Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
  • 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
  • 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+00:00

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+00:00
  • Hidemi Takagi, Mikua from the "IDENTITIES" series, 2022, Digital C Print on the textile. Shows a colored girl wearing purple. She has large, colorful earrings and is holding a red flower.

Hidemi Takagi: IDENTITIES

2024-05-28T16:45:49+00:00

Hidemi Takagi: IDENTITIES Stair-gazing Gallery February 23, 2024–May 24, 2024 Hidemi Takagi is a community photographer, visual artist, and social practitioner who documents diverse community members in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. She captures the vibrancy, joy, and experiences of these predominantly immigrant, minority,

Hidemi Takagi: IDENTITIES2024-05-28T16:45:49+00:00
  • Kay Reese. Intervention, 2020, Photo-based digital collage printed with archival ink on lustre photo paper, 24 x 30 inches. Depicts iridescent pieces in front of a white and orange background.

Kay Reese: 50 Million African Trees

2024-05-28T16:43:44+00:00

Kay Reese: 50 Million African Trees Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I February 23–May 24 Kay Reese, an alumna of Gallery Aferro’s Lynn and John Kearney Fellowship for Equity Artist in Residency Program, addresses the history of slavery and issues of

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  • Anna Parisi, Caught in the Act, 2020, video still. Courtesy of the artist. Depicts a person in black, with white ropes tied around their abdomen.

Le’Andra LeSeur and Anna Parisi: Bearing Witness

2024-05-28T16:41:20+00:00

Le’Andra LeSeur and Anna Parisi: Bearing Witness Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery February 23–May 24 This exhibition of works by Le’Andra LeSeur and Anna Parisi examines the act of bearing witness to oppressive and debilitating systems, particularly those faced by women of

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  • Katrina Bello 12-Ply in Blue 2022 Digital print on aluminum 12 x 9 inches

Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty

2024-05-28T16:38:08+00:00

Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty Main Gallery February 23, 2024–May 24, 2024 Curated by Edwin Ramoran Visionary artists and changemakers Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox founded Gallery Aferro in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood in 2003, then moved downtown three years later to

Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty2024-05-28T16:38:08+00:00
  • An optical illusion-esque painting with black and white stripes in the background. On top of that, there are squares with letter that say "She knows other worlds."

Jeffrey Gibson: SHE KNOWS OTHER WORLDS

2024-02-28T16:16:02+00:00

EXHIBITIONS Jeffrey Gibson: SHE KNOWS OTHER WORLDS Main Lobby September 29, 2023–February 4, 2024 The Stair-gazing Gallery features artwork by Jeffrey Gibson on loan from the Forge Project, which oversees a collection of contemporary art with an emphasis on the work of

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Sandra Eula Lee: The Walking Mountain

2024-02-28T16:19:06+00:00

EXHIBITIONS Sandra Eula Lee: The Walking Mountain Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I September 29, 2023–February 4, 2024 Sandra Eula Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms ordinary and found objects for the purpose of exploring notions of permanence. This exhibition

Sandra Eula Lee: The Walking Mountain2024-02-28T16:19:06+00:00
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