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of Events Free Events 2008-2009 Wednesday, December 17 -Friday, January 23 Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Brodsky Center Annual Exhibition Tuesday, February 3-Friday, February 13 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. MFA Thesis Exhibition I Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 p.m. Dance Within the Art Direct any inquiries here Sunday, February 15, 1:00 p.m. Glass Armonica Event Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, February 18, 12:35 p.m. Mason Gross Presents Three Thunderbolts Presented by Michael Colgrass Career development and life planning for musicians. Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, February 18, 8:00 p.m. Desert's Edge Duo Robert Spring, clarinet J. B. Smith, percussion Nicholas Music Center FREE Tuesday, February 24-Friday, March 6 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. MFA Thesis Exhibition II Reception: Thursday, February 26, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE Tuesday, February 24, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Ralph Bowen, director Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, February 25, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Sharon Louden Sharon M. Louden is an artist and teacher who graduated with a B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art. Her sculptures, paintings and animation, in which she combines organic forms with synthetic materials, have been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Sharon Louden will be giving a talk on “Professional Practice”, a seminar on the practice of being an artist that she has been conducting in museums, universities and art schools throughout the country. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, February 26, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Symphony Band Darryl Bott, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE Friday, February 27, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Wind Ensemble William Berz, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE Monday, March 2, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Too Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Hanneline Røgeberg Norwegian-born artist Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter exploring the possibilities and limitations of figuration, skin being the key element. In her work, touching as seen through figures and the painter’s interaction with the painting surface, “skin” becomes a vital metaphor for a profound and meaningful kind of communication. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with one person shows at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Vancouver Art Museum and Henie-Onstad Kunst Senter, Oslo, and group shows at MIT List Center, Whitney Museum, Aldrich Museum and National Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. Røgeberg received her B.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and her M.F.A. at Yale. She received a WESTAF-NEA Fellowship in 1996, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999 and an Anonymous Was a Woman grant in 2003. Røgeberg teaches painting at Mason Gross School of the Arts where she has also served as Graduate Director. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, March 5, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Joe Fyfe Joe Fyfe is a painter who works with the idea of the painting as a physical object that addresses the body as intently as it does the eye through an emphasis on its physicality. Fyfe associates himself with the recent support/surface movement in French painting. Fyfe is also contributing editor to Artcritical.com, the online magazine and writes regularly for Gay City News, Art in America, Art on Paper, and Bomb. He is represented by James Graham & Sons Inc., NYC. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Monday, March 9, 8:00 p.m. Faculty Recital Yang Yi He, erhu Music for solo erhu and erhu and piano Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Phoebe Washburn Phoebe Washburn scavenges discarded materials to create her large-scale installations that transform exhibition spaces into visually compelling architectural environments. Since her 2003 solo exhibition at LFL where she showed massive vortex of cardboard that consumed the gallery, her installations have expanded to aspire to mimic a kind of “organism” that consumes its by-products and regenerates itself. While Washburn refers to her factories and mini-ecosystems as “anti-industrious” and “irrational,” they have an elegance of form that captivates viewers with their raw beauty while they resonate with ideas about economy and sustainability. Washburn has participated in the Bronx Museum of Arts Artist-in-the-Marketplace program as well as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Program and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Tuesday, March 24-Friday, April 3 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA Thesis Exhibition I Reception: Thursday, March 26, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE Wednesday, March 25, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Laura Larson Laura Larson is a photographer who lives and works in Athens, Ohio, where she is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Ohio University. Her work addresses the relationship between domesticity and desire and has most recently turned towards the subject of spirit photography. Larson's latter-day spirit images generate an intentionally unresolved friction between the spuriousness of photographic objectivity and the medium's compelling "reality effect." Laura Larson participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program 1993-94. She graduated from Mason Gross School of Arts with an MFA in 1995. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Women and Art Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 1, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Robert Hobbs Dr. Robert Hobbs is an art historian and a museum curator whose work joins social history with literary criticism, aesthetics, and feminist and postcolonial theory. He has published widely and has curated dozens of exhibitions, many of which have been shown at important institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His specific research areas include monographs on Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Mark Lombardi, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker. His published research includes in-depth studies of regional, self-taught, and Native American artists as well as investigations of contemporary and traditional craft media. In 2002 he served as the U.S. Commissioner for the São Paulo Biennale for which he curated “Kara Walker: Slavery! Slavery!” His recent project, a retrospective of artist Mark Lombardi, traveled to eight venues during 2003-2004. His exhibitions have been shown at such institutions as the AGO in Toronto, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Drawing Center (New York City), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Robert Hobbs will be speaking on his current area of research – the work of the Los Angeles based artist Sterling Ruby. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Kelly Dolak: Postcards from Tora Bora Screening and Q&A Kelly Dolak, graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, will be presenting her feature-length documentary, Postcards from Tora Bora, a film about the displaced Osman family, and the return of Wazhmah Osman, to her war-torn childhood home in Afghanistan. Kelly Dolak is a filmmaker currently teaching digital filmmaking at Ramapo College. Her short films have been screened at film festivals both nationally and internationally. Her short, Purse, was showcased on PBS’s Reel New York and screened at more than 10 film festivals. She began her producing career working for the Emmy-award winning show Behind the Screen for five years at AMC and now is an independent documentary film producer. Postcards from Tora Bora is her first feature-length documentary. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m. BA Dance Showing Loree Dance Theater FREE-reservations required Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m. HELIX! Paul Hoffmann, director New Music Ensemble Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Brian Bellott Brian Bellott is an artist who reclaims the “found” in his disparate artistic practices–including collage, drawing, found photography, performance, and sound mixing. In his exhibition, Books, books, books, books, books, books and books, at CANADA Gallery 2005, Brian Bellott collected sixty-six children’s books of different sizes from different thrift shops and flea markets and “re-worked” them during “collage parties” with fellow artists. In Found Images, he compiled a digital slideshow of over 2000 found photos with an exclusive full-length soundtrack of original sound collages. Brian Bellott attended Cooper Union, New York, NY (thrown out)1994, and graduated with a BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1995. In 2008 Bellot’s books were in the "Book / Shelf" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and “I Won’t Grow Up”, Cheim Read, NYC. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 9, 10:00 a.m. Visiting Artist Series Jane Gavan FREE Thursday, April 9, 8:00 p.m. Mason Gross Presents Bill Bowers It Goes Without Saying Co-sponsored by the School of Arts & Sciences Office of Undergraduate Education and the Cook Campus Dean for Undergraduate Education Thursday, April 9-Friday, April 17 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA Thesis Exhibition II Reception: Thursday, April 16, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE Friday, April 10, 8:00 p.m. School-wide Interdisciplinary Arts Showcase Wondrous Mirror: an Interdisciplinary Collaboration A student directed and performed show combining all four departments at Mason Gross. Free reception to follow. Nicholas Music Center FREE Tuesday, April 14, 10:30 a.m. Clarinet Masterclass Featuring Osiris Molina, clarinet Schare Recital Hall FREE Tuesday, April 14, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Ralph Bowen, director Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Dona Nelson Dona Nelson is a painter whose practice has been characterized by her abiding interest in how to make a painting without making an autographic mark, a refusal to own a signature style and a constant push for new approaches and fresh originality. Deeply rooted in Abstract Expressionism, Nelson actually came to attention in the 1980's for large-scale figurative work. The relative abstraction or representation in each of Nelson’s pictures underscores her interest in painting processes and how they generate symbiotic images. Nelson has exhibited extensively throughout the past 35 years, and has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and grants, including The Tesuque Foundation Grant in 2000, the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1994, and an NEA Painting Grant in 1987. Her exhibition, Brain Stain, in 2006 at Thomas Erben Gallery received much critical attention, including reviews in The Brooklyn Rail, jameswagner.com and The New York Times. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 15, 8:00 p.m. Osiris Molina, clarinet Nicholas Music Center FREE Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Diane Torr Diane Torr will be giving a talk about her work and the work of fellow women performance artists titled "25 Years of Sex and Drag". Diane Torr is known for her solo performances, in which she impersonates various male characters “rendered with an understated intensity in their close inspection of so-called masculine characteristics.” (The Villager, NYC). Her group works, in which she directs and sometimes performs, are frequently adaptations from literature and deal with specific issues such as identity and cross dressing and are produced by such venues as The Arches, Glasgow, Oval House Theatre, London, Judson Church and La Mama Theatre, New York. Torr received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate Center for the Arts, Bard College, 2003, and is a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program and the MacDowell Art Colony. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Friday, April 17, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mason Gross Career and Networking Fair Sponsored by the Mason Gross Student Government Association Rehearsal Hall 104 FREE Monday, April 20, 8:00 p.m. Jazz Ensemble Too Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Jill Magid Jill Magid’s video and performance works are linked by the investigation of the emotional and philosophical relationship between "protective" institutions and conventions, and individual identity. "I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems I choose to work with, such as police, secret services, CCTV and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual.” -Jill Magid
Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, CT in 1973. She received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Magid has had solo shows in various institutions around the world including Gagosian Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Teipei (2003), Tate Liverpool (2004), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007) and the Centre D'Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona (2007). Jill Magid lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 22, 8:00 p.m. Felix Mendelssohn 200th Birthday Celebration Min Kwon, director Songs Without Words piano extravaganza Schare Recital Hall FREE Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble Schare Recital Hall FREE Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m. Voorhees Choir Barbara Retzko, conductor Voorhees Chapel FREE Thursday, April 23-Friday, May 8 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA Thesis Exhibition III Reception: Thursday, April 30, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE This event is part of the first Rutgers Day!
Friday, April 24, 8:00 p.m. Sounds of Chamber Music Karina Bruk, coordinator A concert featuring the winners of the Mason Gross Chamber Music Competition. Piano, vocal, string, brass and woodwind duos, trios, quartets, quintets as well as larger ensemble groups will present chamber works of the centuries. Nicholas Music Center FREESaturday, April 25, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Percussion Ensemble Nicholas Music Center FREE Sunday, April 26, 2:00 p.m. Opera at Rutgers Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 27, 8:00 p.m. Collegium Musicum Andrew Kirkman, conductor Christ Church FREE Tuesday, April 28, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Richard Tuttle Born in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1941, Richard Tuttle is a leading American artist of the Post-Minimalist generation. He has created a strikingly original body of work that has been critically appraised and internationally acclaimed for more than three decades. Since his first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1965, Tuttle has adopted a direct and improvisational process of making art. Forty years after his first solo show, Tuttle’s art continues to question concepts of composition and frame, to explore the balance between line and volume, and to merge the mystical with the material. Tuttle has had numerous solo exhibitions and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He is represented by Sperone Westwater in New York City and by Galerie Schmela in Dusseldorf and by Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich. Richard Tuttle is married to the poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and lives and works in New York City and New Mexico. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 29, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Symphony Band Darryl Bott, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE Thursday, April 30, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Concert Band Tim Smith, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE Friday, May 1, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Wind Ensemble William Berz, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE Sunday, May 3, 2:00 p.m. Rutgers Children's Choir Rhonda Hackworth, artistic director Nicholas Music Center FREE Sunday, May 3, 5:00 p.m. Rutgers Sinfonia Nicholas Music Center FREE Monday, May 4, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers University Choir Mark A. Boyle, conductor Kirkpatrick Choir FREENo tickets are required for free events unless noted.
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