"Ice-Cream Parlor" - An ice-cream themed art exhibition and experience
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This special group exhibition is inspired by our neighbors at Cookman Creamery, a bespoke ice cream parlor, located with us on the Arts Block of Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park.
Ice cream is sensory, nostalgic, a little indulgent. It's cold and it melts. It's tied to memory, to pleasure, to summer, to childhood. It can be humble or over the top. It's a gift. It's a mood. It disappears while you're eating it. It sits on a threshold — a foam frozen in suspension, awaiting thaw.
The works in this exhibition are connected by that world: color, texture, emotion, memory, transformation, production and consumption, nostalgia, glacial grief, simple joy, desire, delight- the experience of the ritual of ice-cream.
This exhibition was born out of the joy of collaboration, and out of a desire to continue breaking down the perceived barriers of a contemporary gallery space — to make art accessible to everyone who wants to experience it. There are many nights where people buy ice cream from next door and stand on the sidewalk, staring through our windows at the work on the walls, but never step inside Parlor.
So now, we're bringing the Ice Cream Parlor to Parlor. And we mean that literally. Visitors are welcome to buy a scoop and sit with the art. Groups can reserve a table inside the gallery and throw their own Ice Cream Party — surrounded by the work on the walls. The gallery becomes the parlor. The art becomes the experience.
-Save the date-
Opening Night Reception at Parlor Gallery
Saturday-August 1st, 2026 from 7-11pm
The Exhibition will be on view until September 9th, 2026
*Stay tuned for special events to be announced each week of this special exhibition*
Ice cream is sensory, nostalgic, a little indulgent. It's cold and it melts. It's tied to memory, to pleasure, to summer, to childhood. It can be humble or over the top. It's a gift. It's a mood. It disappears while you're eating it. It sits on a threshold — a foam frozen in suspension, awaiting thaw.
The works in this exhibition are connected by that world: color, texture, emotion, memory, transformation, production and consumption, nostalgia, glacial grief, simple joy, desire, delight- the experience of the ritual of ice-cream.
This exhibition was born out of the joy of collaboration, and out of a desire to continue breaking down the perceived barriers of a contemporary gallery space — to make art accessible to everyone who wants to experience it. There are many nights where people buy ice cream from next door and stand on the sidewalk, staring through our windows at the work on the walls, but never step inside Parlor.
So now, we're bringing the Ice Cream Parlor to Parlor. And we mean that literally. Visitors are welcome to buy a scoop and sit with the art. Groups can reserve a table inside the gallery and throw their own Ice Cream Party — surrounded by the work on the walls. The gallery becomes the parlor. The art becomes the experience.
-Save the date-
Opening Night Reception at Parlor Gallery
Saturday-August 1st, 2026 from 7-11pm
The Exhibition will be on view until September 9th, 2026
*Stay tuned for special events to be announced each week of this special exhibition*
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Where is it happening?
717 Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ, United States, New Jersey 07712
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Host or PublisherParlor Gallery
