This Event has Passed
The Universe of Ben Jones
January 27 – April 3, 2024
The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery @ NJCU
Opening Reception: January 27, 2024, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Ben Jones Artist Talk
(Part of the Black History Month Celebration)
February 6, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Gothic Lounge (H-202)
followed by a reception in the Lemmerman Gallery
Over his six-decade career, artist Ben F. Jones has focused on interconnections and relationships between global issues including politics, health, the environment, racism, and capitalism, among others. “The imagery is both figurative and abstract, interacting and affecting,” he says in a statement in the exhibition catalog. “We cannot solve our ecological, political, and even spiritual problems in the world if we fail to see the relationships among these things.”
This retrospective of the extraordinary artist presents many works—bold, insightful, and in a visual language all his own—that have rarely been exhibited or are on display here for the first time. Come see how Jones’s symbology has transcended global and local issues of ecology, technology, politics, and spirituality, making him the conscience of his generation and of today.
The exhibition and its companion catalog are part of a year-long Mellon Foundation-funded collaboration between William Paterson University and New Jersey City University that is celebrating the American artist Ben Jones—a 1963 graduate of William Paterson and a NJCU professor emeritus of art.
Co-curated by Casey Mathern, director of the William Paterson Galleries, and Midori Yoshimoto, director of the NJCU Galleries, the exhibition was held in the William Paterson Galleries during the fall 2023 semester.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2182264-0
