Karen Bright—Throughline Work on Paper (Special Preview)

The expansive lobby of the Jersey Shore Arts Center is currently home to a year-long retrospective of work by Monmouth University professor and visual artist Karen Bright.

This retrospective, highlighting 42 years of the artist’s work, will officially open on Friday, October 23rd and initially present Bright’s work on paper. In March of 2021, the exhibition will change over to Bright’s more recent work in painting and sculpture, on view through September 4th of 2021.

We are thrilled to have Karen Bright exhibit at the JSAC. Karen infuses the raw power of nature into her art, and the results are always surprising and spectacular.

—Nichole Nappi, Executive Director, Jersey Shore Arts Center

Also on display at this exhibit will be The Transformer and The Climate Shelter, two key components of Just Beachy/After Sandy, an installation on climate change that intertwines elements of found nature, geodesic design, and digital media which…