Turning the Screw Back: (re)FOCUS Redresses Censorship of Feminist Art

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com - published 2024-04-14
In the current exhibition at the CASE Gallery at Rowan University, a basket sits on a podium overflowing with black buttons whose white letters ask: "Where's Bernstein?" Just who is Bernstein, anyway?

Mercer County Selects Artworks to Install Community-Themed Public Mural on Cass Street

(TRENTON, NJ) -- Mercer County and the Mercer County Division of Culture & Heritage (MCDC&H) announced that Artworks, the Trenton-based visual arts center, has been selected to design and install a public mural. The mural to-come, entitled "Breaking Barriers", will visualize the power art has to connect a community.

Grounds For Sculpture presents Slow Motion, Guest Curated by Monument Lab

(HAMILTON, NJ) -- This spring, Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) presents Slow Motion, an exhibition guest curated by Monument Lab that expands the boundaries of contemporary sculpture through the use of unconventional materials and processes. Founded in 2012, Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia, which cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments. Traditional approaches to monument-making emphasize durability, solidity, and myths of enduring permanence; however, Slow Motion, which will be on view from May 5, 2024 through September 1, 2025, will embrace the pleasures and possibilities of material transience.

Gabriela Salazar Exhibition "Whether Break or Shape" on Display at Drew University Korn Gallery

(MADISON, NJ) -- Drew University artist-in-residence Gabriela Salazar's exhibition Whether Break or Shape is on view at The Korn Gallery through Friday, April 19, 2024. The exhibition, curated by Jason Karolak, includes large-scale paper castings which incorporate natural and gathered materials, and sculpted wall railings made from paper pulp and fired clay.

Monmouth University's Pollak Gallery presents Metamorphosis: Works by Nanci France-Vaz

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Monmouth University's Pollak Gallery presents Metamorphosis: Works by Nanci France-Vaz from March 25 to May 2, 2024. This exhibition is in conjunction with the concert Metamorphosis: Portraits of Song on April 26 at 8:00pm. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public.

Art Alliance of Monmouth County presents 37th Annual Juried Exhibition

(RED BANK, NJ) -- Debmalya Choudhuri has been awarded first prize at the 37th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County at 33 Monmouth Street in Red Bank. The exhibition will be on view from April 6-27, 2024. Kelly Long juried the artwork in the exhibition. Long has served as Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she has managed the Photography Acquisitions Committee.

Princeton Makes Blooms - Art in the Basement

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Makes, the artist cooperative located in the Princeton Shopping Center, presents "Princeton Makes Blooms- Art in the Basement," a vibrant art show organized and curated by artist member Adriana Groza. This exhibition, set in the basement of Princeton Makes within the Princeton Shopping Center, celebrates the essence of spring through a captivating collection of works by their talented member artists. The exhibit will be open to the public and available for viewing and purchase through April 19, 2024.

Bridging Nature and the Man-Made - "Reverie of the Natural & Found" Combines Assemblage and Environmental Art at WhittemoreCCC

by Sara Catherine Lichon - published 2024-03-29
On a sunny spring evening, you enter a small and unassuming art gallery nestled in the forest. It's buzzing with excitement. Classical guitar weaves through the rooms, filling the space between conversations and observations. On a table near the door lies a gigantic, custom-made charcuterie board of upcycled wood, filled with marinated feta, sun dried tomatoes, pickled mushrooms and green strawberries, crostini's, smoked salmon, whipped ricotta spread, and cheeses locally sourced from local farms and food purveyors.* After grabbing a snack, you move from room to room, greeted by a variety of unique and intricate pieces.

Playing Seriously at the Hunterdon Art Museum

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com - published 2024-03-28
The Pattern & Decoration (P&D) movement emerged in the 1970s as an "irreverent upstart movement," to borrow the words of New York Times art critic Roberta Smith. It offered an alternative "to the general manliness of modernism," and elevated women's work. It looked to decorative traditions across the world, to surfaces like textiles, to wallpaper, manuscript illuminations, mosaics, glassware, embroideries, and architectural flourishes, writes Tess Thakara at Artsy.net.