Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Art & Design
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Michelle Grabner
Virtual EventsThe Wisconsin-born and -based artist Michelle Grabner is known for her broad perspective developed as teacher, writer and critic over the past 30 years. The site where it all comes together is the studio. Her […]
BFA Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition II: “What I Want to Tell You”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesReception 6–9 p.m. Thursday, April 27
Rutgers in New York: Playback
Westbeth Gallery 55 Bethune St, New York, NY, United StatesPlayback, a group exhibition at Westbeth Gallery, links the interplay among biography, narrative, and experience across a disparate set of artistic practices developed by Rutgers University visual art MFA graduates.
LIU SHIMING: Life Gives Beauty Form
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis retrospective by the renowned modern Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming features more than 80 works whose themes engage the past and present, the epic, the mythological, and the everyday. LIU SHIMING: Life Gives Beauty Form is the largest U.S. showing of sculptures made over Shiming’s 60-year career to date, including 27 works that are being exhibited for the first time in the United States. The exhibition also features 12 drawings that illuminate Shiming’s approach to close observational study of the human form and everyday life.
ARTIST TALK: Jason Baerg
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesJason Baerg, a Red River Métis originally from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, is now a registered member of the Métis Nations of Ontario and actively serves his community as an Indigenous activist, curator, educator, and interdisciplinary artist.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Alex Da Corte
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAlex Da Corte explores the nuances of contemporary life in his videos, installations, paintings, and sculptures, which are often united together in richly-hued, dreamlike environments. Touching upon notions of identity, intimacy, and taste, Da Corte’s work reimagines the familiar in wholly unexpected ways.
MFA Open Studios
Civic Square Building & Livingston Arts BuildingGraduate students in Art & Design open the doors to their studios this Fall, inviting you to get up close to their art and practice. See the art right where it's made and get to know this exceptionally talented pool of students from around the world.
Co-Cureate
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesMultiple experimental shows in one, Co-Cureate features a vast array of works curated and created by students and alumni. A corresponding featured exhibition will showcase emerging Indigenous voices in Contemporary Art.
Jason Baerg: Selected Works from Tawâskweyâw
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRutgers presents a solo exhibition by Jason Baerg in the second iteration of its annual exhibition series featuring contemporary Indigenous artists. This is a homecoming for Baerg, who earned his MFA in Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2016.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Adam Milner
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAdam Milner is an artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Milner’s practice centers the accumulation and preservation of everyday leftovers. Culled from the processes of living—from sleeping and eating, to walking, working, circulating blood, and having relationships—intimate fragments are contemplated and recontextualized, taking form as sculpture, drawing, intervention, text, and image. As parts are combined and reconfigured in the artist’s home studio, archives or assemblages emerge that offer new ways of considering material and social worlds. Milner’s work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, public space, and at home.