Synonymms
June 1 –June 21, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday June 1, 2024 6pm – 8pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St
New York, NY

Synonymms with an additional m presents artwork by twelve artists who are also Rutgers
University’s 2024 Visual Arts MFA Graduate cohort.

Artists
Sandra SK Amoabeng, Angela Bidak, Maura Torres Díaz, Alfred Dudley III, Em Gallagher, Jason Hirata, Andrew Kennedy, Kabi Raj Lama
Maisie Luo, Park McArthur, Justin Nalley, Nick Newlin, Adi Blaustein Rejtö, Anton Varga.

This capstone exhibition is an occasion to consider the artists’ disparate practices following two years of graduate study. While this study in a formal sense has ended, it continues through frequently collaborative and/or collective activities such as teaching, organizing, mentoring, and archiving facilitated by and for the show’s participating artists. Like the artists departing their graduate program, Synonymms’s organizers, Park McArthur and Jason Hirata, are leaving their current roles at Rutgers as well, and will present artwork also, bringing the total number of exhibiting artists to fourteen.

The artists in this exhibition are part of a greater half-century of Rutgers University arts education that prioritizes experimentation across artistic media and disciplines.

The exhibition was realized with the support of Art & Design Department faculty and staff as well as that of Westbeth Gallery’s Director Valérie Hallier and Gallery Coordinators. This iteration of the Rutgers in New York exhibition series returns, for a third time, to Westbeth–a complex of homes, artists’ studios, and arts organizations living at the intersection of West,
Bethune, Washington, and Bank Streets.

Please join the artists for an opening reception Saturday, June 1, 6–8 p.m.

Westbeth Gallery courtyard 55 Bethune Street New York, New York 10014.
The building’s courtyard faces Bank Street and provides step-free access to Westbeth Gallery.
Westbeth Gallery is open Wednesday–Sunday 1–6 p.m.

Mask: If you are able to, please wear a mask inside the gallery.

For remote or in person tours, press inquiries, access, more information
please email: rutgers.ny@gmail.com
or visit
masongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu/synonymms.

For more information about the Art & Design Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University please visit: masongross.rutgers.edu/degrees-programs/art-design.

For more about Westbeth Gallery please visit: https://westbeth.org/about/westbeth-gallery.