March 11, 2013
NJCU’S HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY TO FEATURE ‘WONDER WOMEN 8:
THIS MUST BE HOME’ MARCH 25-APR. 25;
ARTISTS’ RECEPTION ON APRIL 2nd 5-8pm
“Wonder Women 8: This Must Be Home,” an exhibit of work from the Wonder Woman residency program of the Jersey City-based _gaia artist collective, will be shown Monday, March 25 through Thursday, April 25 at New Jersey City University in the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery of Hepburn Hall, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City.
Gallery hours are 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and by appointment. An artists’ reception will be held 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., on Tuesday, April 2. Admission is free and open to the community.
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 approximately eight works 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.
For further information contact Ms. Cacoilo at (201)200-2467 or dcacoilo@njcu.edu.
