On Display: November 14, 2025 – January 10, 2026
Gallery Hours: Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm
Jersey Poets presents a group exhibition of photographs celebrating Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, two visionary artists who emerged from New Jersey to redefine the relationship between music, language, and image. Through portraits and performance photographs by nine acclaimed photographers, the exhibition explores how both artists transformed rock and roll into a form of storytelling, spiritual reflection, and personal expression.
While Springsteen and Smith share geographic and generational roots, their creative trajectories reveal distinct approaches to truth and transcendence. Springsteen’s narratives of working-class perseverance echo the rhythms of small-town America, while Smith’s poetic and avant-garde sensibility gave voice to the intellectual and emotional edges of punk. On view will be photographs that trace their parallel journeys, capturing moments of performance, collaboration, and persona that illuminate the dynamic balance between realism and symbolism, individuality and community, sound and vision.
The exhibition coincides with the release of Bruce Springsteen’s biopic Deliver Us From Nowhere, the publication of Patti Smith’s new memoir Bread of Angels, and her performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Both artists also mark the 50th anniversaries of their debut albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and Horses. Through these photographs, Jersey Poets invites viewers to reflect on how two singular voices continue to influence the cultural and visual language of modern music.
Featuring work by:
Adrian Boot
Allan Tannenbaum
Bob Gruen
Danny Clinch
David Rose
David Gahr
Frank Stefanko
Lynn Goldsmith
Neil Zlozower
This event is free to attend, however, reservations are kindly requested.
