Headlines , the 2006 blockbuster exhibition at the Pierro Gallery of South Orange, begins May 7 with an Opening Reception from 2-4 pm. F eaturing the work of seventeen artists referencing current events, politics and/or world affairs, a wide range of mediums including drawing, painting, digital imagery, installations, video and photography are in the gallery as well as an outdoor installation in the surrounding park. Selected by curator Mary Birmingham , much of the work examines the mediation of ideas with the artist as the ultimate information “filter.” The exhibition runs through July 14. A four color catalogue is available. Jonathan Allen
Allen’s paintings incorporate images from popular culture, politics and mass media. The figures in these works are appropriated from newspaper photographs. With their traced outlines they seem to float as apparitions over dreamlike landscapes.
A. J. Bocchino
Bocchino collects headlines from the New York Times which he organizes chronologically, and color-codes according to subject, (yellow for political issues, red for wars and conflicts, etc.) For the Headlines exhibition he covered the largest wall of the gallery with a decade of headlines, the different colors revealing the kinds of stories that led the news coverage on each day. Standing in front of the wall, the viewer confronts his own recent history.
THE PIERRO GALLERY is located in the Baird Center, 5 Mead St.,
South Orange, NJ. For additional information please call the gallery
directly at (973) 378.7754 Ext. 3. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 1-4pm, or by appointment.
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