“GALAXY GATEWAY” This work by by Marina Ahun of Princeton is part of “Cultural Connections: Eastern European Artists from the Greater Trenton Area,” on view April 5 through June 8 at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie in Cadwalader Park.

“Cultural Connections: Eastern European Artists from the Greater Trenton Area,” on view at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie April 5 through June 8, highlights the work of regional artists with Eastern European backgrounds. An opening reception is on April 5 from 2 to 4 p.m., and an artists’ talk is scheduled for Saturday, April 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. Also related to the show is a Pysanky Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop on Thursday, April 19, 6 to 9 p.m., by artist Basia Andrusko of Yardley, Pa.

The artists of Cultural Connections:

Marina Ahun is a Princeton-based artist known in part for her watercolors that explore the architecture of Princeton, Trenton, and New York City. She was born in Soviet Russia, studied at the Imperial Academy of fine Arts in St. Petersburg, and is the licensed and commissioned artist for Princeton University.

Irena Gobernik is a wood and mixed media sculptor in Princeton. She was born in Kazakhstan and studied mathematics at Novosibirsk State University in Siberian Russia during the Soviet era. The former co-owner of the Dalet Gallery in Philadelphia, she specializes in small wood sculptures reflective of her Jewish heritage and marionette portraits.

Olga Gobernik-Kon describes her expressive and colorful work as “painting in glass.” Born in Kazakhstan and a resident of Princeton and Israel, her art is in several private international collections.

Adriana Groza is a painter known for vibrant, fluid, and organic works that capture natural rhythms. Based in Hamilton, she is a native of Transylvania, Romania. A participant in art festivals in the Middle Atlantic region, she has exhibited in group shows in Trenton and is a member of the Princeton Makes artists cooperative.

Jadwiga (Heidi) Jedrzejczyk is the Polish-born member of a family of artists working in oil. The Trenton resident has exhibited at Mercer County College, Trenton City Museum, Adam Styka Annual Competition in Pennsylvania, and with the Trenton Artists Workshop Association in New York City.

Tatiana Oles is a Moldova-born artist living and working in Princeton. A member of the Princeton Makes artists cooperative, she began her career as a decorative and pictorial artist but now works in a variety of approaches and mediums, ranging from watercolors to fabric, wood, and glass.

Asia Popinski, a native of Poland, is a painter, photographer, and trained psychotherapist based in Pennington. The subject of a solo exhibition at Trenton Social, she has also exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Pennsylvania Center for Photography, and the Arts Council of Princeton.

Jacek (Jack) Szymula is a Trenton and New York City photographer and painter from Gdansk, Poland. A member of the Polish American Photographers Club, his work has been on view at the Dominican Monastery in Gdansk, Polish Consulate in New York, Artists of Yardley Arts Center, Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Trenton City Museum, and the New Hope Arts Center. He is married to artist Ewa Zeller.

Leonid (Leo) Vayn, a Princeton photographer and documentary filmmaker, spent his early life in the Soviet Union during World War II. After business successes in the U.S., he has dedicated himself to photography and to the Tsal Kaplun Foundation, created to preserve Jewish Culture and Heritage in the former Soviet Union. He and his wife, Irena Gorbernik, actively present exhibitions and concerts featuring work by Eastern European artists in Princeton.

Ewa Zeller is a Polish-born painter living in Trenton. She has had solo exhibitions at the former Druch Studio Gallery in Trenton, PII Gallery in Philadelphia, and the Skulski-Polish Art Center in NJ. A student in both Warsaw and New York City, her work can be found in several public collections, including the Vatican’s Foundation of John Paul II and Trenton City Museum. In addition to being a painter, she is a guard at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City

The exhibition was developed by Trenton Museum Society Exhibition Committee members Liz and Dan Aubrey, and was designed to highlight the existence of artists active in aesthetic traditions outside those of Western Europe and to build awareness and artistic dialogue.

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