{"id":2046156,"date":"2026-07-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2046156"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:00:00","slug":"zimmerli-museum-receives-gift-including-mark-bradford-nicole-eisenman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2046156","title":{"rendered":"Zimmerli Museum Receives Gift Including Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tThe Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey is now richer by more than 70 artworks after a donation from the collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein that includes pieces by established figures such as Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, Kuni\u00e9 Sugiura, and John Waters, as well as emerging artists like Ever Baldwin, Troy Lamarr Chew II, and Lamar Peterson.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAnne and Arthur are visionary collectors who have long championed artists of color, women artists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community,\u201d director Maura Reilly said in a statement. \u201cThis gift represents their enduring relationship with the museum and a remarkable synchronicity with the values that are at the heart of our mission to reflect the nation\u2019s most diverse public university.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gift will be featured in the upcoming exhibition \u201cMashup: New Acquisitions from the Zimmerli,\u201d opening in February 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tArthur Goldstein had studied law at Rutgers and first visited the Zimmerli in the early 1990s. He and Anne began collecting two years later, first focusing on photography. They were committed to supporting living artists, many before they were widely recognized, says the museum. They previously donated more than 160 works to the institution, including examples by Vito Acconci, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, and others. They have also donated to larger institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.<\/p>\n
\n\tFounded in 1966 as the Rutgers University Art Gallery and renamed the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in 1983, the museum boasts a collection of more than 75,000 works of art. It notably houses an extensive collection of work by nonconformist artists from Moscow, Leningrad, and the former Soviet republics, donated by Norton and Nancy Ruyle Dodge in 1991, and also has strengths in American, European, and Eurasian art as well as original illustrations for children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n
\n\tBelow are some highlights from the gift.<\/p>\n
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Darren Bader, AKA Bugmaster AKA Shining boy & Little Randy AKA Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce M. White\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThere\u2019s a tradition stretching back at least a quarter century of artists creating designs for skateboard decks; streetwear brand Supreme launched it by commissioning artists in 2000, and examples bearing imagery by artists from Raymond Pettibon to Judy Chicago have become highly collectible. Where artist-designed decks are typically visually bold and colorful, this contribution to the genre by artist Darren Bader includes references to a range of Japanese pop-cultural phenomena, but, hilariously, strips away their visual pyrotechnics and reduces them to black text on a white background.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Mark Bradford, Miss China Silk<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce M. White\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tMark Bradford famously spent parts of his youth at his mother\u2019s South Los Angeles beauty shop, where he was in charge of painting signs. Materials from that environment were often integrated into his early collage-paintings, and at the first Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2002, he set up an installation, Foxy\u00e9 Hair<\/em>, a beauty-shop-cum-artwork. Miss China <\/em>Silk is one image in a four-part photographic series that features Asian models with African-inspired hairstyles, posed before African-inspired textiles, as a commentary on identity in an age of globalization. The year after creating this work, Bradford would win the $100,000 Bucksbaum Award at the 2006 Whitney Biennial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Troy Lamarr Chew II, Corrlinks and Jaypay\/Free My Dawgs<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce M. White\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tTroy Lamarr Chew II transforms the classic Campbell\u2019s Soup can, which Andy Warhol famously depicted in one of Pop art\u2019s most famous images, into \u201cthe can,\u201d a slang term for jail. The title refers to CorrLinks and JPay, systems for electronically communicating with incarcerated people, and echoes a call for liberation of those behind bars by various musicians. Several dogs are chained in an outdoor enclosure, while aloft in the sky are numerous kites; \u201ckite\u201d is a slang term for secret notes among prison inmates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Nicole Eisenman, Untitled<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce M. White\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis mixed-media drawing, recalling scenes of the Crucifixion and images of lynchings, shows a central figure tied to a post, surrounded by more than a dozen figures, some armed, one seemingly grinning and brandishing a knife. Two seem to cradle a third figure, reclining, as if in a scene showing the Deposition from the Cross. Per the museum, it \u201cexplores power dynamics, persecution, and mob mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Lee Friedlander, Newark, New Jersey<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Peter Jacobs\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAmerican photographer Lee Friedlander is renowned for his scenes of urban streets incorporating candid images of people in their everyday activities. He took up residence in New York in 1956, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960, two years before he shot this photo. As in this image, his works often include signage and reflections in windows. Here, a stout man and a young boy look out from behind the window of an ice cream shop, in which the street outside is reflected, thus interweaving inside and out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Trenton Doyle Hancock, Miracle Machine #3 or the Destiny Drop<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce M. White\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tHancock\u2019s bright-hued works explore a personal mythology, an absurdist parable of good and evil that includes a battle between the evil Vegans and the meat-eating Mounds (half-human, half-plant mutants). Sesom, a Vegan, discovers the liberating power of color in a dream, and begins to craft miracle machines that create life-affirming color blasts. Hancock\u2019s work wraps up his own life experience with references to art history, superhero comics, pulp fiction, and an array of other pop-cultural inspirations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Alice Mackler, Untitled <\/em>(2014)<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce M White\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAlice Mackler, who died in 2024 at 92 years of age, garnered the attention of New York critics, including the New York Times<\/em>\u2019s Roberta Smith, only starting in her 80s. She created lumpy female figures in ceramic, then painted features onto them, achieving highly individualized personalities, as ARTnews<\/em>\u2019s Alex Greenberger wrote. Mackler was discovered in 2013, when a partner at New York gallery James Fuentes met her at a class at Greenwich House Pottery. She would go on to be featured in a Jewish Museum group show and see her work enter the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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