Some artwork is created on canvas or sculpted from clay.
It is actually a small rectangular building whose walls and contents tell the stories of African Americans living in America's South. The exhibition by acclaimed New York artist Whitfield Lovell is on view through April 9. On the inside walls of the small house, Lovell's realistic drawings depict individuals who might have lived there, performing the everyday acts of life, such as a couple holding hands, or an elderly woman sitting on a bench, dressed as they would have a couple of generations ago. Throughout the house old furniture, clothes and household objects add to the feeling of being part of a tableau. Rutgers-Newark can be reached by New Jersey Transit buses and trains, the PATH train and Amtrak from New York City, and by Newark City Subway.