Circle in Svalbard, Norway, and artist-in-residence at the Museum of Art and Design in NYC. Her work is in over a dozen public collections including The Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, Mediatheque Andre Malraux, France, Yale University, and The Library of Congress. She teaches printmaking at SUNY Purchase and Rutgers University. Thackray earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Exhibition: Sept. 5th, 2020 - Sept. 27, 2020; Opening Saturday September 5th.  Schedule your visit by going to www.guttenbergarts.org/exhibitions  For more information please contact matt@guttenbergarts.org or 201-868-8585. Guttenberg Art Gallery is free and open to the public by appointment only. www.guttenbergarts.org  Guttenberg Arts programming is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas a. Degise, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Blue Ghost TrawlerHand pigmented cottonpaper pulp30 x 89 x 0.5 inches2020

Blue Ghost Trawler

Hand pigmented cotton

paper pulp

30 x 89 x 0.5 inches

2020