HOME HERE GALLERY EXHIBITION SHORT ESSAY
Please visit the exhibition in Visual Arts Gallery and write a 3-5 paragraph review of the exhibition. Take notice of the title and curatorial narrative of the exhibition. Choose two artworks in particular to describe in detail that are inspiring or interesting to you. Take photos of the works and the gallery and include the photos in your post. In your review please specify the artist, title, and a description of the two artworks you chose and a few sentences about your connection and response to the artworks. Please answer the following questions and include 2 quotes from ANY of the class readings thus far to help answer these questions.
Why have you chosen these works to review? How might they be activist or interventions? How do they connect to your own artwork (if you make artwork) or your life? What is the curatorial narrative of the exhibition as far as you can see and read? Who are the artists in the exhibition?
Be sure to include:
Details about the 2 artworks that you chose from the exhibition artist, title and description
2+ images of the artwork in the exhibition
2+ quotes from any of the class readings so far
While visiting the art gallery, found these two art pieces interesting and warming to my liking. The social meaning of where we come from, what we see and why the reason we do things, and home is here being the narrative of the exhibition. I choose these work to review because I love the colors incorporated, mood, and it has a deep meaning behind the art. The first image using solid colors of blue and white and gives an agriculture feel with retro map. Between activist and interventions, it gives intervention because it gives a safe space to the one observing.The techniques are used to express emotions rather than activism due to the lack of information for specific reason for awareness/social change. The first picture made me feel comfort and a familiarity when it comes to the map and background of leaves, and the bold wording gives you a lot of info on the artist's story behind the purpose of their work. When I look at the second art, it gives me vibrant colors of the rainbow maybe symbolizing the queer community or a love triangle. It gives a fancy vibe with excellent color selection and gives the atmosphere a safe space and the admiration of the countryside with the hills of agriculture and the use of horses. The exhibition gives the audience the idea that agriculture purpose changed over the years. It displays past techniques to show people what life was like when agriculture started and how it shifted to urbanization and building development in the present. So now according to both artwork comparing side by side, I would say it's both activist and intervention art. It expresses emotion and gives the specific meaning that increasing new land development will cause agriculture decreasing throughout time. The respawn of new buildings, malls, and establishments increases environmental concerns for farmers and less supply in the food banks. People don't realize the true potential of these new developments and it's negative impact it can be towards the community. When new development happens it raises property value which means increase in rent. Thus raising the rent raises land prices, making it difficult for farmers to purchase or rent the space with a decrease in space due to new buildings being produced.
"Another important goal of activist art is to create awareness of existing political and social issues. When the public is looking away from suffering that could be prevented or does not want to be confronted with it, activist art often creates a dialogue and forces people to think about these problems. (An Introduction to Activist Art Article)"
"An exhibition that could show the universality of racist power structures, as one focusing on Bell most certainly would, seemed like the perfect follow-up. Besides, Bell’s protest work has tremendous cross-cultural relevance. It speaks directly to racist stereotypes, colonial mythologies, land rights, commodification of indigeneity by the art market, violence against Aborigines, and to Austracism, in particular. Like Australia, the US was colonised by whitefellas from Europe, who massacred the Indigenous peoples, stole their land, forced them on to reservations, and deprived them of human rights. (Toward A Curatorial Activism)"
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See information below about the exhibition and the artists for further research and details to help your essay.
HOME HERE is a site-specific installation that combines the work of 11 artists identifying as women living in Jersey City. Curated by alumna Lucy Rovetto (1991 BFA), the show will explore themes of history and memory. The installation will be designed as a continuous flow where works will overlap, interact, and sometimes have no clear boundaries.
The featured artists include Laia Cabrera, Nicole DeMaio, Isabelle Duverger, Jaz Graf, Katelyn Halpern, Jin Jung, Pat Lay, Tina Maneca, Cheryl R. Riley, Jennifer Roberts. The exhibition also honors the work of Ward Mount, a painter, sculptor, educator, and former chair of the Art Department at NJCU (then Jersey City State Teacher’s College) in the 1940s. Historian Martin Pierce will illuminate Ward Mount's contributions through his research.
Link to the catalogue pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MyQ8XgaM2hIWsOpvsCTT_MTAxp7Zypuu/view
Link to the instagram videos of the artists speaking about their work: https://www.instagram.com/njcugalleries/reels/
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