Amina Ross: so close – An Exhibition by Douglass' Estelle Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence
AMINA ROSS
so close
on view October 13, 2023 – March 8, 2024
The Douglass Discovery Gender and Arts Program at Douglass Residential College is pleased to announce that artist, Amina Ross has been named the 2023-24 Estelle Lebowitz Artist-in-Residence at Rutgers University. The Gender and Arts Program provides offerings in the arts for Douglass students and brings to the University community the work and ideas of exceptional women and femme identifying artists through exhibitions and year-long campus residencies.
Amina Ross: so close will be on view from October 13, 2023 – March 8, 2024, in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library. Ross is an artist and educator who creates multi-media works that consider feeling, embodied knowledge, and intimacy as survival technologies for black, queer, trans, and femme people. Their work questions how systems of power condition reality and how communities facing oppression navigate, resist, reimagine, and refigure these systems to thrive in safety. Their work has been exhibited at the Hessel Museum of Art, the Tang Teaching Museum, and the Abrons Art Center, among other venues. Some of their recent residencies include the Fire Island Artist Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, and Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. Ross lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design, The New School, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College.
During Ross’ Rutgers residency they will engage with students, lecture, conduct research, and lead workshops and a cohort of students that will create artwork to be featured in an exhibition the final weeks of the spring semester. The solo and cohort exhibitions will be accompanied by an online catalogue in May 2024 with an essay by Daniella Brito discussing Ross’ works. For exhibition or program information and to apply for the cohort, please visit: douglass.rutgers.edu/douglass-discovery/gender-and-arts-program or email: Nicole Ianuzelli, Program Coordinator, nicole.ianuzelli@rutgers.edu.
VENUE INFORMATION
The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries are located in the Mabel Smith Douglass Library (8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901). The galleries are free and open to the public. Hours are Monday-Thursday 9am- 8pm; Friday 9am-6pm; Saturday 1pm-3pm (by appointment only) and are subject to the libraries’ operating schedule.
SPONSORS
The Gender and Arts Program is funded by the Juliette Mittendorf Hill Fine Arts Endowment. The Artist-in-Residence program is funded in part by the Estelle Lebowitz Memorial Fund and is in partnership with the Art & Design Department, Mason Gross School of the Arts. The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series is a program of Douglass Residential College in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries.
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