Jersey City mixed-media artist Macauley Norman, who has exhibited his work at Deep Space before, peppers his paintings and sculptures with cartoon characters, imagery from video games, logos, and a few sketches suggestive of PornHub screenshots.
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Some Tough Love for MANA Contemporary
I would hate to see MANA go the way of so many other ambitious Hudson County arts institutions, including the Jersey City Museum, which sits, unused and unloved, on a corner of Montgomery Street.
11 Must-See Exhibitors at Art Fair 14C
If you’re going to the Fair this weekend — and you really should be — there are a few booths that I wouldn’t want you to miss.
An Ambitious and Emotionally Provocative Art Fair 14C Opens at Mana
The third edition of Art Fair 14C feels like a post-lockdown rebirth: the successful realization of a particular vision of Jersey arts that’s broad, ambitious and emotionally provocative, and, above all, very elaborately networked.
“What Remains” at Outlander Gallery
Her prickly, unsettling work has sent a cold shiver through recent group shows in the Garden State over the past eighteen months, including the inaugural Art150 event and the 2021 Members Exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton.
Rebecca N. Johnson’s “Bodies of Water” at Deep Space Gallery
This solo exhibition of new paintings on canvas and works on paper by Rebecca N. Johnson, on view at Deep Space Gallery (77 Cornelison Ave.) through October 31, feels like a gentler response to our ferocious anxieties.
JCAST Roundup
A list of exemplary pieces from an event as large and multifaceted as JCAST is going to be highly subjective. Nevertheless, these are eleven works that made an immediate impression on me — and if you saw them, I’ll bet they made an impression on you, too.
“Surface Tension” and “Too Much” at NJCU
Two sharply pointed shows — protest shows, really — at New Jersey City University (2039 Kennedy Boulevard) foreground waste, and ask us to re-examine our careless relationship to what we use and discard.
“FeelLicks” at Novado Gallery
The spirit of the Cat retains enough psychic power to guide the hand of at least one contemporary artist — painter and sculptor Paul Leibow, whose “FeelLicks” is on view at Novado Gallery (110 Morgan Street) until October 16.
“Body Language” at Hamilton Square Condominiums
An artist going by the heady name of Occipital has mounted a show that feels simultaneously timeless and very much of the moment: an examination of the human form under stress, bending like a bough in a gale.
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