Newark Arts Festival presents a virtual gallery exhibit inspired by the look and feel of the arrival hall of The Newark Museum of Art. In this digital space, twenty contemporary artists discern the elements of perception, access, and power within the context of art and technology. How does creative technology influence our perception? Is access enabled or disrupted by the convergence of art and tech? What are the dynamics of power, from both its literal sense (such as electricity which powers technology) and its figurative sense (such as the power of the people)?

Danielle Scott
"I’m a mixed-media assemblage artist and my work expresses politically and socially charged messaging."

KATI VILIM
visual artists, born in Hungary, based in New Jersey and New York.

Kati Vilim works with non representational geometric abstract imagery.
In her work she is investigating the visual language as an abstract system, creating new content based on combination of algorithm, colors and structures composed of ratio and rhythm of geometric shapes.
Her media range from traditional techniques as oil painting, to site -specific multimedia installation and digital animation.

Exciting virtual exhibition at the Newark Museum with Newark based artists.

Side-eye/Pink-eye series explores the inequities or race during the covid pandemic.

TELLING NEW STORIES

A digitally manipulated artist's book of our year of 2020--from slavery to freedom--visualizes spring 2020, from despair to hope and transcendence through song.

"Across La Tierra" is a virtual reality experience centering the voices and dreams of immigrants in the U.S.A.

Self portrait of the artist.

A virtual exploration of some of the most technologically advanced bodies of work that speak to forwardness, culture, movement, society power, source, creativity and most of all, the PEOPLE.

The Nu Africans addresses the notion that Africans of the diaspora through their particular set of circumstances have evolved into their own tribe, the “Nu Africans”.

Rejecting traditional art materials from European cannon, Adebunmi Gbadebo materially investigates history, commodities and identity that challenge the very substance of art making.

This image is of the Westinghouse Factory, adjacent to Broad Street Train Station, during demolition in 2007. It shows some of the boiler tank and piping amidst the ruins.

"The Newark School"; An exhibit of artist associated with Arts High and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.

Each collage is a handmade hybrid utilizing appropriated imagery from publications. My art is characterized by pop culture and advertising influences with social commentary as a goal.

Isolation period in the corona age I use the time to create new artworks. One of the works is "Technological glitch" the power of advanced technology elements that disconnect our connection to reality

In 2019, fayemi shakur published A Womb of Violet, a 146 page limited edition, risograph artbook featuring a collection of contemporary voices in poetry and art by Black women artists.

"Clean Up the Mess, America" 2020
Mixed media collage on wood cutting board.
18 x 14
$375

The works in my gallery are mostly oil paintings that talk about my family and emotional states.

The Warmth of Other Sons; a dedication to the African American families who left the south for more opportunities in the north during the Great Migration (1916-1970).