Summer Exhibits at Museums
Jersey City Museum
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Project Gallery
350 Montgomery Street, Jersey City 201-413 0303
Now– August 24, 2008
In this exhibition, internationally renowned fiber artist Xenobia Bailey collaborates with several artists and designers to transform the museum’s Project Gallery into an intimate and enchanting environment which the artist calls an “urban tea ceremony with a twistâ€.
The installation features many of Bailey’s signature hand-crocheted and embroidered pieces. In addition to Bailey’s intricate tapestries, the installation will also include the fantastic, custommade chandeliers of Dorian Webb, a decorative tea set by Barbara Garnes, a collec tion of fine African teas by Caranda Fine Foods and a haunting soundscape provided by jazz musician, Rene Mclean.
For several years, Xenobia Bailey has been creating large-scale works that she crochets from ordinary yarn. Geometric forms predominate in her works, which often feature monumental overlapping spirals and circular forms.
Dorian Webb trained in the art of making glass in Murano, Italy and has been making fanciful chandeliers in bright colors by special commission. Working together with other artists, these two women cover the walls and ceiling of the Gallery. Resplendent with color, the works will consider the relationship between domesticity and the handcrafted object, between fine and decorative
NEWARK MUSEUM 49 Washington Street, Newark NJ 973-596-6550
Small But Sublime:Inimate Views by Durand, Bierstadt and George Inness
Now – Jan 1, 2009
Small But Sublime draws upon the renowned holdings of American art at The Newark Museum, identifying a superb collection of small, powerful views painted during the second half of the 19th century. Comprised primarily of oil paintings, this exhibition consists of compelling works by such celebrated Hudson River School artists as Asher B. Durand and Albert Bierstadt, as well as such prominent painters of the Tonalist movement as George Inness and Ralph Blakelock.
Presented collectively these works provide a compelling overview of the different approaches to landscape painting while underscoring shifts in artistic and social attitudes towards nature.
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NEWARK MUSEUM
Small But Sublime:
Inimate Views
by Durand, Bierstadt
and George Inness
Now – Jan 1, 2009
Small But Sublime draws upon the renowned holdings
of American art at The
Newark Museum, identifying
a superb collection of
small, powerful views painted
during the second half of
the 19th century. Comprised
primarily of oil paintings,
this exhibition consists of
compelling works by such
celebrated Hudson River
School artists as Asher B.
Durand and Albert Bierstadt,
as well as such prominent
painters of the Tonalist
movement as George Inness
and Ralph Blakelock.
Presented collectively these
works provide a compelling
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