Final Weeks to Visit Current Exhibitions Closing July 31

 

Final Weeks to Visit Current Exhibitions Closing July 31       George Segal: Themes and Variations   Marking the centennial of George Segal’s birth in 1924, the Zimmerli presents more than 60 works drawn from its collection, as well as loans from the Segal Foundation and private collections. This major exhibition offers the unique opportunity to view his less well-known paintings, drawings, and photographs alongside his renowned life-sized plaster cast figures. Additional photos document Segal and other artists at his central New Jersey farm, which was his home and studio for nearly six decades.   Check Out These Perspectives on the Exhibition: Brooklyn Rail | State of the Arts | Rutgers Today | Town Topics   Jim Toia: Notes on Threatened Landscapes   Preview the Exhibition: Watch an introduction and read an interview with the artist.   Please Note: This exhibition closes July 21.       Modern Art for an Old Tale: Fuku Akino's Illustrations for "The Dwarf Pine Tree"   This exhibition presents more than 20 illustrations for the 1963 children's book by Fuku Akino, a Kyoto-based painter and teacher who was one of Japan’s most prominent woman artists. It is one of several collaborations among Akino, author Betty Jean Lifton, and editor Jean Karl, who sought to publish complex and culturally diverse stories for young American readers.      Repossession: Didier William and Paul Gardère   Watch the exhibition roundtable with artist Didier William, scholar of Caribbean art Erica Moiah James, and Cat Gardère.       Sky Hopinka: Kunįkaga Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkaga Remembers the Welcome Song    Sky Hopinka is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Pechanga Band of Luiseno. He uses film, video, photography, and text to explore concepts around landscape, presence and absence, history, Indigenous culture, and Indigenous language.   Learn more about the artist and his work.   Plan Your Visit Free Admission Wednesday & Friday 11AM–6PM Thursday 11AM-8PM* Saturday & Sunday Noon–5PM Galleries are closed Monday & Tuesday, but the lobby is open. *Summer Hours: The Zimmerli closes at 6PM on Thursdays, through July 25.   The Zimmerli is closed Thursday, July 4.   The museum is closed to the public from August 1 through September 2, while staff install new exhibitions for the fall! You may contact museum staff in August during business hours. Offices reopen September 3 and galleries reopen September 4.   Updated Accessibility Information   Images (top to bottom): George Segal, Paint Cans with Wainscoting, 1983. Mixed media. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Gift of The George and Helen Segal Foundation, Inc. © The George and Helen Segal Foundation. Photo Peter Jacobs.   Jim Toia, Intergalactic, 2018. Mixed fungi spore on painted aluminum. Courtesy of the artist.   Fuku Akino, The Emperor's men were surprised..., page 31 from The Dwarf Pine Tree, 1965. Watercolor and pen and ink on paper. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Gift of Atheneum Publishers. © SAFA. Photo Peter Jacobs.   Didier William, Cursed Grounds: Blessed Bones, 2022 (detail). Multiplate color intaglio on Hahnemühle bright white paper. Courtesy of James Fuentes, © Didier William.    Sky Hopinka, Video Still. Image Courtesy of the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, www.vdb.org.   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, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Fund, 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 , NJ 08901 US