(DEAL PARK, NJ) -- Come stroll through the Gallery on Grant, located at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal Park, NJ as the venue celebrates the work of Georges Seurat in honor of their latest production, Sunday in the Park with George, which runs March 8-24, 2024.

This exhibit, highlighting paintings from five local artists, celebrates Seurat’s use of Pointillism in his most famous painting created between 1884-1886: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The gallery exhibit opens Friday, March 8 at 6:00pm and will run through May 1.

Seurat’s work utilizes tiny dots of color to create scenes of everyday life. He was influenced by Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Impressionist art is characterized by capturing candid poses as well as landscapes and is expressed by bright and varied color.

“Each of the showcased works is created in the spirit of Impressionism or specifically uses the technique of Pointillism and pays homage to Axelrod’s production of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George as it reflects the performance’s use of light and color,” said Randye Krupnick, art director for the Gallery on Grant.

The New Jersey artists showcased include Arlene Mollow, Marsha Heller, Andrea Geller, Léni Paquet-Morante and Leslie Backlund.

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Tickets for Sunday in the Park with George can be purchased by calling 732-531-9106, ext. 14 or visiting www.axelrodartscenter.com. Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning work blazes with color, light, and dance in this vivid reimagining of the beloved musical that stars Broadway favorites Graham Phillips (The Good Wife, Riverdale) and Talia Suskauer (from Broadway’s Wicked).

Paintings by Andrea Geller