Zimmerli Kicks Off Fall Season with Opening Reception on Sept. 13
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers Kicks Off Fall Season with Opening Reception on Sept. 13
New Brunswick, N.J. (Aug. 8, 2023)—The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University invites the public to a free opening reception on Sept. 13, 2023, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Details are available at go.rutgers.edu/zamopening2023. Guest curator Ferris Olin, along with artists Judith K. Brodsky, Alonzo Adams, and Jim Toia will be in attendance, discussing their projects. The event celebrates eight new exhibitions for the fall season:
The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986–2017
In the early 1980s, visionary artist, advocate, and scholar Judith K. Brodsky set out to rectify the gender and racial inequities in the art world by establishing a print- and papermaking studio that provided residencies primarily for women artists and artists of color. This is the first museum survey of work created at the influential atelier, featuring more than 100 works on paper, by 93 artists.
Judith K. Brodsky: Inside and Outside
Color drawings based on photographs the artist took of herself during lockdown demonstrate how her drawing methods derive from her printmaking.
Jim Toia: Notes on Threatened Landscapes
The artist captures nature’s complexity and inherent beauty through work he produced in areas across the U.S. where continuous development and extreme climate conditions have had an impact on fragile and unique landscapes.
Alonzo Adams: A Griot’s Vision
The artist describes himself as a griot, a storyteller whose works aspire to capture and immortalize contemporary Black experience. The exhibition, which includes work fresh from his studio and important loans from collectors, is a homecoming for Adams, an alum of Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Recent Acquisitions of Hungarian Art: Gifts from the Salgo Trust for Education
In 2022, the Zimmerli received a gift of paintings and photographs from this remarkable and wide-ranging collection, which once belonged to Nicolas M. Salgo (1914–2005), a Hungarian-American business executive and US Ambassador.
Komar and Melamid in America
The exhibition presents an overview of the duo's major projects in the United States, providing a rare opportunity to view works from the Dodge Collection with loans from other institutions, archives, and private collections.
Judy Watson: shadow bone
One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, whose Indigenous matrilineal family is from northwest Queensland, Watson's work is often concerned with unearthing hidden histories of Indigenous Australian experiences under colonialism.
Our Place in the World: Children’s Illustrations by Juana Martinez-Neal
On view in the Duvoisin Gallery, which is dedicated to showcasing original artwork for children’s books, this exhibition features illustrations and preparatory works from five stories by the award-winning children’s illustrator and author, who creates books where children connect with their heritage and learn to be proud of their uniqueness, discovering their own place in the world.
As always, museum admission is free. Visit zimmerli.rutgers.edu for complete details and visitor information, including event calendar, directions, parking and accessibility.
ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM | RUTGERS
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum houses more than 60,000 works of art, with strengths in the Art of the Americas, Asian Art, European Art, Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art, and Original Illustrations for Children's Literature. The permanent collections include works in all mediums, spanning from antiquity to the present day, providing representative examples of the museum’s research and teaching message at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, which stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities. Founded in 1766, as one of only nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution, Rutgers is the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning.
VISITOR INFORMATION
Admission is free to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. The museum is located at 71 Hamilton Street (at George Street) on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The Zimmerli is a short walk from the NJ Transit train station in New Brunswick, midway between New York City and Philadelphia.
The Zimmerli Art Museum is open Wednesday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. The museum is closed Monday and Tuesday, as well as major holidays and the month of August.
For the most current information, including parking and accessibility, visit zimmerli.rutgers.edu.
SUPPORT
The Zimmerli's operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Endowment Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Endowment Fund, among others. Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the donors, members, and friends of the museum.
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