“YOUNG HARE”: This photograph of a Krishna Devotee taken by Joseph DeFay will be on display at the Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville beginning September 8.

Artists’ Gallery presents “Enchantment,” an exhibition featuring the oil paintings of Maxine Shore and the photographs of Joseph DeFay. The show runs from Thursday, September 8 through Sunday, October 2, 2016. A reception with the artists will be held at the gallery at 8 Bridge Street in Lambertville from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, 2016.

Maxine Shore was born in New York, N.Y. and educated at Chatham College and Middlebury College. Formerly a teacher of art, Maxine studied art at The Parsons School of Design, the National Academy and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Shore is a contemporary colorist who uses color and light in an effort to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Inspiration for her paintings often comes from travel to places near and far that spark her imagination. Working exclusively in oils, she relies on watercolor or pencil sketches as well as her camera to record images that she works on in her studio.

She is not a traditional representational painter. She is more interested in interpreting how a place makes her feel than simply reproducing how it looks. Even when a painting is representational there exists an abstract dynamic below the surface. Exploring the interplay of colors, shapes, patterns of lights and darks, and composition all contribute to the final outcome.

Joseph DeFay is a member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and the Plastic Club. His work has been exhibited at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse, the Plastic Club, the Art Alliance, Perkins Center for the Arts, Bucks County Audubon Society, and the Hamilton Township Public Library.

His photographs attempt to document a view of the various ways individuals explore their existence through philosophy, religion, or tradition. The current exhibit “New Vrindaban (The Land of Krishna)” includes photos taken in the mid-70s during a four-day stay at a Hare Krishna farm community in West Virginia. They are being seen together for the first time.

Krishna (meaning Dark or Dark Blue), also known as Govinda (Cow Protector), is one of the most beloved and widely worshipped of all the Hindu Deities. He is the central character of the immensely popular Hindu Scripture called the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God). Today his teachings and exploits are still widely celebrated by Hindus around the world.

Artists’ Gallery is located at 18 Bridge Street in Lambertville. The gallery is open every Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, visit www.lambertvillearts.com.