About Aferro
Gallery Aferro can be visited at:
73 Market Street
Newark, NJ 07102
USA
and for mailing:
Evonne M. Davis
Emma Wilcox
Gallery Aferro
Ironbound Station
PO Box 5668
Newark, NJ 07105
USA
The mission of Gallery Aferro is to bring cultural education and esthetic engagement with contemporary issues to all people equally, and to create an environment where emerging artists can gather and share physical and intellectual resources.
We are working towards an arts community that is available to everyone, without sacrificing standards or quality of experience.
We offer 12 exhibitions a year, featuring local, national and international emerging artists, a wide variety of educational cultural events such as interactive public art projects, performances, talks, on and off-site film screenings, portfolio reviews and public usage based on the stated needs of the community. A primary emphasis is put on exhibiting and supporting the work of emerging artists, their projects that could not be otherwise realized or exhibited. We encourage first-time attempts: in professional exhibition, project realization, or curation. Exhibition programming has been formalized into four spaces: Main Gallery, Project Room, Liminal Space and New Media Room. The Project Room, Liminal Space and the New Media Room are reserved primarily for solo shows.
Gallery Aferro’s year-round residency program serves emerging artists by offering studios to continue or create ambitious work. Selection is based on status as an emerging artist, a demonstrated commitment to chosen field, especially in the face of financial or other personal disadvantage, excellence of artwork, an interest in engaging with the public via one’s art-making process, and by the probable effect of the program as allowing art-making that otherwise would not have been possible to occur.
Our publishing line is now on Publication No. 14, and consists of exhibition catalogs, original essays, and artist books.
On site at the gallery we maintain a free book room. All are welcome to take or leave books.
New for 2010: Art Shop, on the ground floor, offers a curated selection of small art by emerging artists.
Gallery Aferro is open Thursday - Saturday from 12-6 and by appointment.
Please contact us if you are interested in having a tour, lecture or demonstration arranged for your group. All ages are welcome. Gallery directors Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox will share a presentation with your group, demonstrate interactive pieces, and make themselves, the artists and art professionals available to answer questions and discuss the exhibition and contemporary art in general.
