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Art & Design Events

as of September 6, 2024

MARK ARMIJO MCKNIGHT: Decreation
on view through January 5
Whitney Museum of American Art // Floor 1, Free Lobby Gallery
Art & Design faculty member Mark Armijo McKnight’s solo exhibition focuses on his ongoing body of work, “Decreation.” The concept, originated by the French philosopher, activist, and mystic Simone Weil (1909–1943), describes an intentional undoing of the self, a process Armijo McKnight explores in images of bodies and landscapes in intermediate states, such as anonymous nude figures engaged in erotic play amidst harsh environments. These photographs convey a sense of both ecstasy and affliction. A new 16mm film in the gallery plays a cacophonous symphony of gradually unwinding metronomes set within the dramatic geological formations of the Bisti Badlands/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico. Two large limestone sculptures, which double as seating, suggest the forms of a pair of ancient sundials. As a whole, Decreation simultaneously evokes tumult and quietude, darkness and light, isolation and togetherness. This exhibition is on view in the Lobby gallery, accessible to the public free of charge. More here.

CROSSING BORDERS: GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION 1960 to Now
on view September 11-July 31
Zimmerli Art Museum
This soon to open exhibition on abstraction at the Zimmerli features Art & Design faculty Julie Langsam and Stephen Westfall. Rutgers Today published a wonderful conversation with them about the show.

VISITING ARTIST: Lyric Shen
Wednesday, September 11 at 7pm
CSB Room 110
Lyric Shen’s practice currently involves the composition of destressed images that consider language and memory using porcelain, steel, cosmopolitan artifacts, video and handmade paper. If you cannot make it in person, click here for zoom link.

OPENING RECEPTION: Smoke & Mirrors
Saturday, September 14, 4-7pm
Zimmerli Art Museum
The evening spotlights the major exhibition Smoke & Mirrors, featuring work from across the globe by 14 contemporary artists with disabilities who conceptualize access through humor, antagonism, transparency, and invisibility. Explore the exhibition, catch up with old friends (or make new ones), and meet guest curator Amanda Cachia. For all details, including parking registration and accessibility accommodations, visit the event page.

FALL CAREER & INTERNSHIP MEGAFAIR
September 17-20
Jersey Mike’s Arena, Livingston Campus
Join this in-person event to network with employers to discuss full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities from a wide variety of fields. This event is open to Rutgers University (New Brunswick, Camden, Newark, and RBHS) students and alumni from all academic disciplines. Learn more here.

BIG NIGHT OF SHORTS presented by Art21
Friday, September 27, 2024
The Paley Center for Media, 25 W 52nd Street, NYC
Join Art21, artists, and filmmakers for a Big Night of Shorts. A celebration of recent Extended Play and New York Close Up films. Click here for more information and $12 tickets.
6:30 pm Doors open
7:00 pm Program
8:00 pm Reception

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VISITING DESIGNER LECTURE SERIES – SPRING 2024

Rutgers’ Visiting Designer Series is back for Spring 2024! Designers of varied practices will be giving talks on Tuesdays at 5:40 PM, at Civic Square Building, Room 110. Free and open to the public. 

33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Masks Strongly Encouraged // Wheelchair Accessible

CART & ASL available upon request; please contact coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu.

Learn more about the designers at the Design @ Rutgers Blog.

See previous lecture recordings here. [sign-in required]

Designer Lineup:

January 16 – Isometric Studio
January 23 – Bryce Wilner
January 30 – Alvaro Dominguez
February 6 – Kit Son Lee
February 13 – Scott Reinhard
February 20 – TBA
February 27 – Kelly Walters
March 5 – Ryan Kuo
March 19 – TBA
March 26 – Dina Benbrahim
April 2 – Alissa Levin
April 9 – Lia Petronio
April 16 – Yehwan Song




Learn more about the designers here. 

—> Design @ Rutgers Blog

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STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

What:
Video Installation and Info Table for the 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

When:
December 1 — December 2 (all-day)

Where:
Civic Square Building Lobby

The Department of Art & Design at Rutgers University is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.

The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades. 

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s thirtieth year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic. 

*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here.

Image Credit: Shanti Avirgan, Beat Goes On, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist

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Hello my name is

Muslim Feminists for the Arts (MFA) will be having their first exhibition titled, “Hello my Name is” from November 13-17 in Project Space Room 230.
RECEPTION:  
When? Monday, November 13 from 5-7pm
Where? CSB, Room 110
Who? Artist talk by: Arabic calligrapher Aishah Holland
Spoken word performance by: Mina Khan
Check out the Facebook event page here.