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.

To be remembered, one must first be seen.

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.

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

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

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

AMONG THE THEORIES to the origin of the rhyme Hocus Pocus, it is either a true incantation in ancient ritual magic, or a pseudo-Latin phrase

THE HOLIDAY SEASON is about love and giving. The birth of a baby—the Nativity—signals hope and ushers in a time that allows us to dream big

THERE HAVE BEEN PRISONS ever since there have been civilizations with laws that could be violated, but the idea of reforming

WHERE WE ARE is a basic concern of all humans. Our awareness of place probably stems from our need for self-preservation.

The 2021-22 Curious Matter Holiday Installation For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them....

At the turning of the millennium, we purchased the house at 272 Fifth Street from the widow Maggie Olson. Maggie’s husband Charlie had...

Our homes have been transformed into a safety zone, a barricade, a sanctuary against a new, invisible demon that threatens our very lives.

IN ANSWER TO HER PRAYERS, to understand the suffering of Christ as he was dying on the cross, St. Theresa of Avila was given the experience

FAMILIES MAY BE BROKEN, blended, chosen; nuclear, extended and dysfunctional; happy, unhappy.

Curious Matter presents Into the Magic Space by Arthur Bruso The introductory essay for each photo series: Into the Magic Space “Into the...