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Summer exhibitions on the Newark Campus

'City of Muses: Newark Artists and their Students'

Che Guevara poster exhibition at Mason Gross Galleries

Marking the year of the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death, Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square presents a show inspired by an extensive private collection of posters, dating from the 1960s to the present, that depict the iconic Marxist revolutionary. “Beauty is in the Street: The Iconography of Idealism” brings the collection together with specially commissioned contemporary artworks made in response to the posters as printed artifacts and as ideas.

“The exhibition looks at the continued power of Che as a symbol of hope and of opposition across cultures,” said curator Gerry Beegan, a professor of visual arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts. “Whatever one might think of his beliefs, his use of violence, and his political failures, Che retains a remarkable cultural resonance 40 years after his death.”

“Beauty is in the Street” also will include works from New Brunswick High School students who were mentored by Mason Gross design students. They applied the concepts they learned to their own icons using the Guevara posters as models. The show can be seen Thursday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. and runs through June 8. Admission to the gallery is free. For more information, click here.

 Poster above by Mason Gross visual arts instructor Carrie Moyer

Mothers: Paintings and Installations

For artist Joanne Leone Corris, it was her own mother that inspired her to create the works that are on display in her new exhibition “Mothers: Paintings and Installations. “I have always felt nurtured in the world surrounded by loving people, many of them mothers and grandmothers,” said Corris. The show, which is part of the Feminist Project at Rutgers University Exhibition and co-sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership, features an array of paintings devoted to women and their experiences as mothers.

“Mothers” is Corris’s third solo show at the John Dana Cotton Library in Newark. It is on display in the Dana Gallery through August 31, and a portion will be shown through December 20 in the Dana Room. The exhibit can be viewed from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays until August 15. The gallery will then operate on a shorter schedule through September 2. For more hours and other information please contact the gallery at 973-353-5222.