Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Mason Gross Galleries are open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hours may vary on school holidays and during winter and summer break.
Art & Design
Visiting Artist Lecture: Rindon Johnson
Virtual EventsRindon Johnson is an artist and poet. Johnson has presented solo exhibitions at The Albertinum (Dresden), Chisenhale Gallery (London), The Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf) and the SculptureCenter (Long Island City), among others. He is the author of Nobody Sleeps Better Than White People (Inpatient, 2016), the VR book, Meet in the Corner (Publishing-House.Me, 2017), Shade the King (Capricious, 2017), The Law of Large Numbers: Black Sonic Abyss (Chisenhale, Inpatient, SculptureCenter 2021) and most recently Ever Given (Inpatient and Francois Ghebaly, 2022). He was born on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people. He lives in Berlin.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Constantina Zavitsanos
Virtual EventsConstantina Zavitsanos works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound to elaborate debt, dependency, and means beyond measure. Zavitsanos has exhibited at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Artists Space, The Kitchen, and Participant Inc (New York), at Arika (Glasgow), and HKW (Berlin). With Park McArthur, they wrote “Other Forms of Conviviality” in Women & Performance (Routledge), and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press). Zavitsanos is a Foundation for Contemporary Art's Roy Lichtenstein Awardee (2021) and a 2022 Keith Haring Fellow in Art & Activism at CCS/Bard College. They live in New York and teach at the New School.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Catherine Haggarty
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesCatherine Haggarty, b. 1984, is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Maake Magazine, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Final Friday Podcast, Sound and Vision Podcast, The Black and White Project, Curating Contemporary’s book Eraser, and Young Space.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Bill Dietz
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesBill Dietz is a composer and writer, born in Arizona. Since 2012, he is co-chair of the Music/Sound Department in Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in New York. His work on genealogies of reception and the "political aesthetics of listening" is often presented in festivals, museums, and academic journals, but also in apartment buildings, magazines, and on public streets.
The Class of 2020 & 2021 BFA Alumni Show: “Curtain Call”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesFeaturing graduates impacted by COVID closures who now have the opportunity to present their culminating artwork in person at Mason Gross Galleries. Attend a reception January 19.
MLK Celebration: The Birth of An Activist
Nicholas Music Center 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesPerformances centered around the origins of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s role as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, featuring the Rutgers Chamber Jazz Ensemble performing Herbie Hancock's "I Have A Dream" with excerpted narration from King's speech; staged scenes from the life of Rosa Parks; a short dance film honoring King, with choreography and performance by alum Kyle Marshall and costumes by alum Meagan Woods; an art exhibit; and more.
Design Lecture: Asad Pervaiz
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesCivic Square Building, Room 110 This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2023 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Focusing on brand, editorial and exhibition design, INDEX is a newly minted […]
The Co-Cureate Show
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesSeveral ambitious exhibitions in one, co-cureate gives voice to a range of student curatorial teams presenting across a range of themes. Attend a reception February 16.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Chie Fueki
Virtual EventsVisually striking and intricate, Fueki’s paintings picture contemporary life in spectacular motion. Created through a complex system of painting, drawing,cutting, and collaging onto wood panels, her practice is centered around the depiction of figures, symbols, […]
Jeremy Dennis: So Spoke the Earth, the Past, and the Present
Virtual EventsMason Gross Galleries is currently hosting the photography of Jeremy Dennis in tandem with our Co-Cureate exhibition, inaugurating a new annual series of solo presentations celebrating the work of contemporary indigenous artists. Please join us […]