Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum
Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum
ROWAN UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY & MUSEUM
presents
BONDING
Jack Larimore
March 25 - July 13, 2024
301 West High Street Gallery
Exhibition extended through July 13!
When experiencing nature and her complex relationships, New Jersey-based maker Jack Larimore is drawn to the positive bonds that coexist with the challenges of competition. His creative muse pulls from this nuanced interplay of nature, where he perceives patterns and processes that speak to resilience, adaptability, and interconnectedness.
HOURS
301 West High Street, First Floor, Glassboro, NJ 08028
Monday - Friday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Westby Hall, First Floor, Room 110
237 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028
The Center for Art & Social Engagement
The Center for Art and Social Engagement serves as a venue for investigating social issues through arts-based methods. Anchored by a permanent display of The Sister Chapel, a historic collaborative feminist installation, CASE draws inspiration from the cooperative spirit of the women’s art movement.
Exhibition Catalogs
PDF catalogs from past exhibitions are available to download for free. Printed copies of exhibition catalogs are also available free of charge by visiting our 301 High Street Gallery location.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
ELLEN HARVEY THE DISAPPOINTED TOURIST
Painting in a style reminiscent of vintage tourist postcards, The Disappointed Tourist is an ongoing project of 300 paintings of lost sites suggested by members of the public. It was inspired by the urge to repair what has been lost due to the forces of war, time, ideology, gentrification, and natural disasters. It attempts to honor the trauma underlying the nostalgia that results from our collective and individual losses, while celebrating the human attachment to places both real and aspirational.
LAYERS OF AUTHENTICITY
In this group show five artists created work by altering imagery pulled from print, the internet, and their own photography. Utilizing unique processes of production, they revealed authentic and insightful statements about our current political and social landscape and the ambiguousness and misconceptions of historical events, places, and people.
THE LIGHTNESS OF BEARING VIRGINIA MAKSYMOWICZ
The Lightness of Bearing is a selection of works by Virginia Maksymowicz that considers the symbolic resilience and strength of the female figure in art and architecture by blending the mythology of caryatids, (architectural columns of women effortlessly bearing the weight of massive architectural structures) with images of women from indigenous and ethnic cultures bearing the weight of ritualistic traditions.
LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK
Looking Forward, Looking Back was an opportunity to celebrate the Rowan University Art Gallery’s art collection. The exhibition was organized around five themes - Abstraction and Experimentation, Art as Social Commentary, Art History as Inspiration, Figure Studies and Portraiture, and Sylvia Sleigh as Artist-Collector - that shed light on the Gallery’s unique collection history and collecting practices.
SUPERCELLULAR
SuperCellular was a site-specific immersive art gallery experience that combined sculpture, light, sound and moving imagery as a reflection of the astonishing and almost incomprehensible density and activity of the chemical molecules in our bodies. Inspired by neuroscience, cellular biology, and genetics, the installation contemplated the complexities and intricacies of living processes and the mysteries of cellular interactions.
MULTIPLICITIES
This exhibition presented photography that through humor, theatrics, and playfulness reframed and fractured conventional, binary perceptions about culture, race, and gender identities to one that is diverse, interactive and layered. Each artist explored stereotypes of their own cultural heritage and origins in order to break down misconceptions and to shift the narrative of what it means to be who they are as multidimensional Americans.