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SUMMARY:Rutgers in New York: Following the TraceMFA Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJune 4–23\, 2025\nReception: Saturday June 7\, 6–8pm\nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY 10014 \n \nVideo of work featured in the show \n \nFrancisco echo Eraso\, Desde abajo\, 2025. Handmade ceramic roof tiles molded after the colonial roofing from abuelito Erlinto’s since-demolished house in Pasto\, Colombia\, and Juanita’s streetside roof tile finds in San Pedro de la Bendita\, Loja\, Ecuador\, bass shakers\, amplifier\, and wood cross\, 70 x 70 x 35 inches. Photo: María del Mar Hernández \nFeaturing work by Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo\, Ian Byers-Gamber\, Francisco echo Eraso\, Harley Hollenstein\, Quinn Isaacs\, Dan Lucal\, Saba N. Maheen\, John de Leon Martin\, Ariana Martinez\, Emily Drew Miller\, Pachi\, Rachel Mulvihill\, JaLeel Marques Porcha\, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter\, Natalie Romero\, Johnathan Allen Wilborn\, Feyaz Yusuff \n \nHow might we conceive of the role of the artist\, particularly in times of crisis? Can we\, in seriousness\, claim the aesthetic ought to not be troubled by the political? Is the aspiration or demand to remain untroubled by the weight of the work of art simply an irresponsible desire? \nFollowing the Trace\, the exhibition of seventeen artists newly emerging from the Rutgers MFA program\, attends to the ambivalences contained within these questions and their perpetually unresolved answers. Varying in form and affective orientation\, the artists individually and collectively contend with internal and external experience\, political events\, infrastructural critiques\, and natural phenomena as ethical-aesthetic reflections of the world around them. \nIf we understand aesthetic production—the painting\, the photograph\, the sculpture\, the performance\, the video—as amalgams and distillations of social-cultural and material forces\, then the work of art is a genealogy. Extending a multi-directional referential constellation into the past\, present\, and future\, the work of art becomes a projection: a communicative site through which artist and audience negotiate meaning\, history\, and desire.\nThe artist is equally excavator and creator: replying to the ghostly haunting\, recalling the reverberant echo\, formulating the fabulation. The back-and-forth undulation of the tide guides a multivalency of significance and interpretation\, revealing the dreamscapes and ways of being in the world that the work of art offers as existential possibility. \nCurated by Zoé Samudzi \nAbout the department: The Department of Art & Design at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts seeks to cultivate a diverse community that values visual literacy\, critical dialogue\, experimentation\, and the skills necessary for sustaining a creative life as artists and designers. Central to its vision is engaging in interdisciplinary research and embarking on collaborations within Rutgers and beyond\, leaving an imprint on the global arenas of contemporary art and design. Studio arts training is offered in design\, drawing\, media\, painting\, photography\, print\, and sculpture. The department offers five degree programs: a bachelor of arts\, a bachelor of fine arts in both visual arts and design\, and a master of fine arts in both visual arts and design\, as well as a minor in art. Mason Gross Galleries\, a 4\,200-square-foot space\, showcases up to 10 student exhibitions per year—all free and open to the public. \nwww.masongross.rutgers.edu\nmasongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu\nInstagram \nInquiries: Rich Siggillino\, Gallery Coordinator\, at res241 [at] mgsa.rutgers.edu
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SUMMARY:Synonymms: Rutgers University MFA Art Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Synonymms\nJune 1 –June 21\, 2024\nOpening Reception Saturday  June 1\, 2024 6pm – 8pm \nGallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \nSynonymms with an additional m presents artwork by twelve artists who are also Rutgers\nUniversity’s 2024 Visual Arts MFA Graduate cohort.  \nArtists\nSandra SK Amoabeng\, Angela Bidak\, Maura Torres Díaz\, Alfred Dudley III\, Em Gallagher\, Jason Hirata\, Andrew Kennedy\, Kabi Raj Lama\nMaisie Luo\, Park McArthur\, Justin Nalley\, Nick Newlin\, Adi Blaustein Rejtö\, Anton Varga. \nThis 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. \nThe artists in this exhibition are part of a greater half-century of Rutgers University arts education that prioritizes experimentation across artistic media and disciplines. \nThe 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\,\nBethune\, Washington\, and Bank Streets. \nPlease join the artists for an opening reception Saturday\, June 1\, 6–8 p.m. \nWestbeth Gallery courtyard 55 Bethune Street New York\, New York 10014.\nThe building’s courtyard faces Bank Street and provides step-free access to Westbeth Gallery.\nWestbeth Gallery is open Wednesday–Sunday 1–6 p.m. \nMask: If you are able to\, please wear a mask inside the gallery.  \nFor remote or in person tours\, press inquiries\, access\, more information\nplease email: rutgers.ny@gmail.com\nor visit\nmasongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu/synonymms. \nFor more information about the Art & Design Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts\nRutgers University please visit: masongross.rutgers.edu/degrees-programs/art-design.  \nFor more about Westbeth Gallery please visit: https://westbeth.org/about/westbeth-gallery.
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