Kings Oaks

Kings Oaks projects bridge the familiar with the unknown in spaces where art, craft, and design are celebrated.

Our art exhibitions, performances, classes, and community gatherings often take place at Kings Oaks, an historic farm near Newtown, PA. At Kings Oaks an 1839 barn, chapel, and the surroundings are reimagined for visual and live arts events. Kings Oaks is co-created by painter Alex Cohen and theatre artist Clara Weishahn. Art at Kings Oaks, is our core invitational group exhibition.

05/31/2026

On the last day of our exhibition at we wanted to linger on a few intimate details from the many intimate pieces in the exhibition.

Our closing reception is today from 2- 5pm. After tonight this dream project will be shared and recalled in our collective memory. Many thanks to everyone who has visited, supported, and taken part.

1. Ruth Miller
2. Kate Powell
3. François Dupuis
4. E.M. Saniga
5. Margaret Parish
6. Lennart Anderson
7. Susan Jane Walp
8. Edward Gorey
9. Charles Ethan Porter
10. Joseph Podlesnik
11. Allie Webb
12. Gillian Pederson Krag
13. Clara Kewley

05/27/2026

Thanks to all who have come to see In the Company of Still Life at . The exhibition continues this Thursday - Sunday with a closing reception Sunday, May 31 from 2 - 5pm.

Photos 1,3,4,5 Courtesy of ArtYard, by © Miana Jun

05/26/2026

This is the last week to see In The Company of Still Life at in Frenchtown, NJ.
Thursday 11am-7pm (drawing night 5-7)
Friday -Sunday 11am - 5pm
Closing Reception (open to all) Sunday 5/31 2pm-5pm

05/24/2026

A series of porcelain and earthenware vessels and fruits by Brian Guerin are displayed in the Camera Obscura room at . The camera obscura, built for composing paintings by Robert Kulicke, is set up here to view arrangements of Brian’s ceramics. This is the final week to come see In the Company of Still Life with a closing reception on May 31st, 2-5.

Brian Guerin is an artist and archivist living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Using clay, stone, and found materials, his works explore natural occurrence, touch, and the perception of forms. Having studied a breadth of ceramic disciplines, Guerin’s approach is informed by elements from Song Dynasty, Shigaraki, and Ancestral Pueblan ceramic traditions.

His work engages craft techniques to dissuade evidence of human interference, instead employing them to mirror natural processes. In using porcelain and volcanic temperatures to create rocks, or carving stone to resemble softer ephemeral bodies, Guerin blurs the line between the figurative and the geological. Guerin holds a Bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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1. Video of porcelain vessels by Brian Guerin with found wooden flowers, viewed through Robert M. Kulicke’s camera obscura
2. Install view of porcelain vessels at ArtYard
3. Install view of Fruits, Unfired wild earthenware clay, 2026
4. Install view of Guerin’s work, Kulicke’s camera obscura, and sculpture by Mayumi Sarai on back wall
5. Photo of Brian Guerin
6. Eggshell Stack 1, Porcelain, 5” x 6” x 6”, 2020
7. Vessel with Arms, Wood-fired porcelain, 7 1/2 x 6 x 6”, 2023
8. Install view of Fruits, found frames from Margaret Parish

05/22/2026

The paintings and drawings of the late Robert Kulicke are prominently displayed in our exhibition at . We are also happy to be presenting two camera obscuras which Bob built and used to compose his images. Here they compose an image of Brian Guerin’s ceramic stone fruit and vessels .

…for much of his life Mr. Kulicke was the most innovative and influential picture frame designer in the United States. […] But Mr. Kulicke considered painting his life’s work.
-New York Times

(1924 – December 14, 2007)
Born in Philadelphia in 1924, Robert M. Kulicke attended the Tyler School of Art (Temple University) and the Philadelphia Museum School. In 1949, he studied in Paris with Fernand Léger at the Academie Leger, Paris. Davis & Langdale Company exclusively represented the work of Robert M. Kulicke since 1974 and continues to represent the estate of the artist.

Robert M. Kulicke primarily painted still lifes, such as a jar of olives, a bouquet of flowers and, his signature subject, pears. Intimate in scale, Kulicke’s paintings are often paired with frames handmade by the artist, frequently based on historical frame designs.
Text courtesy of Paul Thiebaud Gallery

1. Roses, oil on plexiglass with artists’ gold frame. 1969
2. Pear, watercolor and pencil on paper, 1973
3. Were of Watermelon, oil on panel with artists’ paper mache frame, 1985-86
4. Still Life with Sweet Williams, oil on panel with artists’ fruitwood frame, 1987
5. Flowers in Vase #27, pencil on paper, 1970’s
6. Interior of camera obscura room by Paul Warchol
7. Red and Pink Flowers, oil on museum board with artists’ gold frame, 1980’s
8. Two Peaches, oil on board with artists’ gold and faux marble frame, 1988
9. Photo of Bob
10. Interior of the Camera Obscura room by Paul Warchol
11. Video of the camera obscura featuring a painted pear by Bob on its side.
12. View through the camera obscura of Brian Guerin’s ceramic stone fruit.

05/21/2026

A gem by Jimmy Bellew greets visitors on the landing as they ascend into the exhibition, In the Company of Still Life at .

Jimmy Bellew (b. 1984, Fayetteville, NC) is a painter whose work moves between realism, the surreal, and the psychological. Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he draws from nature, light, and the shifting terrain of memory. His paintings balance classical influence with contemporary sensitivity, creating images that feel both intimate and otherworldly. He lives and works in Raleigh, NC.

Still Life With Three Leaves, oil on canvas, 11” x 14”, 2015

05/19/2026

Ten works by Gwen Strahle are installed throughout In the Company of Still Life at , drawing visitors through the exhibition, from the entrance to the final room. For the Brooklyn Rail, Tom McGlynn writes about “the luminously veiled arrangements of symbolic objects in the paintings of Gwen Strahle. Her deceptively quietist still lifes embody the nature morte aspect in a surrealistically energized field of closely valued hues in mythic reverie.”
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Gwen Strahle is a painter living and working in northeast CT. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. She shows her work with Nancy Divine Gallery in RI. Strahle has received several awards including the Connecticut Artist Fellowship, the Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorarium from the Drawing Center. Strahle earned her MFA from Yale University in 1983.

1. Chosen White Vase, Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”, 2025
2. Installation view of Shadow Painting, Oil on canvas, 62” x 44”, 2019, photo by Paul Warchol
3. Untitled, Ink on paper, 15” x 12”, 2021
4. Installation view of Chosen White Vase and Sleeping Shadow, Oil on canvas, 32” x 44”, 2021-22
5. Untitled, Ink on paper, 11” x 15”, 2021
6. Untitled, Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”, 2011
7. Gem in Bowl, Oil on canvas, 22” x 18”, 2016
8. Chosen Object, Oil on canvas, 12” x 18”, 2022
9. Untitled, Oil on canvas, 23” x 30”, 2008
10. Photo of Gwen Strahle and Clara Weishahn in the gallery at ArtYard

05/17/2026

A painting of a ship’s log and a moleskine scrapbook by David Fertig are on view in the Blue Room of In the Company of Still Life at . Alongside David’s work is a set of nine trompe-l’œil paintings of the scrapbook by his friend James Stewart.

David Fertig received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago (1972) and his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (1967). He taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts); Artists for Environment in Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He lives and works in Philadelphia.

Drawing influence from French Romanticism and Post-Impressionism, with an emphasis on the Nabis painters, to action and color field painting of the Abstract Expressionists, David Fertig culls various stylistic elements to invent an original language emphasizing most notably an expressive use of color to convey form. As the artist explained, “I look at everything. I borrow from everyone.” His sources, however, are not only pictorial but also written. Fertig studies who the historical personages were and learns of the details involved in the battles, inventing a pictorial rendition to suit their descriptions. These paintings are not intended as history paintings in the traditional sense of the genre. Rather, they are taken from actual events without placing an emphasis on the narrative element. The movement and drama of these military engagements comes alive in each panel through Fertig’s expressive surfaces. -Paul Thiebaud Gallery

1. David Fertig in his library
2. Ship’s Log, by David Fertig, Oil on board, 11 1/8” x 13”, 2025
3. Installation of Fertig’s painting and scrapbook at ArtYard, photo Paul Warchol
4. Scrapbook Painting 1 by James Stewart, inspired by David Fertig’s Scrapbook, Oil on board, 9” x 12”, 2025
5. Scrapbook by David Fertig, Moleskine book, mixed media, 7.25” x 5.5” x 1.25” (closed), 2022
6. David Fertig and Clara Weishahn in David’s studio
7. David Fertig in the gallery at ArtYard

05/15/2026

Closing on May 31, only a few weeks remain to experience In the Company of Still Life at in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

This exhibition explores the complex and enduring relationship between humans and objects through still-life paintings, prints, drawings, collage, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and found objects. Work from the 1800’s to the present day by 40 artists from 10 countries is displayed in a series of distinct rooms inspired by homes, studios, and architectural spaces encountered and imagined by Kings Oaks curators Alex Cohen and Clara Weishahn .

Exhibiting artists: Rotem Amizur, Lennart Anderson, James Bellew, Silas Borsos, Stepan Budulak, Mariel Capanna, Alex Cohen, François Dupuis, Elizabeth Endres, David Fertig, Edward Gorey, Brian Guerin, Johnny Izatt-Lowry, Dee Jenkins, Graesen Joyce, Clara Kewley, Ken Kewley, Robert M. Kulicke, Aubrey Levinthal, Susan Lichtman, David MacDonald, Alisa Maslova, Ruth Miller, Katja Oxman, Margaret Parish, Gillian Pederson-Krag, John F. Peto, Joseph Podlesnik, Charles Ethan Porter, Kate Powell, Gabriele Risso, E.M. Saniga, Mayumi Sarai, Kouta Sasai, James Stewart, Gwen Strahle, Rudolf Stumpf, Ali Sultan, Susan Jane Walp, and Allie Webb.

Video by Four/Ten Media .

05/14/2026

A wooden sculpture of a humble bread loaf upon a bench by .budulak is presented beneath Edward Gorey drawings in the hallway of In the Company of Still Life at .

Stepan Budulak was born in 2000 in the village of Pobuzke, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. He graduated from the Kharkiv Art School with a degree in sculpture (2015-2019) and continued his undergraduate studies at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv, 2019-2023). In his works, he uses sculpture, mainly wood and metal, as his main medium. Stepan now lives and works in Poltava Oblast

“Bread” carved wood, 22.8” x 9.5” x 7.5”, 2021

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