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"Twenty Artists Remember 9/11, Six Years Later," featuring works by local artists, will exhibit at Brookdale's Western Monmouth Branch Campus, 3680 Route 9 south, Freehold, behind the Bank of America. An artists' reception Sept. 11, 5-7 p.m., will open the showing. Light refreshments will be served. The works will be on display through Sept. 27. A special invitation is extended to middle and high school students to attend the reception and ask the artists about their work.

Among the local exhibiting artists are Ernest Antholis, Barry Blackman, Jerry Casper, Jerry Cohen M.D., Dana Cohoon, Margaret Coston, Vicki Culver, Vicki DeVico, Gary Gellman, William Imhof, Bob McKay, Bob Parker, Margot Parker, Greg Pfemmer, Monte Pellmar M.D., June Scharff, Avram Shapiro, Candy Langan-Sattenspiel, Mary Carol Stunkel and Veronica Yankowski.

Award-winning photographers Gellman and Yankowski exhibited their moving pre- and post-9/11 photograph tribute at the Gallery in 2006. Gellman's photographs celebrate the years prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and the majesty of the Twin Towers structures. In stark contrast, Yankowski's photographs chronicle the tragic aftermath of the towers' destruction.

Antholis, a former banker based in lower Manhattan, was walking to work from Penn Station when he heard the roar of the first plane overhead. From his office, on Sept. 28, 2001, he took the exhibit photos showing the aftermath of the destruction.

The free exhibit will be displayed in the Art Gallery, room 101, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details: (732) 625-7005 or www.wmfineartsgallery.com.