Art Exhibition Features Commentary on Capitalism
PARAMUS, N.J. – “A Cautionary Tale for Billionaires: Paintings by Jeramy Turner,” an exhibition featuring large-scale works depicting excesses of capitalism, will open on Thursday, January 23 at 6 p.m. in Gallery Bergen, the Bergen Community College art exhibition space located at the institution’s main campus (400 Paramus Road, Paramus).
Turner’s art often depicts the vulnerability of bankers, financiers and symbols of unchecked capitalism while using endangered species to symbolize resistance. Gallery Director Timothy Blunk said Turner’s paintings of bloated anonymous figures with features distorted by greed recall the work of Colombian artist Fernando Botero.
“Her surrealist canvases portray the contradiction between their financial and political power and their very real earth-bound, short-lived fragility,” he said.
The exhibition will remain on view through Friday, April 4. For Gallery Bergen hours, visit gallery.bergen.edu. For more information, email tblunk@bergen.edu.
Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 13,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.
Photo caption: Bird's Eye View, 2021, oil on canvas.
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