Gallery Overview
Gallery Overview
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CURRENT PROGRAMMING
SWOON:CICADA
September 15 - October 20
A stop-motion animation video
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Constructed with layering drawings, sculptural elements, fabric, wood block printing, and painted live performers Swoon creates an ethereal dreamworld that emphasizes the body’s ability to serve as a vessel for carrying memories and traditions. A house, a ship, and human figures split and open to liberate a cast of imaginative and mythological creatures trapped inside. The central figure is the “Tarantula Mother,” a half-human, half-spider allegory that evokes traumatic memories from childhood. This original animation was first presented last November at Deitch Projects in New York. Reflecting on it now, and the current crisis in our communities, the narrative in Cicada becomes a metaphor for our desire to heal and mend and be reborn. As the title implies, Cicada is a representation of the body and the mind's ability to emerge from darkness into the light and be transformed symbolizing rebirth and immortality. More about Swoon
UPCOMING AND RECENT 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: Video Tour and more
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.
MSP at The Center for Art & Social Engagement
MSP is an interactive, multi-discipline collaborative art engagement project at the Center for Art and Social Engagement that humanizes concepts of public monuments rendering them accessible and aspirational in seeing one’s own potential for personal greatness.
Three Interactive Installations
Green Screen Selfies
Sister Sounds
The Janis Project
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.
