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.

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.

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

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