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Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 16–March 15, 2017.
71 Hamilton Street , New Brunswick, NJ
Created by invited artists in residence at Brodsky Center, Rutgers’ printmaking and papermaking studios, the prints in this exhibition feature allegorical narratives and meditations on history and identity. They encompass ancient myths and current events, universal narratives and random constellations of everyday details, political realities and personal aspirations. Artists Zeina Barakeh, Chitra Ganesh, Ben Patterson, and Duke Riley ask themselves, “What makes us who we are?” Their responses, while individually rooted in each artist’s unique background, unveil a shared layer of psychological commotion and intellectual sifting that such interrogation provokes. As viewers, we learn as much from their discoveries as from the unswerving courage, wit, and curiosity that drove them to delve into difficult, often uncharted territory.
Above, detail from Benjamin Patterson (born 1934, Pittsburgh, PA; died 2016, Wiesbaden, Germany), My
Thirteen Presidents, 2009, portfolio of 7 digital prints, including colophon, 13 7/8 x 34 ¾ inches each, edition
of 20. Collaborating printer: Randy Hemminghaus.
American Fluxus composer and artist Ben Patterson took part in seminal Fluxus events held in New Brunswick in 1963–65 (detailed in at/around/beyond: Fluxus at Rutgers in the museum’s American Art Gallery), but spent most of his life in Germany. In typical Fluxus fashion, My Thirteen Presidents embraces the chance convergence of circumstances as it describes individual decisions by American presidents since 1933. In his objective to relate historical narrative to ordinary life, and inscrutable centers of power to active citizenship, Patterson draws the foundation of a president’s character from spheres extending to the cosmos and nature, through popular astrology. As echoed in the title’s possessive pronoun, the artist renders the immense influence American presidents exert on ordinary people. He imagines the presidents who intersected his life floating in an undifferentiated universe, taking on the semblance of mythological figures surrounded byfragments of familiar paintings. The composite of Western and Eastern astrological traditions invokes America’s place as a global superpower. It also expands viewer’s participation from diverse points of entry into the artist’s syncretic imagery.
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, September 5, 2016–February 15, 2017.
71 Hamilton Street , New Brunswick, NJ
Excerpted from traditional collection care terminology, visitor services signage and gallery layouts from visitor orientation maps of eighteen European and North American museums of anthropology, art, cultural or natural history, THE MASTER PLAN provides a fascinating opportunity for viewers to gain deeper awareness of the influential institutions that are entrusted with the conservation and understanding of human kind through history, culture and artifacts. Uncovering how museums reflect society’s cultural constructs through object selection, display, and interpretation has been Fred Wilson’s persistent focus. It has made his work one of contemporary art’s most transformative contributions of the past three decades. In 2004 Wilson was invited by Brodsky Center, where this suite of 22 photogravures was completed in 2009. This is the first time THE MASTER PLAN or In Between the Big Bang and Modern Art is the Restroom is exhibited in its entirety.
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Open Lens Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 22, 2016
–January 20, 2017.
Gershman Hall, 401 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 13–August 31, 2016 .
71 Hamilton Street , New Brunswick, NJ
This portfolio was created from 2002–2004 through a collaboration between Brodsky Center, Johnson & Johnson, Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Oregon. Creation Stories is a portfolio of 10 lithographs, with handmade paper and silkscreen text. Artists fromthe Kalahari Desert region in Botswana and Native American artists were invited to create prints that explore the universal theme of creation through words and images. The portfolio is a collaboration celebrating cultural myths and the common bond between peoples of the world.
Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, December 19, 2012–January 17, 2013.
New Brunswick, NJ
This exhibition includes work by Clytie Alexander, El Anatsui, Alexandre Arrechea, Lynda Benglis, WIlliam Kentridge, JC Lenochan, Grace Matthews, Faith Ringgold, and Pat Steir. In addition, it features Will Barnet from the collection of Dr. Muriel and Dr. Leonard Moss; Creation Stories, a portfolio collaboration between Brodsky Center, Artist Proof Studios in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Oregon; and work by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe produced by Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY, April 21–May 30, 2012.
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, December 20, 2011–January 19, 2012.
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, December 20, 2010–January 19, 2011.
Brodsky Center Gallery at the Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center, New Brunswick, NJ,
September 16, 2010–November 30, 2010.
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, December 21, 2009–January 22, 2010.
Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, December 17, 2008–January 23, 2009.
Brodsky Center Gallery at the Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center, New Brunswick, NJ,
October 17, 2008–January 4, 2009.
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