NEWS
2008
WESTINGHOUSE
PROJECT
SPRAWL: RAMAPO COLLEGE
SPRAWL: JERSEY CITY MUSEUM
SPRAWL: A LOOK AT THE OVERBUILDING OF NEW
JERSEY
NEW
WISH YOU WERE HERE
2007
BODY
OF CHRIST
WOODSTOCK BIENNIAL
THE MODIFIED HISTORY OF DOWNTOWN NEWARK
BUILDING ON A LEGACY OF COMMUNITY SERVICE
THROUGH THE ARTS
NOYES MUSEUM
2006
JAILHOUSE
REVIVAL
GET ON THE BUS
MARK'S SILVER LINDEN

"
MORRIS
MUSEUM
6
Normandy Heights Road
Morristown, New Jersey
DECEMBER 16, 2012 - MARCH 17, 2013

"
"THE NEWARK SCHOOL"
Seton Hall University School of Law
One Newark Center,
Newark, NJ
January 10 - April 29, 2011
Curated by Alejandro Anreus & Petrushka A. Bazin

BROOKLYN
COLLEGE
"Diaspora, Diversity, and Dialogue"
The
Gold Room
Campus Road at East 27th Street
Brooklyn, NY
November
18, 2010 - March 4, 2011

UBS
INVESTMENT BANK HEADQUARTERS
Stamford, CT
September
15 - October 29, 2010



GENERAL
ELECTRIC HEADQUARTERS
Fairfield, CT
September
13 - October 29, 2010
Four
paintings from "Sardinero Nights"


"ROBES"
September 2 - October 10, 2010
Maloney
Art Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ

3
WISE MEN, acrylic
on linen, 38" x 20"
©1992
Dr.
Virginia Fabbri Butera has selected twelve artists interpreting
the theme, "ROBES" in diverse mediums.

"THEATRE
TOWN"
An
exhibition of artwork inspired by the theatrical history of
Newark, NJ
featuring
work from 40 artists
October
17, 2009 - November 28, 2009
NJ School of Architecture & Design/NJIT

"When the curtain dropped, the show
was over from the inside, out.
Drama
long gone, and drawn into the empty scene, moving guardedly
beyond unattended crumble and shards of scrap poetry
Crawling
over trash into a lightless wasteland, dark and dripping grief
for a glorious pastbeauty and sadness frame
paradox."
OPENING
RECEPTION
October 17, 2009



"NEXUS"
October
16 - November 6
Arts Guild of New Jersey
One
night in a dream, figures moved in like silhouettes. I saw
that even with limited information an individual could be
known-not as a black hole in a painted environment, but as
a real presence.
Looking across the room-I see myself, and my work, as subject
of my work.
I am an abstract realist, dreaming that I am dreaming.

Awake,
twenty years later, I take a wrong turn into the sun, beneath
the tangled eyelash of blackened industry. In underbelly playgrounds-the
glowing One-poised to roll out the message: truth is stranger
than any broad-loomed fiction.
Behind
the 'seens,' reality gets stretched to the edge-just short
of falling off. Finding balance, I position to observe power.
Journey writes the outline, imagery illustrates metaphor,
narrative spells out and sings harmony. Paintings herald meaning
and lend credence to the mystery.

THE
WESTINGHOUSE PROJECT
OCTOBER
11 - DECEMBER 5, 2008
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE GALLERY
Newark, NJ
An
exhibition of artwork inspired by and created from the recently
demolished Westinghouse factory in Newark , NJ.
Matthew
Gosser, curator:
Ar+chaeology refers to an art movement concerned
with the exploration of abandoned, historically significant
buildings and the transformation of found artifacts into artwork
that speaks somehow of the places they were found." www.gosser.info
On unstable ground, during the dismantling of Westinghouse,
the panorama of a January sundown surprised me with a condensed
autobiography. Three resulting paintings reveal metaphors of
personal history and prophecyhoned from the hollow."

ON
TOP, acrylic on linen, 32" x 32" ©2008
For
20 years and counting, I observe the parallels of the mystic
art-life with the priesthood in chapters of paintings largely
focused inside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heartseen
now on high, above all the rubble.

BIRD
ON A WIRE, acrylic on linen, 32" x 42" ©2008
Born
in Manhattan, I look back to the famous skyline from a unique
perspective, fresh and forward-looking, beyond the heap of junk.
ALMOST
A MEMORY, acrylic on linen, 32" x 32" ©2008
The
oncoming light rail, subject of my clock tower mural at Bergenline
Avenue Plaza, moves up the middle between station and shadow
of imminent past.

"SPRAWL"
Ramapo
College
MARCH
6 - APRIL 17
Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts
Potter Library Gallery, Mahwah NJ

SILVER
AND GOLD, acrylic
on linen 24" x 32" ©2007

"SPRAWL" Jersey
City Museum
MARCH
20 - AUGUST 24, 2008
New Jersey Arts Annual

GOLDEN
AGE RUINS, acrylic on linen 24" x 32" ©2007

"SPRAWL:
A LOOK AT THE OVERBUILDING OF NEW JERSEY"
MARCH
21 - APRIL 18, 2008
The Arts Guild of Rahway
1670 Irving Street, Rahway NJ 07065

"NEW"
APRIL 12, 2008 - MAY 04, 2008
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

UNCLE LARRY'S
WOODSTOCK, acrylic
on linen, 24"by 36" ©2008

"WISH YOU WERE HERE"
FEBRUARY
21 - MARCH 2
City|Space
Brava Theater Center
San Francisco, CA
Although
often ignored, souvenirs are ubiquitous representations of
the places we inhabit, written in the kitschy dialect of snow-globes
and postcards. But souvenirs also navigate more intimate geographies,
of personal feeling and memory.
Wish You Were Here will re-imagine the souvenir's unique position
between landscape, memento, and memory.
Subject: Any aspect or part of the San Francisco Bay Area,
California, USA

THE LAST WALTZ Paris
Available as giclee and magnets
"A
week in San Francisco for the Band's Last Waltz at Winterland,
re-lived at the Paris cinema, and then painted in the New
Jersey studio.
On
Thanksgiving Day 1976 "THE BAND" held their final
concert in San Francisco where they had begun sixteen years
before. As guests, my friend Vicki and I were able to watch
rehearsals with the greats of rock and roll in an empty Winterland
theater the day before the show which was filmed by Martin
Scorsese.
Two
years after, 'The Last Waltz' was showing in a Paris cinema,
offering respite from site-seeing, and 'bringing it all back
home.'
The
painting, completed in 1981 in New Jersey, is a personal souvenir
of a souvenir of some unforgettable San Francisco nights."
CITY|SPACE is a cultural organization dedicated
to exploring the built environment through events and exhibitions
in a wide range of disciplines, including design, visual art,
cultural landscape research, and film.
CITY|SPACE cuts across disciplinary boundaries to draw on
a wide range of work: aesthetic, documentary, architectural,
scientific, and political, that converges around the city
as we find it, make it, and struggle with it.
"By engaging Bay Area audiences in complex and challenging
questions about the cities we inhabit, we hope to deepen our
communities' experience, understanding and stewardship of
urban places."
(
"BODY OF CHRIST"
OCTOBER
15 - DECEMBER 14, 2007
The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion
Wesley Theological Seminary Dadian Gallery
Washington DC
Curated by Theodore Prescott

VENERATION,
acrylic on linen 12" x 42" ©2002


WOODSTOCK
BIENNIAL
OCTOBER
20 - DECEMBER 2, 2007
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
34 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY

"The Devil's Cathedral"
was selected by Nohra Haime of the Nohra Haime Gallery 57th
St. NYC
5-8
pm
The Woodstock
Byrdcliffe Guild is a multi-arts membership organization. Its
Kleinert/James Arts Center hosts local and national performing,
visual and literary artists. The WBG offers a variety of classes
in the arts and is steward of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. Founded
in 1903, Byrdcliffe is one of the older artists colonies in
the country, and is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places for its historical and architectural significance. It
is home to a national Artist-in-Residence program.
Nohra Haime, owner
and director of the Nohra Haime Gallery on 57th street in New
York City was born in Bogota, Colombia. She attended Finch College
in Manhattan from 1970 to 1974 and received her Masters in Art
History from the Sorbonne in Paris. Nohra has been the Director
of the Museum of Modern Art [Bogota] as well as the Director
of the National Restoration Center in Bogota. In 1979 she returned
to New York where she opened the Nohra Haime Gallery that concentrates
on contemporary art. She has curated a number of exhibitions
as well as written many art related articles.

THE MODIFIED HISTORY OF DOWNTOWN NEWARK
OCTOBER
19 - DECEMBER
NJIT School of Architecture
Curated by Matthew Gosser

"The
Modified History of Downtown Newark", an art exhibition
at New Jersey's School of Architecture, examines the area affected
by the new arena and adjacent development projects. A large
variety of artifacts were recovered from the rubble of the razed
buildings and transformed into artwork that embraces the people
and history of Downtown Newark. Combined with photographs, video,
historic documents and personal accounts, the exhibition hopes
to raise public awareness of a downtown that is rapidly changing.

"BUILDING ON A LEGACY OF COMMUNITY
SERVICE THROUGH THE ARTS"
NOVEMBER 10, 2007
RUTGERS CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS AND CULTURE15th Anniversary Gala
auction and student scholarship fund
New Brunswick, NJ

TO THE POINT is one of four acrylic on linen
paintings that form the basis of a public
art installation in the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
Transit System's Bergenline Avenue Station in Union City,
New Jersey. Reproduced in porcelain enamel on steel, the large-scale
murals provide street-level plaza art entitled "Between
Manhattan and Meadowlands."
"JAILHOUSE
REVIVAL"
OCTOBER 21 - DECEMBER 9, 2006
NJIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Newark, NJ

The Devil's Cathedral
installation with artifact ©2006
NJIT
press release LINK

"GET
ON THE BUS"
JUNE 16 - JULY 2, 2006
San Francisco, CA
A unique
exhibition/event at 2255 3rd St, in San Francisco's Dogpatch
district at the convergence of 3 major bus lines and the city's
new Third
Street light rail line.


Reproductions
of "TO THE POINT" and "NIGHT BUS"
CITY|SPACE presents selections from around
the world for this celebration of the 'lowly bus' to reconsider
the experience, culture, and meaning of our nation's least-loved
transit mode. Stigmatized as the transit of last resort-the
realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm-the bus nonetheless
moves millions of people every day and now can be found on
the cutting edge.
GET ON
THE BUS includes a multi-media exhibition, an anthology of
nonfiction stories, and a series of interventions taken out
to the city for both intentional and incidental audiences.
CITY|SPACE worked with several local agencies, including San
Francisco Muni and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission,
to create original content and cooperative projects.

MARK'S SILVER LINDEN


Willie Nile, Mark Johnson, Pat DiNizio