Artist and Model Collaborate on New Museum Exhibit
The exhibit, entitled Mostly Rosemary, explores ethnic identity.
Upstairs at the Hoboken Historical Museum is a new exhibit of four paintings, one each of three women and one man, all of who represent a different ethnicity.
But there's a catch. All four paintings are of the same person.
The exhibit, entitled Mostly Rosemary, opened Sunday and shows the work of Hoboken based painter Laura Alexander. An award-winning artist who has shown her work in New York and abroad, Alexander also earned a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2006.
Alexander, who has worked out of her studio in the Monroe Center since 1991, said she spent two years on the project. First she took several photographs of a model named Rosemary Gonzalez, who with the use of different makeup, wigs, outfits and facial expressions posed in ways meant to represent various ethnic identities.
In turn Gonzalez appears as a Muslim woman, an Orthodox Jewish man, an African American woman and a Caucasian woman with blonde hair and large sunglasses reminiscent of noted socialite Paris Hilton.
“It was fabulous the way she would turn her head and her whole countenance would change,” Alexander said of Gonzalez.
Alexander then reproduced six of the photographs as oil paintings on 50-inch canvas squares. Four of the six images are in the exhibit.
Alexander said she was inspired to begin the project by the election of President Barack Obama and the questions that some have raised about his ethnic, national and religious background.
“It was a good thing, but it also shook loose buried sentiments that people have,” Alexander said. “I want to bring these issues to the forefront so we can talk about them.”
Mostly Rosemary, on display on the museum's second floor, also includes a documentary about Alexander's work on the project. Alexander said her next big project involves a series of self-portraits.
In This article
-
Hoboken Historical Museum
1301 Hudson St, Hoboken, NJ (Entry from the Shipyard Passageway)
ImAPaidOperative
9:23 pm on Monday, January 30, 2012
Who controls the City Web Site? Why is it that the artist Tim Daly gets front page on the City Web Site? Could it be that he is from the Neuman Building that constitutes a solid voting block for Dawn Zimmer because she wants to crush a development project? Has Tim Daly given any money to Dawn Zimmer's campaign? Or have any of the other artists in the Neuman Building given money to Dawn Zimmer? I bring this up because it would be very bad if a politician took money in exchange for favors like that.
I like this work by Laura Alexander and I wish her well. Maybe some day she will also find herself on the front page of the Hoboken City Web Site. But she might have to contribute to Dawn Zimmer's campaign first. Sad but true.
ThisMeansWar
9:52 pm on Monday, January 30, 2012
Ooo, ooo, ooo - contact Beth Mason. This sort of speculation is like crack to her.
CuriousGal
4:23 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
ImAPaidOperative- excellent point
ThisMeansWar
6:33 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
And as if to prove the point one of Beth's twin publicicy crack hoes is on the case. Just remember curiouskim, get paid on the books this time so you don't end up like...
Lane Bajardi, who has NEVER appeared in an ELEC report for Beth Mason or Tim Occhipinti. He appears in this midnight video for Occhipinti's campaign leaders. http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2010/10/grist-for-mill-midnight-monday-meeting.html
Is he credited in Beth Mason's IRS filings? Does he credit her in his tax forms?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/inside-the-fbis-internet-tip-line
Grafix Avenger
7:42 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Code problem for Arezzo friends?
http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/01/code-problem.html
CuriousGal
7:54 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
ThisMeansWar/Grafix Avenger/Nancy Pincus- I'm not sure what your post mentioning Mason or Occhipinti has to do with this story on the museum but since its ok for you to post irrelevant, derogatory and unrelated items, I'm going to dedicate this post to you:
Unfortunately, the Board of Education did not publish the Stated Session Agenda for the January 10 2012 meeting until right before the meeting. Had they published it earlier we would have noticed at least 2 interesting interesting items:
1) RESOLUTION NO. GP-0003-11-12 which allocated about $12,000 in stipend or compensation for the High School Production of "Footloose" in April. Recall, Board member Theresa Minutillo and Ruth McAllister were VERY critical of Paula Ohaus for hiring "outside" people to help out with the production of plays. Evidently, Minutillo and McAllister do not have much protest with these 10 outside hires.
Grafix Avenger
8:56 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Curious Gal/ Kim Cardinal/ former or current CNN producer? Wife of 1010WINS anchor, prosbus.
Was that vent on your roof inspected? Is it legal? Your buddy Al Arezzo might remember. My goodness, this page is getting lots of traffic.
http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/01/code-problem.html
CuriousGal
9:01 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
ThisMeansWarGrafix Avenger/Nancy Pincus- I'm not sure what your post mentioning CNN or Mr. Arezzo has to do with this story on the museum but since its ok for you to post irrelevant, derogatory and unrelated items, I'm going to dedicate this post to you.
2) RESOLUTION NO. GP-0019-11-12 which appoints a Board member's relative to a volunteer position with Indoor Track (coach: Judith Burrell, close friend of Board President Roe Markle) at Hoboken High School. Further complicating the issue is that this person is also the Treasurer of the Kids First political campaign. Recall, this is the same person with a "4 hour" appointment at last month's meeting for classroom observation. This is an ethical violation as well as a possible violation of nepotism laws of the State of New Jersey.
http://www.nj.gov/education/ethics/coi.htm
You want more? Keep it up ;-)
Grafix Avenger
9:12 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Draculette polishing her fangs? Bring it on.
Enough
11:30 pm on Monday, January 30, 2012
Does Beth Mason control the city website?
ThisMeansWar
6:34 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
No. But packing more straw into a strawman argument won't suddenly make it valid.