2023 Art Faculty Exhibit

September 5-29

Gallery talk Wednesday September 20, 12pm

The Art Department presents works by art faculty Chenda Cope, Nick Meyer, Noah Paessel, Kelly Popoff, Joan O'Beirne and Jen Simms.

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Gallery Hours
M-Th, 7am-9pm
F, 7am-5pm
Sat, 8am-6pm
The South Gallery is fully accessible

For more information

Jen Simms, simmsj@gcc.mass.edu

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Aspen using a 35mm point and shoot! Congrats to Intermediate II on their beautiful photo books – and here we are on film selfies: Aspen, Rachel, Mackenzie, and Joan. Bravo!

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Aspen using a 35mm point and shoot! Congrats to Intermediate II on their beautiful photo books – and here we are on film selfies: Aspen, Rachel, Mackenzie, and Joan. Bravo!

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The Cesar Melgar exhibit is being held over for a few more days! Come visit the south gallery soon before we deinstall on Monday 12/15. His photographs are a sweet/sad poem about the Ironbound section of Newark NJ as it crumbles – hurtling toward gentrification.

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Some details from the Drawing II students! Observational still-lives while exploring color, mark-making and composition, pastel on paper

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Some details from the Drawing II students! Observational still-lives while exploring color, mark-making and composition, pastel on paper

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ART161 Computer Arts Foundation students have recently been experimenting with stop motion animation! Here’s a reel highlighting the results 🌀

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ART161 Computer Arts Foundation students have recently been experimenting with stop motion animation! Here’s a reel highlighting the results 🌀

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A few details from ART240 Figure Drawing… @gccgreenfield

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A few details from ART240 Figure Drawing… @gccgreenfield

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Visit the South Gallery for our latest exhibit As it all Crumbles by photographer Cesar Melgar. This beautiful series of black and white photographs document the ongoing gentrification of his neighborhood in the Ironbound section of Newark NJ @supapoupon @gccgreenfield

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A few examples of recent, observational drawings made in the Drawing Foundation classes with Johanna and Jen. Charcoal on paper, 22 x 30 inch. #gccartdepartment @gccgreenfield

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A few examples of recent, observational drawings made in the Drawing Foundation classes with Johanna and Jen. Charcoal on paper, 22 x 30 inch. #gccartdepartment @gccgreenfield

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Thank you to Jonathan Ryan Storm for a great gallery talk on Tuesday!

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Thank you to Jonathan Ryan Storm for a great gallery talk on Tuesday!

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Some recent happenings in the painting studios at GCC! Spring registration begins tomorrow BTW.

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Some recent happenings in the painting studios at GCC! Spring registration begins tomorrow BTW.

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A few scenes from the Art Department’s annual Portfolio Day. Among the many Art students attending are Aspen Willard, Haley Bastarache, Rachel Racco, and Bridget Mahoney. Bravo to everyone ❣️

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A few scenes from the Art Department’s annual Portfolio Day. Among the many Art students attending are Aspen Willard, Haley Bastarache, Rachel Racco, and Bridget Mahoney. Bravo to everyone ❣️

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Please join us for Portfolio Day on Thursday, October 23rd, 9am -1pm. Representatives from art schools will be providing information about their programs and reviewing portfolios. All are welcome to attend. This will be held in the Core Lobby (outside of the cafeteria). Participating schools: UMass, Amherst, UMass, Lowell, Westfield State, Hartford Art School, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Monserrat College of Art, Maine College of Art and Pratt.

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Save the date for an upcoming artist talk with Jonathan Ryan Storm, Tuesday, November 4th at noon! This exhibit is up through November 6. Please come visit anytime during open GCC hours. @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment #southgallery

Jonathan Ryan Storm reimagines the rug as more than an object—it becomes a sensory experience: tactile, optical and spatial. His tufted works are not mere surfaces but immersive environments pulsing with rhythm and vibration that invite participation.

Guided by intuition, Storm embraces rhythm and repetition through the meditative act of tufting, creating compositions that feel unearthed rather than constructed. Though colorblind, he works with a striking sensitivity to hue and contrast, privileging bodily perception over intellectual design.

On the autism spectrum, Storm channels his deep connection to rhythm, repetition and automatic movement as a source of generative power. What soothes and compels him in the making becomes transmittable—offered to viewers through optical rhythm, tactile texture and a vibrating sense of presence. Primateria emerges not as an exhibition of static works but as a living environment, an invitation to feel, follow and lose oneself in the oscillating flow.

Jonathan Ryan Storm (b. 1980, Arizona) lives in Western Massachusetts and works in Southern Vermont.

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Jonathan Ryan Storm (b. 1980, Arizona) lives in Western Massachusetts and works in Southern Vermont.

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