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TEXT-FOR-POEM Closing Reception and Reading // 6:00pm-9:00pm

Friday, September 13, 6:00pm-9:00pm

SMUSH Gallery

340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306


A purple and white sign in the style of No Parking signs with the phone number and key words for accessing the TEXT FOR POEM project.
TEXT-FOR-POEM Project

SMUSH Gallery presents the TEXT-FOR-POEM Closing Reception and Reading for September’s JC Fridays! Celebrate the closing of this city-wide poetry project, hear readings from participating poets, and meet other poetry lovers. Doors at 6pm, Reading begins promptly at 6:30pm. Learn more about the project and see work from participating poets on IG @textforpoem


On View at SMUSH – Buttered Roll’s new solo show, “Bolivareando: Similar, Not the Same”

September 6 - October 13


About: “Bolivareando: Similar, Not the Same” is the latest major body of work by Colombian-born painter and poet Buttered Roll. Countless iterations of a character that resembles Simón Bolívar, el Libertador, populate the exhibition. He is rendered in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pen and ink — or maybe it is merely his likeness. He imitates a house plant, puts up drywall, stands on his own tongue, and considers an enlarged foot in a cavernous night while doing his best impersonation of Oedipus. As the artist writes, “Historical Bolivar (HB) and the Bolivar of Bolivareando (BB) are almost two entirely distinct entities… BB as a character, is derived from the historical figure of Bolivar, but BB is almost entirely alienated from history and from his original context. The Bolivar of Bolivareando, following this alienation, has been repurposed and recontextualized. Although he is still recognizable to some as the historical Bolivar, the Bolivar of Bolivareando is almost an entirely different being.”


SMUSH Gallery is located at 340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ.

Info at smushgallery.com | IG @smushgallery

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Supported by public funds from the Jersey City Arts and Culture Trust Fund.

SMUSH Gallery is wheelchair accessible! Please email hello@smushgallery.com with additional accessibility requests three weeks prior to events. Our small team thanks you!


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  • Please email hello@smushgallery.com with additional accessibility requests three weeks prior to events. Our small team thanks you!


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