The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission is hosting its annual Staff Art Exhibit now through  Oct. 2 at the Flyway Gallery in the Meadowlands Environment Center.
   This year’s show includes traditional and abstract landscape portraits and colorful photos of flowers, dragonflies and other plant and animal life captured throughout the Meadowlands District.  (The  above portrait is by the NJMC’s Lisa Cameron.)

   Click "Continue reading …" for more information and larger images of many of the works on view.   
      

     The NJMC created the Flyway Gallery to help foster the cultural identity of the 14-town Meadowlands District by providing a space to showcase the talent of local artists.
    The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
    Admission is free. For information, please call (201) 460-8300 or visit www.njmeadowlands.gov/ec.

   Here are more images, and the name of the artist or photographer (in alphabetical order).

Interior, Rustem Pasha in Instanbul, by Irfan Bora.

Jill, an enhanced digital photograph by Lisa Cameron, who does portraits on commission.

Tranquility, by Jen Obando.

Paulo, by Claire Orshalick

Big Saturn, by Mimi Sabatino

Monarch butterfly by Marc N. Schrieks

Ocean Edge by Jane Stein

Great eget by Jim Wright