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ROWAN UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY & MUSEUM

presents our 2023-2024 exhibition season

301 WEST HIGH STREET GALLERY

The Lightness of Bearing
Virginia Maksymowicz
September 5 - October 28, 2023
The Lightness of Bearing is a selection of works by Virginia Maksymowicz that considers the symbolic resilience and strength of the female figure in art and architecture by blending the mythology of caryatids, (architectural columns of women effortlessly bearing the weight of massive architectural structures) with images of women from indigenous and ethnic cultures bearing the weight of ritualistic traditions. Let us know you're visiting. Opening reception and artist talk - Thursday, September 14, 5:00-7:00 PM. (artist’s talk begins at 5:30, RSVP)

Layers of Authenticity
Maria Dumlao / Gabriel Martinez / Paul Anthony Smith / Eric Toscano / Steven Earl Weber
November 6 - December 20, 2023
In this group show five artists create work by altering imagery pulled from print, the internet, or their own photography. Utilizing unique processes of production they reveal authentic and insightful statements about our current political and social landscape and the ambiguousness and misconceptions about historical events, places, and people. Opening reception - Thursday, November 9, 5:00-7:00 PM.

The Disappointed Tourist
Ellen Harvey
January 16 - March 9, 2024
We live in a world that often feels as though it is vanishing before our eyes. Inspired by the urge to repair what has been lost due to the forces of war, time, ideology, gentrification, and natural disasters, The Disappointed Tourist attempts to honor the trauma underlying the nostalgia that results from our collective and individual losses, while celebrating the human attachment to places both real and aspirational. Opening reception and artist talk - Thursday, February 1, 5:00-7:00 PM (artist’s talk begins at 5:30).

Bonding
Jack Larimore
March 25 - May 18, 2024
New Jersey based maker Jack Larimore is drawn to the positive bonds that coexist with the challenges of competition we experience in the natural world. He sees these bonds surfacing through the act of making, from the intimate and familial of making babies, making dinner, making a home, a family, a school, a settlement to the more universal, making music and stories. In his exhibition, Bonding, Larimore brings together work as a tribute to these multidimensional stories of bonding that also counteract the weight of divisiveness. Opening reception and artist talk - Thursday, April 11, 5:00-7:00 PM (artist’s talk begins at 5:30).

CASE GALLERY @ WESTBY HALL

Origins of God
Cynthia Mailman
Coming soon
After creating a female incarnation of God for The Sister Chapel, Cynthia Mailman began to investigate ancient representations of female deities. Her resulting series, Origins of God, is a visual and verbal dialogue across thousands of millennia that centers on modern conceptions of a male creator-god, biased interpretations of prehistoric artifacts, and contemporary challenges to women’s bodily autonomy. Opening reception and artist talk - date to be announced.

10 of 80 + 1
Pat Adams / Judith Bernstein / Blythe Bohnen / Louise Bourgeois / Diane Burko / Audrey Flack / Nancy Grossman / Lila Katzen / Alice Neel / Sylvia Sleigh
February 5 - April 25, 2024
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, 10 of 80+ 1 features ten artists from the Gallery’s permanent collection who were in the 1974 FOCUS exhibition with the addition of work that was censored from the original. The exhibition complements our permanent display of The Sister Chapel, created in 1978 as one of the earliest feminist collaborative installations.

HOURS

301 West High Street Gallery
301 West High Street, First Floor, Glassboro, NJ 08028
Monday - Friday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Center for Art and Social Engagement Gallery
Westby Hall, First Floor, Room 110
237 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028

Tuesday - Thursday: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
The CASE Gallery will re-open soon.

Email artgallery@rowan.edu to schedule an appointment

The CASE Gallery has open hours during the academic year. Please note that the CASE Gallery closes during summer months, spring break, and winter break.

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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.

Exhibition 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.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK

Looking Forward, Looking Back was an opportunity to celebrate the Rowan University Art Gallery’s art collection. The exhibition was organized around five themes - Abstraction and Experimentation, Art as Social Commentary, Art History as Inspiration, Figure Studies and Portraiture, and Sylvia Sleigh as Artist-Collector - that shed light on the Gallery’s unique collection history and collecting practices.

SUPERCELLULAR

SuperCellular was a site-specific immersive art gallery experience that combined sculpture, light, sound and moving imagery as a reflection of the astonishing and almost incomprehensible density and activity of the chemical molecules in our bodies. Inspired by neuroscience, cellular biology, and genetics, the installation contemplated the complexities and intricacies of living processes and the mysteries of cellular interactions.

MULTIPLICITIES

This exhibition presented photography that through humor, theatrics, and playfulness reframed and fractured conventional, binary perceptions about culture, race, and gender identities to one that is diverse, interactive and layered. Each artist explored stereotypes of their own cultural heritage and origins in order to break down misconceptions and to shift the narrative of what it means to be who they are as multidimensional Americans.

GENEVIEVE GAIGNARD: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Featuring Gaignard’s self-portraiture, collages and installations, To Whom It May Concern confronts nostalgic views of American culture. Through her exploration of race, femininity and class, Gaignard interrogates notions of skin privilege while challenging viewers to look more closely at racial realities.

CULTIVATED SPACE

This group exhibition includes works that resonate with the complexities and divergent perceptions attributed to gardens and cultivated spaces. On a personal and intimate level gardens are perceived as a place of refuge, solace and emotional centering. The larger, more broader impacts however, reveal the disparate interpretations of cultivated spaces from socio-economic and environmental perspectives. The works in this exhibition are not literal representations, but rather through artistic processes and intentions serve as an entry point in considering a myriad of intersections.

SYD CARPENTER EARTH OFFERINGS

Syd Carpenter identifies and honors African American farmers and gardeners with her new series, Farm Bowls, by integrating the universal form of a stoneware bowl with architectural and organic forms observed on farms.

Support for Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum is provided by New Jersey State Council on the Arts.