Waltuch Gallery
The Waltuch Art Gallery infuses Jewish art and/or works by Jewish artists into our shared cultural experiences. The exhibits are designed to ignite imagination and encourage people to connect the visual arts with philosophical and spiritual concepts through a creative Jewish lens.
The Waltuch Gallery exhibits rotate monthly, and feature the work of painters, photographers, digital artists and other creative designers.
Exhibits are free and open to the community, and most work is typically for sale. A portion of the proceeds support programming efforts at the JCC.
Outdoor gallery exhibits are displayed throughout the Kaplen JCC Campus and indoor gallery exhibits are on the second floor of the main JCC building.
Jane Sklar and Max Cartagena: A Retrospective
Original Artwork and Photography
Jane Sklar
Jane’s goal in capturing fleeting moments of our world with her street photography is to imbue the viewer with a sense of mood and, whenever possible, social consciousness. Her aim is to evoke questions about the images much like the interactions with the imagery of painter Edward Hopper and photographers Gordon Parks and Vivian Maier.
Jane Sklar is an award-winning artist/photographer and Cornell University graduate. She became a professional artist and photographer under the guidance of her partner Max Cartagena who shared his technique of combining images without the use of Photoshop ®. Jane is a Resident Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City and is active in their gallery shows and auctions. In 2024, she won her fourth award at Salmagundi and earned the Margery Siroka Memorial Prize. Jane has exhibited her work at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY. Born and raised in New York City, her studio is in Fort Lee, NJ.
Max Cartagena
An AT&T GoPhone camera that won’t recognize any date beyond 2020, a zombie HP laptop computer that my niece threw out, and a pot of black coffee walk into a bar…
Add the Eye and the Imagination, some John Coltrane free-jazz craziness, the adrenaline of Kerouac and nightmare dizziness of Burroughs, a splash of Tabasco. Splice, chop, layer, massage. Lock the door and light the fuse.
The artwork is packed and the Senior Transit tickets are in hand. It’s time to move this party to the Waltuch Gallery at the JCC on the Palisades; the work is ripe and itching to be seen. Enjoy the ride.
Born and raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Max has written and recorded music, worked in Hollywood independent films both in front of and behind the camera, modeled, and designed websites which evolved into his unique brand of digitally-manipulated artwork. Together with art collaborator Jane Sklar, his award-winning art has been displayed at the Salmagundi Club and elsewhere in New York and New Jersey.
Both Jane and Max, members of the Fort Lee Artists Guild, received awards for digitally manipulated photography at the Bergen County Art in the Park in October 2025. Max won 1st prize and Jane won 3rd prize.
SHOWING: DEC 1-DEC 30