News & Events 2005-2006

Alumna’s Art on Display

Art by Jennifer Leigh Aschoff ’98 will be on display in a one-woman show entitled, “I Want to Tell You I Love You: Collections of Adoration & Appreciation,” from May 16 through June 10 in the Romano Gallery. Two artist’s receptions are planned for Thursday, May 18, from 7-8 p.m., and Saturday, June 10 (Alumni Day), from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Jennifer describes the art to be featured as “photographs, drawings, sculpture, language. Carefully selected frames of the material and visual world in which we reside. People, places, things.” She elaborated on her exhibit in an artist’s statement: “Artwork is a great connecting force, ideally something which opens us, shares with us, requests our participation and ideally functions as great inspiration. I see the collected objects and sculptures as physical manifestations of those things otherwise invisible and/or not categorized through an alphabet. They are clusters of various things we cannot see or speak of, things we can only feel or sense. They act as material versions of the invisible metacommunicational sea always in motion.”

She added, “I find myself wanting to constantly move people and be moved myself. Love is a large part of my work and my interest in existing and living. In many ways I want to share love, those I love, that which I love, with everyone. I believe I have high love endurance, even within patches of disconnect. I believe deeply. Love is such a huge part of feeling alive…One of my greatest endeavors is cultivating a collection I respond to and sharing it, as a world within a world, for you to experience.”

Jennifer earned a B.F.A. with honors from The School of Visual Arts in 2002. Since then, her work has been exhibited in various shows and galleries in and around New York City, where she also resides.

The Romano Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; other hours by appointment. For more information on this exhibit, please call (908) 362-6121. Posted 4/26/06

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