(MORRISTOWN, NJ) — Morris Arts presents Visual Meditations: Line, Color & Form, curated by Dr. Lynn L. Siebert, at the Atrium Gallery from October 29, 2025 through January 5, 2026. The gallery is located on floors 2-5 of the Morris County Administration and Records Building (10 Court Street) in Morristown.
Enter a world of visual splendors, captured in 173 artworks by six outstanding, award-winning artists: Lisa Lackey (Maplewood, NJ), Bascove (New York, NY), Neal Korn (Union, NJ), Nupur Nishith (Edison, NJ), Len Merlo (South Plainfield, NJ) and Alice Harrison (Morristown, NJ) who provide a gateway into worlds that touch on the intricacies, complexities, layers, and beauties of our fragile yet fascinating world.
On the fifth floor, the walls are a testimony to the rich and endlessly evolving visual language of Alice Harrison’s prolific portfolio. A multimedia master, her works reveal the remarkable range of her creativity which incorporates a multiplicity of techniques from collage on paper mounted on canvas, acrylic photo transfer that combines printing, handmade papers, photographs, layering of handwriting, original drawing as well as painting. Following the example of Picasso, this vibrant nonagenarian’s creativity and inventiveness continue to flow unabated and produce new and remarkable works, of which these 59 present but a small taste.
Another prolific and fascinating artist, Len Merlo describes his works as “meditations on memories, perception, time and place” and the selection on view in the fourth floor atrium and hallway areas only hints at the range of media in which he is fluent. Beyond his selection of pastels, collages, prints, and paintings displayed Merlo is widely known for his exceptional printmaking skills and for his work in monotypes, encaustics, etching, linocuts and sculpture. In this exhibit, his palette varies, from the intense and yet delicate coloring of his pastels (Oyster Shell series) to the muted earth tones associated with industrial elements. In some works, he incorporates fanciful, bold colors of imaginary landscapes or whimsical, strangely hued hand shapes (the Hand series), and intriguing combinations of organic and geometric forms within compartmentalized compositions. Blobs of color intersect precise lines, ladders ascend to mystical heights or map-like roads take us through landscapes below alien organic forms. His titles also reward that “closer look,” with their literate (and often philosophical), reflective or poetic quality.
To learn more about the full gallery and the artists involved, please visit the article from New Jersey Stage.