In collaboration with Studio Montclair(SMI), Inspired by the Weight of an Object is a juried selection of works submitted by SMI members and MAM staff and teachers inspired by MAM’s Taking Space exhibition. Works will be exhibited concurrently at MAM in the Vance Wall Art Education Center arcades and at SMI’s Leach Gallery, at 641 Bloomfield Avenue.
CURATORS
Virginia S. Block is a native of New Jersey. She holds a B.A. in Art Education and M.A. from William Paterson University. Ms. Block is one of the five co-founders of Studio Montclair and served as its first president from 1997 – 2002, she also served as Studio Montclair’s gallery director from 2010 – 2018. Block’s work is included in hundreds of corporate and private collections throughout the east coast and the mid-west. She has had a long and varied art career, including positions in teaching, package and logo design and director of incentive marketing for an advertising company. Throughout this time, she has continued to develop her career as a fine artist.
Ira Wagner, Executive Director, Montclair Art Museum. A Montclair resident for more than 30 years, Ira began studying photography in 2008, after working on Wall Street for more than 25 years. With an interest in urban history and design, he has focused on photographing the urban landscape. He received his MFA from the Hartford Art School in 2013 and has taught photography at Monmouth University in New Jersey. His project Houseraising, photographs of houses being raised on the Jersey Shore following Hurricane Sandy, was featured in The New Republic, The National Geographic, and was released in a photobook by Daylight Books in 2018.
Studio Montclair’s Leach Gallery
Montclair, NJ
September 14, 2023 – October 28, 2023