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The more you look at his paintings, the more you realize: these are images of people. People in an absolute tizzy, sure, but aren’t you?

“Impact!,” curated by multimedia artist Tarik Mendes, is, like all ProArts projects, a survivors’ tale. It is an exciting show, and an illuminating show, but it is not a happy show.  Then again, these are not the happiest of times.

(Header image: Lauren Silberman, Dancefloor 2020, (Good Room), Archival Pigment Print, 60″ x 78″) In Jersey City, renovation is often a scary word. Businesses that close for renovation sometimes get lost in the mist and never reopen.  Others come back weakened, or changed for the worse.  The winter and early spring period of repose at MANA […]

The idea of Mother’s Day can bring up all sorts of uncomfortable emotions for people.

This May, many of the artists who give Jersey City its peculiar character will have work on view in our local galleries.