Tricia Laughlin Bloom – författare

Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? This question depends on one’s worldview. From the point of view of the collection included in this book, the arc of abstraction is very broad, sweeping and multivalent. The essays included here take an open view of the story of abstraction, reflecting the variation and diversity of American art included in the holdings of the Newark Museum. The museum gave avant-garde abstraction an early American home, exhibiting the works of painter Max Weber in 1913. Yet abstraction’s American roots extend earlier as seen in indigenous objects as well.Donald Kuspit discusses America’s earliest abstract painter Arthur Dove and the innovations of Georgia O’Keefe, Joseph Stella, Morgan Russell, and Alexander Calder who all “convey abstraction’s ambivalent consciousness of nature and its unconscious attempt to recover the self.”The Arc of Abstraction is lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images of works by a broad array of abstract artists including Ad Reinhardt, Phillip K. Smith, III, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, Romare Howard Bearden, Stuart Davis, Louise Nevelson, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Melvin Edwards, and JoaquÍn Torres-GarcÍa. Expert commentary by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Gabriel Dawe, Jalena Louise Jampolsky, Marela Zacarias, Tarin Fuller, William L. Coleman, Souleo, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, and Kay WalkingStick provides important insights to help readers understand the nature and significance of the artwork.Published by Newark Museum. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images, this book includes original art and artifacts from the distant past as well as modern work by Native American artists from a vast array of tribes - including Cherokee, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Lakota, Zuni, Pueblo, Yup’ik, Huron, Ojibwa, Arapaho, and Nez Perce. Works included are clothing (such as robes, shoes, and hats), everyday items (such as blankets, pots, jugs, and baskets) and artwork (such as paintings on animal hide and colorful figurines).This publication, the first ever to document the Newark Museum’s important Native American holdings in a significant way, is the result of more than one hundred years of collecting and an ambitious amount of new research and interpretation.John Cotton Dana, the museum’s founding director, refused established museum hierarchies of art, believing that such stratification was used to privilege painting and sculpture over other media and to marginalize artistic traditions that were not necessarily old or European. Dana’s drive to collect art globally and across media, underscoring the role art plays in the daily lives of real people, was all part of the same refrain: art is everything; art is everywhere; art is for everyone.The works here highlight the vitality and persistence of Indigenous people over time and across experiences, and the tenacity with which cultural knowledge and the mastery of skill are passed on from one generation to the next. They also reflect how Native American artists and communities have been and continue to be engaged in broader historical, artistic, and economic exchanges with outsiders. They demonstrate the originality, vision, and care with which artists from different tribal nations across the continent, each with their own history and artistic traditions, express both individual ideas and shared cultural principles.Native Artists of North America draws on the expertise of an outstanding group of internationally recognized scholars and artists. Expert commentary from Ulysses Grant Dietz, Adriana Greci Green, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Adriana Greci Green, Susan Sekaquaptewa, Emil Her Many Horses, Wendy Red Star, Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, D. Y. Begay, Mique’l Dangeli, and Sherrie Smith-Ferri provides important insights to help readers understand the nature and significance of the objects and artwork.Published by Newark Museum. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Dreamtime in Newark surveys the transition of Aljira from an artist-led studio space to a major arts institution in Newark, New Jersey, that abruptly closed in 2018 due to gentrification and financial pressure. Exploring the origins and milestones of the gallery, the book examines how Aljira became a space for the marginalized artist and curator and aligned with the trend of artists-led "alternative-art-spaces"—contributing to the rise of diverse art markets and breakthroughs in representation throughout the museum collections, exhibitions, and the broader art world. This volume offers a historical analysis of the relationship between Aljira and the Newark Museum of Art, given the many collaborations on exhibitions, residencies, and shared curatorial strategies. Along with providing a wider historicity, the book amplifies the museum's role in preserving Aljira's legacy—especially as the city's arts ecosystem evolves. The book underscores the museum's role in preserving Aljira's history and legacy. Bringing together contributions from the extended community of artists, curators, critics, and art historians, the project works against the erasure of a vital part of contemporary art and cultural history. Before conversations of decolonizing the art world were commonplace, Aljira forged a free and open vision for the art world that cross-pollinated with the Newark Museum of Art's egalitarian and populist roots and global collections. The book, which accompanies an exhibition, October 15, 2026–June 20, 2027, also considers the impact of Aljira, founded in the aftermath of the 1967 Newark Rebellion, on the city of Newark and how its thirty-five-year tenure driven by social engagement and community practice helped to crystalize Newark's visual arts scene. Artists in the exhibition: Manuel Acevedo, Derrick Adams, David Ambrose, El Anatsui, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Firelei Báez, Amiri Baraka, Hugo X. Bastidas, Dawoud Bey, Camille Billops, Frank Bowling, Michael Paul Britto, Andy Brown, Nanette Carter, Willie Cole, Cicely Cottingham, Victor Davson, David Driskell, Dahlia Elsayed, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Chitra Ganesh, Jerry Gant, Jeffrey Gibson, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Carl E. Hazlewood, Duron Jackson, Ben Jones, Jayson Keeling, Donald Locke, Hew Locke, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Olu Oguibe, Joe Overstreet, Nell Painter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Judy Blum Reddy, Freddy Rodriguez, Kevin Sampson, Dread Scott, Fausto Sevila, Nyugen Smith, Helen Stummer, Mickalene Thomas, Noelle Lorraine Williams, Philemona Williamson