An Ellen Martin "Abandoned" lands in cWOW's 2017 Metro Show.

Red Bank's Ellen Martin has returned to the South Broadway area of Long Branch many times over the past two years while working on her “Abandoned” series of iPod touch digital photographs. She is pleased to announce that one of the these images - “Abandoned #153” - has been accepted into the City Without Walls (cWOW) 2017 Metro Show. The Annual Metro Show is one of the oldest and most respected juried small works exhibitions in the region.

“For me as an image-maker, seeing this area being demolished has been kind of tough. I see the bones of many buildings that were once beautiful in an area that was a once thriving pathway to the sea,” says Martin. “I’m glad I had a chance to capture these images when I did.” In 2016, another of her South Broadway images was juried into the prestigious New Jersey Arts Annual.
cWOW is an urban gallery of emerging art that advances the careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art. It is New Jersey’s oldest not-for-profit alternative art space, in continuous operation in the City of Newark since 1975.

The jurors were: Larry Ossei-Mensah, a Ghanaian-American Independent Curator, and Co-Founder of ARTNOIR; Siddhartha Mitter, a culture journalist and Village Voice contributor; and Margaret O’Reilly, Executive Director of the New Jersey State Museum.

cWow is located at 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ 07102, The opening reception will be Saturday, April 1, 5-8 p.m.