ARTSPACE
ArtSpace is the official community space of Monmouth Arts. ArtSpace offers accessible, affordable, high-quality, engaging programming, exhibits, workshops, and networking opportunities to the Monmouth County community. It is located at 99 Monmouth Street in Red Bank (next to the Count Basie Center Administrative Offices).
Gallery visiting hours are Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00pm - 4:00pm; also available by appointment. ArtSpace is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Connie Isbell, Membership and Community Engagement Director, at connie@monmoutharts.org.
CURRENT EXHIBIT
The Sun, My Heart
By Summer Deaver
On View: June 18 - September 3
Opening: Thursday, June 25, 5:30-8pm
Special Event: July 30th, 5:30-7:00, featuring tea meditation, meet the artist, and light refreshments
Summer Deaver’s collection explores the unity of opposites through contemplative mark-making, oil painting and hand-burnished printmaking. Inspired by writings in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s The Sun My Heart, the series reflects the idea that light and darkness do not cancel each other out, but merge into wholeness.
Created with gouache and hand-burnished prints, the print work emphasizes presence and mindfulness—balancing immediacy with the meditative act of pressing hand-carved, often Sanskrit or Tibetan-inspired imagery into paper. Visual elements draw from the artist’s practice of watching ocean sunrises: triangular forms and soft gradients emerge from textured darkness, like dawn breaking over the shore.
Rooted in themes of interconnection and transformation, “The Sun, My Heart” invites viewers to witness how light and shadow, stillness and movement, self and other are never truly separate.
About the Artist
Summer Deaver is a multidisciplinary artist, yogi, and community organizer whose work bridges visual art, spiritual practice, and social transformation. With a BFA from the University of Georgia, Deaver's work spans printmaking, painting, ceramics, and murals—each medium serving as a vehicle for philosophical inquiry and healing. Her murals at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Whitechapel Projects invite moments of collective care and connection.
As Director of the Caroline Huber Wellness Center at Brookdale Community College, Deaver advocates for environmental regeneration and social justice with a healing-centered lens. She has exhibited at AG Gallery, The Kitchen, Cinders Gallery in NYC, and has spoken at the Rubin Museum of Art.
UPCOMING EXHIBIT
Unbroken Gaze
By Jude Harzer
Jude Harzer’s work has evolved directly from her position as an observer. She is deeply interested in the psychological power of the human gaze, particularly as expressed through women and children. Their quiet, steady watching reveals an interior world—one shaped by attentiveness, emotional resilience, and a desire to understand or respond to the behavior of others. These figures function simultaneously as witnesses and participants, inviting viewers into a subtle but potent exchange. In these paintings, the act of looking becomes a form of communication: a way to model, learn, protect, or hold memory. The collection of work on display at ArtSpace represents her drive to create space for connection, contemplation, and the complex emotional gravity inherent in observation.
PAST EXHIBITS
Interested in exhibiting at ArtSpace? Our applications for 2027 will open in late 2026.