Gallery Overview
Gallery Overview
ROWAN UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Where the University Meets the Community
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Presenting
On View:
September 7 – October 30
Welcome Visitors
Philadelphia based artists Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib 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.
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.
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
For more information: Field Companion
THE CENTER FOR ART & SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
presenting
THE WEIGHT OF PAPER: ENDLESS JUNKMAIL SCROLLS | Vernita Nemec a.k.a. N'Cognita
On view: October 18 - December 17
The Weight of Paper: Endless Junkmail Scrolls is a response to the complexities surrounding the paper industry and the production of junk mail waste.
Vernita Nemec a.k.a N'Cognita began the Endless Junkmail Scrolls project in 2006 as an environmental statement about the oppressive amounts of junk mail produced every year. It has now grown to over 400 ft long.
Vernita Nemec a.k.a N'Cognita began the Endless Junkmail Scrolls project in 2006 as an environmental statement about the oppressive amounts of junk mail produced every year. It has now grown to over 400 ft long.
For more information: The Center for Art & Social Engagement
JEANNE SILVERTHORNE: WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Through cast rubber sculptures, Silverthorne posits her studio as a metaphor for abandonment, collapse, and entropy as it relates to the absurdity of social constructs and the misguided perceptions of stability and constancy. Today as we reflect on the work displayed, created between 2009 and 2021 it becomes relatable to our current state of social isolation and displacement.
FIELD COMPANION: AN IMMERSIVE VIDEO INSTALLATION
Philadelphia-based artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, known for their fantastical moving images and alternate realities, have created a new immersive film and installation for Rowan University Art Gallery. Field Companion, set in a microcosmic forest, is inspired by the pine barrens that dot Southern New Jersey.
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 figures.
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.
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.
