Mason Gross School of the Arts presents an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and video by more than a dozen 2010 MFA graduates. The show, called Off the Map, is part of the yearly Rutgers In New York series.

The Complex, a massive drawing by Brian Campbell, is a representation of a utopia, but utopia as a place devoid of people. In this fantastical image, we see imaginative structures set in a landscape of water and mountains. Campbell’s work also references cinematic representations of architecture in such films as Metropolis and Logan’s Run.

Lety Luevanos’ paintings, along with an installation—here all the hair she has cut within the last year, encased in individual jars—serve as altars to honor the lives of Latinas murdered near Mexican border towns.

Viktor Witkowski’s oil painting Khost District, Afghanistan depicts the site of a terrorist attack.

“While landscape’s historical role has been to delineate sites of the imaginary and the ideal, I also understand it as a ground for terror,” Witkoski says. “I seek to confront viewers with a semi-romantic landscape that bares minimal traces of past events. Visible consequences of war such as violence, loss, defeat and death are absent from my work. Instead of picturing war, I question its representation.”

Participating Rutgers In New York artists are: Allan Arp; Misti Asberry; Jessica Bottalico; Brian Bulfer; Brian Scott Campbell; Paul DeMuro; Colin Edgington; Dale Klein; Marketa Klicova; Avi LaZare; Leticia Luevanos; Matthew Marchand; Matt Posey; Andy Webber; Viktor Witkowski, and Melissa Zimberg.