What's Opening @ The Zimmerli Art Museum in September? Take a Sneak Peek!

 

OPENING SEPTEMBER 13     The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986–2017   In the early 1980s, visionary artist, advocate, and scholar Judith K. Brodsky set out to rectify the gender and racial inequities in the art world by establishing a print- and papermaking studio that provided residencies primarily for women artists and artists of color. This is the first museum survey of work created at the influential atelier, featuring more than 100 works on paper, by 93 artists.     Alonzo Adams: A Griot’s Vision   The exhibition, which includes work fresh from the artist’s studio and important loans from collectors, is a homecoming for the artist, who earned his BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts.     Recent Acquisitions of Hungarian Art: Gifts from the Salgo Trust for Education   In 2022, the Zimmerli received a gift of paintings and photographs from this remarkable and wide-ranging collection, which once belonged to Nicolas M. Salgo (1914–2005), a Hungarian-American business executive and US Ambassador.     Jim Toia:Notes on Threatened Landscapes   The artist captures nature’s complexity and inherent beauty through work he produced in areas across the U.S. where continuous development and extreme climate conditions have had an impact on fragile and unique landscapes.     Judith K. Brodsky: Inside and Outside   Color drawings based on photographs the artist took of herself during lockdown demonstrate how her drawing methods derive from her printmaking.      Judy Watson: shadow bone   One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, whose Indigenous matrilineal family is from northwest Queensland, Watson's work is often concerned with unearthing hidden histories of Indigenous Australian experiences under colonialism.     Komar and Melamid in America   The exhibition presents an overview of the duo's major projects in the United States, providing a rare opportunity to view works from the Dodge Collection with loans from other institutions, archives, and private collections.        Our Place in the World: Children’s Illustrations by Juana Martinez-Neal   This exhibition features illustrations and preparatory works from five stories by the award-winning children’s illustrator and author, who creates books where children connect with their heritage and learn to be proud of their uniqueness, discovering their own place in the world.       The museum is closed to the public through September 5 to install new exhibitions for fall. Staff members continue to work regular hours and are available by email.   We Reopen September 6! Free Admission Wednesday & Friday 11AM–6PM Thursday 11AM-8PM Saturday & Sunday Noon–5PM Galleries are closed Monday & Tuesday, but the lobby is open. Spaces throughout the museum are wheelchair accessible.       Image Credits (Top to Bottom): Diane Burko, Delaware River, 1987, 1987. Courtesy of the artist. © Diane Burko. Alonzo Adams, I Too Am America, 2022. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Nyema Tubman. Eszter Mattioni, Peasant Girl at the Spinning Wheel, c. 1930. Oil on canvas. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education. Photo Peter Jacobs. Jim Toia, 29,000 Broken Hearts, 2020. Unique manipulated digital image and hand working on Epson backlight film. Courtesy of the artist. Judith K. Brodsky, Self Portrait 5 from the Inside and Outside series, 2020-2022. Oil stick and digital collage on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Judy Watson, the holes in the land 1, 2015. 4 plate etching. Courtesy of the artist and grahame galleries + editions. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, The Origins of Socialist Realism from the series Nostalgic Socialist Realism, 1983. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Photo Peter Jacobs. © Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. Zonia’s Rain Forest. Copyright © 2021 by Juana Martinez-Neal. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.       The Zimmerli's operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Foundation Endowment, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Fund, and the Voorhees Family Endowment, among others. Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the donors, members, and friends of the Zimmerli Art Museum.        Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers University 71 Hamilton Street | New Brunswick