Name | marcy roberts |
Event Title | “Paintings and Sculptures by Leroy Johnson” at The Gallery at Mercer County Community College |
Event Start Date/Time | 01-31-2023 12:00 PM |
Event End Date/Time | 03-24-2023 11:00 PM |
Venue Name | The Gallery at Mercer County Community College |
Venue Address | Mercer County Community College, Communications Building, West Windsor, New Jersey, 08550 |
Event Details | The Gallery at Mercer County Community College is pleased to announce “Paintings and Sculptures by Leroy Johnson.” The exhibition will be on view through March 24, 2023 with an opening reception on Wednesday, February 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Gallery is located on the college’s West Windsor campus at 1200 Old Trenton Road in the Communications Building. Gallery hours are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from noon till 7 p.m. “The unbeautiful can be as powerful/attractive as the ‘professed’ beautiful” –Johnson Johnson, who passed away in 2022, was born in 1937 in the Eastwick community of Southwest Philadelphia. He was a self proclaimed “urban expressionist” whose work was shaped by African American history and life in the inner city. Largely self taught, Johnson sought to create mixed media through painting, collage, and assemblage sculpture within the “Arte Povera” movement — a Italian art movement from the late 1960s to 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconventional processes and non-traditional ‘everyday’ materials. |
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Phone Number | (609) 570-3589 |
Website | www.mccc.edu/gallery |
Admission Price | $0 |