Jersey City Arts Council Literary Arts Committee

06/09/2025

🎨 Under the Influence – Open Call Now Live!
All art is inspired by other art. Every idea, every mark, every movement connects to something that came before. This fall, Gallery 14C presents Under the Influence, a group show featuring artists whose work is shaped by the influence of others.

🖼️ Exhibition Dates: October 3, 2025 to January 11, 2026
📍 Gallery 14C, 157A 1st Street, 2nd Floor, Jersey City, NJ
📝 Deadline to apply: August 18, 2025

Show us who inspires you. Submit your work today. Link in bio.

06/05/2025

First photo: I Wanna Be Me II — Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 in., 2024 🎨

This bold, textured painting by Chunbum Park leads their contribution to That’s Not Right, on view now at Gallery 14C through June 22. The show also features two photographic works by Park, continuing their exploration of identity, beauty, and transformation.

Through a richly abstract visual language, Park challenges racialized beauty standards and reveals a deeply personal vision of self—where gender expression, fantasy, and vulnerability intersect.

See their work during JC Fridays this Friday (June 6) and weekends 1–4 PM until June 22.

06/02/2025

🌀 ARTIST HIGHLIGHT: John Di Lorenzo
Now on view in the group show “That’s Not Right” at Gallery 14C

Catch it this JC Friday (June 6) and weekends through June 22!

John Di Lorenzo’s paintings linger in that uncanny space between memory and mystery. Drawing from environments that haunt his own past, his work functions as what he calls a “psychic container” — absorbing emotion, atmosphere, and the unspoken. His studio process is intuitive and layered, more like wandering in the dark than following a plan, and his paintings are best encountered solo, in silence.
Based in New Jersey, John is both a practicing artist and dedicated educator in NYC. He holds a BFA from Purchase College and an MA from Columbia University. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the tri-state area, including 14C Art Fair, Pierro Gallery, and Chashama.

🖼️ Don’t miss his haunting contribution in That’s Not Right — a show that embraces the strange, the uneasy, and the not-so-easily-explained.

📍 157A 1st St, Jersey City
📆 On view through June 22
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05/15/2025

Our doors will be closed until Saturday May 31st. See you then!

04/24/2025

Big thanks to Tris McCall for the thoughtful review of “That’s Not Right” in Eye Level on NewJerseyStage.com

Link in our bio to read the full feature.

On view Saturdays and Sundays, April 11 through June 22, 2025, at Gallery 14C (157A 1st st, Jersey City). Catch the exhibition during Art Fair 14C’s 6th Edition, May 8-11.

Featured works, in order:

“Chinese Takeout” – Teague Smith

“Slide” – Jane Westrick

“South Shore Phantom Limb” – John Di Lorenzo

Visit the link in our bio for more details.

04/15/2025

We will be CLOSED this weekend. Normal operations will resume Saturday April 26th. See you then!

03/23/2025

Final day for the inaugural Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week!

Featured artist: Sandra Cavanagh

Sandra Cavanagh was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and now lives and paints in New York City.

Gallery 14C has shown her epic, narrative paintings in the past, but this is the first time that we’ve exhibited the wonderful series of birds she paints in Litchfield Connecticut. In their own way they are as fierce as her allegorical paintings, and the colors of the feathers and sky need to be seen in person to be truly appreciated.

Phoenix area art lovers can see these birds at Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week (see below for ticket info) through 5pm PDT today.

Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week
West World North Hall
March 20-23, 2025

In the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and want to attend?
https://scottsdaleartweek.com/tickets/
Use the promo code CollectorPass for complimentary tickets!

Jersey City area artists can see “Cockfight” at the closing reception for “WAR peace” at Gallery 14C at 157A 1st Street, 2nd floor, 1pm-4pm EDT

03/22/2025

Gallery 14C is at the inaugural Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week!

Featured artist: Fabricio Suárez

Fabricio Suárez is a Jersey City based painter, originally from Uruguay, working in an Art150 studio.

Interested in the mystery and of what nature holds, his current studio practice consists of dark and colorful paintings mostly rooted in the landscape, and born of expressionist brushstrokes.

Mainly influenced by Old Masters, he rethinks traditional beauty for spiritual elements of American savagery.

Recently selected for 14C’s upcoming Showcase, Phoenix area art lovers can see selections of Suárez’ work at Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week (see below for ticket info) through the weekend.

Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week
West World North Hall
March 20-23, 2025

In the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and want to attend?
https://scottsdaleartweek.com/tickets/
Use the promo code CollectorPass for complimentary tickets!

03/21/2025

Gallery 14C is at the inaugural Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week!

Featured artist: Allan Gorman

Allan Gorman is an accomplished New Jersey based artist whose work has been featured in many museums and galleries. His beautifully meticulous approach to painting architecture has become more abstract in his most recent work.

Phoenix area art lovers can see selections of his work at Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week (see below for ticket info) through the weekend.

Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week
West World North Hall
March 20-23, 2025

In the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and want to attend?
https://scottsdaleartweek.com/tickets/
Use the promo code CollectorPass for complimentary tickets!

02/04/2024

Thanks so much to Michelle Messina Reale and Tea Marrocco for including my short story "This Isn't Going To Kill Me" in the current issue of Ovunque Siamo. I am so grateful for their support and so happy to be part of this terrific journal. Congratulations to Michelle, Tea, and their staff and to all the writers of this issue - and all the issues. Such an honor!! Grazie mille. Here's a link to my story:

THIS ISN’T GOING TO KILL ME “The progress has been pretty rapid, Tessie.” The doctor scribbles a few notes on the top page of a clipped stack. “We’ll have to make decisions right away.” He holds th…

11/18/2022

Open call. writing contest. No fee to submit. Blind entries. Details on the flyer for contest!
Essays | Poetry | Short stories | Flash Fiction | 2 pages max

• HERE is our final line up of judges! Please share this with folks in your writing community! All are welcome to enter. PLEASE NO NAMES ON SUBMISSION! Thank you again to the Green Hive and Cielo Mysitc for sponsoring this contest. Submit by Dec 2 before 11:59PM. •