2009 - 2010
Amy Ortiz: Rivers Revealing Doors
February 5 – July 30, 2009
The Exquisite Corpse: Paul Robeson Galleries 30th Anniversary Exhibition
November 19, 2009 – April 28, 2010
Kevin Darmanie: In the Beginning
September 8, 2009 – March 25, 2010
Darmanie is a longtime Newark artist who makes paintings, prints, and comics. The work in this solo exhibition features an imaginary character “Kedar” through which the artist explores issues of relevance to his own life.
Laura Cuevas: Reminder of a Vanished Era
September 8, 2009 - March 2, 2010
Decadence & Decay: The Mansion Project
September 8-11, 2009
Pre-flight: Graphic Design Senior Portfolio
May 14-28, 2009
Fine Art Senior Thesis Exhibition
April 16 - May 7, 2009
This exhibition presents the final body of work of Fine Arts students after four years of intensive study in the arts. The program uniquely exposes the students to many areas of art including painting, photography, sculpture, digital arts, printmaking, theatre, music and journalism.
Hysteria: Past Yet Present
February 5, 2009 - April 9, 2009
Main Gallery
2008
Specimen: Representing the Natural World
November 6, 2008 - January 29, 2009
Main Gallery
Rebecca Jampol: Eastern Estrangement
September 2, 2008 – January 29, 2009
Orbit I Gallery
Jampol, a Virginia born, Newark based New Jersey artist, presents a collection of pinhole images, which take the viewer on a journey through the crude and desolated city of Newark, New Jersey and the abandoned back roads of Louisa County, Virginia. Jampol documents the Virginia and Newark landscape as part of her past and present. In this series Jampol generates eerily powerful, emotionally striking, and even ambiguous pictures of her environment. This series contains images of run-down houses on abandoned Virginia land and of
industrial city life.
Fausto Sevila: Story time
September 2, 2008 – January 29, 2009
Orbit II Gallery
Sevila is based in Elizabeth, New Jersey and is an arts educator for the Newark Schools. He has been painting and performing in the metropolitan area for over 18 years. His paintings are constructed out of acrylic, oils, oil sticks and spray paint on stretched canvas. In creating work Sevila purposely works slowly to allow infusion of ideas from his own life experiences. Sometimes, the images he utilizes embody a desire to bring life to places that feel desperate and sterile, places like hallways, bridges, streets, and windows.
Cultivating Tomorrow's Global Leaders:
Rutgers Newark Students Journey to Senegal
September 2, 2008 – January 29, 2009
Pequod Deck
This exhibition is a visual diary of an intercontinental learning experience, whereby Rutgers students immersed themselves in the culture of Senegal, a country in western Africa. Participants implemented community transformation projects through working collaboratively with grass roots community organizations in the capital city of Dakar. As part of a partnership with the University of Cheikh Anta Diop, the summer initiative served as the space for the execution of Urban Community Transformation final projects originally conceptualized in the Advanced Concept seminar. The trip encouraged students to understand the differing impact that global forms of oppression have on self, citizen, and community development. The students also explored community leadership in an international community, specifically engaging with young Senegalese students that were also working to create change in their community.
The Tenacious Gesture of Alison Weld
September 2 - October 30, 2008
Main Gallery
Saya Woolfalk: Three Videos
September 2 - October 30, 2008
Rumble Room
Of her work Woolfalk states, “I use art as a laboratory to catalogue and critique our socio-visual landscape. Combining performance, sculpture, painting, and video, my installations investigate and playfully re-imagine the representational systems that hierarchically shape our lives. My art is an experimental ground where I create alternative bodies, environments, and consciousnesses.”
Understudied: Paintings by Andrew Johnson
June 5, 2007 - January 31, 2008
Orbit I Gallery
A series of paintings by Johnson, who uses the Dutch still-life style to render the pharmaceuticals used to treat patients suffering from AIDS.
The Edge of Light: Selections from the AIDS Museum
June 5 - January 31, 2008
Orbit II Gallery
This exhibition presents works from The AIDS Museum’s permanent collection, including paintings on canvas by Gregory Gallardo, photography by Kurt Weston, and a poster by Keith Haring.
Nadine LaFond: For A Handful
June 5, 2007 - January 31, 2008
Pequod Deck Gallery
Working in two dimensions, LaFond’s paintings and prints are based on ideas
about healing and spirituality.
Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition:
"Off Culture"
May 1 - 15, 2008
White Riots and Anti-Black Violence 1946 – 1962 by Beryl Satter
March 19 – May 30, 2008
Orbit I Gallery
Riots by African Americans in the 1960s were widely publicized. In contrast, “race riots” by white Americans – many of which occurred in the urban North in the 1940s and 1950s-- were hidden by authorities. Few visual records of these riots exist. The story of these riots is rarely told in history textbooks.
Graphic Design Senior Thesis Exhibition:
[graphic] design is THINKING made Visual
April 16 - 24, 2008
Left in the Reign: Jerry Gant
February 13 – July 31, 2008
Orbit II Gallery
Jerry Gant is a Newark based a visual artist, illustrator and performance poet. Gant works across media platforms and uses whatever materials are on hand to create his powerful works. These mask address issues of identity and culture, past and present. Gant has combined materials traditionally associated with art production with material discarded on the streets.
Yilis del Carmen Suriel: Remembrance
February 13 – April 10, 2008
Pequod Deck Gallery
Yilis del Carmen Suriel is a Dominican Republic born artist who utilizes papermaking and printmaking in her work, creating large scale prints which echo fragmentary memories of her childhood. In addition to incorporating known text from the Bible and her own Spanish translation of the Alcoholics Anonymous’ Twelve Steps, her broken or incomplete childhood memories guide the imagery she creates
Neo-Constructivism: Art, Architecture and Activism
January 31 – April 10, 2008
The World in Prints:
An International Survey of Graphic Arts, Contemporary and Historic
November 8, 2007 – January 31, 2008
2007
A Processive Turn: The Video Aesthetics of Edin Vélez
September 4 - November 1, 2007
The Edge of Light
June 5 - July 26, 2007
Hector Canonge: 200mm3
Rumble Room
Documentary filmmaker and new media artist Hector Canonge, an interactive installation that integrated commercial labeling equipment with laboratory artifacts, barcode scanners, and computers to present intimate video interviews with people affected by the AIDS pandemic.
City of Muses: Newark Artists and their Students
May 28 - July 26, 2007
2007
Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Exhibition
2007
Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition
Flickering Self: Video Shorts by Andrew Demirjian, Orlan, and Martin C. de Waal
March 1 – April 12, 2007
Demirjian utilizes a surveillance camera technique and anti-aesthetic to investigate notions of the self and self-portraiture. Orlan’s ongoing voyage of self transformation is captured in her work. de Waal’s short film pays homage to Bas Jan Ader (1942 – 1975), an influential Dutch/Californian performance artist, who was last seen in 1975 when he embarked on the smallest boat ever to attempt a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography
March 1 - April 12, 2007
Night of The Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Justice in Cambodia
January 16 - February 22, 2007
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy & S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
January 16 – February 22, 2007
Rumble Room
In conjunction with the Main Gallery exhibition about the Khmer Rouge, the Rumble Room will feature
two films by Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh: “Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy” and “S-21: The Khmer
Rouge Killing Machine.”
2006
Grace Marquinhos: Plastered Embraces
September 20 – December 14, 2006
Orbit I Gallery
Leo Selvaggio: Nights of the Coloseum
September 20 – December 14, 2006
Orbit II Gallery
Narciso Montero: Upholstered Kisses
September 20 – December 14, 2006
Pequod Deck Gallery
“I make art for the common folk” declares Montero. In recent times he has found himself working almost exclusively with a widely available and often overlooked medium not commonly associated with art production—vinyl. The lowbrow, slick, and practical tangibility of this material is explored in the various works he has created. Educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Montero has exhibited his works primarily on the East Coast of the United States.
Howl at 50: Allen Ginsberg, Beat, and Bebop
September 5 – October 18, 2006
Rumble Room
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Howl by Newark native Allen Ginsberg, with video screenings of interviews, happenings, readings, and music performances.
Ni Modo: the imperative mood in recent latino art
October 26 - December 14, 2006
Rosalyn
Drexler and the Ends of Man
September 5 - October 20, 2006
Glass City
May 31 - July 27, 2006
2006
Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition, "Please Do Not Eat the
Still Life."
May 4 - 18, 2006
2006
Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Exhibition
April 13 - 27, 2006
No
Country is an Island:
Figures of Freedom in Recent Caribbean (American)
Art
March 2 - April 6,
2006
Full
Circle: Revolutions in the Paintings of Hung Liu
January 17 - February 23, 2006
2003-2005
An Exhibition of the Works of Gladys Barker Grauer
September 8 - December 19, 2003
Barker Grauer is an artist of unique and prolific invention. Through her paintings, mixed media, assemblages and weaving, through her transformations of common materials such as paint, cardboard, rags, and plastic bags, she enables a broad and deep public appreciation of beauty, community and, yes, the unknown terrain of the human condition. She does so without apology, with sentimentality. She calls forth the new and old realities of the world. She sheds light on what might be possible still.
Post
Independence Contemporary Indian Art:
Selections from the Sunanda
and Umesh Gaur Collection
November 2002 - February 2003
Dean's Purchase Prize Winners
A Trip in the Country
January 18 - March 19, 2005
Corpus
Operum: Senior Fine Arts Portfolio 2005
April
8 - 28, 2005
2005 Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Exhibition
May
5 -19, 2005
Reinventing
Newark
November 2 - December 15, 2005
2002
Post Independence Contemporary Indian Art: Selections from the Sunanda and Umesh Gaur Collection
November 2002 - February 2003
An exhibition of paintings and drawings designed to promote awareness and appreciation of contemporary Indian art. Includes the work of Jogen Chowdhury, Francis Newton Souza and Tyeb Mehta. |
