Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography
March 1 – April 12, 2007, closed March 12 – 15
Artist reception: Tuesday, March 20, 5 – 8 pm
Imago explores the ephemerality of self and the will to re-imagine it, as seen in the work of nine international artists:
Renée Cox
Lyle Ashton Harris
Wojciech Gilewicz
Orlan
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Jake Rowland
Millee Tibbs
Martin C. de Waal
Iké Udé
Organized by Jorge Daniel Veneciano and Lisa Hasselbrook
A color catalog is available with texts by Laura Cottingham, Anna Deavere Smith, Orlan, Katherine Griefen, Catherine Somzé,
and Jorge Daniel Veneciano.
In the Rumble Room: Moving Self-Portraits – A complementary program of video by Andrew Demirjian, Orlan,
and Martin C. de Waal
A related solo exhibition spanning three decades of Orlan's career, Favorite Elements: Works by Orlan, is concurrently on view from March 8 – April 14, 2007 in the Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries, Douglass College Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick. The exhibition is organized by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin, under the auspices of the Institute for Women and Art for the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series. The Paul Robeson Gallery’s programs are supported, in part, by grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State; the Cultural Programming Committee at Rutgers-Newark; the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts Humanities, and by private donations.