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ROWAN GALLERY SHOWCASES ELEVEN INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED ARTISTS
WHO USE VIDEO TO EXPLORE, EXPOSE AMERICAN CULTURE IN “HURTS SO GOOD”
GLASSBORO, NJ – Rowan University Art Gallery presents “Hurts So Good,” a video exhibition that confronts culture and traditions in America. The works celebrate, critique and satirize representations of American culture and traditions related to sex, religion, politics, economics, technology, popular culture, media and family. “Hurts So Good” is on display from November 19, 2009 – January 8, 2010. The opening reception is November 19 from 5 – 7 pm, including a panel discussion on the work beginning at 5:30 pm.
Curated by Jenny Drumgoole and Jennie Thwing this exhibit features 11 acclaimed artists from the region and across the country: Skip Arnold (Los Angeles), Ronnie Cramer (Philadelphia), Chris Crocker (Los Angeles), Kara Crombie (Philadelphia), George Kuchar (San Francisco), J. Makary’s (Philadelphia), Chris Miner (New York City), Laurel Nakadate (New York City), Mika Rottenberg (New York City), Sarah Stuve (New York City) and Jenny Vosacek (Belmont, CA).
Arnold’s Marks is rooted in the tradition of extreme body based work and shows the artist throwing himself at a wall until he finally collapses; Cramer’s Highway Amazon tells the story of Christine Fetzer, a female bodybuilder who travels the country wrestling men on beds in hotel rooms; Crocker’s series of short-form, self-directed monologues on pop culture, politics, sexuality and celebrity have made him an internet celebrity on YouTube; Crombie’s Portraits focuses on the physical subtleties of human relationships; Kuchar’s Vault of Vapors is a wistful entry from his weather diary series in Oklahoma; Makary’s Wanna Kiss Myself features a dozen Philadelphia performers in a colorful, enclosed world creating a film as hybridized memories; Miner’s Auction is a performance piece using phrases heard growing up in the Baptist church to create an auction from behind the pulpit; Nakadate’s Oops turns the tables on middle-aged men who try to pick her up and documents them coming home with her to dance to a Britney Spears song; Rottenberg’s Time and a Half shows a young woman daydreaming and staring at a poster of a tropical island view, which is not exactly what it seems; Stuve’s My Dead Brain is an escape from reality set in a fantastical wonderland from which the heroine emerges again and again, each time with a new identity; and Vosacek’s Caregiver Challenge follows the artist’s eccentric and animated mother as she answers the questions in a simulated online computer test aimed at assessing parenting styles..
Admission to the exhibit and reception is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturday, 12 to 5 pm. For more information, call 856-256-4521 or visit www.rowan.edu/fpa/artgallery. Rowan University Art Gallery is located on the lower level of Westby Hall on the university campus, Route 322 in Glassboro, NJ.
ROWAN GALLERY EXHIBIT EXAMINES THE IMPACT OF ABUSE ON CHILDREN
GLASSBORO, NJ – Rowan University Art Gallery brings the work of Philadelphia-based artist Elaine M. Erne to campus with “Elaine Erne: Drawings and Prints,” October 12 to November 14, 2009. A reception to celebrate the new exhibit is October 14 from 5 – 7 pm, including a gallery talk beginning at 5:30 pm.
Featured is the artist’s series The Lives and Traumas of Stuffed Animals, large-scale graphite pencil drawings and prints which depict stuffed toys in ambiguous, threatening situations.
“The title refers to the narrative component of the works in which the toys are a trope for the traumatic experience of child abuse,” notes curator Kathryn McFadden. “What Erne shows the viewer is the aftermath of cruelty.”
“This series has been called ‘comically disturbing depictions of stuffed animals under siege’ and although there is a playful side, the underlining theme of the work is fear, cruelty and survival,” Erne states. “I have found that using humor, however dark, is an important part of dealing with past as well as present dilemmas. The stuffed animals are used as an allegory for children. Often a child becomes like a doll, always smiling, in order to survive a continuing abusive situation.”
Erne received her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She has exhibited her work widely and most recently in Philadelphia at Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Arts, BahdeeBahdu Gallery, Fleisher Art Memorial, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia Sketch Club and Da Vinci Art Alliance; Maryland Federation of Art; Perkins Center for the Arts in New Jersey; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Admission to the gallery and reception is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday – Friday from 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday from 12 to 5 pm. For information, call 856-256-4521 or visit www.rowan.edu/fpa/artgallery. Rowan University Art Gallery is located on the lower level of Westby Hall on the campus of Rowan University, Route 322 in Glassboro, NJ.
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BETTER THAN EVER: Women Figurative Artists of the 70s Soho Co-ops
September 1 - October 2, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 5 - 7 PM
This traveling exhibition is curated by New York painter and professor Sharyn Finnegan. The show spotlights the 1970's, a crucial period in the feminist movement, and reunites 19 artists who displayed their work in supportive, cooperatively-owned galleries in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. Works include a variety of styles and media, including photography, pencil, photography, oil, watercolor, stoneware, acrylic and other methods. Artists featured are Dottie Attie, Nancy Beal, Temma Bell, Marcia Clark, Daria Dorosh, Sharyn Finnegan, Janet Fish, Susan Grabel, Nancy Grilikhes, Barbara Grossman, Marjorie Kramer, Marion Lerner Levine, Tomar Levine, Cynthia Mailman, Frances Siegel, Sylvia Sleigh, Shaw Stewart, Selina Trieff. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
