Gallery Overview
Gallery Overview
ROWAN UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
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Presenting
On View:
September 7 – October 30
Welcome Visitors
Philadelphia based artists Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib https://www.hironakasuib.com/about have created a new immersive film and installation for Rowan University Art Gallery set in a microcosmic forest inspired by the pine barrens that dot Southern NJ. Like many, the duo found refuge and release throughout the Covid-19 pandemic hiking and foraging in these remote, natural landscapes. As America's social fabric frayed deeply in recent months and years, they considered forest ecosystems in terms of symbiotic and collaborative relationships that sustain coexistence and community.
In this project, the forest has been condensed and transplanted to a terrarium in the artists' studio. Twelve cubic feet of pines, shrubs, ferns, moss, fungus and carnivorous plants are reflected infinitely in the terrarium's mirrored walls and captured with a motion-controlled camera and specialized macro lens that dramatically shift the scale and perspective of this miniature landscape. Hironaka & Suib transform this microcosmic film set into the home of chimeric forest dwellers who consider themes of precarity, mutualism and collaborative survival.
Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib work collaboratively on films, videos, public artworks and immersive installations spanning over a decade, often extending their collaboration to include other artists, musicians and composers. Their practice embraces research and experimentation, encompassing historical fact, popular fiction and creative speculation. Working across moving-image culture and mass media idioms, they build counter-mythologies, alternate or parallel realities, and forward-looking visions of the world around us. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvan ia Council on the Arts. Their work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including, Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, Marble House Project and the Millay Colony for Arts. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media and Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor and department chair of film and video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hironaka & Suib are represented by Locks Gallery. The couple, along with their daughter and one cat reside in South Philly.
Field Companion was produced with support from Rowan University Art Gallery and from Locust Projects, Miami. Additional support is provided by New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Music by Green-House, courtesy of Leaving Records.
Also enjoy the screening of Moon Viewing Platform
OTHER RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMMING:
FEDERICO SOLMI: THE BACCHANALIAN ONES
Using game engines, VR and AR combined with his drawings and paintings, Solmi creates satirical and clownish portrayals of controversial contemporary and historical characters.
Tracing Origins
This group exhibition brings together three Philadelphia based artists who create work inspired by ancestral homelands and native cultures. Pulling from personal memories, experiences, and familial influences their stories are expressed through photography, paper engineering, painting, and sculpture.
Power Masks: Art Education Project
Rowan University Art Gallery is teaming up with Clearview Regional High School, Rowan University’s Department of STEAM Education, College of Education, and Philadelphia-based artist Claes Gabriel.
Claes Gabriel, who will be exhibiting at RUAG this spring, creates vibrant 3D paintings that are the source of inspiration for the Power Masks project. A key goal of the program is to bring an artist directly into the classroom setting. The resulting artwork by Clearview Regional High School students will be on view at the Gallery from April 15–22.
The Center for Art & Social Engagement
The Center for Art and Social Engagement serves as a venue for investigating social issues through arts-based methods. Anchored by a permanent display of The Sister Chapel, a historic collaborative feminist installation, CASE draws inspiration from the cooperative spirit of the women’s art movement.
Past Exhibitions and Gallery Catalogs
PDF catalogs from past exhibitions are available to download for free. Printed copies of exhibition catalogs are also available free of charge by visiting our 301 High Street Gallery location.
