Seasons change, and so do art exhibits. Galleries and museums all over the state are rolling out fresh art by new, exciting talent and old favorites alike.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration, enrichment, an indoor daytrip or a new piece for your collection, here are a few options to see:
Art House Productions. Billing itself as “Jersey City’s home for the performing and visual arts,” Art House Productions opens its new group gallery “Through My Eyes” from June 6 to 29. This multidisciplinary exhibit centers artists who have some kind of mental or physical disability and aims to “highlight lived experiences and diverse perspectives.”
Hunterdon Art Museum. This Clinton museum has two new exhibitions running for summer. One, “Selections from The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art,” highlights work from five contemporary African American artists. The other, “Pulp: The Fluid and The Concrete,” is dedicated to the art of hand papermaking.
Morris Museum. Two new exhibits open at this Morristown staple this month. Opening June 19 is “Troy Jones: Echoes of the Diaspora,” which explores the African mask as a symbol of heritage, transformation and cultural continuity. Opening June 26 is “Tula Telfair: Nature Does Not Locate Itself,” which spotlights the hyper-realistic landscapes of the artist.
The Montclair Art Museum. Newly opened in mid-May, this salon-style gallery features 19 works by celebrated American landscape artist George Inness. It tracks the progression of Inness’s work over his lifetime, from his realist art rooted in European landscape conventions to his later, more abstract expressions of landscape that express a unity of material and spiritual existence.
The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. In Summit, an exhibition entitled “The Garden State” opens June 22. The photography exhibit, which also celebrates 30 years of the fine art photography group NJ Photography Forum, features curated responses to the question “What does the Garden State mean to you?” The images capture New Jersey’s “agricultural and industrial spirit.”
Noyes Museum of Art. The art gallery of Stockton University, Noyes presents two different exhibitions this summer at its Atlantic City location. One is multimedia sculpture artist Jack Knight’s Ontario Series—he creates eyepopping architectural “box” pieces with found objects. The other features the art of Kimisha Turner, known for her innovative blend of abstraction, surrealism and symbolism. Both exhibits debuted May 10.
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