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Cumulus

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May 1 – 30

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Cumulus is an invitational exhibition featuring works that transcend minimalist abstraction, highlighting something peaceful and reminiscent, which we can all connect to. This dream-like collection of abstract works features celebrated New Jersey artists, offering viewers a quiet space for contemplation. The artists use color, form, and texture to evoke the feeling of fleeting moments, memory, and stillness. Exhibiting artists include; Ryniee DeCheser, Leena Joshi, Tracey Luckner, and Vincent Salvati.

The title, Cumulus, speaks to the light, airy, and expansive quality of the works, reminiscent of the “fair-weather” clouds moving quietly through morning air. It suggests a movement away from the hard edges of pure minimalism toward a softer, more evocative abstract language, a collective exhale in a busy world.

An Artist Talk will be held on the exhibitions final day, Saturday, May 30th, at 3pm at Hanover Creative Gallery.

Featured Artists

Artists in the Exhibition

Ryniee DeCheser

Ryniee DeCheser is a Korean American abstract artist born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in New York and New Jersey, including a solo exhibition in New York City in 2023, and group exhibitions at the New Jersey State Museum and The Painting Center. Her work has been featured by Suboart Magazine and selected for Saatchi Art’s Best of May 2024 collection. In 2025, she was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her paintings are held in private, celebrity, and public collections internationally, including in Abu Dhabi, London, and Los Angeles.

The Burgeoning by Ryniee DeCheser

Quietly Becoming by Tracey Luckner

Tracey Luckner

Tracey Luckner is a contemporary abstract painter based in Summit, New Jersey. She holds a BA in Art History from Pomona College in Claremont, California, which included a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has studied painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and privately with contemporary artist Bascha Mon, who served as her teacher and mentor. Luckner’s work has been exhibited primarily in New Jersey and New York. Her solo exhibitions include "A Sense of Place" at Port Washington Library (2012, Port Washington, NY), "Abstract Landscapes: Wayfinding" at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (2023, Summit, NJ), and "Lyrical Abstract Landscapes" at the Gallery at 350 Bleecker Street in New York's West Village (2024, New York, NY). In 2025, Luckner had two solo shows including "Light of January" at Healing Arts Gallery and "Lyrical Abstract Landscapes" at Overlook Medical Center, both in Summit, New Jersey. In 2022, she was included a duo exhibition, Nature In and Out of Focus, with photographer Leonard McDonald at Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit, NJ. After leaving a corporate career in 2020, Luckner has worked as a full-time artist. Her studio is located at the historic Manufacturers Village in East Orange, New Jersey, and her work is in private collections throughout the United States. Statement: "I have always been drawn to nature, inspired by the organic forms and rhythmic movement of water, trees, sunlight and sky. I also love the process of painting, especially the dance between deliberate and uncontrolled mark-making and translating feelings and experiences into a visual expression. My paintings combine these two sensibilities to explore the space between abstraction and the landscape." - Tracey Luckner.

Leena Joshi

Leena Joshi is an interdisciplinary artist based in New Jersey, whose work sits at the intersection of the outer world and the inner one. The outer world as she encounters it: places moved through, objects accumulated, landscapes absorbed, the physical texture of a life lived with close attention. The inner world: thought, feeling, and emotion in their rawest form, where there is no sense of time or space, only the intangible and unquantifiable. Her canvas is where these two meet. Self-taught and working primarily in painting, she builds her work from vivid color, expressive brushwork, and movement. Her practice is grounded in the belief that life is layered and complex, and that beauty is not on the surface of things but inside them, requiring attention to be found. That act of finding is what drives the work. Healing runs through her practice quietly and continuously, often without intention. Her creative journey and her healing journey have grown so intertwined that one shapes the other in ways she no longer tries to separate. Born in India and now based in New Jersey, she brings the perspective of an immigrant woman to everything she makes, not as subject matter, but as a particular way of seeing. One that is attuned to what is present and what goes unsaid. Her work is a sustained and deliberate attention to what is alive and luminous in everyday experience. Not in spite of complexity, but because of it.

Sketch book #2 by Leena Joshi

Vincent Salvati

Vincent Salvati is a New Jersey-based multi-media artist whose work employs abstraction as a personal language—a means of externalizing feeling, emotion, and inner experience into visual form. At the heart of his practice is an abiding preoccupation with time and memory; the way moments accumulate, fade, and leave traces. These concerns manifest through deliberate attention to color, surface, and mark-making, resulting in works that feel simultaneously immediate and deeply layered—as though excavated as much as painted. Salvati's work has been exhibited at notable institutional venues throughout the region, including The Montclair Art Museum, the George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University, and the New Jersey State Museum, as well as being held in private collections. Beyond his studio work, Salvati has been an engaged presence in the broader arts community. He served seven years on the board of directors for Pro Arts, a Jersey City-based non-profit dedicated to supporting and advancing the visual arts in the greater New York metropolitan area. Salvati holds degrees from three distinguished institutions—Pratt Institute, Montclair State University, and William Paterson University—a foundation that informs both the technical depth and conceptual ambition of his practice. He continues to live and work in New Jersey.

Quietly Becoming by Tracey Luckner

Exhibits

Cumulus

Artists in the Exhibition

Ryniee DeCheser

Tracey Luckner

Leena Joshi

Vincent Salvati

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