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Gerry Beegan

Graphic design

Gerry Beegan is a graphic designer and design historian whose commercial practice has included publications for Penguin Books and Victoria and Albert Museum. He has presented his research on the history of the mass media internationally as digital and performance pieces at venues such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His writings on design has also appeared internationally in journals and magazines such as dot dot dot and The Journal of Visual Of Visual Culture. His self-initiated works, which often take the designed object and its relationship to language and subjectivity as their focus, have been exhibited in galleries in London and New York.



LaToya Frazier

Associate Curator

Office: | Phone: (732) 932-2222 EXT: 798


Jason Francisco

Photography

Jason Francisco is a photographer, book artist, critic, historian and philosopher. He is the author of Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory, published in 2006 by Stanford University Press.



Gary Kuehn

Sculpture

Gary Kuehn examines certain innate forces within materials through his work. He was included in the Eccentric Abstraction show in New York and in When Attitude Becomes Form at the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland. Kuehn has had shows at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany; the Galerie Rudolph Zwirner in Cologne, Germany; and the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. His work is in major museum collections in the United States and Europe.



Ardele Lister

Media

Ardele Lister works in time-based media and has been exhibited internationally in festivals, galleries, and museums, and on television. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). Academie der Kunst (Berlin), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). She also has written for and edited art and media publications and founded Criteria and The Independent.



Toby MacLennan

Performance

Toby MacLennan utilizes performance, sculpture, film, and environments to crystallize her ideas. Her published books include I Walked Out of 2 and Forgot It, The Shape of the Stone Was Stoneshaped, and Singing the Stars. Currently she is writing nonfiction books. Her performance work and installations have been seen in leading Canadian museums, galleries, and planetaria and in New York at the Franklin Furnace, P.S. 1, P.S. 122, and the Clocktower. Her films have been shown in festivals around the world.



Barbara Madsen

Printmaking

Barbara Madsen works in photogravure, billboards, photography, and installation. She has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado; Buck Nin School of the Arts, New Zealand; Sopocani Art Colony, Novi Pazar, Serbia; Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium; Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland. Her current works are gaining national and international recognition. Madsen’s public banners and posters were recently exhibited at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC; the Universität der Künste, Berlin; the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, and the Scoula di Grafica, Venice, Italy. Madsen’s work has been included in exhibitions in France, England, Northern Ireland, Finland, Serbia, Czech Republic, Sweden, South Africa, Spain, India, Japan.



Patricia Mayer

Interim Chair

Pat Mayer is a choreographer, dancer, and art administrator. She has served as Acting Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and as Chair of the Department of Dance. She co-established the B.A. dance major at Douglass College and the B.F.A. dance major at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is an elected member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Schools of Dance in addition to serving as a panelist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.



Diane Neumaier

Photography

Diane Neumaier is a photographer whose recent projects include Spectrum, Fountains and Urns, Rondo, Tondo, and Torso. Her exhibition about the Holocaust, A Voice Silenced, is now traveling internationally. Neumaier is the editor of the anthology Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, and her own critical writing is widely published. She is coeditor of Cultures in Contention, an anthology of cultural activism, and was guest editor of an issue of the Art Journal that was devoted to cotemporary Russian art photography. She has organized a series of exchanges between Mason Gross School of Arts and eastern European artists.



Thomas Nozkowski

Painting

Thomas Nozkowski is a painter whose most recent exhibitions include a show of network at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles (April, 2005) and a ten-year survey of his paintings at Haunch of Venison, London (April 2004). Forthcoming one-person exhibitions include Max Protetch Gallery, New York (February, 2006), the Venice Biennale (2007) and the Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (2007). The New York Studio School presented a 25-year survey of his drawings (January 2003). His work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The High Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Phillips Collection and the Whitney Museum among many others. He is a Guggenheim fellow and has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Painting.

Nozkowski pages at: Max Protetch - New York Studio School



Raphael Ortiz

Drawing

Raphael Ortiz founded and was the first director of the El Museo Del Barrio in New York in 1969. His sculptures are included in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial. He has created mixed-media ritual performances and installations for museums and galleries in Europe and Canada and throughout the United States. His computer- laser-video works are in numerous museum collections, including the Ludwai Museum in Cologne, Germany, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. His video, Dance Number 22, won the Gran Prix at the 1993 Locarno International Video Festival of Switzerland.



Michael Rees

Digital Sculpture

Michael Rees combines sculpture and animation as a means to explore the moral implications of artificial life. He has exhibited his work at the Whitney Museum in the 1995 Biennial exhibition and in 2001 BitStreams exhibition. He has shown his work in one person projects at the Aldrich Museum, the Marta Museum in Hereford, Germany, and at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. Michael has received a National Endowment for the Arts award, a Creative Capital Grant, and a DAAD grant. He has taught at New York Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis, and Oberlin College. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Edelman Foundation, Luzerne, Switzerland, the Science Museum in London, England and the Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. He is also included in many private collections. Michael has pioneered the use of computers in sculpture employing both animation modeling programs and computer aided manufacture devices to create his work.

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Hanneline Røgeberg

Painting

Hanneline Røgeberg's work explores the possibilities and limitations of figuration. 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. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999 and an Anonymous Was a Woman grant in 2003. Rogeberg served as Graduate Director from 2002 to 2005 and again in 2007. Prior to Rutgers, she taught at University of Washington, Cooper Union, and Yale School of Art.



Martha Rosler

Photography and critical studies

Martha Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. She has lectured extensively in this country and internationally. Her work in the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience, ranges from the link between social life and the media to architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport. Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as the "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and several Whitney biennials, and she has had numerous solo exhibitions. A retrospective of her work, "Positions in the Life World," was shown in five European cities and concurrently at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum for Contemporary Art (1998-2000). Rosler has published numerous essays and ten books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004) and the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rites of Passage (NYFA, 1995). Rosler has been awarded the Spectrum International Prize in Photography for 2005, which was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and at NGBK in Berlin, Germany.



Jacqueline Thaw

Graphic Design

Jacqueline Thaw is a graphic designer focused on the printed word and design’s role in public life. Her work as an editorial and identity designer in New York City includes four years with the interdisciplinary design consultancy Pentagram. She has taught at the University of Hawaii and the School of Visual Arts and had given talks and workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fordham University, and the national conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, and AIGA/Honolulu. She is a member of Class Action, a collective that creates design for social change.



Steven Westfall

Painting

Stephen Westfall has exhibited his paintings to considerable acclaim in the United States and abroad for over a decade. He has had shows at Lennon Weinberg Gallery, Galerie Zurcher, and at Galerie Paal; his work can be found in several public collections including the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Munson Proctor-Williams Institute, Utica, and the University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara; he has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York State Council on the Arts. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has held teaching positions at Bard College and at the School of Visual Art, New York.
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John Yau

Critical Studies

John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and freelance curator. He has published more than two dozen books of museum catalogs and monographs, and his reviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1996, he curated Ed Moses, A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His collaborations have been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, Bonn Kunstmuseum, and the Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, Peter S. Reed Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His awards include a General Electric Foundation Award, a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the Brendan Gill Award. In 2002, he was named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. His writing appears regularly in the Art on Pape, American Poetry Review, and The Brooklyn Rail.



Staff

Damian Catera

Media Specialist

Damian Catera is an electroacoustic composer/guitarist, sound installation creator and media artist. Catera's work reflects interests in sound based composition/ improvisation, transmission and sociopolitical critique. He has toured the US and Europe twice and has also presented work in Latin America and Asia.

Personal Website


George Ericson

Visual Arts Coordinator - Sculpture

Office: Livingston Art Building 108 | Phone: 732-445-5637


LaToya Frazier

Associate Curator

Office: | Phone: (732) 932-2222 EXT: 798


Randy Hemminghaus

Master Printer; Manager, RCIPP

Randy Hemminghaus is a master printer. He has extensive collaborative editioning experience and has worked with artists such as Robert Indiana, Leon Golub, Alison Saar, Grisha Bruskin, Peter Saul, Mel Chin, Charles Hewitt, Dorothy Dehner, Komar and Melamid, Sol Lewitt, Brodsky and Utkin, Jasper Johns, Robert Raushenberg, Robert Morris, and David Salle.



Anthony Masso

Photography Technician



Frances Maxwell

Administrative Assistant/Undergraduate Advisor



Anne McKeown

Master Papermaker

Anne McKeown received her M.F.A. from Yale University. She has taught both painting and printmaking and has exhibited extensively throughout the metropolitan area, participating in both solo and group exhibitions. She has received numerous prestigious awards and commissions.



Sharon Mirutkin

Business Specialist

Office: Civic Square 126 | Phone: 732-932-2222 X-794


Joe Velez

Undergraduate Secretary

Office: Civic Square 124 | Phone: 732-932-2222 X-790


Anine M. Wagenhoffer

Graduate Secretarial Asst III



Shane Whilden

Computer Lab Technician, Mason Gross website server


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