In Fictive Kinship, a solo exhibit inspired by the death of Sandra Bland, visual artist Kimberly Mayhorn used paintings, works on paper, installation, and a two-channel video to explore kinship or social bonding between unrelated black women. Although connected only as black women and through a tie to Texas, when Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell after being arrested for allegedly failing to use her turn signal, Mayhorn recalled, 鈥淎nd even though I did not know her, I felt a kindred connection with her and I found myself mourning her death as if I knew her and thinking that could have been me鈥︹ When the exhibit traveled to the Visual Arts Gallery, it caught the attention of the Huffington Post.
Contact: Midori Yoshimoto, Gallery Director
Visual arts at NJCU included a Watercolor Exhibition by Paul Ching-Bor, Kimberly Mayhorn鈥檚 Fictive Kinship, and MFA and BFA exhibitions. For complete photo galleries of these exhibits, please visit:
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VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
September 12 鈥 September 16
Janis Maschucchi MA Exhibition
(performative self-portraits)
Reception: TBA
September 22 鈥 October 8
Mediha Sandhu MFA Exhibition
(video, photo, illustration exploring
her Pakistani-American identity)
Reception: September 22,
4:30鈥7:30 p.m.
October 13 鈥 26
Dan Loh MFA Exhibition
(video, photo investigating his
Korean-American heritage)
Reception: TBA
November 7 鈥 December 15
October 31 鈥揘ovember 4
installation Conceptual Furniture/
metalsmith Exhibition
(tentative title)
Curated by Darren Fisher
Reception: November 7,
4:30鈥7:30 p.m.
January 25 鈥 March 1, 2017
Japanese Anime/Manga Effect in
Contemporary Art
Curated by Midori Yoshimoto
(in collaboration with Ramapo
College Galleries)
March 14 鈥 May 12, 2015
BFA Exhibitions
VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
September 12 鈥 September 16
Janis Maschucchi MA Exhibition
(performative self-portraits)
Reception: TBA
September 22 鈥 October 8
Mediha Sandhu MFA Exhibition
(video, photo, illustration exploring
her Pakistani-American identity)
Reception: September 22,
4:30鈥7:30 p.m.
October 13 鈥 26
Dan Loh MFA Exhibition
(video, photo investigating his
Korean-American heritage)
Reception: TBA
November 7 鈥 December 15
October 31 鈥揘ovember 4
installation Conceptual Furniture/
metalsmith Exhibition
(tentative title)
Curated by Darren Fisher
Reception: November 7,
4:30鈥7:30 p.m.
January 25 鈥 March 1, 2017
Japanese Anime/Manga Effect in
Contemporary Art
Curated by Midori Yoshimoto
(in collaboration with Ramapo
College Galleries)
March 14 鈥 May 12, 2015
BFA Exhibitions
Directed by NJCU鈥檚 Marc G. Dalio and performed at the West Side Theatre