Glen Rock September 14, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 5 Glen Rock resident Joe Terrone will be exhibiting his paintings at The Gallery of the Presbyterian Church at Franklin Lakes now through Sept. 31. Exhibit hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The public is welcome to visit the gallery, which is located at 730 Franklin Lake Road in Franklin Lakes. Admission is free. Terrone is a professional New Jerseybased artist. He holds BFA from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt Institute. He also holds New Jersey State Certification as an art teacher. Terrone’s plein air paintings have been shown throughout the tri-state area and have been collected throughout the country. His work can be seen at the Right Angle Gallery in Hoboken and online at The Brigham Galleries(www.thebrighamgalleries.com), where his paintings are consistently selected as juror’s picks. Borough artist exhibits work at local gallery In the past, Terrone has been included in shows at the Brooklyn Museum and BACA Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the Plein Air Painters of New Jersey, The Society of Plein Air Painters, The Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters, The Riverdale Art Center, and The Ridgewood Art Institute. His work may be viewed at www.joeterrone.com. The artist was recently selected to participate in “Paint the Town,” a premier plein air event being held in Cranford, and the North Bennington Plein Air Competition in North Bennington, Vermont. His painting, “Last Snow,” was selected as a final- ist in The Artist’s Magazine’s 28th annual competition. After completing graduate school, Terrone worked abstractly in mixed media on paper. The success he was enjoying was met head on by a strong desire to revisit realism, so he began to paint outdoors. The experience was a spiritual awakening and he decided to move his energies into landscape painting. This combination of realism and abstraction was transformed into a unique energy evident in his work. Originating from his abstract art background coupled with his response to plein air painting, his (continued on page 8) ‘Last Snow’ by Joe Terrone.