Guttenberg Arts hosts a wide range of exhibitions throughout the year which provides STAR artists and community members an outlet to showcase their work and garner exposure. In return we provide the public with a venue which offers unique presentations in an unexpected place... around the corner from their home.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Guttenberg Arts is proud to present Things I Remember, a solo exhibition by Leandro Comrie. The exhibition will be on view from May 23rd through June 20th 2026. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday May 23rd from 7pm to 9pm. RSVP at guttenbergarts.org/exhibitions.
In Things I Remember, Leandro Comrie explores his relationship with materials, memory, and meaning through a process he describes as “personal archaeology.” Integrating discarded and inherited items, keepsakes, old letters, and fragments of earlier works, Comrie constructs layered compositions that function as both material and emotional documents. These works map memory as a dynamic landscape that exists simultaneously in physical and psychological space.
While rooted in the artist’s own history, the work extends beyond autobiography into a broader inquiry into how memory fragments, persists, and carries weight in the human experience. Comrie transforms personal artifacts into shared visual language, inviting viewers to locate their own narratives of identity and resilience within the work. Each surface becomes a site of negotiation between absence and presence, loss and recovery.
Central to Comrie’s practice is a methodology of reuse. By reactivating materials once considered unfinished or discarded, he approaches memory not as a fixed archive, but as an evolving and generative force. This approach intersects with contemporary ideas of sustainability and material ethics, though it is grounded in a psychological framework. For Comrie, reuse becomes an existential act that allows for the continuous circulation of meaning across time, bridging past and present.
The exhibition is designed to unfold across multiple levels of engagement. At first glance, viewers are drawn to the richness of materials and visual complexity; upon closer inspection, a deeper conceptual structure emerges. Things I Remember ultimately presents a narrative of resilience, where fragments of the past are reassembled into cohesive, forward-looking works. Through this process, Comrie emphasizes memory as a vital force that shapes how we carry, transform, and reconcile experiences of joy, trauma, loss, and love.
Leandro Comrie is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Jersey City, NJ, whose work explores the human condition through memory, myth, and lived experience. His work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions such as A Quiet Odyssey at IMUR Gallery and Moonlit Echoes: Tracing Home in Diaspora at the Spring Break Art Show in New York.
For additional information or to schedule an appointment, please visit guttenbergarts.org or call (201) 868-8585. Guttenberg Arts programming is made possible in part by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners. Guttenberg Arts programming is also generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
