Arthur Bruso

As we enter this winter season and move toward a new year, we share these works with a sense of gratitude for time spent in looking, for moments of contemplation, and for the sustaining gestures of grace that carry light through darker days. May there be room, in the midst of all that asks for our attention, to notice what is modestly offered, and to offer ourselves in return. Each of us has their light to shine.

If found objects carry their own histories, Pervin’s black makes them newly anonymous and newly resonant. The sculptures hold what she calls “a moment, and a sense of memory.” Blackness unifies, transforming disparate elements into a whole and beckoning the viewer to linger, to arrive slowly at what the various media have become.

An exhibition in celebration of the publication ofA Slant of Shadow by Arthur Bruso

Welcome to Curious Matter: A Legacy of Art & Inquiry, an exhibition celebrating the transformative vision and enduring contributions of Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso. Founders of the contemporary art gallery and project space Curious Matter in downtown Jersey City, these two artist-curators have shaped nearly two decades of rigorous, thought-provoking programming at the intersection of visual art, literature, and community.

About an hour and a half drive north of Rome in the ancient Etruscan region of Lazio lies the medieval town of Bomarzo.

My great-grandmother came to America in a heat of indignation and impatience.

ARTHUR BRUSO has captured, in the photographs of Penumbra, that particular moment when we enter a dark room and strain to see. The images are almost completely black.

Now in its fifteenth winter, the Curious Matter holiday installation has offered not only a celebration of our communal desire to bring ligh

Since I saw the world through myopic eyes, I was constantly trying to get my camera to capture the world as I perceived it.

Each box construction in this collection is a small universe of its own. The materials employed are humble and often overlooked

So Far Away No One Will Notice is a profound exploration of the gay experience across two distinct eras, highlighting enduring challenges

Black holes have long held a fascination for me. The idea that all matter is going to be spiraling down a massive, insatiable hole

The paintings are very reminiscent of Juan Gris with a touch of Joan Miro.

For an artist, inspiration can be a convoluted process. Many influences can converge to determine the final work of art.

It was at the Lisht mortuary complex where the Lintel of Amenemhat I and Deities was found.

There is a world that lies between the furrowed tameness of the agricultural field and the foreboding darkness of the forest wilderness.

Images and objects that once belonged to loved ones who are no longer with us become more poignant as we endeavor to infuse light, warmth, a

Arthur Bruso’s art practice includes photography, drawing, collage, Cornell-like box constructions, as well as curation

Nearly her entire life, Virginia Woolf kept a record of her days in the form of diaries or journals.

The libretto of Once She Dries tells the story of a coral reef in peril, in desperate need of shade and cooling.