(de) coding at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

I’m delighted to have a selection of paintings from my series, A week in Times, in this group exhibition curated by Mary Birmingham. As Mary states in her exhibition essay, “Each of the works in (de)coding acknowledges or responds to its original source in a particular way. Several redact or obscure information…”

In my series, A week in Times, I am working on a support the size of the front page of The New York Times. Redacting one photo that appeared in this location on the newspaper's front page, I replaced it with a color-field. The colors I’m using in this series were found in the sky at dawn or twilight and then reproduced as paint. The caption from the photo is written along the bottom of the work, where the text would end on the newspaper’s page and is used as the title for each painting. The news stories occurred under these sky colors; it seemed fitting to bring them together.

The Visual Arts Center is in Summit, NJ, and schedules socially distanced appointments for viewing their current exhibitions.

There will be a virtual talk with the curator and artists on April 20th. The exhibition is on view through April 25th.

A collection from the series A week in Times, in situ at (de)coding exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of NJ, photo credit Matthew Deleget. 2021.