Tiny Gallery x 112 Forest Street

Tiny Gallery x 112 Forest Street:
River Arwood exhibits paintings in which color and gesture suggest stories just beneath the surface.

“Mystery, Perhaps”
Is It Any Wonder

Six artists. Six tiny galleries. One quiet question: what is hiding in plain sight?

Opening during Garden State Art Weekend, “Mystery, Perhaps” invites viewers to lean in and consider the subtle astonishments woven into daily life. The subtitle, “Is It Any Wonder,” nods to that flicker of surprise — the moment when something ordinary shifts and reveals itself as quietly extraordinary. Each artist explores secrecy, revelation, and the charged space between what is seen and what is felt.

An opening will be held Saturday, April 18, from 5–8pm at The MC Hotel. This is an opportunity to see the entire exhibition in one location before the galleries are installed at their respective sites.

On Sunday, April 19, the exhibition unfolds across Montclair and Glen Ridge, inviting visitors to wander, look closely, and rediscover the neighborhoods they thought they knew.

Other locations and Artists:

Tiny Gallery x Erwin Park Island Garden:
Mona Brody presents a triptych installation a three-part meditation on presence and absence.

Tiny Gallery x Freeman Gardens, Glen Ridge:
Nan Ring presents portraits that function as feminist acts of rebellion, unapologetically provocative and existing at the intersection of repulsion and attraction.

Tiny Gallery x 8 Stanford Place:
Jodi Fink installs a series of mixed media works in which the remnants of our lives are gathered, reworked, and made luminous again.

Tiny Gallery x Van Vleck House & Gardens:
Jennifer Place’s mixed media installation transforms delicate wire insects into something both natural and unnerving, creatures that feel at once botanical and otherworldly.

Tiny Gallery x 240 Christopher Street:
Yvonne Duck brings her large-scale sculptural concerns into intimate proportion, compressing themes of containment, rupture, and regrowth into concentrated form.

Tiny Gallery x Lackawanna Station:
Dollhouse 3: A Room of Her Own

Referencing *A Room of One's Own* and Virginia Woolf’s call for women’s creative and intellectual independence, *A Room of Her Own* deconstructs the dollhouse and rebuilds it through visible acts of repair. Its fractured walls are held together with wire, illustrating the structure as both broken and actively being reconstructed. In this transformed space, small black-and-white portraits of women remain steady, each within its own frame. The work encourages a slower gaze, where each face carries its own history, asking not only to be seen but to be recognized for the fullness of what has been lived and carried forward, as well as in the agency each woman holds inside and outside the frame.