Joe Lugara

Resume

Select Exhibitions

  • 2024Noyes Museum, Members’ Show (group)
  • 2023New Jersey Arts Annual, “Mother Nature vs. Human Nature: The Inequity of Climate Resilience”
  • 2023Riverfront Renaissance Center, Millville, NJ, Scrutiny: 34 Paintings (solo)
  • 2021Noyes Galleries at Kramer Hall, Hammonton, NJ, Scrutiny: 55 Paintings (solo)
  • 2021Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University (Group Show), Atlantic City, NJ (through January 2, 2022)
  • 2020Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University (Group Show), Atlantic City, NJ
  • 2020Artfront Galleries, Heliotrope (online exhibition), Newark, NJ
  • 2019The Art Project at The Oakman, Jersey City, NJ
  • 2018Pierro Gallery, Pleasure and Terror en Plein Air, South Orange, NJ
  • 2018Noyes Arts Garage: RAW 2018: Photography, Atlantic City, NJ
  • 2018Noyes Museum of Art, Happenstance Is Boss, Atlantic City (solo)
  • 2018Drawing Rooms, Big Small Show, Jersey City
  • 2016Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY
  • 2014Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, Minutes, New York City
  • 2013Curious Matter, A Time in Arcadia, Jersey City
  • 2012Proteus Gowanus, The Fool’s Journey, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2012New Jersey Arts Incubator, Mudluscious
  • 2011Bergen Community College (Gallery Bergen), In Sight, NJ
  • 2010New Jersey State Museum, NJ Arts Annual: Fine Arts, Trenton
  • 2009Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery (solo)
  • 2009Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Corporate Headquarters, NJ (solo)
  • 2008Art: Raw, Inaugural Show, New York City
  • 200880 Washington Square East Galleries, 31st Annual Small Works, New York City
  • 2008The Gallery: A Public-Private Partnership (Summit [NJ] Public Library & Visual Arts Center of New Jersey) (solo)
  • 2007Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, NJ (solo)
  • 2007Schering-Plough Corporation World Headquarters (Merck) (solo)
  • 2006Atlantic City Art Center, Open-Ended, NJ (solo)
  • 2006Nicholas F. Rizzo Fine Arts, Non-Objective Works on Paper, NJ
  • 200580 Washington Square East Galleries, 28th Annual Small Works, New York City
  • 2005Easton Public Library, CT (solo)
  • 2001New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Fictional Biographies (solo)
  • 2000Van Gogh’s Ear, NJ (solo)
  • 1999Firenze Gallery, NJ (solo)
  • 1999Caelum Gallery, International Show, New York City
  • 1999Knickerbocker Gallery, New York City
  • 1994Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York City

Published Work

  • Your Impossible Voice, Issue #23, Fall 2020 (Cover artist; print publication)
  • Right-Hand Pointing, Issue #140, 2020 (Cover artist; online publication)
  • The Thieving Magpie, Issue #11, Fall 2020 (Featured artist; online publication)
  • The Shore Poetry, Issue #7, Fall 2020 (Featured artist; online publication)
  • Aquifer: The Florida Review, October 2020 (Featured artist; online publication)
  • The Oddville Press, Summer 2020 and Winter 2021 (Contributing artist; online publication)
  • Ligeia Magazine, Summer 2020 (Contributing artist; online publication)
  • Another Chicago Magazine, Issue #57, Fall 2020 (Featured artist; online publication)

Press

  • 2018The Press of Atlantic City, Pamela Dollak, “Taking Chances,” January
  • 2013“A Time in Arcadia” (exhibition catalogue), Curious Matter, Jersey City NJ
  • 2012“The Fool’s Journey” (exhibition catalogue), Curious Matter Gallery, Jersey City NJ and Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn NY
  • 2010“Reality + Artifice” (exhibition catalogue for NJ Arts Annual: Fine Arts), New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, May–October
  • 2006New York Times (Sunday), “Face in the Clouds: Poverty, Chastity, Obedience,” April
  • 2001Recorder Newspapers, NJ, ‘Fictional Biographies’: Out and About, August
  • 2001The Star-Ledger, NJ, Dan Bischoff, “Artnotes,” August
  • 1995Manhattan Arts International, Elizabeth Exler, “Redefining Outsider Art,” spring
  • 1995ARTspeak, E.C. Lipton, “Creative Vision,” October
  • 1994ARTspeak, Palmer Poroner, “What Are the Advantages of Figuration?” March
  • 1994ARTspeak, Will Grant, “Group Shows Vary Experiences of Feeling,” Jan.–Feb.

Awards

  • Hillyer Watercolor Award, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
  • Recognition of Achievement, Atlantic City Art Center
  • Honorable Mention, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
  • Honorable Mention, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

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