TCNJ News
For Immediate Release
August 27, 2007
The College Art Gallery announces 2007-2008 exhibition schedule
EWING, NJ … The College Art Gallery at The College of New Jersey is pleased to announce its 2007-2008 schedule. The gallery is also operating under new hours: 12 p.m. – 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; Sunday 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. The College Art Gallery is located in 111 Holman Hall. Events at the College Art Gallery are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact 609.771.2198 or visit http://www.tcnj.edu/~tcag
Religion, Culture & Identity: An Exhibition by the TCNJ Art Faculty
September 11-October 14, 2007
Reception: Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
"FATHER, 2007" by Anita Allyn, digital photography
The academic year begins with an exhibition featuring the work of the TCNJ art faculty. Each artist will explore and introduce the themes of Religion, Culture & Identity. This exhibit is the first of an exciting array of exhibits and events that will explore the origins and evolution of personal identity as shaped by different religions and cultures These themes are the focus of both a campus Learning Community and the Community Learning Day during 2007-08, as well as The College Art Gallery’s exhibition season.
Arts Lecture: Shelley Silver
September 19, 6 p.m Library Auditorium
Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography. Her work spans a wide range of subject matter and genres and explores the personal and societal relations that connect and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; and the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves.
Assumed Identities
curated by Sarah Cunningham
October 30-December 5, 2007 (closed for Thanksgiving Break, 11/21-25)
Artists include Robert Boyd, Coco Fusco, Diane Nerwen, Jonathon Keats, Michael Oatman, Roxana Perez-Mendez, Dulce Pinzon, and Xiang Yang.
Reception: Tuesday, October 30, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
The exhibit will explore assumptions and assumed roles and feature work by artists who (1) develop personae, alter egos or characters (actual or imagined); (2) explore misconceptions regarding identity (i.e., racial profiling); or (3) take on the tasks and responsibilities of other people or professions as part of their art making process and/or content.
Arts Lecture: Oksana Chepelyk
November 14, 2 p.m., Library Auditorium
From the Ukraine, Oksana Chepelyk will discuss and show her sculptural fashion designs, performance documentation and films. Her provocative artwork probes into the nature of totalitarianism and complexities resulting from the reunion of the former eastern and western Europe. She deals with the interrelation of the real, social and virtual spaces and is especially interested in co-experience, focusing on cultural transformations.
Between Heaven & Earth: Transformations & Sacred Spaces
juried by Eleanor Heartney
January 16-February 13, 2008 (reduced hours 1/16-1/22: Tu, We, Th, 12pm-3pm only)
Curator’s Talk in the Gallery: Wednesday, January 30, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Reception: Wednesday, January 30, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
This exhibit will examine sacred spaces in both their physical and conceptual realizations. In faiths as diverse as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, a house of worship is far more than a conglomeration of bricks and mortar. Throughout history, sacred architecture has melded the realms of the visible and invisible, transforming everyday reality so that the soul can ascend to extra-worldly concerns. Today, in our more secular age, spiritually charged spaces are not always connected to specific religious dogmas. For this exhibition, artists will be asked to consider questions like: What makes a space sacred? How are beliefs embodied in architecture? How do expressions of art and metaphor advance the possibilities of spiritual understanding?
Parable of the Garden: New Media Art from Iran & Central Asia
curated by Leeza Ahmady, Sarah Cunningham & Deborah Hutton
February 20-March 30, 2008 (closed for Spring Break, March 8-16)
Gallery Talk with the Curators: Wednesday, February 20, 5 p.m.
Reception: Wednesday, February 20, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
Geographically focusing on former Persia and its cultural legacy, this exhibit will present recent media works by artists from Iran and Central Asia. The exhibit thematically explores not only the traditional garden and the contemporary sense of place, but also notions of paradise lost and found, lessons learned and forgotten, and traditions cherished and rejected. Artists include Vyacheslav Akhunov, Murat Djoumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva, Shahram Entekhabi, Almagul Menlibayeva, Alexander Nikolaiev, Karan Reshad/Kolah Studio, Mitra Tabrizian, andAlexander Ugay.
Art Student Exhibition 2008
April 9-23, 2008
Reception & Award Ceremony: April 9, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
The Art Student Exhibition is one of the highlights of the academic year at TCNJ. Up to three works may be submitted for acceptance by a qualified juror from outside The College community and Art Department. Awards are presented for Art Faculty Commendation, Art Faculty Purchase, Dean's Purchase, and President's Purchase.
BFA Thesis Exhibition 2008
April 30-May 14, 2008 (reduced hours May 13-14, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. only)
Celebration of Student Achievement: Wednesday, April 30, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.
Reception: Friday, May 2, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition 2008 at The College of New Jersey will feature the diverse works of the senior Fine Art and Digital Art majors.
These events are a part of TCNJ’s 2007-2008 program, “Religion, Culture and Identity.” In addition to an interdisciplinary sequence of courses, these and the other events in the program highlight the evolution of personal and social identity as shaped by different global religions and their cultures, the varied expressions of religious experience in writings, art, film, and music, and its relation to other cultural, social, and political developments of the past and present. The events are co-sponsored by the Committee for Cultural and Intellectual Community (CCIC), the Religious Studies Committee, the School of Art, Media, and Music, and the School of Culture and Society.
The Gallery exhibits are made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts.
