Hair Tactics is an exhibition guest curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. Jersey City Museum is currently presenting this unique hair exhibition which will be on view through August 22, 2010. The opening reception for Hair Tactics will take place tomorrow, i.e. on Friday, March 5, 2010.

Hair Tactics explores hair as subject matter and medium. Increasingly, artists have begun to use both real and synthetic human hair to create works of art. Some use synthetic hair because it is widely and inexpensively available in urban neighborhoods, others because it is laden with social and political meaning, and still others because they are exploring the human obsession with hair.

Texts written in hair, fancy hair motifs used to decorate a love letter, extravagant and multi-colored wigs, drawings featuring hair-covered bodies, and ladies with elaborate up-dos are all featured in Hair Tactics. The exhibition includes works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, video, and installation.

Hair Tactics features over 30 visual artists who would be displaying their artworks. Some of the featured artists in the exhibition include Manuel Acevedo, Amina Ahmed, Elia Alba, Asha Ganpat, Melissa Calderón, Ursula Endlicher, Chitra Ganesh, Zachary Fabri, Carson Fox, Melody Boone, Irvin Morazán, Sa’dia Rehman, Roger Tucker III, Quintín Rivera-Toro, Jayoung Yoon, and more.

The opening reception for Hair Tactics as well as Jersey City Museum’s complete line-up of new Spring 2010 exhibitions will take place on Friday, March 5, 2010, 5-8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Hair Tactics is highly inspiring and a must see exhibition for everyone associated with the hair industry. For more information, visit www.jerseycitymuseum.org