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31/1/2006

Winter exhibitions

Jersey Art Museum, Jersey City

Surveillance
February 2 - August 20, 2006
Jersey City Museum’s Winter 2006 exhibition Surveillance features the work of Mauro Altamura, Melanie Baker, Kabir Carter, Carlos Motta, Justine Reyes, Roger Sayre, Merle Temkin, and the Surveillance Camera Players. Today's concerns with safety (community and personal) have given rise to a host of problems surrounding public space, and to those watching and being watched. Surveillance hopes to explore various facets of the contemporary blurring of boundaries between public space and private life, between what is visible and invisible, between the observer and the observed. Installations excavate layers of photographed and re-photographed images, produced and re-produced identities. Objects that have recently become bearers of fear and the unknown become the subject of art. Overheard (and secretly recorded) conversations become intertwined into an audio piece. As part of a larger discussion around the erosion of privacy during a period of increasing fear, the works in this exhibition have the opportunity to be a part of this public dialogue.

Sophie Rivera: Portraits
February 2 - August 20, 2006
Sophie Rivera’s Portraits will feature 8 large-scale square-format photographs of Puerto Rican residents from her Harlem neighborhood. Deciding one day that she wanted to document her people, the photographer stood on the street and asked random passers-by if they would like their portrait taken. Those who agreed were invited into her home for their portrait sitting. By inviting the sitters into her private space, Rivera explored the boundaries of trust between photographer and model. The result is a majestic set of black and white portraits that reveal as much about the photographer’s eye as they do about the sitter.

Guest Artist to the Permanent Collection: Curt Ikens
February 2 - August 20, 2006
Described in his words as “unauthorized collaborations," Curt Ikens’s works act as a kind of dialogue between the artist and another, more established artist. Incorporating texts that make reference to the more famous artist’s works, Mr. Ikens large-scale sculptures glean their form and content from these texts and from the well-known artist’s body of work. In this installation, Mr. Iken’s creates an unauthorized collaboration with the large-scale, abstract drawings of Julie Mehretu, winner of a 2005 MacArthur Award. Trained in the art of wood-bending, Mr. Ikens has created a work that literally emanates from the wall and mimics the lines, forms, and energy of Ms. Mehretu’s works.

Farsad Labbauf: The Zip Tie Project
February 2 - August 20, 2006
Fascinated by the functional object, Farsad Labbauf has created several works that adapt real objects toward sculptural ends. This wall-sized work will be made up of, literally, hundreds of plastic zip ties of various colors. Inspired by building plans, maps and the concept of urban planning, Mr. Labbauf's works act like large-scale conceptual maps. Unmarked, they lead the viewer through and across a maze of lines and spaces that vaguely reference the minute streets of the urban and suburban locations. As the artist clearly shows, though these plastic ties were originally intended to bind cables together in a neat fashion, their alternative uses have multiplied infinitely.

Matt Pass: Pancrete
February 2 - September 3, 2006
The artist creates audio works that play with and distort both aural sounds and verbal phrases. The result is audio work that is instrumental and industrial.

Karlos Carcamo: Wordin Tyme
February 2 - September 3, 2006
Karlos Ca'rcamo will create a new text-based work for our front window. Playing with historic texts that have been widely translated, the artist has frequently worked with poetic phrases that gradually turn from English to Spanish or vice-versa.

Bryan Zanisnik: Washington Crossing the Meadowlands
February 2 - September 3, 2006
Adapting the well-known painting by the American artist Emmanuel Leutze, Mr. Zanisnik’s video displaces General Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware River to our area! Watch as Washington and his men float across the New Jersey Meadowlands, ruminating on the industrial and political history of our landscape.

Panasonic Video Zone
This season, each of our small video monitors in the Panasonic Media Zone features a different exhibition.

URBAN IMAGE
Created by students from NJCU’s Media Arts department collective known as URBAN IMAGE, this intense group of video work broaches a variety of subjects from personal narratives to universal themes.

Womenswork
Organized by Jane Steuerwald, Womenswork is a collective of women film and video makers.

Video: JC
This program, organized by video and installation artist KimSu Theiler, features the work of some of Jersey City’s own film and video glitterati.


Image: Curt Ikens, Unauthorized Collaboration Without Julie Mehretu

350 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (at the corner of Monmouth Street)
admission
$4 adults, $2 seniors/students, free for museum members & kids under 12, admission waived Thursday nights from 5-8pm.
Children must be accompanied by an adult in the galleries.
gallery hours
Wednesday, Friday - 11am to 5pm
Thursday - 11am to 8pm
Saturday, Sunday - 12pm to 5pm

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