Pro Arts Group exhibit

Pro Arts Group Exhibition & Celebration / January 6-31 / Reception Tuesday January 14, 6-8pm.

Rotunda Gallery @ City Hall, 280 Grove Street / Info: 201-547-4333

Pro Arts was founded in 1994 with a call to the artists in Jersey City and Hoboken to work together towards the promotion of the visual arts and advancement of the rights, welfare and economic well being of professional artists.

In celebration for the 20th year Anniversary, Pro Arts will be kicking off the year in Celebration with a Committee member show that will feature members who have volunteered their time to Pro Arts events in the last year. Please come and toast them. They make Pro Arts happen!

Featured artists include Vince Salvati, Beatrice Mady, Mollie Thonneson, Leona Strassberg-Steiner, Alan Walker, Caridad Kennedy, Cynthia Kwarula, Arlene Bassis, Joan Marie Palmer, Edmund Jan Kounitz, Abby Levine, Monique Sarfity, Sidney Montanez, Tatiana Lopez, Carla Cubit, Kay Kenny and AKA 999.

Black History group Exhibit

Gallery Opening February 16, 6-8pm.

Black History Month Group Exhibition
Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, 280 Grove Street
reception 6-8pm.
artists: Lavett Ballard, Alvin Pettit, Joe Gilmore, Gerald Glover, Michael DuBose, Rose Moultrie, Cheese

God Muse Monster, art exhibit

GOD MUSE MONSTER , a solo exhibit by John Fathom.  LITM, Newark Ave. oct 4 - 24 2011

opening reception with the artist    Oct 4, 8 -11pm
A collection that explores the power of idolatry and the fine line that separates Gods from Monsters when interpreted by man. Other themes like opposition, power and independence will be expressed through mediums like, silkscreen, limited run toys and of course John Fathom's  wall hung light box sculptures.

Beyond the light, art is a feeling language

Brennan Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue  may 25,  5.30 - 8 pm
opening reception of  Art is a feeling language

This show is a culmination of Two years of Bojana Coklyat working with the students from St. Joseph's School for the Blind. Over 30sculptures and paintings by students ranging from ages 3yrs to 10yrs old. Absolutely the main focus is the students but there will be several works of Bojana, showing the parallel between what she does and how it may affect the students (none of them are doing any kind of octopus women work).

 March 16 - april 21
Opening reception is on March 16, 5-8 pm. The exhibition will remain on view till April 21. The artist Melanie Vote replicates childhood toys in plaster, to imbue them with a sculptural quality, and to use them as maquettes to paint landscapes from. By placing the cast toys within the contemporary American landscape as ruins and monoliths, they become archeological evidence of a society with questionably little substance to leave behind.

Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Hepburn Hall Room 323, NJCU

2039 Kennedy Boulevard

Blasted lands

KEN BASTARDs first exhibit at Fish with Braids! "Blasted lands" brings his collages of photographs and graphics as well the drawings he is so famous for.
June 4 - 21,
opening reception june 5th, 7 - 10 pm
Deejay Pastiche stirs the spirits with minimal techno and electronic noise

Little Masters, opening reception, JCU

Lisa Halpern's MFA show "Little Masters" is on
view at the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, 2039 Kennedy Blvd, JCU. Her reception is on Thurs. 22nd, from
4:30 to 7:30 pm.

vestige, justine reyes, sonja thomsen, gallery 58

VESTIGE - Works by Justine Reyes and Sonja Thomsen april 9 - may 1st

OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday April 9th 7-11p
58 Gallery
58 coles st jersey city nj. 07302

closing reception may 1st, 7 -9 pm


Justine Reyes:
These Last Things consist of large-scale color photographs of the
interior of four drawers. I took these drawers out of my uncle's
dresser after he passed away.  The title refers to the Novissima or
the Four Last Things that every man must face; Death, Judgement,
Heaven and Hell. I chose this title not only because my uncle was
Catholic and very religious but also because it refers to the things
we leave behind when we die. These drawers are the last physical trace
or vestige of my uncle, left untouched in his memory.

Sonja Thomsen:
As the word lacuna references both intellectual and physical gaps, the
temporal installation titled lacuna is a metaphor for memory and
aging.  70 small images hang on the wall, some in stacks of
reproductions waiting to be peeled away.  Throughout the duration of
the installation the images are removed, fade and reveal an impression
in plexi of the image that was once there. Place and person become
symbol and impression in the work creating an emotive narrative
suspended in the gap between; a man straddling dementia, a boy in his
teenage prime, hands cradling the last harvest of raspberries.

countertheory, Favianna Rodriguez, gallery 58, opening

COUNTERTHEORY - Works by Favianna Rodriguez

Favianna Rodriguez is an artist who has helped foster resurgence in political arts both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Magazine as a leading visionary artist and changemaker,” Rodriguez is renown for her cultural media projects dealing with social issues such as war, immigration, and globalization, as well as for her leadership in establishing innovative institutions that promote and engage new audiences in the arts.

Exhibit Opening Night //
Friday, March 12, 2010, 7-11 PM

Global beats & local organic veggie refreshments

The March Hare at Railroad Studio, performance, art opening

3/5, 7pm - 1 am, 150 Newark Ave, #4R
Railroad Studio presents "The March Hare", our next installation with JC Fridays. Live video painting on the hour with interactive segments by Olivia Wilber... Music by DJ Purple Stuff, Lady Jay, Toolman, Diana + Gio, and Land of the Look Behind... Artisan bazaar with Jessica Annunziata, Lora Morgenstern, and Oil Can Press in the rear lounge. BYOB por favor :)

behind bluer boroughs, exhibit, opening reception, fish with braids

3/5 - 3/23 2010,
opening reception 3/5, 6-10 pm
with a twisted Urban fairytale Ford expresses his own anxieties, fascination and turmoil with the "City".