Reception: Saturday, December 3rd, 6-9 pm. Art History is full of composite creatures - the Chimera, the Sphinx, the Griffins, Pan, the Minotaur, the Mermaid, Pegases, Medussa, the Satyr, the Centaur, -- the list goes on and on.  The idea of these creatures from mythology and fantasy has rapidly become more plausible with advancements in genetic engineering. This show investigates how artists today interpret and address the idea of creatures that are the sum of some quite different parts.

Reception: Saturday, March 3rd, 6-9 pm. The repetition of design elements is what creates patterns in a work of art and the variation of these repetitions is what often creates interest and rhythms. However, some artists take the task of repetition to extraordinary lengths.  This show will explore those artists and their work and ask “why?”

This show is in conjunction with SICA's SCULPTOURE. SICA will be exhibiting the finalist sculptors in each grade from New Jersey high schools. The winners will be announced at the reception, on May 12th from 6 to 9 p.m.

SICA's sixth annual urban sculpture park and tour. The sculptures selected from a nation-wide competition will be placed at outdoor locations throughout Long Branch and Asbury Park. This show coincides with the HIGH RELIEF High School Sculpture Competition. The reception will be on May 12th from 6 - 9 pm.

Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 6-9 pm. This exhibition will again feature the best "new blood" that New Jersey has to offer. Master of Fine Art graduates from Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers), William Patterson University, Montclair State University, and NJ City University will again be asked to participate.c

Reception: Saturday, September 1st, 6-9 pm.  John Fleck, Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller - these were the four performance artists whose proposals to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) had successfully passed through a peer review process, only to have their grants vetoed in 1990 after congressional pressure was applied. This show will seek to exhibit past and current works by these artists, but also look at how this controversy affected their art and their careers.

Reception: Saturday December 1st, 6-9 pm. (This year’s juror has not yet been determined.)

Reception:  Saturday, March 2nd, 6-9 pm.  In this era of extensive digital manipulation and alteration, wouldn’t some spontaneity be refreshing?  This exhibition will be a juried show of digital images that are taken and submitted via cell phones.  All submissions will be “un-shopped”- not retouched with photo-shop or other image editing programs. 

This show is in conjunction with SICA's SCULPTOURE. SICA will again be exhibiting the finalist sculptors in each grade from New Jersey high schools. The winners will be announced at the reception, on May 4th from 6 to 9 p.m.

SICA's seventh annual urban sculpture park and tour. The sculptures selected from a nation-wide competition will be placed at outdoor locations throughout Long Branch and Asbury Park. This show coincide with the HIGH RELIEF High School Sculpture Competition. The reception will be on May 4th from 6 - 9 pm.

Reception: Saturday, June 9th, 6-9 pm. This exhibition will again feature the best "new blood" that New Jersey has to offer. Master of Fine Art graduates from Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers), William Patterson University, Montclair State University, and NJ City University will again be asked to participate.

Reception:  Saturday, September 7th, 6-9 pm.   From the medieval Madonna tradition to more contemporary interpretations by Constantine Brancusi, Henri Moore, Dorothea Lange, Keith Haring, Louise Bourgeois, and many others, it seems the subject of the mother & child has always been a central topic in Western art. Today we see continual moral debates about birth planning and fertility procedures, as well as a cultural obsession with the mothers like Kate (of “John & Kate Plus 8”) and the  “Octomom”.  It seems that motherhood will probably always remain a source of strong opinions, deep admiration, and quizzical fascination. We will explore how this noble theme is interpreted by contemporary artists such as Janine Antoni, Edith Maybin, Nina Levi, Charles Pfahl, Patricia Piccinini, and many others.

Reception: Saturday December 7st, 6-9 pm.  (The juror has not yet been determined.)

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