Art feature: Jenny Flexner Reinhardt, Angelica Dalzon, & Charlie Spademan
There’s something electric about the moment a community gathers around art—and at RecRoom, that energy is about to take center stage. As Garden State Art Weekend kicks off across New Jersey, RecRoom invites you to step inside a living, breathing creative hub where connection is just as important as the work on the walls. This three-day statewide celebration opens doors to galleries and studios, but here, the experience goes deeper: you’re not just viewing art, you’re meeting the minds behind it.
Spend the evening with multidisciplinary artist Jenny Flexner Reinhardt and illustrator Angelica Dalzon, whose pieces transform the space into a vibrant dialogue of texture, color, and emotion. Just down the hall, ironwork artist Charlie Spademan - also featured in our space - will welcome visitors into his studio, offering a rare glimpse into a craft shaped by decades of dedication.
Add wine, cheese, and plenty of good conversation, and you’ve got the perfect kickoff.
Jenny Flexner Reinhardt is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes wall-hung plastic sculptures, resin and paint-based works, and LED-integrated light boxes. In the plastic works, sheets are painted on the underside and adhered to her prints, embedding imagery within the structure of the piece. Jenny aims to create an immersive experience by initiating the viewer into a glossy surface of fetishized color and then force attention into smaller spaces.
Jenny has exhibited widely in group and solo shows throughout New Jersey, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Italy, with recent exhibitions including RAM Gallery (Summit, NJ), Shit Art Club (Los Angeles), 81 Leonard Gallery (Tribeca), Marquee Projects (Bellport, NY), and Zepster Gallery (Brooklyn). She has developed large-scale public installations for Lackawanna Train Station in Montclair, NJ, and has ongoing commissions through Teal Canvas for contemporary, oversized residential spaces.
Jenny holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan, and an MFA, cum laude, from the New York Academy of Art. After teaching studio art and art history earlier in her career, she shifted to full-time practice at her studio in the Valley Arts District in Orange, New Jersey.
Meet Angelica Dalzon
Angelica Dalzon(she/her) is a New Jersey-based illustrator and designer whose work celebrates sensitivity, intentional living, and the permission to take up space without apology through a maximalist lens. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts (New York,NY), she uses her artworks to embrace figures full of life and emotion, surrounded by rich patterns and intricate settings that serenade both the individual and collective experience.
Her passion for balancing specific details and radiant color palettes with strong emotional resonance invites viewers into a world of warmth, inclusivity, and beauty. These themes are a perfect fit for clients projects focused on creating space for viewers to see themselves and their stories reflected.
Browse her portfolio & print shop for art that’ll make you feel more like yourself.
Instagram, TikTok, Substack: @byangelicadalzon.
Meet Charlie Spademan
Charlie Spademan is an artist living in Montclair, NJ. His focus is primarily on ironwork, particularly on hand forging. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art for four years from 1974 to 1978, then moved to New York and embedded himself in the East Village music and art scene of the late 70’s and 80’s. He moved to Montclair in 1995 and has focused on hand-forging architectural ironwork, as well as creating objects in a broad variety of other materials. He has numerous commissioned works throughout New Jersey and New York.
“I have long contemplated the undefined boundary between fine art, craft and design, and what exactly makes one an artist. The overwhelming majority of the objects I have made over my career have been commissioned works designed by me or have been collaborative efforts with other artists/designers. My commissioned ironwork designs fit the vision of my client without compromising my own aesthetic. I have always felt myself an artist, and regard all of these works as my artwork, as well as my sculpture and painting. I find 19th-century and early 20th-century riveted and bolted iron structures most beautiful. In my artwork, I often explore the transformation of structural steel into organic forms. All of my work is entirely from my own hands. My lifetime of working with a broad variety of materials has given me the ability to visualize a work of art without being constrained by any consideration as to how to make it.”
- Charlie Spademan
