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Wed - Sat 12-6
GALLERY AFERRO
Activate: Market Street 15Pointing FingersCurated by Jo-El LopezJulie Ann Nagle, Genesis Tramaine, and Ken Weathersby
Presented by Gallery Aferro, with the support of RBH Group
Gallery Aferro’s “Activate: Market Street,” is a year-round public art project transforming hundreds of linear feet of vacant store-front windows in Newark’s historic downtown district. Storefronts owned by RBH Group on Market Street between Washington and University Streets are activated with installations, films, animation, neon sculptures, kinetic and interactive art, and performative pub-lic programming from local, national and international artists. Sup-ported by RBH Group, and created by Gallery Aferro, the project delivers arresting, unexpected, and highly memorable experiences with contemporary art directly to the public, whether residents, students, workers or first-time visitors.
www.activatemarketstreet.org
Nov. 11, ‘17 - Jan. 12, ‘1875 & 77 Market St.
Opening ReceptionNovember 11th, 2017
4-8 pm at Gallery Aferro73 Market Street
Pointing FingersKen Weathersby
Activate: Market Street 15
230 (ncrybl) (detail), acrylic and graphite on linen over panel, collage, 40 x 30, 2014
Ken Weathersby characteristically plays with and against conventions of paint-ings’ structure, by cutting out and inverting parts, and most recently by em-bedding photographic images. He has exhibited his work nationally and in-ternationally, with notable solo shows at MINUS SPACE (New York), Pierogi Gallery (New York), One River Gallery (Englewood, NJ), NIAD Art Center Gallery (Richmond, CA), Some Walls (Oakland, CA), and the John Cotton Dana Gallery, Rutgers University (Newark). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Academy of Art Museum (New York), Honey Ramka (Brooklyn), Odetta Gallery (Brooklyn), 57w57Arts (New York), Paral-lel Art Space (Ridgewood, NY), Mixed Greens (New York), Aljira Art Center (Newark), the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Gallery (Morristown, NJ), Bar-bara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, the Visual Art Center of NJ (Summit, NJ), Seven (Miami), Toomey Tourell (San Francisco), and I.S. Projects (Leiden, Netherlands), among many others.
Weathersby has received numerous awards and residencies, most recently the Individual Artist Painting Fellowship by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Council/NJSCA (2016). His work has been written about in Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, Brooklyn Magazine, the New American Paintings blog, Two Coats of Paint, Paint-er’s Bread, and elsewhere. Weathersby holds an MFA in Painting from Cran-brook Academy of Art. He was born in Mississippi and has lived in the New York City area since 1990.
kenweathersby.com
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Gallery AferroIronbound StationPO Box 5668Newark, NJ 07105USA
MissionThe mission of Gallery Aferro is to bring cultural education and aesthetic engagement with contemporary issues to all people equally, and to create an environment where artists can gather and share physical and intellectual resources. We are working towards an arts community that is available to everyone, without sacrificing standards or quality of experience.
Accessing The GalleryGallery hours are listed above, come by for a visit! Gallery Aferro is a street level store front gallery and is wheelchair accessible. If you need special assistance, requests, or desire additional information about accessibility, please email our ADA Coordinator, Evonne Davis, at [email protected]. We believe art is absolutely for everyone and are very happy to accommodate anyone’s needs but please give us 1 weeks notice for any arrangements that will need to be made at the gallery. If you require large print press materials please let us know 48 hours ahead of time.
SponsorsWe gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders, sponsors and the individual donors who make our programs possible. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and RBH Group.
265 (detail), acrylic on linen over panel with collage, 30 x 20 inches, 2016
