This Must Be Home
A Wonder Women Project

March 25 – April 2

Please join us for the artists’ reception on Tuesday April 2nd from

5-8pm in the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery at New Jersey City University

RSVP to our Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/602691376427717/

Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery
Hepburn Hall (Room 323)
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305

An artists’ reception: Tuesday, April 2nd, 5-8pm
Christine daCruz
Sharon De La Cruz
Asha Ganpat
Alana Kakoyiannis
Michelle Vitale Loughlin
Lizette Louis
Melissa MacAlpin
Holly Pitre

This Must be Home is an exhibition of work from the eighth annual Wonder Woman residency program of the Jersey City-based _gaia artist collective. Curated by Doris Cacoilo, acting director of NJCU galleries and _gaia director; Meredith Goncalves, Sharon De La Cruz, and Sarah Nelson Wright, This Must Be Home will feature eight works by eight artists from seven years of _gaia residencies that range in themes and mediums, encompassing notions of home, domesticity, belonging, and place.

Among the artists whose work will be included in the exhibit are Lizette Louis, a 2009 NJCU alumna and the daughter of a single parent immigrant whose work pays homage to mothers of first-generation children and the language and cultural barriers they face when navigating the world; Alana Kakoyiannis whose three-minute looped video features the iconic kitchen brand pyrex to explore narratives of domesticity and women’s work within a compressed visual frame devoid of any contextual details; and Michelle Vitale Loughlin, who recycled scraps of shirts and sheets to create a quilt that illustrates foreclosures in her Jersey City neighborhood at the height of the housing crisis.