Art in Hoboken
This past weekend was Hoboken’s Open Studios weekend. I was hoping to have a good tour of studios to make up for missing out on Jersey City’s art. And I did get to see some, but not much.
I stayed out late at Games Club Friday night, and woke up late Saturday. Then it was unpleasant and rainy, so I bailed and just hung out at Ground.
Got up pretty late on Sunday, too. Hoboken’s tour is pretty spread out. There is a cluster of artists at the Monroe Center, but proportionally it seems like things are more distributed up there. So all I got to see was the Center. Which was pretty good; it’s a more accomplished, professional crowd up there than down here. And they hold more studio shows on the first Sunday of each month, so maybe I’ll visit again.
I stayed past the last tour bus, and walked back down through Hoboken towards the PATH, stopping off at a coffee bar on Washington that was also showing paintings by local pop-artist Robert Piersanti. I tried out one of my new sketchpads sketching a woman who was doing her homework nearby. I had just looked through Ronnie Del Carmen’s and Enrico Casarosa’s Fragments a day or two before, and I was in the mood to play around with Casarosa’s Tombo-and-water-brush sketching technique, but the paper seems to be insufficiently absorbent to really make use of it.
And I found a pretty good music store on Washington too. They file used CDs along with the new, so you can see a disk for, say $15, and then right next to it a used version of the same one for $5. And lots of reasonably-priced imports. I picked up The Very Best of Lou Reed and The Corrs’s In Blue.
I stayed out late at Games Club Friday night, and woke up late Saturday. Then it was unpleasant and rainy, so I bailed and just hung out at Ground.
Got up pretty late on Sunday, too. Hoboken’s tour is pretty spread out. There is a cluster of artists at the Monroe Center, but proportionally it seems like things are more distributed up there. So all I got to see was the Center. Which was pretty good; it’s a more accomplished, professional crowd up there than down here. And they hold more studio shows on the first Sunday of each month, so maybe I’ll visit again.
I stayed past the last tour bus, and walked back down through Hoboken towards the PATH, stopping off at a coffee bar on Washington that was also showing paintings by local pop-artist Robert Piersanti. I tried out one of my new sketchpads sketching a woman who was doing her homework nearby. I had just looked through Ronnie Del Carmen’s and Enrico Casarosa’s Fragments a day or two before, and I was in the mood to play around with Casarosa’s Tombo-and-water-brush sketching technique, but the paper seems to be insufficiently absorbent to really make use of it.
And I found a pretty good music store on Washington too. They file used CDs along with the new, so you can see a disk for, say $15, and then right next to it a used version of the same one for $5. And lots of reasonably-priced imports. I picked up The Very Best of Lou Reed and The Corrs’s In Blue.