Curator’s Choice 2024
Exhibition Curated by Arthur Bruso and Raymond E. Mingst
Pro Arts’ Curators Choice exhibition is the result of Meet The Curators annual portfolio reviews which were held virtually this year. After all of the sessions were conducted, the participating curators selected the artists they felt presented winning portfolios. These are the artists who will exhibit their work in the annual Curators Choice exhibition!.
About the curators:
Raymond E. Mingst is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, arts advocate, and media producer. He is the recipient of a 2021 New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship. He has exhibited, curated, and collaborated with numerous galleries and institutions including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC; Center for Book Arts, NYC; Takashimya Gallery, NYC; Proto Gomez, NYC; Hudson County Community College, Benjamin J. Dineen, III and Dennis C. Hull Gallery, Jersey City, NJ; William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts, Wayne, NJ, among many others. He founded The Cabinet Gallery in the East Village of Manhattan, an early iteration of Curious Matter, an exhibition and project space he co-founded and currently runs in Jersey City, NJ.
Arthur Bruso is an artist, curator, and arts writer. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. His work is sometimes based on his studies in esoteric symbolism and sometimes based on his upbringing in an Italian-American community in Albany, NY. He constantly revisits the past whether in European Medieval cathedrals, defunct Victorian museums, abandoned cemeteries or his antique armchair. He has exhibited in the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Rice Gallery at Albany Institute of History and Art, LaMamma LaGalleria in New York and many other venues. He currently is co-Director of Curious Matter, a non-profit project space.
Exhibiting Artists: Kristen Martin-Aarnio, Carol Cassel Baker, Stella Chang, Dorie Dahlberg, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Laura Lou Levy, and Lisa Pressman
More information please contact Maia Goitia at contact.proarts@gmail.com
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 5-9pm during JC Fridays
Hours: Saturdays and Sunday in September, 1-4pm
Location: ART150 Gallery
157A First St. Jersey City, NJ 07302
Entrance is on the corner of Provost & 1st
Gallery is wheelchair accessible.