Welcome to our new newsletter highlighting our current and upcoming exhibitions and programs.  For more information, please visit our website or contact us. 

Selections from "Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America" 

February 10 - April 6, 2011 

Main Gallery 

Warren Lehrer, "Juan Carlos Veloza, Camilo Perdomo," 2003, ink jet print, courtesy of the artist

Exhibition Reception & Artist Talk

Monday, 2/14/11, 11.30am - 1pm

Refreshments will be provided

At a time when immigration issues and policy are being hotly debated throughout the nation, this exhibition shares the stories, sounds, and images that reveal the human toll of a cold- and post-cold war-world, and pre- and post-9/11 world.  Crossing the BLVD forms a portrait of a paradoxical and ever-shifting America. It intimately portrays the lives of new immigrants and refugees living in Queens, NY, a modern-day Ellis Island where cultures overlap in a choreography of chaotic co-existence. For three years Lehrer and Sloan traveled the world by trekking the streets of their home borough in search of migration stories and a deeper connection to their diverse community.

"Selections from Crossing the BLVD" is presented in collaboration with The Center for Migration and the Global City, Rutgers-Newark. For additional information about programs related to this exhibition please refer to the website: The Center for Migration and the Global City. 

This exhibition was made possible with funding provided by Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities, Rutgers University. 

Aileen Bassis: The Objects of Memory

February 2 - July 28, 2011

Orbit 1  

Aileen Bassis, "Aristotle" (detail), 2010, lithograph and mixed media, Courtesy of the artist

"The Objects of Memory" began as a public art project entitled "Memory Maps," conceived and created by Aileen Bassis for the "Figment2010" festival on Governor's Island, NYC.  In this project, Bassis invited people to draw maps of places from memory.  "Objects of Memory" was created using photographs of participants in the act of recollection, as well as the maps they drew, which were then manipulated with printmaking and lithograph techniques.  Bassis writes of her work, "The ideas are fragments, interrupted and blurred like our elusive memories; bits and pieces stitched together into a fragile construction underlying our present."

Several times during the exhibition, Aileen Bassis will sit at a table by her work and encourage passers-by to draw maps and be photographed, to become part of a later version of the show.  For details, contact Caren King, gallery manager.

Ebb: Recent Works by Diane June  

February 2 - July 27, 2011  

Pequod Deck 

Diane June, "Blur 3," 2010, ink and watercolor on paper, Courtesy of the artist

Diane June's current works are inspired by what she calls "the drama of plant life in untended settings."  Her paintings depict nature in various states of dormancy and overgrowth, showing the coexistence of the noxious and the sublime. 

Lingua Portuguesa--Um Oceano de Culturas

The Portuguese Language--An Ocean of Cultures  

February 2 - July 27, 2011 

Orbit 2 

Instituto Camões, promoter of inter-cultural dialogue, conceived this project as a sample of cultures that meet in the territory of the Portuguese language.  The Instituto Camões intends to pay tribute to all the authors from Africa, Brazil, and Portugal, who have contributed their work to broaden our vision, creating a shared place in the project of lusophone inter-cultural ties. 

Upcoming Events at the Paul Robeson Galleries

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 

The Paul Robeson Galleries presents critically engaging exhibitions, public events and educational programs to Rutgers University and Greater Newark audiences.  It is in the spirit of Paul Robeson himself that the gallery network is dedicated to an urban mission with an activist approach to educational and exhibitions programming.  This commitment includes organizing exhibitions and public programs on local, regional, and international contemporary art and culture, as well as developing civic partnerships through community outreach programs.  Our aim is to initiate cross-disciplinary and civic dialogues as ways of strengthening bonds between art, education, and democracy.  Our exhibitions, programs, and events are always free and open to the public.

The Paul Robeson Galleries are located in the Robeson Campus Center,

Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey,

350 Dr Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Newark, New Jersey USA 07102
 Telephone +1 973 353 1610    Fax +1 973 353 5912

 Email galleryr@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Website http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/artgallery/

For maps, directions, and parking information, please visit the Rutgers-Newark  

Campus Maps and Directions website. 

 

The Main Gallery is open Monday - Thursday, 10am - 5pm. 

The Satellite Galleries are open the same hours as the Robeson Campus Center.

The Paul Robeson Galleries' programs are supported, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and by private donations.  We are also supported by the Robeson Campus Center, the Office of the Chancellor and the Cultural Programming Committee.