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Smoking Wall/Invisible Heat: A Welcome Back Exhibition of Mason Gross School of the Arts Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students
The fall season kicks off with this annual group exhibition featuring faculty, staff, and returning MFA students.
Curated by Ian Byers-Gamber and Francisco echo Eraso
From the curators:
The welcome back show, a Rutgers MGSA tradition on hold since 2020, returns this year. Department graduate students, faculty, and staff were invited to join an open call, submitting works of their own choosing. Then, in studio visits and intimate conversations, the curators engaged with many of these participants on the subject and context of their work: the minutiae of their pieces, the broader topics of their practices, and how their political worlds direct their efforts. Other works appear without the benefit of this direct dialogue, but now enter into productive conversations with their neighbors in the gallery. Smoking Wall / Invisible Heat is thus a survey of the state of art here at Rutgers.
Many layers of “curation” have brought together all of the artists in this show. An art school first and foremost functions as an institution which curates a “community” through hirings, admissions, classes, facilities, and levels of accessibility. Each artist within this program is in turn informed by those whom they are in study with. Consequently, the curatorial approach of this exhibition occurs through several relational valences: the thematic, the philosophical, and the aesthetic, whose spatial affiliations here include institutional critique, body-landscape abstraction, self-portraiture, grief, and genocide.
Artists:
- Atif Akin
- Ian Byers-Gamber
- Francisco echo Eraso
- Marc Handleman
- Heather Hart
- Jason Hirata
- Harley Hollenstein
- Evie Horton
- Sue Huang
- Quin Isaacs
- Julie Langsam
- Miranda Lichtenstein
- Dan Lucal
- Barbara Madsen
- Saba Maheen
- John de Leon Martin
- Ariana Martinez
- Emily Drew Miller
- Rachel Mulvihill
- Pachi Muruchu
- Jeanine Oleson
- Cassandra Oliveras-Moreno
- Katerina Pansera
- Amee Pollack
- JaLeel Porcha
- Cheon Pyo Lee
- Natalie Romero
- Jahi Sabater
- Carrie Schneider
- Richard Siggillino
- Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
- Stacey Surguy
- Jackie Thaw
- Chat Travieso
- Stephen Westfall
- Jane Westrick
- Shane Whilden
- Didier William
- Feyaz Yusuff
- Sean Zujkowski
Reception 5–8 p.m. September 4
Free; no tickets required
Fall 2024 Gallery Hours
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays: 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursdays and Fridays: 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Note: Admission to Mason Gross Galleries is free and open to the public. Please ring intercom bell at front entrance of building (on the Livingston Avenue side) or use Rutgers swipe card for gallery entry at the Civic Square Building.