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  • 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.

  • December Senior Show

    Opening
    Reception: Friday, Dec. 9, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

    Free and Open to the Public

    Featuring the work of Monmouth
    University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Graphic Design,
    Animation or Fine Art.

  • Monmouth University Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition

    Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 27, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

    Free and Open to the Public

    Featuring the work of the Monmouth University Department of Art and Design Faculty and Adjunct Faculty.

  • Drones by Karina Aguilera Skvirsky

    Lecture: Feb. 2, from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. in  Wilson Hall Auditorium

    Opening reception: Friday, Feb. 2, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

    Drones are in the news. They carry out targeted killings; they are manned with cameras to record movements on the ground; hobbyists fly them in public spaces; Amazon wants to use them to deliver their products. Appropriating visual juxtapositions from the surrealists and kitsch sic-fi invasion films, Drones is a series of photo-collages that put flying objects into our aerial landscapes.

    This series includes landscapes from US, Ecuador and other unidentifiable locations. “The Drones” function like a photographic bricolage of buildings. The cut of a scissors and Photoshop suggest something crucial about Drones: their immediate extraterrestrial appearance places them in a space between reality and fiction mirroring our own abstract experience (via the Internet).

    Bio:

    Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in photography, video and performance. Her work has been exhibited internationally in group and solo exhibitions. In 2010 she participated in There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th Sao Paolo Biennial (2010), where she exhibited work from her project, Memories of Development. In 2015 she was awarded a Fulbright grant and a Jerome Foundation Grant to produce “The Perilous Journey of Maria Palacios”, a performance based film that will premier in 2016 at the Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador. Artist in Residence programs she has participated in include: Office Hours, at El museo del barrio, NY, NY; LMCC Workspace, NY, NY; MacDowell Residency, NH; Smackmellon, Brooklyn, NY and others. Skvirsky is an Associate Professor at Lafayette College, Easton, PA and an MFA faculty member at the The New School, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY. She is represented by DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

    More about Karina Aguilera Skvirsky’s work on her website at: http://www.karinas.net/

  • First Senior Show: Graphic Design

    Opening
    Reception: Fri. Mar. 24, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

    Free and Open
    to the Public

    Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive
    their degrees in Graphic Design.

  • Second Senior Show: Fine Art & Animation

    Opening Reception: Fri. April 7, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

    Free and Open to the Public

    Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Fine Art and Animation.

  • Annual Student Exhibition

    Opening
    Reception: Sunday, April 23, from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    Free and Open to the Public

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

  • Art Now: Tim Miller: PERFORMANCE! BODY! SELF! A performance, lecture & rant

    Free and Open to the Public

    Internationally-acclaimed solo performer Tim Miller is known for his charged performances that tackle challenging social issues, including the culture wars, performance of identity, and queer strategies for the future. Miller shares fierce and funny performance excerpts and speaks about how performance can be used to embolden communities and connect people with one another.

    “Tim Miller sings that song of the self which interrogates, with explosive, exploding, subversive joy and freedom, the constitution and borderlines of selfhood. You think you don’t need to hear such singing? You do! You must!”  – Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America

    Bio: Hailed for his humor and passion, Tim Miller’s solo performances and workshops have been presented all over the world. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS. His theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance (1998) and Sharing the Delirium – Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances (1993). Miller has taught performance in theater departments at UCLA, Cal State LA and NYU. He is a founder of Performance Space 122 in NYC and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA.

  • Art Now: Hasan Elahi – Tracking Transience – an Artist Talk

    Free and Open to the Public

    Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist working with issues in surveillance, privacy, migration, citizenship, technology, and the challenges of borders. An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public. Predating the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program by half a decade, the project questions the consequences of living under constant surveillance and continuously generates databases of imagery that tracks the artist and his points of transit in real-time. Although
    initially created for his FBI agent, the public can also monitor the artist’s communication records, banking transactions, and transportation logs along with various intelligence and government agencies who have been confirmed visiting his website.

    Elahi’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi has spoken to audiences as diverse as the Tate Modern, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, International Association of Privacy Professionals, TED Global, and the World Economic Forum. His work is frequently in the media and has appeared on Al Jazeera, Fox News, and on The Colbert Report. In addition to receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016, his awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation in 2006 and Art Matters Foundation in 2011. In 2014, he was Artist-in-Residence at Shangri-La/Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and in 2009, Resident Faculty at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland, roughly equidistant from the CIA, FBI, and NSA headquarters.

    See attached photo. Image credit: E. Brady Robinson