While most people can relate to Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” the art exhibit, “The Roads We Travel,” at the South Brunswick Municipal Building gallery tells the tale of 36 artists and 58 works of art. West Windsor artists include Tito Cascieri with “Not Many Roads Left to Travel,” a digital print; Ahuva Arie with “Mountains of an Ancient Land,” a collage; Jerry Spielman with “Snake River: Grand Tetons,” a photograph; and Amy Frankel with “Into the Light,” an acrylic work. Bill Hoo of Plainsboro is exhibiting “Wade in the Water,” a photograph.
The exhibit, juried by Cory Alperstein, an arts education consultant from Princeton, continues through June 20. Gallery hours are weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
“The works presented in ‘The Roads We Travel’ cross borders of time, emotion, space and medium,” says Alperstein. “They celebrate the well worn pathways of daily ritual, and the lesser traveled gateways to nature and the imagination. Through the artist’s eye we are invited to share an intimate moment of perception drawn from the road beckoning and the road taken; it is hard not to think of Robert Frost’s poem as we contemplate the artist’s product. I think in this exhibit there is little doubt that even the well worn roads are indeed ‘roads less traveled’ when interpreted through the artist’s hand.”
The last five lines of Frost’s poem can be related to the exhibit through the works of the artists.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference.”
“Facing the third stage of life; but the tires still have some tread left and the engine still hums,” writes Tito Cascieri in conjunction with his digital art print using an electronic paintbrush.
“Making art enables my heart and soul to explore uncharted areas and to fulfill my curiosity.” writes Ahuva Arie about the collage, “Mountains of an Ancient Land.” “By using color, shapes, paints, paper, and fabric, I can express my inner world and imagination. If my work touches another human being, I am gratified.”
