An interview with SMUSH Gallery directors Katelyn Halpern and Benedicto Figueroa, who must raise thousands of dollars to keep the space going.
Visual Arts
“Mothership Connection” at Deep Space Gallery
“Mothership Connection,” an all-female show that will run at Deep Space Gallery (77 Cornelison Ave.) until Apr. 10, features more than a few artists whose local prominence isn’t merely about aesthetics.
“Everythin$ Is OK” at NJCU Visual Art Gallery
In the new show at NJCU, artist Nedko Bucev takes a thoroughly disturbing look at the contamination of the water table.
“Coming Into Focus” at the Majestic Condominiums
“Coming into Focus,” a two-artist show that pairs Fine prints with recent paintings by Deb Sinha is likely to be remembered by those who see it as the definitive Jersey City pandemic-era art show — one so tonally and emotionally accurate that it deserves to be called history.
A JC Fridays Itinerary: March 2022
The first JC Fridays of the year feels very much like an event on the cusp of something, and a harbinger of turned fortunes.
P.E. Pinkman’s Pandemic Chronicle at Saint Peter’s Fine Arts Gallery
“100 Days of a Pandemic,” a chronicle of loneliness and disintegration, peppered with occasional violent outbursts, is the centerpiece of “Seeing Someone Else Is Seeing Yourself,” his solo show at the Fine Arts Gallery at Saint Peter’s University (Mac Mahon Student Center, 47 Glenwood Ave.)
“Living in the Invisible” at Dineen Hull Gallery
The show at Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis Hull Gallery at Hudson County Community College (71 Sip Avenue) features work by Roger Sayre, Doris Caçiolo, Sharon Lee De La Cruz, Allison Greene, Eun Young Choi, Stephanie Tichenor, and Mary Tooley Parker.
PATH Commuter Gallery: Serious Art Gallery or PR Exercise?
There’s no way to appreciate the art at the new Commuter Gallery if the space isn’t open when they claim it’ll be.
February 2022: State of the Arts
A new director at MANA, Art House and 14C move forward separately and smaller venues open.
Raisa Nosova shines in “Stripped” at PRIME Gallery
“Stripped” is a forceful group show that will be on view at the PRIME Gallery (351 Palisade Ave. between Franklin and Ferry) for the next three months.