Student art exhibition now open

The University Galleries is excited to open Here/Now: A Juried Exhibition of Student Artwork, on view through May 5 in Court Gallery, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts. Please see the attached postcard as well as descriptions and links below. Information about our current exhibitions El Cartel/The Poster: Puerto Rican Graphics (January 30 – May 5, 2023, South Gallery) and Myles Dunigan: Sacrifice Zones (January 30 – May 5, 2023, East Gallery) is available here. Contact director Casey Mathern to arrange a tour for your class (mathernc@wpunj.edu) and see our spring postcard as a pdf attachment using the link at the bottom of this page. A huge thank you to our dedicated faculty jurors and congratulations to our talented art students!

Here/Now: A Juried Exhibition of Student Artwork

April 10 – May 5, 2023

Court Gallery

Juried by the William Paterson Department of Art faculty members James Blasi, Julie Nagle, Steve Rittler, and Robin Schwartz, this exhibition showcases student artwork in diverse media. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Wolanssa Adera (Madison, NJ), Taiwo Adeyefa (South Orange, NJ), J. Alarcon (Totowa, NJ), Jayden Almodovar-Morrow (Princeton, NJ), Thomas Arrigoni (Nutley, NJ), Dante’ D. Blucher (Woodland Park, NJ), Katheen Burrough (Little Falls, NJ), Miguel Carmona (Teaneck, NJ), Bailley Coddington-Salvato (Vernon, NJ), Raymond Columna (Little Falls, NJ), Samantha Corbett (Wayne, NJ), Armand Dias (Perth Amboy, NJ), Tara Egan (Flanders, NJ), Adam Garvey (Blauvelt, NY), Dylan Green (Cedar Grove, NJ), Anthony Jarama (Bloomingdale, NJ), Claire Johnson (Cranford, NJ), Nicole Kiziuk (Teaneck, NJ), Maeve Klepper (Ocean Grove, NJ), James Koegler (Parsippany, NJ), David Lopez (Clifton, NJ), Piero Lopez Rodriguez-Gaona (Wharton, NJ), Jay Manansala (Hackensack, NJ), Nicholas Minadeo (Totowa, NJ), Fabio Miyashiro (Pompton Lakes, NJ), Makeda Moore (Plainfield, NJ), Allison Mucaro (Hackensack, NJ), Kathryn O’Neill (Butler, NJ), Rael Palao (Waldwick, NJ), Angelina Pinho (Butler, NJ), Adam Remeniski (Mt. Laurel, NJ), Jaden Rivera (Clifton, NJ), Fernando A. Roman (Pompton Lakes, NJ), Adalberto Santana (Clifton, NJ), Savana Small (Newark, NJ), Hiromi Takezawa (Little Ferry, NJ), Ariel Vallejo (Montague, NJ), Katrina Van Grouw (Pompton Plains, NJ), Allison Marie Venegas (Carlstadt, NJ), and Justin Yi (Palisades Park, NJ).

Award Ceremony and opening reception: Tuesday, April 18 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m., Court Gallery

El Cartel/The Poster: Puerto Rican Graphics

South Gallery

January 30 – May 5, 2023

Curated by Alejandro Anreus, WP professor of art history and Latin American/Latinx studies, this exhibition showcases printed posters created by leading Puerto Rican and Nuyorican printmakers at the Taller de Artes Graficas of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan under the leadership of master printer Lorenzo Homar, and at the Taller Boricua in New York City, between 1960 and 2013. Drawn from an impressive print collection formed and recently donated to the William Paterson University Galleries by artist Gloria Rodriguez Calero in memory of her late husband Angelo Antolino and in honor of Alejandro Anreus, these works capture the issues and reflect the conscience of Puerto Ricans living on the island and in the diaspora over a half century when graphic design became entwined with the movement for independence. Central to this focus on printmaking was the development of one of the most sophisticated and effective uses of the silkscreen (serigraphy) technique. Printmakers represented in the exhibition include José Alicea, López Alomar, Luis Alonso, Isabel Bernal, Gloria Rodriguez Calero, Jose Rosa Castellanos, Fran Cervoni, Wilfredo Chiesa, Gilberto Hernandez, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Irizarry, Antonio Martorell, Rafael Rivera Rosa, Fernando Salicrup, Carmelo Sobrino, Jorge Soto, Rafael Tufiño, and Manuel Vega.

Myles Dunigan: Sacrifice Zones

East Gallery

January 30 – May 5, 2023

This exhibition features new prints, assemblages, installations, and an artist’s book by Myles Dunigan, the Grand Prize recipient of the 2020 Ink, Press, Repeat exhibition. Inspired by the provisional nature of scientific notation and doomsday preppers, Dunigan crafts ephemeral objects culled from a personal archive of slides, models, and field notes that act as beautiful warnings in a precarious era marked with pandemics and ecological anxieties.

Family Printmaking Day with Frontline Arts

Visit our spring exhibitions and create your own monotype print with staff from Frontline Arts. The event is free and open to the public but advance reservation for the workshop is required by emailing Nadia Estela (estelan@wpunj.edu).

Saturday, April 29 | 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts

Our programming is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.