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  • Annual Student Show

    DiMattio Gallery
    Opening Reception: Sunday April 24, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    Featuring the select works by Monmouth University students in Photography, Graphic Design, Animation and Studio Art.

  • New Jersey State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Showcase

    RECHNITZ HALL’S DIMATTIO GALLERY
    Opening Reception: Thurs. Feb. 4 | 5:30-7:30 PM
    Gallery Hours: Mon.- Fri. 10am – 5pm, Sat.- Sun. 10 am – 4 pm

    This exhibit showcases the work of 2014-2015 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship winners in sculpture, crafts and photography. Fellowships are highly competitive awards to New Jersey artists in 12 different disciplines, based solely on artistic quality, and designed to help artists produce new work and advance their careers.
    Fellowship Artists: Betty Beaumont, Jill Gower, Tyler Haughey, Jan Huling, Jerry Hirniak, Johanna Inman, Alec Karros, Christina Labey, Scott Pellnat, Edward Peters, Lisa Sanders, Roger Sayre, Karina Skvirsky,
    Pamela Sunday, Christina Tenaglia and Wendel White

    The Visual Arts Fellowship Showcase is a cosponsored program between the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Monmouth University Center for the Arts.

  • Order & Chaos: An Exhibit of Selected Works by Jacob Landau

    Reception: Monday, April 11 | 4:30- 6 PM | Library Seminar Room 102
    Gallery Hours: Tues. – Thurs.: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday: 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Sunday: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

    Born in Philadelphia in 1917, Jacob Landau launched his career as an illustrator, winning national prizes at age 16 and a scholarship to the Philadelphia College of Art. He had over sixty one-person shows and was the recipient of many awards, including Tiffany, Guggenheim and National Arts Council grants. Many of his works are featured in permanent collections in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. A master teacher, he retired as professor emeritus at New York’s Pratt Institute. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts by Monmouth University.

    Jacob Landau viewed art as a defense against chaos. That all is subject to entropy haunted the artist his whole life. So art becomes a weapon to combat this descent into disorder. And it is a powerful weapon. For “each time we create something,” Landau has said, “we win a victory over decay.” Monmouth University’s exhibit “Order & Chaos” demonstrates this triumph. The exhibition features a selection of fifteen pieces. All works are from Monmouth University’s extensive collection of Jacob Landau’s work, comprising over 300 prints, drawings and paintings. The collection was gifted to Monmouth University in 2008 by the Jacob Landau Institute of Roosevelt, NJ. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Jewish Culture Studies Program and the Honors School of Monmouth University.

    This event is free & open to the public. Docent tours are available (for times, contact Professor Noel Belinski 732-263-5425; email: nbelinsk@monmouth.edu). For additional information on the exhibition and other gallery events on the West Long Branch campus of Monmouth University, please call 732-263-5759 or visit www.monmouth.edu/arts.

  • J. Seward Johnson Sculptures

    Following an early career as a painter, Seward Johnson turned his talents to the medium of sculpture. Since then, more than 450 of Johnson’s life-size cast bronze figures have been featured in private collections and museums in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, as well as prominent places in the public realm such as Rockefeller Center, Pacific Place, Hong Kong, Les Halles in Paris, and Via Condotti in Rome. Seward Johnson is most widely known for his sculptures depicting people engaged in every day activities. Johnson’s desire to highlight the mundane in his Celebrating the Familiar sculpture series has brought a unique voice to the world of art in public spaces.

    Johnson is often recognized for his most dramatic work — and also his largest — the 70’ aluminum giant entitled The Awakening. This sculpture was selected for the International Sculpture Conference & Exhibition and is currently sited along the Potomac River at National Harbor in Washington, DC. This work was profiled in LIFE magazine, Time Magazine and has become a “must see” destination in the nation’s capitol. In recent years, Seward Johnson’s monumental scale sculptures have captured the attention of the international media and a global audience. Among these are the 26 foot tall Forever Marilyn with her skirt blowing upwards defying the stainless steel and aluminum materials. Also, the iconic “kiss” sculpture depicting the moment in Times Square when the sailor and nurse embraced in celebration of the conclusion of World War II. 

    Pieces on Exhibit

    God Bless America (Located in front of Pollak Theatre)
    Strolling Professor (Located in front of Pollak Theatre)
    Between Classes (Located in front of Pozycki Hall) 

    Exhibited April 8 – August 31

  • “Michael Malpass- A Great Circle” Documentary Screening

    Wednesday, May 18 | 10 AM | Wilson Hall

    “Michael Malpass – A Great Circle” was created by Monmouth University Communication students under the direction of Erin Fleming. This screening is free and open to the public.

  • Art Walk & Michael Malpass Film Screening

    This event will include a tour of the sculpture on campus including the new J. Seward Johnson pieces and the Michael Malpass Retrospective in Pollak Gallery. There will also be a screening of the new documentary about Michael Malpass titled “Michael Malpass – A Great Circle” created by Monmouth University Communication Students under the direction of Erin Fleming, Director of Production Services. The documentary will be screened in Wilson Auditorium at 4:00 PM and the guided tour immediately follow at 4:45.

    Free and open to the public but RSVP required. To RSVP please call 732.263.5715 

  • Art Walk and Michael Malpass Film Screening

    This event will include a tour of the sculpture on campus including the new J. Seward Johnson pieces and the Michael Malpass Retrospective in Pollak Gallery. There will also be a screening of the new documentary about Michael Malpass titled “Michael Malpass – A Great Circle” created by Monmouth University Communication Students under the direction of Erin Fleming, Director of Production Services. The documentary will be screened in Pollak Theatre at 4:00 PM and the guided tour immediately follow at 4:45.

    Free and open to the public but RSVP required. To RSVP please call 732.263.5715 

  • Lucy Kalian: Swells and Soundings

    PLEASE NOTE DUE TO A POWER OUTAGE THE OPENING RECEPTION SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 30 from 6:30 – 8:30 HAS BEEN CANCELLED

    Lucy Kalian’s work is “unapologetically representational”. In the exhibit, Swells and Soundings, she explores the tidal forces at work where land and water meet.

  • Bruce Dorfman: PAST PRESENT Paintings and Drawings in Combined Media

    Lecture: September 23, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in Wilson Hall Auditorium

    Opening reception: Fri. September. 23, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

    Bruce Dorfman has had fifty-three solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. His work has been presented in numerous museum and university collections and gallery group exhibitions worldwide, including currently “Ways and Means: A New Look at Process in Art”, July 18 – October 7, 2016 at UBS Art Gallery, NYC; June Kelly Gallery, NYC and “Making/Breaking Traditions: The Teachers of Ai Weiwei”, Art Students League, NYC (2014).

    Dorfman is the recipient of many awards, grants and fellowships including: New York State Council on the Arts; Fulbright Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation; U.S. Department of State; New York World’s Fair Invitational; National Academy of Design; Butler Institute of American Art and a major grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His work has been written about in The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews and City Arts.

    Bruce Dorfman has taught at the Art Students League of New York since 1964. Dorfman also taught at the New School, Syracuse University, the Everson Museum, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Norton Museum, Fla. From 1993 to 1996, he was a guest-artist at museums, and art institutions in Venezuela, Portugal and France.

    Bruce Dorfman studied at the Art Students League of New York. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

    Bruce Dorfman is represented by the June Kelly Gallery, NYC.

    For more information: www.brucedorfman.com

  • Bob Dylan: Photographs by Daniel Kramer Curated by the GRAMMY Museum ® at LA LIVE

    Curated by the GRAMMY Museum ® at LA LIVE

    Curated by the GRAMMY Museum, in cooperation with Daniel Kramer, Daniel Kramer: Photographs of Bob Dylan features more than 40 of Kramer’s photographs from his time on tour with Dylan in 1964 and 1965. Kramer’s photographs are a striking, intimate account of the folk singer’s metamorphosis into a rock star. This photographic “backstage view” of the singer/songwriter showcases key moments in Dylan’s musical career during one of the most dynamic periods in American history. These seminal pictures of Dylan not only revealed the rising young star to international audiences, but set a standard by which all other rock portraits would be judged.

    Opening Reception: Nov. 11. from 5-7 PM
    Daniel Kramer and Bob Santelli from the GRAMMY Museum will give a talk during the opening reception.