Art Exhibition Reception

Join us for a reception honoring Rutherford artist Mark Ferguson, whose paintings are on display on the library's mezzanine. Light refreshments will be served. No registration is required.

Mr. Ferguson has been a resident of the borough for over 25 years. His extensive career includes works as a university library director, professional cataloguer and researcher, high school art teacher, and lifetime student of art history. Only recently has he found time to return to his original calling as a painter.

For this he has chosen his hometown of Rutherford as his subject, its century-old houses, streets, and environs. He considers himself a regionalist painter in the mode of Grant Wood or Edward Hopper. His acrylic paintings, all measuring fourteen by eighteen inches, slice up his subject like the plots of land in his town, depicting the variety of homes and shared spaces found in the borough.