The Arts at NJCU
In Fictive Kinship, a solo exhibit inspired by the death of Sandra Bland, visual artist Kimberly Mayhorn used paintings, works on paper, installation, and a two-channel video to explore kinship or social bonding between unrelated black women. Although connected only as black women and through a tie to Texas, when Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell after being arrested for allegedly failing to use her turn signal, Mayhorn recalled, “And even though I did not know her, I felt a kindred connection with her and I found myself mourning her death as if I knew her and thinking that could have been me…” When the exhibit traveled to the Visual Arts Gallery, it caught the attention of the Huffington Post.
Contact: Midori Yoshimoto, Gallery Director
Visual arts at NJCU included a Watercolor Exhibition by Paul Ching-Bor, Kimberly Mayhorn’s Fictive Kinship, and MFA and BFA exhibitions. For complete photo galleries of these exhibits, please visit:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/njcugalleries/sets/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-souleo-wright/on-the-a-wsouleo-civil-ri_b_9153654.html
http://www.thebholdr.com/kimberly-mayhorn-fictive-kin-ship/
For more information about the artist visit http://www.kimmayhorn.com/.
The 2016-17 Exhibition Program at New Jersey City University Galleries
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VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
September 12 – September 16
Janis Maschucchi MA Exhibition
(performative self-portraits)
Reception: TBA
September 22 – October 8
Mediha Sandhu MFA Exhibition
(video, photo, illustration exploring
her Pakistani-American identity)
Reception: September 22,
4:30–7:30 p.m.
October 13 – 26
Dan Loh MFA Exhibition
(video, photo investigating his
Korean-American heritage)
Reception: TBA
November 7 – December 15
October 31 –November 4
installation Conceptual Furniture/
metalsmith Exhibition
(tentative title)
Curated by Darren Fisher
Reception: November 7,
4:30–7:30 p.m.
January 25 – March 1, 2017
Japanese Anime/Manga Effect in
Contemporary Art
Curated by Midori Yoshimoto
(in collaboration with Ramapo
College Galleries)
March 14 – May 12, 2015
BFA Exhibitions
VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
September 12 – September 16
Janis Maschucchi MA Exhibition
(performative self-portraits)
Reception: TBA
September 22 – October 8
Mediha Sandhu MFA Exhibition
(video, photo, illustration exploring
her Pakistani-American identity)
Reception: September 22,
4:30–7:30 p.m.
October 13 – 26
Dan Loh MFA Exhibition
(video, photo investigating his
Korean-American heritage)
Reception: TBA
November 7 – December 15
October 31 –November 4
installation Conceptual Furniture/
metalsmith Exhibition
(tentative title)
Curated by Darren Fisher
Reception: November 7,
4:30–7:30 p.m.
January 25 – March 1, 2017
Japanese Anime/Manga Effect in
Contemporary Art
Curated by Midori Yoshimoto
(in collaboration with Ramapo
College Galleries)
March 14 – May 12, 2015
BFA Exhibitions
Spring production of Hairspray
Directed by NJCU’s Marc G. Dalio and performed at the West Side Theatre