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.
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Body Painting as Public Spectacle: Artsy or Offensive?
Through the dim light I caught the eye of another woman in the room and we looked at each other as though to say, ”Is this entertaining?”
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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.
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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.
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Jersey City Art and Studio Tour Kicks Off Tonight
The Jersey City Art and Studio Tour, better known as JCAST, will kick off its 31st year tonight, Sept. 30, with an opening reception, dance performances, and other events at Nimbus Arts Center (329 Warren St.) starting at 6 p.m.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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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“Walls To Smalls” at Deep Space Gallery
Deep Space has always championed our most prolific local street artists, and “Walls To Smalls,” which opened only a few weeks after a city-authorized Mural Festival and will run through July 25, brings their work indoors.
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Artists Explore Pop Music Icons in Two Local Shows
“An Artist’s Duty” is one of two local exhibitions that place the image of the singing star at the center of the show.