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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

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.

HOURS: T-Th:1-7PM, Sat&M:1-5PM

Phone: 973.290.4314


"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 past—‘beauty 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.
www.gosser.info

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.

Previous exhibitions have promoted a greater appreciation of sites such as the Pabst Brewery, the old Essex County Jail and the Mulberry Street Firehouse and other structures demolished for the Prudential Arena in Newark.”


“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 prophecy—honed 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 Heart—seen 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.

Silver and Gold
Silver and Gold

MARCH 6 - APRIL 17
"SPRAWL"

Ramapo College
Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts
Potter Library Gallery
Mahwah NJ



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

MARCH 20 - AUGUST 24, 2008
"SPRAWL"
New Jersey Arts Annual
Jersey City Museum
OPENING RECEPTION: MARCH 20 6-8 PM

"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

A Look At The Overbuilding Of New Jersey:
RECEPTION: SUNDAY, MARCH 30 1-4 PM


Uncle Larry's Woodstock

APRIL 12, 2008 - MAY 04, 2008
"NEW"
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday, 12 to 5 pm or by appointment
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 5-8pm

 

FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 2
"WISH YOU WERE HERE"
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."
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OCTOBER 15 - DECEMBER 14, 2007
BODY OF CHRIST
The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion
Wesley Theological Seminary Dadian Gallery
Washington DC
Curated by Theodore Prescott

In the last twenty-five years, art that explicitly engages Christian faith has become increasingly visible both in the church and in the secular world. During that same period, many institutions of theological education have come to recognize that art is both a record of what earlier generations have believed about the nature of human life and its relationship to the divine, and a means of accessing our own understandings and emotions. Experiences with and conversations about the arts can deepen our liturgical and devotional life, and perhaps even help us to bridge denominational divides. The proposed exhibition entitled, "Body of Christ" is one way to foster such experiences and conversations.

Pompidou - Paris

VENERATION 12" x 42" acrylic on linen



OCTOBER 20 - DECEMBER 2, 2007

WOODSTOCK BIENNIAL

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
34 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY

Opening Reception OCTOBER 20, 5-8 pm



"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.

OCTOBER 19 - DECEMBER
THE MODIFIED HISTORY OF DOWNTOWN NEWARK
NJIT School of Architecture
Curated by Matthew Gosser
Reception October 27th, from 6-9pm
After-party featuring live music and refreshments to follow reception.

"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.
Press and collectors are invited for an afternoon of viewing on Friday, October 19th.


NOVEMBER 10, 2007
RUTGERS CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS AND CULTURE
"BUILDING ON A LEGACY OF COMMUNITY SERVICE THROUGH THE ARTS"
15th Anniversary Gala auction and student scholarship fund
New Brunswick, NJ

INVITATION
Noyes Museum Link


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."

This project was commissioned by NJ TRANSIT, with funds made possible by the Federal Transit Administration. The Transit Arts Committee consists of NJ TRANSIT, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.

"JAILHOUSE REVIVAL" Oct 21 till Dec 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