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hob’art cooperative gallery
Binaries
Upper Gallery
Wednesday, February 3 – Friday, February 26
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 7, 1 – 4 p.m.
The Hoboken, NJ, based hob’art cooperative gallery’s proposal of an ‘out of the box’ exhibition was accepted by The Watchung Arts Center. Titled “Binaries,” the exhibition is inspired by Webster’s definition of something made up of two opposite parts, such as night and day, good and evil, or old and new.
M. Micheli - Alternate Reality
The exhibitors explore this idea and challenge any simplistic notions of “Binaries” through various art media and art styles. Andrea Milo asks, “Where is the line drawn between reverence and irreverence? When does a sacred place become a tourist trap?” Myrna Micheli states that her work is a reflection of her reality. Missing her island home, she transforms her art into her present. Meredeth Turshen expresses the binary of human vs. animal when war brings out the bestiality in men. Roslyn Rose explores the dichotomy between past tense and present tense by combining vintage portraits with her contemporary images. Tom Egan’s photos show New York City’s complexity on many levels (socio/political, economic, cultural) with the architectural contrasts being one of the most apparent and striking. Miriam Untoria’s work depicts the separation between old and new but as time goes by that separation will become blurry and the new things will become old. Liz Cohen and Ibou Ndoye worked together on a diptych to cross cultural, geographic, political, ethnic, racial and religious borders in their art and friendship.
The exhibit also includes art work by Erik Attia, Willie Baez, Maria Castillo, Femi Ford, Constance Ftera, Louise Gale, Joe Gilmore, Ann Kinney, Stan Lindwasser, Donna Marshall, Leslie Rubman, and Leona Seufert, all working in New Jersey. The curators of this exhibit are Femi Ford, Leslie Rubman, Elizabeth W. Cohen, and Meredeth Turshen, all of Hoboken, NJ.
LaThoriel Badenhausen
First winner of the “4 by 1 Competition”
Lower Gallery
Wednesday, February 3 – Friday, February 26
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 7, 1 – 4 p.m.
Swiss Army belt detail
LaThoriel Badenhausen creates images of religious, socio-political, gender, and racial “hot spots.” She mingles otherwise neutral industrially fabricated goods to alter context and vernacular. A small sample of the mixed media used in her works are waxed paper sandwich bags, hair nets, brownies, ice cream sandwich bags, waffles, parrots, appliqué, hair, beads, collage, found objects, fiber, wax, beads and numerous other ephemera. She believes that “context is all, that the meaning of art is dependent on the strategies of display and distribution within which it finds itself.” She has exhibited extensively in the tri-state region and her works can be found in the collections of major museums.
Coming in March...
The New Art Group
Sticks and Stones
Artist Reception
Sunday, March 7, 1 to 4 p.m.
Forms for Exhibitors
If you would like to exhibit at the Watchung Arts Center, you may download the following documents in Adobe PDF format:
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Sean Quinn, VP Visual Arts, Watchung Arts Center, 908-377-7058, e-mail sean@squinn.com.