Art exhibits around Rutgers
Archived article from Mar 1, 2002
Camden The Stedman Art Gallery on the Camden campus will showcase Disney's influence on visual arts through its next exhibit, titled "Never Never Land." The exhibit features 24 contemporary artists who explore the influence on our culture of the Disney corporation and other sources of commercialized fantasy conveyed through mass media.
The exhibit includes work by Melissa Marks, Bonnie Collura, Takashi Murakami, Stephan Pascher, Brian Tolle, Arturo Herrera and others. From narrative videotapes to large-scale sculptures, the exhibit will reflect the artists' celebration, ambivalence and criticism of the visual ingenuity and commercial success of the Walt Disney Company.
"Never Never Land" runs March 4 through April 27. For more information, call ext. 6350.
Newark Dancing is an art form, as is painting. These two avenues of personal expression rarely intersect unless the artist is Joanne Leone Corris. When the Newark native paints, her entire body becomes involved, and she literally dances her visions onto canvas, combining her years of dance training with her natural artistic talents.
Jazz is Corris' music of choice, and she works in a variety of media, using acrylic, oils and found objects to create paintings, 3-D pieces and collages.
The results of Corris' unusual technique will be on display March 7 to April 5 at the John Cotton Dana Library on the Newark campus. The artist will be honored at an opening reception at 5 p.m. March 7.
New Brunswick The Busch Campus Center will feature two exhibits during March. A piece of the AIDS Quilt will be on display March 3-9. Then, artist Aysha Mirza will exhibit her work in a show titled "life.art.soul" March 10-24. For more information, call ext. 5-3962.
"Blast Into the Baltics" will be the theme of the Zimmerli Art Museum's First Thursday Art After Hours program 5:30-8:30 p.m. March 7. The event will feature a 5:30 p.m. lecture on the avant-garde art of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and a concert of Lithuanian classical music at 6:15 p.m. First Thursdays are free for faculty, staff, students and members. The museum is currently featuring the exhibit "The Baltics: Nonconformist and Modernist Art During the Soviet Era,"which will run through March 17.
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