Gallery Overview
Gallery Overview
Where the University Meets the Community
Rowan University Art Gallery serves as a premier cultural destination for South Jersey, the Rowan community, and surrounding region. Our mission is to provide a platform for discourse on best practices in contemporary art by professional artists, curators, and scholars through the presentation of interdisciplinary art exhibitions, panel discussions, guest curatorial projects, and other public programming.
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Brandon Ballengée: Sea of Vulnerability
International artist, biologist and environmental educator Brandon Ballengée opens the Rowan University Art Gallery season with Sea of Vulnerability, a series of trans-disciplinary installations, assemblages, and mixed media artworks inspired by his ecological field and laboratory research that offer dramatic visual representations of biological species that are in decline, threatened, or already lost to extinction. The exhibit is on display from September 14 – November 5, 2017.
Brandon Ballengée: Love Motel for Insects
Concurrent with the exhibition Sea of Vulnerability, RUAG will present Brandon Ballengée’s light emitting sculpture Love Motel for Insects, in partnership with the Freedom Prep Charter School and Virtua Camden. Standing at 12 feet high by 15 feet long Love Motel for Insects is an ongoing series of public art installations intended to construct situations between humans and arthropods. Inspired by the wings of a green darner dragonfly (Anax junius), this sculpture utilizes ultraviolet light to attract nocturnal insects on large sculpted canvases creating an opportunity for public interactions with nocturnal arthropods, which are not often seen.
Variations on a Theme at Gallery West at Westby Hall
Drawn from Rowan University Art Gallery's growing permanent collection, Variations on a Theme features a selection of works that were inspired by the art of the past. Some pay homage to celebrated artists, while others reconfigure and challenge the traditional canon of art history. These recent variations on established themes and well-known works of art are accompanied by illustrations of the objects they honor and critique. In the nearby installation of The Sister Chapel, the monumental portraits of Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo were similarly inspired by earlier images. Exhibited in Variations on a Theme are works by Dotty Attie, Elizabeth Bisbing, Marjorie Kramer, Marion Pinto, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, Susan Sills, Sylvia Sleigh, and Audrey Ushenko. Image: Dotty Attie, The Scoutmaster’s Return (1975), color lithographs (cropped).
Rowan University's 2018 Artist in Residence
Rowan University Art Gallery welcomes Sidney Mullis who will be joining the Department of Art and RUAG this spring for the annual Artist in Residence program within the Department of Art. Mullis will be mounting an exhibition at RUAG beginning in January 2018 - Stay tuned for more information. Sidney Mullis lives and works in State College, PA. Her current work includes constructed performance-based video, interactive objects and sculpture. She has exhibited in a number of locations including Berlin, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. She has had solo shows at the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Future Tenant Gallery (Pittsburgh), Lock Haven University, University of Mary Washington, and more. Recent group exhibitions include Galleri Heike Arndt (Berlin), Trestle Gallery (NYC), Galleri Urbane (Dallas), pehrspace (LA), and Area 405 (Baltimore). Sidney Mullis is the recipient of the MASS MoCA residency, Ox-Bow MFA Residency, and a Creative Achievement Award from Penn State University. Sidney Mullis is represented by Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX). Sidney Mullis: www.sidneymullis.com
