Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

This Was Always a Place

2026-02-04T22:49:18+00:00

This Was Always a Place Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I September 19, 2025–January 18, 2026 The Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I features This Was Always a Place, a solo exhibition by Andrew Harrison. Through archives, maps, and

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  • Large immersive installation featuring a wall of layered artificial foliage and flowers glowing under blacklight in shades of neon green, purple, and blue. Bright, fluorescent monstera leaves and blossoms appear to float against a dense backdrop of greenery. On the floor in front, clusters of irregular rock-like forms glow in green and yellow, creating a surreal, otherworldly landscape under the purple-lit ceiling beams of the gallery space.

_other Nature – Marshland Tales

2026-02-04T22:48:09+00:00

_other Nature – Marshland Tales Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery September 19, 2025–January 18, 2026 In the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery, Cecile Chong’s upcoming installation, _other Nature – Marshland Tales, continues her exploration of the fraught relationship between humans and

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  • Close-up of an abstract sculptural arrangement made from assorted natural and artificial materials attached to white paper cups. The objects include porous rocks, foam, sponge-like fragments, Styrofoam, and earthy-toned stones in shades of brown, white, gray, and muted turquoise. The textures range from rough and jagged to smooth and rounded, creating a clustered, coral-like appearance on a wooden surface with other similar sculptures blurred in the background.

All that Consumes Me

2026-02-04T22:44:50+00:00

All that Consumes Me Main Gallery September 19, 2025–January 18, 2026 All that Consumes Me, on view in the Main Gallery, brings together Angeles Cossio, Carolyn Lambert, Joshua Marquez, Lina Puerta, and Marion Wilson, whose use of found and reclaimed materials

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  • NJ Photo Forum Logo, celebrating 30 years

The Garden State

2026-02-04T22:46:25+00:00

The Garden StateThe Garden State Main Gallery June 22–August 25, 2025 Abraham Browning coined New Jersey's nickname, the Garden State, in August 1876. In 1954, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill to add "The Garden State" to the state's license

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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+00:00

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

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  • 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+00:00

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+00:00
  • A view of the VACNJ gallery with the show ETA:Rerouted installed.

ETA: Rerouted

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

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

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  • 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+00:00

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+00:00
  • 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+00:00

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

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  • 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+00:00

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+00:00
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