Arthur Bruso

We did not set out to make an exhibition about David Wojnarowicz. Yet the more we looked—encountering his journals, essays, catalogues, and biography—the more his voice seemed to guide the inquiry. As an artist, writer, and activist, Wojnarowicz occupies a singular position at the intersection of many of the questions that first inspired Erasure Gallery

The collection of work in your new show ÆTHER is comprised of photograms as well as small box constructions with titles such as Pulsar, Dark Matter and Wormhole.

This small box is my interpretation of that final stage of success where the material in the alchemical flask has crystallized out of the flame into the “nature of the salamander” or to have become unaffected to further distillation, making it ready to become the Philosopher’s Stone. The small toy salamander is hovering over reddening (pink) material at the base of the box. It is held in place by the downward pointing stopper of the flask. The flask itself is represented by a

This painting is deliberately planned to look partly finished with the under drawing exposed. Picasso deftly balances the painted part with the drawn part, while placing the emphasis on the portrait with the lighter grey halo around the sitters face. The work is also a showcase for Picasso’s drawing skills.

In the passage, Cocteau is managing a fairly coherent and irreverent outline of the play he has in mind. While the brief lines he writes are impertinent and charming, he has taken several artistic liberties with the accepted narrative of the myth.

This stele is more than a depiction of ancient Egyptian upper-class domesticity. It is an assurance that the entombed Intef will be provided for and honored for his eternity in the afterlife as he was during his earthly life. It has been sanctified by the God King, activated by the lector priest, and placed in public on the wall of the Intef’s tomb for all who pass by to see and to understand how important he was and venerated he is. In this prominent position the stele will

Her approach to writing her autobiography was phenomenological. Taking her instruction from Sartre’s existentialism lexicon, she presented her life through her actual, sensory lived experiences.

By breaking apart the image, I was able to represent the personal rational of how people relate in an urban environment among the buildings and sedentary objects on the street, and to explore the dynamics of securing one’s own place in the hierarchy of waiting.

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