Tom Chesar
Paintings
Stockton New Jersey

STOCKTON  NEW JERSEY  609 397 2946

 

·         National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic – Board of Directors

·         Society of Tempera Painters

·         Artsbridge

·         Hunterdon Museum of Art

·         Philadelphia/TriState Artist’s Equity

·         Garden State Watercolor Society, Associate Member

·         Delaware Valley Artists, Past President

 

·         Flemington Studio of the Arts, Flemington, NJ 

·         Hunterdon County Library, Flemington, NJ 

·         Stover Mill, Erwinna, PA

·         Various group shows between 1980 and 1995

·         Main Street Gallery, Rocky Hill, NJ

·         Village Art Works, Lahaska, PA

·         Coryell Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

·         Newtown Gallery of Fine Art,  Newtown, PA 

 

·         Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission Presentation of Five Selected Artists, Clinton, NJ 

·         Bianco Gallery Six Artist Invitational, “Art of the Still Life”, Buckingham, PA

·         Water Media Show, Houston, TX

·         The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb “Up the River Now Invitational”, Princeton, NJ 

·         “Celebrating Phillips’ Mill  Seventy Five Years of Art”,  New Hope, PA 

·         2007 Invitation Exhibition of Ten Hunterdon County Artists-Cultural & Heritage Commission

 

More than seventy awards include:

·         Award of Distinction – Somerset Art Association, Bernardsville, NJ 

·         Bergen Museum Art Award - Bergen, NJ 

·         Best of Show – Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ

·         Patrons Award – Phillips Mill, New Hope, PA

·         Lambertville Historical Society Award – Coryell Gallery, Lambertville, PA

·         Univest/Union National Bank Award – Bianco Gallery, Buckingham, PA

·         First Prize – Hunterdon Museum of Art Members Show, Clinton, NJ

·         Michael M. Engels Memorial Award – N.S.P.C.A., New York, NY 

·         Purchase Award – Ellarslie Open XXIII, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ 

 

Selected by judges for more than 150 open competitive shows including:

·         The New Jersey State Museum Biennial in Trenton, NJ 

·         The Philadelphia/TriState Artist Equity Show in the Berman Museum at Ursinus College, PA 

·         Artsbridge Annual Juried Show, Stockton, NJ

·         Annual N.S.P.C.A Show at the National Arts Club, New York, NY

 

Catalogues:

·         National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic

·         Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission Invitational

·         “Up the River Now”, Bristol-Myers Squibb

·         “Celebrating Phillips’ Mill Seventy Five Years of Art”, 2005

          “Take Ten: Realism to Abstraction” An Invitational Exhibition of Hunterdon County Artists

 

Favorably reviewed in numerous newspaper articles including:

·         The Trenton Times  April 2000  Janet Purcell, “Artist Joan Miro once said, ‘you can look at a painting for a whole week and then never think about it again.  You can also look at a painting for a second and think about it the rest of your life.’  Tom Chesar’s paintings have that staying quality about them.”

·         Hunterdon County Democrat  Kristen Accola, The Exhibition Director of the Hunterdon Museum of Art in 2001, described Tom Chesar “as one of the most prominent artists in our region”.

·         Princeton Packet in “Time Off, Bucks County”  April 2004 by Amy Brummer – “The bicycle rider in the ‘Night Party’, the bass fiddle player in ‘Salt River Nocturne’ and the sages in ‘Wisdom Keepers’ seem to be archetypes made of stardust, full of personality and presence, their shimmering, twinkling environments look like they could disappear in a strong breeze, revealing the hot oranges, reds and yellows that crackle from behind a skin of blue and green”.

Publications:

·         “Artists of the River Towns” – Doris Brandes, River Arts Press

·         The Area Guidebook 2000-2001 edition “A Community of Artists”

·         “Hunterdon County Town and Country Living Magazine”, Fall 2003

 

His paintings are represented in public and private collections throughout the nation including:

·         Hunterdon County Justice Center, Flemington, NJ 

·         Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, NJ 

·         Carrier Clinic, Belle Meade, NJ

·         The Peggy Lewis Gallery in the Lambertville Free Library, Lambertville, NJ 

·         St. Magdelen’s Roman Catholic Church, Flemington, NJ 

·         Ellarslie Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ 

 

·         Fleisher Art Institute, Philadelphia, PA 

·         Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ

·         The Printmaking Council of New Jersey, North Branch, NJ

·         Independent study with prominent artists, including - Leo Russell and Gary Akers, A.W.S.