The Garage was an exhibition space in Jersey City directed by Margaret Murphy from 2005 - 2010. The Garage presented exhibitions twice a year in the street level garage space and in other venues such as NJCU Art Galleries, Flushing Town Hall in Queens, and the Visual Art Center of NJ. Exhibitions at The Garage have been reviewed and mentioned in ArtInfo.com, The New York Times, The Star Ledger, Art F City, The Jersey Journal and others.



Consumer Reports
2003
James A. Brown, Matt Chansky, Elise Engler, Margaret Murphy
Girl Talk
2005
Inaugural Exhibition at The Garage. February 2005. Reviewed in the New York Times Art and Leasure, March 6, 2005.
Artists: Bethany Bristow, Dahlia Elsayed, Diana Jensen, Lynn Mullins, Margaret Murphy.
New York Times, Metropolitan Section, March 2005
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
2005
Artists: Ellen Harvey, Katsuhiro Saiki, Rae Staseson, Nancy Goldberg, Ju-Yeon Kim, karina Aguilera Skivirsky
April is the Cruelest Month
2007
Group show in The Garage. April, 2007.
Artists: Anne Beck, Jason Burch, Winifred McNeill, Roberta Melzl, Heidi Pollard
Keeping it Real
2007
Group show at The Garage, October 2007
Artists: Tiffany Calvert, Johnny Detiger, Megan Maloy, Yukiko Nakashima, William Ortega
TXT MSG
2008
Artists: John Boone, Evonne Davis, Peter Duffin, Sam Larson, Brendan Carroll
Knot Constructs
2007
Solo show at The Garage of Michelle Vitale Loughlin.
Park Place
2008
artificial grass, plastic, wood on garage door.
Solo show by Lisa Dahl. Installation on the garage doors. Sept. - Oct. 2008.
Homegirls
2006
Artists: Amy Chan, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Lisa dahl, Nancy Friedemann, Susan Hamburger, Estella Lackey, Nina Levy, Christina Mancuso, Margaret Murphy, Stephanie Nagorka, Judith Page, Charlotte Schulz, Jenne Willis

Curated by Margaret Murphy for NJCU
Oasis
2007
Oasis at Flushing Town Hall, Queens. Curated by Margaret Murphy.
Artists: Nancy Blum, Jon Rappleye, Raymond Saa, Portia Munson.
Material Girls, Visual Art Center of NJ Curated by Margaret Murphy
J. Carpenter, Stephanie Nagorka, Heejung Kim, Jamie M. Lee, Gae Savannah, Auguste Rhonda Tymeson





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