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The Backend

Montclair State University Galleries

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The Backend is a group exhibition featuring 13 contemporary artists probing the nature of protocols and agreements to prompt questions about ownership, production, notions of truth, and agency. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone.

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The Montclair State University Galleries brings together ideas, perspectives, and dialogues to foster curiosity and shared understandings through art. The University Galleries presents diverse and inclusive exhibitions and programs creating connections that unite the campus experience with the local and global community.montclair.edu/galleries

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"Nothing Under Heaven" by Joseph Liatela

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Nothing Under Heaven is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition that brings together new commissions and recent works that explore the need for connection, pleasure, and agency within oppressive systems. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone.

Collection image for Ajamu Kojo's "Black Wall Street"

Ajamu Kojo's "Black Wall Street"

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Black Wall Street: A Case for Reparations is Kojo’s ongoing series of large-scale paintings that capture the imagined lives of Black professionals in the Greenwood District before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Curated by Director Megan C. Austin.

Collection image for Caroline Garcia's Dancing on Axes and Spears

Caroline Garcia's Dancing on Axes and Spears

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Caroline Garcia's first solo museum exhibition invites visitors to stretch their understandings of Filipino cultural traditions, community resilience, and personal identity. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone.

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Case Studies

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Case Studies 3: Joseph Parra – "the edge of flesh and blood" explores the larger consequences of searching for validation, inspiration, and intimacy through digital images by asking “How does desire change when life is mediated through screens?”

Collection image for Layo Bright: Invasive Blooms

Layo Bright: Invasive Blooms

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Through sculpture, artist Layo Bright delves into themes of time, feminism, migration, and the African diaspora. The exhibition Invasive Blooms is on view February 1 – May 5 in the Kasser Theater Lobby. Learn more at montclair.edu/galleries

Collection image for Na'Ye Perez: Teaching to Transgress

Na'Ye Perez: Teaching to Transgress

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Na’Ye Perez: Teaching to Transgress explores themes of community, presence, shared experiences, identity, and accessibility. Curated by Director Megan C. Austin.

Collection image for Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure

Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure

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Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure is a critical response to technological systems within art addressing the issues of identity, history and abstraction, placing the viewer at the intersection of the past, present and future. Curated by Tom Leeser.

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Collection image for "Nothing Under Heaven" by Joseph Liatela

"Nothing Under Heaven" by Joseph Liatela

No upcoming events

Nothing Under Heaven is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition that brings together new commissions and recent works that explore the need for connection, pleasure, and agency within oppressive systems. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone.

Collection image for Ajamu Kojo's "Black Wall Street"

Ajamu Kojo's "Black Wall Street"

No upcoming events

Black Wall Street: A Case for Reparations is Kojo’s ongoing series of large-scale paintings that capture the imagined lives of Black professionals in the Greenwood District before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Curated by Director Megan C. Austin.

Collection image for Caroline Garcia's Dancing on Axes and Spears

Caroline Garcia's Dancing on Axes and Spears

No upcoming events

Caroline Garcia's first solo museum exhibition invites visitors to stretch their understandings of Filipino cultural traditions, community resilience, and personal identity. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone.

Collection image for Case Studies

Case Studies

No upcoming events

Case Studies 3: Joseph Parra – "the edge of flesh and blood" explores the larger consequences of searching for validation, inspiration, and intimacy through digital images by asking “How does desire change when life is mediated through screens?”

Collection image for Layo Bright: Invasive Blooms

Layo Bright: Invasive Blooms

No upcoming events

Through sculpture, artist Layo Bright delves into themes of time, feminism, migration, and the African diaspora. The exhibition Invasive Blooms is on view February 1 – May 5 in the Kasser Theater Lobby. Learn more at montclair.edu/galleries

Collection image for Na'Ye Perez: Teaching to Transgress

Na'Ye Perez: Teaching to Transgress

No upcoming events

Na’Ye Perez: Teaching to Transgress explores themes of community, presence, shared experiences, identity, and accessibility. Curated by Director Megan C. Austin.

Collection image for Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure

Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure

No upcoming events

Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure is a critical response to technological systems within art addressing the issues of identity, history and abstraction, placing the viewer at the intersection of the past, present and future. Curated by Tom Leeser.

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