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  • A 15 x 20 inch print by Michael Dal Cerro, called Rising Waters. Made in 2024, it features a green city filled with plants and abstract architecture in the middle of water. Shown in courtesy of the artist.

Not Built in a Day

2025-06-02T20:14:49-04:00

Not Built in a Day Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I February 7–May 18, 2025 Installation view of Not Built in a Day at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Photo by Rachel Alban. Through a decades-long printmaking practice, Michael

Not Built in a Day2025-06-02T20:14:49-04:00
  • Articles of blue, pink, white, and black cloth suspended by string. The black fabric connects the top and bottom segments, which lay on a red rug.

Under the Sky, Above the Sea

2025-06-02T20:13:28-04:00

Under the Sky, Above the Sea Main Gallery Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery February 7–May 18, 2025 Leila Seyedzadeh, Velvet River, 2025, rope, silk, hand-dyed cloth, Persian rugs, dimension variable. Photo by Rachel Alban. Under the Sky, Above the Sea transforms

Under the Sky, Above the Sea2025-06-02T20:13:28-04:00
  • A view of the VACNJ gallery with the show ETA:Rerouted installed.

ETA: Rerouted

2025-06-02T20:09:33-04:00

ETA: Rerouted Main Gallery February 7–May 18, 2025 Installation view of ETA: Rerouted at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Photo by Rachel Alban. ETA: Rerouted is an exhibition of works by Mollye Bendell, JLS Gangwisch, and Christopher Kojzar, members of

ETA: Rerouted2025-06-02T20:09:33-04:00
  • Abdul-Kha’leef Cason, Untitled (eye), 2024? Charcoal on paper? 9 x 12 inches, on 11 x 14 matboard, needs 11 x 14 frame Courtesy of the artist (artist does not wish to be anonymous) Location: DOC Commissioner’s Office

Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan

2025-01-29T15:23:58-05:00

Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan Second-Floor Community Gallery November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 The Art Center's Second-Floor Community Gallery will feature, Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan an exhibition of work created by incarcerated artists

Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan2025-01-29T15:23:58-05:00
  • Brian standing at the top of a mountain under the guidance of Erik James Montgomery The Rock (ode to the location, and also to the planet we live on, the place we can’t ever truly escape during this lifetime). Inkjet print 24 x 30 inches Courtesy of the artist

Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed

2025-01-29T15:22:23-05:00

Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed, which will be featured in the Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I, showcases work developed through a photography workshop led by Erik James

Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed2025-01-29T15:22:23-05:00
  • A 36 x 19 inch photocopied collaged poster by Ojore Lutalo called Untitled. It features a white page with the text "A people suffered; their art tells the story. Every picture tells a story. The man behind the collages. Ojore Lutalo, former U.S. Political Prisoner. (Profiled!)" Next to the text is a man wearing sunglasses. Behind the white page is a cheetah print with a red, pink, and orange zigzagged boarder.

Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served

2025-01-29T15:20:26-05:00

Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 The Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery will feature Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served, a collection of collages created by New Jersey-based artist Ojore

Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served2025-01-29T15:20:26-05:00
  • Contraband Scholars under the guidance of JD McGuire, The Things that can be Learned, 2020, digital print, dimensions variable. It shows a man looking out the bars of a cell in black and white. On top of that is two blue outlines of circles, one inside the other, and an outline of a C inside of that. The text in the middle of the image says, "Contraband Scholars. The things that can be learned."

Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System

2025-01-29T15:18:20-05:00

Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System Main Gallery November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 On display in VACNJ’s Main Gallery, Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System sheds light on the vision, ingenuity, and hard-earned creativity

Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System2025-01-29T15:18:20-05:00
  • Neha Kulkarni's The Aftermath of Gatherings (2024). It is a 30 x 40 inch acrylic on canvas painting that displays a living room. The main focus of the painting are the cups and wine bottles on the coffee table, with little things like a spilt cup and messy sofa scattered around the scene.

Neha Kulkarni: Emotive Spaces

2025-03-28T16:40:21-04:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Neha Kulkarni: Emotive Spaces Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery II January 25–March 16 Reception: February 1, 2–4 PM Neha Kulkarni, The Aftermath of Gatherings, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches Neha Kulkarni has always

Neha Kulkarni: Emotive Spaces2025-03-28T16:40:21-04:00
  • A 16 x 16 inch oil on canvas painting by Carol Cassel Baker (2022). It is split into four smaller portraits, each featuring a different person. Going clockwise, they are called: Contemplation, Wise Woman with Hat, Blonde Brian, and Intensity.

Carol Cassel Baker: Face to Face

2025-03-28T17:01:09-04:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Carol Cassel Baker: Face to Face Ann's Place Gallery January 25–March 16 Reception: February 1, 2-4 PM Carol Cassel Baker, (clockwise) Contemplation, Wise Woman with Hat, Blonde Brian, Intensity, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 16 inches

Carol Cassel Baker: Face to Face2025-03-28T17:01:09-04:00
  • Mic Check by Justin Cepeda (2024) is a 16 x 20 inch acrylic, paint marker, and alcohol marker painting made on canvas. It features a black man in colorful streetwear and chunky, silver jewelry singing into a mic.

Tree of Hope: Celebrating Black History Month

2025-05-23T17:49:47-04:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Tree of Hope: Celebrating Black History Month Overlook Medical Center January 21–April Justin Cepeda, Mic Check, 2024, Acrylic, paint marker, and alcohol marker on canvas, 16 x 20 inches Organized by the Visual Arts Center of New

Tree of Hope: Celebrating Black History Month2025-05-23T17:49:47-04:00
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