The Rowan University Art Gallery and Museum in South Jersey will soon open an exhibit of hundreds of small paintings depicting nostalgic places that no longer exist.
Artist Ellen Harvey began her Disappointed Tourist project 5 years ago.
Mary Salvante, the curator and director of the Rowan University Art Gallery and Museum, said paintings of nine now non-existent New Jersey locations have been added to the show.
“We hope the visitor might consider these concepts being put forward in unexpected ways, but also perhaps to see themselves in those narratives,” she said. “We are a contemporary art gallery so we are always looking at contemporary artists from the lens of social issues really.”