“LUNCH AT GILBERT’S”: This painting by Jonathan Rischawy is featured in “A Family Affair,” on view at the Croton Rod and Gun Club in Flemington September 6, 7, 13, and 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The “A Family Affair” fall art show will feature the work of four artists, all related in some way. Jonathan Rischawy and Zoe Rischawy are father and daughter. Steven Snyder (1956-2025) and Justin Anchinsko were father and son, and Anchinsko will soon be Jonathan Rischawy’s brother-in-law.
Featured works include stone sculpture and paintings in a scenic country setting. Both an indoor and outdoor show, there will be cover in case of rain. Show dates are September 6, 7, 13, 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 31 Rake Road (Croton Rod and Gun Club) in Flemington.
Anchinsko is a stone sculptor, learning the craft of shaping stone while working with his father, Steven Snyder in Bucks County, Pa. Over the years he developed a deep understanding of how each individual stone’s shape and texture can guide his hand to create work in a style uniquely his own. Anchinsko started creating stone benches and stone sculpture when he discovered how polishing stone brought out its inner beauty.
Jonathan Rischawy is an American painter working in an impressionist-representational style, saying, “My works depict everyday scenes and structures with an emphasis on light, line, repetition, and strong angles.”I’m inspired by the works of Edward Hopper, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edgar Degas,” he said. His goal as an artist is to bring the often unnoticed beauty of the everyday and common to the forefront.
Even from a young age, Zoe Rischawy has always been exposed to art, since her father, Jonathan Rischawy, is also an artist. Zoe has a creative and adventurous look on life and can work with many different mediums, including acrylic, watercolor, ink, pencil, photography, gauche, and charcoal.
Graduating from Ringling College of Art and Design, Zoe got her BFA in illustration. She has had artwork in numerous art shows in New Jersey, including The Hunterdon County Library Outdoor Art Show and The Young Artists’ Showcase at the Hunterdon Museum of Art. She is currently an art teacher in New Jersey.
The artist statement from Snyder notes: “My life is an association with rocks. I feel drawn to pick up every one of them.” Issues of love, commitment, family and spirit figure heavily in his work. Simple form, and the humor with which they were often presented, made his pieces easily accessible, and quietly compelling.
Born in Stillwater, Okla., and growing up in California, Steven Snyder became a resident of Bucks County, Pa., in 1966, and started sculpting stone in 1981. Self-taught, he entered stone sculpting through his work as a stone mason which began in 1976. Fascinated by early Pennsylvania stone architecture, the diversity of indigenous stone in Bucks County, and the tradition of stone carving and shaping in this region, he began exploring form and texture through simple carvings in native stone.
For 20 years, Snyder opened his sculpture garden and studio, Cedar Maze, to the public for a showing of his most recent works.
Snyder passed away in March from complications of Parkinson’s disease.