Hunterdon Art Museum Winter Exhibitions Explore Music, New Jersey’s 250th Anniversary, and Augmented Reality

Paul Deery “Variation 14” pigmented ink on paper, 16” x 32”, 2014. Image courtesy of Merri Cuadra.

(CLINTON, NJ) — The Hunterdon Art Museum announces its latest exhibitions. “Paul Deery – Bach in Color: The Goldberg Variations,” “Contemporary Artists Respond,” a group exhibition and “Christine Romanell – Cosmic Crossing” an Augmented Reality experience. All three run from January 25 through April 26, 2026.

Each of these exhibitions feature a dynamic range of art that explores visualizations of musical compositions, musings on the State of New Jersey’s 250th anniversary and explorations of color and repetitive patterns via Augmented Reality. 

“Paul Deery: Bach in Color: The Goldberg Variations” features a series of pigmented works on paper. The artist spent years constructing a visual language to translate Bach’s Goldberg Variations into a beautiful symphony of constructed color. This exhibition features the entire series as well as supplemental materials and notes from Deery’s deep inquiry of these storied compositions.

“Contemporary Artists Respond” is a group exhibition featuring Bonnie Berkowitz, Heejung Kim, Krystle Lemonias, Lauren Rosenthal McManus, Liz Mitchell, and Elie Porter Trubert. Each artist was asked to respond to themes including from diversity, land and resources, liberty, justice, equality, and migration. Collectively, these artworks allow us to understand history not as a distant concept, but as a continuous flow of influence that shapes our identity in the present.

Artist Christine Romanell, created a series of digitally fabricated artworks, including Augmented Reality sculptures as the inaugural artist for the museum’s “Out of Bounds Residency” which highlights artists working to push the limits of the art forms and the physical space of the museum. Her work laser cut and AR sculptures are on view on the museum’s terrace and in the museum shop.

For over seventy years, the Hunterdon Art Museum has been educating, challenging, and inspiring community through the arts. It presents over twelve exhibitions annually of contemporary art, craft, and design in a 19th-century stone mill that is on the National Register of Historic Places. A landmark regional art center since 1953, the museum showcases works by established and emerging contemporary artists and also offers a dynamic schedule of classes and workshops for children, teens, and adults.

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, from 11:00am to 5:00pm. The museum is located at 7 Lower Center Street in Clinton, New Jersey.