ARTSPACE
ArtSpace is the official community space of Monmouth Arts. ArtSpace offers accessible, affordable, high-quality, engaging programming, exhibits, workshops, and networking opportunities to the Monmouth County community. It is located at 99 Monmouth Street in Red Bank (next to the Count Basie Center Administrative Offices). Gallery visiting hours are Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm; also available by appointment. For more information, please contact Connie Isbell, Membership and Community Engagement Director, at connie@monmoutharts.org. ArtSpace is free and open to the public.
CURRENT EXHIBIT
SHIFTING SPACES
In Shifting Spaces, mixed media and collage becomes a medium for examining the fluidity of gender, identity, and domesticity. Louise Millmann and Karen Propp invite the viewer to question the structures that define womanhood—examining the roles that are imposed upon women and the material goods that sustain them. Through playful and often ironic imagery, the show disrupts traditional notions of what it means to be a woman today.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Louise Millmann
After 34 years teaching Photography and AP 2-D Design in New York, Louise Millmann is now based full-time at the Jersey Shore, eager to establish herself in the local art community. Her self-portrait collages have been exhibited alongside Joseph Cornell’s box collages in NYC and her feminist collages are part of a global art project entitled “A BOOK ABOUT DEATH”. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of MOMA, Queens Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Louise’s artistic journey has also included a long creative partnership with collage artist Robert Warner, with whom she shared a close connection to the artist Ray Johnson. Louise’s early mail art correspondence is part of the Ray Johnson archive, which now has a permanent home at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Karen Propp
Karen creates collage and assemblage from vintage and found objects—materials rescued from friends, attics, and thrift stores. Her work playfully and subversively explores the absurdity of domestic roles, gender dynamics, and the tensions between cultural expectations and personal identity, reimagining discarded images and objects with new, often ironic meaning. Guided by the joy of discovery, Karen embraces imperfection and allows her materials to shape each piece, finding inspiration in the interplay between what’s said and what’s left unsaid. She sees herself as both steward and reinventor, and is passionate about sharing the accessible, experimental spirit of collage—inviting others to experience its unique power to reflect and reshape the world around us.
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