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The New Year Brings New Exhibitions
Opening January 11
Picturing Jersey City: Nineteenth-Century Views by August
Will spotlights the artist who
chronicled the changing landscape of his adopted hometown during the
second half of the 19th century.
Hayoon Jay Lee’s video Near and Far, 2022 explores
global politics and personal histories; movement and stasis; what is
known and what lies hidden beneath the surface.
Opening January 18
Surface Tension: Paintings and Sculpture from the
Collection brings
together paintings, sculpture, and assemblage—as well as one print on
rubber—to explore how artists have used surface as a space for
experimentation. Works are drawn from the American, European, and Dodge
Collections.
Opening February 11
Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History
is a retrospective of the two renowned Russian-American artists Vitaly
Komar and Alexander Melamid, who worked together as a duo from the late
1960s through 2004.
The Incoherents and Cabaret Culture in Paris, 1880-1900 spotlights young Parisian
artists, musicians, and writers who frequented the Chat Noir and other
cabarets, where they planned collaborative projects, entertaining
themselves and other patrons with improvised performances.
Alex Melamid and the Incoherents; Shadows, Puppets, and
Politics features a selection of works
from the Zimmerli’s collections, along with new works by Melamid that
salute the inventive and disruptive work of the late 19th-century
Parisian avant-garde.
Opening March 3
The new children's book You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!, written
by Chiquita Mullins Lee and Carmella Van Vleet, tells the fascinating
story of Elijah Pierce (1892-1984), a barber who became one of the most
celebrated folk artists in the United States. The exhibition features
the book’s illustrations by Jennifer Mack-Watkins done in mokuhanga,
the traditional Japanese woodcut technique.
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