Petro Hul
 

 

Petro Hul's current work consists of a series of landscape-based investigations of the natural world. Hul continues to use stone as his primary medium, and he bases these works on visual memories of his extensive time spent hiking in the desert Southwest. These works allude to both geologic, as well as imposed events. At a time when we surround ourselves with an ever increasing artificial environment, and separate ourselves more and more from the natural world, Hul feels we are losing touch with something which is ultimately necessary for our own survival.

Petro has been exhibiting his work in the tri-state area, as well as in western states, since the early nineties. His work can be seen at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, and has been added to private collections throughout the country.

Ronna Bunker
 

 

 

At the level of sound, language can be broken down to a granular level of phonemes, the smallest units of sound that carry meaning. This seems to be accomplished by the un-thinking of words, and may be used in poetic writing to create odd still moments of rhythm. Visually, a glyph represents a small unit of meaning that carries linguistic information, like a phoneme, or perhaps a memory of the sound of a spoken word. This crossing-over of meaning between senses and symbology seems the perfect place for art to live.

Tiffany Calvert
 

 

Tiffany Calvert collects imagery from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the Thorne Miniature Rooms in Chicago, while looking at the Hudson River School landscape painters and their 19th century depictions of the new west. The paintings explore a push and pull between recognition of logical space and suspension of disbelief, artifice and illusion.

Tiffany recently mounted a one-person exhibition in Chicago at Lisa Boyle Gallery, and has shown on both the West and East coasts since 1998. Her work has been included in the 2005 Mid-Atlantic edition of New American Paintings

Jonathan Gabel
 

 

Jonathan Gabel's work involves recombining and manipulating common objects in a way that renders them unfamiliar. Unhappy with the limitations of a finished artwork, he creates systems that continue to evolve even after they leave the studio. Growing or decomposing over time, these works exist in the area between living and inert, entropic and self-organizing, unconscious and sentient.

Joe Nanashe
 

 

Joe Nanashe works in performance, video and installation. His work confronts the viewer with issues of violence, control and questions the nature of mediation and perception.

Meridith Passabet
 

 

The abstract paintings of Meridith Passabet are meant to trigger the emotions that come from failed attempts at fun or that result from too much fun. The paintings consist of specific, unidentifiable shapes that reference man-made devices for amusement including toys and amusement parks. The shapes exist in gloomy environments in which the space alternates between illusory, flat, atmospheric, and solid. The result is a poignant contrast between the superficial and the dimensional, the playful and the somber, the idealized and the real.

Directions to Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries:

By Public Transit from NYC:
NJ Transit NE Corridor train leaves from Penn Station (32nd Street & 7th Avenue, Manhattan). Exit New Brunswick Station at rear of platform and walk 5 blocks South on George Street. Turn right on Livingston Avenue. Mason Gross School of the Arts is on the right at the intersection of Livingston Avenue and New Street.

By Car:
NJ Turnpike Exit 9. Follow signs for Route 18 North/New Brunswick for approximately 2.5 miles. Take New Street exit and proceed straight through two sets of traffic lights. Mason Gross School of the Arts is at the next intersection, New Street and Livingston Avenue. Street parking is available.

Please call 732-932-2222 with any questions.