Image Credit: Tamara Fleming, Consumed: Throwaway Life, 2025, digital photo H 30” x W 40”, Courtesy of the artist.
About
Each iteration in the Invisible City (Newark) series is based on a set of 25,000 excavated artifacts from a downtown city block, interpreted though the lens of an invited curator. This exhibition is a collaboration between the Paul Robeson Galleries and Rutgers Business School.
Curated by Professor Kevin Lyons, from The Rutgers Center for Local Supply Chain Resiliency, this exhibition explores ideas about trash within the context of supply chain management and visions of the future. Lyons has a research focus on circular supply chains. This model for resources and consumption is grounded in an intention to keep products, materials, and resources in use for as long as possible. Traditionally, a linear supply chain would end once the product was consumed, and the trash was discarded. Whereas a circular supply chain products are not discarded, but can be recovered, reused, repaired, refurbished or recycled, all with the intention of minimizing waste.
Artists
- Seiya Abe-Bell
- Esther Baker
- Travis Childers
- Lorraine Cruz
- Tamara Fleming
- Jennifer Formica
- Carmella Gullo
- Martín Hanley
- Kevin Lyons
- Jeanette May
- Matthias Merkel Hess
- Liz Miller
- Anne Percoco
- Cynthia Reynolds
- Kelly Vetter
This exhibition is kindly curated and supported by Professor Kevin Lyons, The Rutgers Center for Local Supply Chain Resiliency, part of the Rutgers Business School.
The Paul Robeson Galleries’ are supported, in part, by a grant from the City of Newark (Creative Catalyst Fund), and by private donations. We are also supported by Express Newark, Robeson Campus Center, and the Cultural Programming Committee, Rutgers University-Newark.
