Guttenberg Arts hosts a wide range of exhibitions throughout the year which provides STAR artists and community members an outlet to showcase their work and garner exposure. In return we provide the public with a venue which offers unique presentations in an unexpected place... around the corner from their home.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
RSVP for the OPENING RECEPTION of
SPACE IN TIME
Summer 2026 Artists in Residence Group Exhibition
Amy Faris, Melissa MacAlpin, Sarah Lorito, Amber Sealy, Ripley Rice, and Jennifer Ulloa
Saturday August 8th 2026
7pm-9pm
(Guttenberg, NJ) – Guttenberg Arts is proud to present Space in Time, a group exhibition featuring work from its Summer 2026 Artists in Residence: Amy Faris, Melissa MacAlpin, Sarah Lorito, Amber Sealy, Ripley Rice, and Jennifer Ulloa. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, August 8, 2026, through Saturday, September 5, 2026. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, August 8, from 7 PM to 9 PM. RSVP at guttenbergarts.org/exhibitions.
Amy Faris presents Grid Bone, a series of prints that emerged from an unexpected encounter with discarded ceramic grill tiles. Their porous, gridded structure evoked the cross-section of bone (simultaneously structural, fragile, and decaying) becoming the conceptual foundation for the work. Faris explores the grid not as a symbol of permanence, but as a body under stress, where systems of order fracture, erode, and reconstitute over time. Through exposing vulnerability and resilience, the work reflects on instability as an inherent condition of living.
Melissa MacAlpin’s work centers on storytelling and the ways narratives evolve alongside the objects that carry them. Like treasured possessions that fracture, weather, and are repaired, stories accumulate emotional weight as they are retold. Whether functioning as a confession, complaint, or remembrance, MacAlpin is less interested in factual accuracy than in the transformations that occur through memory and repetition. Her work highlights the sentimental value embedded within both objects and the stories we attach to them.
Sarah Lorito’s figurative paintings, drawings, and prints examine the sustained scrutiny placed upon women and the systems that shape perception, power, and worth. Working in dark tonalities, Lorito constructs unsettling scenes where shadows become both witness and participant, blurring the boundary between the observer and the observed. Through careful manipulation of light, printmaking, and composition, her work addresses surveillance, gender, labor, and class, inviting viewers to confront their own position within these dynamics.
Amber Sealy creates multidisciplinary work that reflects on womanhood through ceramics and illustrative surface design. Balancing playful, childlike aesthetics with difficult subject matter, Sealy explores themes including poverty, gender roles, and assault while drawing upon personal experience, research, and cultural symbolism. Through hand-built ceramics and complex wheel-thrown forms, her work invites conversations about the historical and contemporary forces that continue to shape women’s lives.
Ripley Rice’s work imagines a speculative archaeological future beneath the ocean after humanity’s extinction. In this evolving ecosystem, discarded toys become the foundations for new life as nature slowly reclaims what humans have left behind. Collaborating directly with living marine organisms, Rice creates ceramic sculptures that function as living reefs, allowing corals, algae, and other aquatic life to transform the work over time. Through this practice, Rice explores humanity’s relationship to fragile ecosystems while emphasizing care, interconnectedness, and ecological renewal.
Jennifer Ulloa’s Freedom is a Place draws inspiration from Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s vision of liberated futures that already exist in fragments and possibilities. Through paintings and drawings informed by personal images of home, ancestral land in El Salvador, and organizing efforts connected to global liberation movements, Ulloa examines how memory, place, and collective action shape our understanding of freedom. Layering collage, texture, and color, her work seeks to make visible the symbolic and material infrastructures of more just futures already taking form.
The Summer 2026 Residency Exhibition highlights the diverse practices and perspectives of Guttenberg Arts’ resident artists, offering visitors an opportunity to experience work developed during the residency program. Through painting, printmaking, ceramics, drawing, and mixed media, Space in Time explores themes of memory, identity, resilience, ecology, social justice, and transformation while celebrating experimentation, dialogue, and artistic growth.
For additional information or to schedule an appointment, please visit guttenbergarts.org or call (201) 868-8585. Guttenberg Arts programming is made possible in part 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, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners. Guttenberg Arts programming is also generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
