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 Gallery Hours: MAIN GALLERY
Cut, Weld and Build: Curated by E. Carmen Ramos The exhibition, Cut, Weld and Build: Process in Works by Chakaia Booker will be one of the most comprehensive museum exhibitions of this African-American artist's work to date; representing the wide range of Booker's practice from the mid-1990s to the present. Since the early 1990s, New Jersey-born artist Chakaia Booker has emerged as one of the most notable American artists of her generation. She is especially celebrated for her largely, monumental scale sculptures made of an unconventional artistic material: rubber tires. Booker earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from Rutgers University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from City College of New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, the Marlborough Gallery, and her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, in the “Twentieth Century American Sculpture” exhibition at the White House in 1996, the Storm King Art Center in 2003 and 2004, the 48th Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C., and most recently at the Carl Solway Gallery. Cut, Weld, Build: Process in Works by Chakaia Booker, curated by Carmen E. Ramos, will explore and historically contextualize Booker’s shifting manually-intensive methods, showcasing the ways in which her process imbues meaning into her unorthodox artistic material. E. Carmen Ramos is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago. An Assistant Curator at The Newark Museum for the past four years, she has organized exhibitions and public art projects including The Caribbean Abroad, When Hens Pee: A Public Art Project by Miguel Luciano, and most recently, America’s Pastime, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Freddy Rodriguez. The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is proud to receive the National Endowment for the Arts grant award of $45,000 MITZI and WARREN EISENBERG GALLERYFaculty Exhibition Series
Maria Latour Word Stains October 1 - December 3, 2010 MARITÉ AND JOE ROBINSON STROLLING GALLERY IIAspiring Artist Series Graffiti Students of Braulio Batista October 1 - December 3, 2010 SCULPTURE PARK Cut, Weld and Build: Curated by E. Carmen Ramos October 1, 2010 – July 2011) Opening Reception: Friday, October 1, 6 – 8pm
On view now until November, 2010
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