Shoot! New photo exhibits join others at JC Museum

Visitors to the museum got the chance to talk to the artists and enjoy the museum’s other ongoing exhibits, like “The Superfly Effect” group exhibition in the upstairs gallery, Lynn Mullins’s “Falling/Flying,” and Chitra Ganesh’s “Evidence of Past Lives.”

Hiroshi Kumagai’s exhibit is part of “The Superfly Effect.”
“I’m trying to capture our society with a cartoon feel to it,” said Kumagai. “I’m calling it neo-pop. I believe I’m the first generation to grow up with pop art and subculture to actually absorb it without paying attention to it. Prior generations had a separation between high art and low art.”
Kumagai also displays in galleries in SoHo, Chelsea, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Arturs Virtmanis’s exhibit is part of “The Superfly Effect.”
“I was trying to play around with the ability of the human mind to humanize everything we see,” said Virtmanis. “It’s an attempt to create something out of nothing. I’m taking these dots and making faces.”
Virtmanis has exhibited at P.S. 122 and Exit Art in Manhattan.
Shandor Hassan’s “Found in Jersey City” is comprised of photographs from his long term project, “The Manhattan Project.”
“It comes in part from years of living in Jersey City and the Metropolitan area,” said Hassan. “It’s about witnessing the intensity of development and changing how spaces transform. In many ways, Manhattan represents the center of the American experience.”
The grid can be assembled in many ways because each photo goes with the others, but some go together better than others.
Hassan has had work exhibited at the OK Harris gallery.

Luis Gispert’s photo is part of “The Superfly Effect.”
“It’s whatever everyone thinks of when they see it,” said Gispert.
Gispert’s photos, film and sculpture has been on display at the Whitney and Guggenheim in New York, and the Hood in Dartmouth.