2022 Summer Exhibitions
Tell Me More About Yourself (Self-Portraits and Other Autobiography Endeavors) Curated by Juno Zago
Flow Curated by Lisette Morel
Elevator Music 9: Jeffrey Cobbold Curated by Juno Zago
Gallery Aferro
73 Market Street, Newark, NJ
All Shows on Exhibition from June 25th to August 5th
Free and open to everyone! Masks are required.
Just a few short days after the summer solstice, Gallery Aferro will welcome its first group shows to the ever-evolving creative space in over two years. Building on the success of their winter and spring presentations, the Saturday, June 25th opening reception will showcase works from more than 85 artists across three new exhibitions.
Tell Me More About Yourself (Self-Portraits and Other Autobiographical Endeavors) is an exhibition that will focus on both old and new interpretations of society’s perennial favorite: the self-portrait. Featured in the Main Gallery, 71 artists, including Arts, Culture & Media faculty Anthony Alvarez and Emanuele Cacciatore and SASN alumni Noelle Lorraine Williams and Bryant LeBron, offer a glimpse into their true form as they present themselves as objects, rooms, concepts, movements, emotions, beliefs, experiences and journeys. Some are quite literal; others, embrace the abstract, but all while capturing their most authentic selves.
In the Memorial Gallery, curator Lisette Morel (NCAS '98), guides the exhibition Flow into Newark’s thriving art scene to herald one of the oldest coast-to-coast Latinx art movements of the 21st-century, the Neo-Latino Collective. The international, multigenerational organization brings 15 artists into an intimate space to share their individual and collective narratives in this challenging and surreal time. The exhibition will also pay tribute to the late Raúl Villarreal, who in 2003 gifted the group with their beloved name.
Music lovers can delight their ears along with their eyes as they step inside a vintage, early-1900s Otis Elevator to hear Aferro’s latest sound exhibition, Elevator Music 9: Jeffrey Cobbold. Inspired by his autobiographical experiences, Cobbold’s work acts as a digital storyteller, conveying events of his life through journal entries, posters, and other text-based works channeled once more through the practice of music. The New Jersey native offers listeners an experience unlike any other, a perfect complement to a summer that promises to be unlike any other.