Industrial Strength features the work of Precisionist artists associated with New Jersey who created works inspired by the power of our region's industrial landscape. Precisionism, an important American artistic movement that developed in the wake of World War I, is defined by images of industry that are precise, sharply defined and iconic; its artists took inspiration from industry, the growing popularity of photography, and the metropolitan area as a place of living modernity.
Artists in the exhibition include Florence Cannon (1886-1947), Elsie Driggs (1898-1992), Peter Fiordalisi (1904-1988), Riva Helfond (1910-2002), Victoria Hutson Huntley (1900-1971), Louis Lozowick (1892-1973), Gus Mager (1878-1956), Jan Matulka (1890-1972) and Anita Plumb (1917-1991).
? On view through August 22, 2009
Industrial Strength: Precisionism and New Jersey is made possible, in part, by the Dedalus Foundation and The Judith Rothschild Foundation.
(banner) Louis Lozowick, Koppers Coke (detail), 1960, Carbon pencil, Museum purchase 1960, 1960.1; (right top) Elsie Driggs,Hoboken,1925, Oil on canvas, Private Collection; (bottom) Louis Lozowick, Roofs and Street, 1938, Lithograph, Newark Museum Collection
(Re)Centering explores the development and design of urban housing proposals for Jersey City's own Journal Square, the City's original political, social and financial center. Using Journal Square as an unique case study and design challenge, architecture students from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, envisioned unique designs featuring forms of housing that are both global and local.
? On view through August 22, 2009
John Becker and Yuval Borochov, Pod Housing for Jersey City, 2008, Courtesy of the artists and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture
Luis Mallo creates photographs that are enigmatic and mysterious . In 2005, he began photographing spaces that are normally inaccessible to the average viewer: museum storage areas and vaults. The photographs in Open Secrets reveal the quiet solemnity of these spaces, but not all of their hidden secrets.
? On view through August 29, 2009
Luis Mallo, Open Secrets (SSR 3), 2006, Chromogenic print, dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist
The word "doll" evokes a range of images and meanings. This exhibition uses a selection of figurative prints from the museum's collection to focus on the ways artists depict women and girls.
Artists included in Paper Dolls are Mac Adams, Elia Alba, Isabel Bishop, Douglas Gorsline, William Gropper, Roberta Harley, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Robin Schwartz, Juan Sanchez, James Rosenquist, Rafael Soyer, Ming Smith-Murray, Elizabeth Turk, and Abraham Walkowitz.
Experience the artist's largest and most ambitious work to date, including a three- dimensional labyrinthine city made from foam, paper, photographs, collage and rubber. Inspired by the megalopolis of her native Brazil, Ms. De Carvalho creates a surreal world of color, form and elements of fantasy.
? On view through August 22, 2009
Priscila de Carvhalo, Off-duty Militias, 2008, Acrylic, ink, foamcore, photo collage, sharpie on canvas, 24" x 34" x 2 1/2", Courtesy of the artist
Jersey City Museum remains grateful to the City of Jersey City, Mayor Jerramiah Healy, and the Municipal Council for their continuing major support. The museum also receives major funding for its exhibitions and programs from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, BLDG Management/The Athena Group, Bank of America, and the Turrell Fund. Additional funding is provided by many other generous corporate, foundation and individual donors, and our museum members.
