Campus Center Art Gallery 2009-2010
Exhibitions in the art gallery are rounded out with talks by the artists. Artist talks provide context—accessibility—for all. Direct contact with the artist is a powerful experience—the very “aliveness” of the arts. It is the perfect way to understand what motivates their creative expression.
Located in the Hammond Campus Center above the Main Lounge.
Gallery Hours:
Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, Noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Noon to 11 p.m.
On a three-day weekend the gallery is closed on Saturday and Sunday, and open noon to 11 p.m. on Monday. The gallery is closed during all other holidays.
Contact: Mary Chapin Durling, Chair
978.665.3177 or 978.665.3709
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Exhibit |
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Sept. 15 - Oct. 20 |
Gallery Exhibition: Fiber Art
What to Wear in the Naked City
Campus Center Art Gallery (Hammond Campus Center)
Gallery talk with fiber artist Jana Morgan
Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 PM
Opening Reception at 7 PM
ASL interpreters will be provided.
Admission: free |
The French theorist Guy Debord coined the term psychogeography as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."
Jana Morgan is a fiber artist whose work is a feminist response to the psychogeographic writings and maps of Debord. Her work synthesizes personal narrative, memory and interactions with place. Morgan received her MFA in studio art from CalArts and has been shown on the west coast and in the southeast. This will be her first solo exhibit in New England.
Regarding the exhibition, she writes: “This work is a psychogeographic exploration of three cities where I’ve recently lived: Los Angeles, CA; Knoxville, TN and Fitchburg, MA.
These pieces include clothing built of found objects from each location, reconstructed maps tracing my footprint /tireprint through the cities and stitched aerials baring the emotional content of my experiences with each region.”
photos from the opening:
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Oct. 27 – Dec. 1 |
Gallery Exhibition: Sculptures Inside Outside
Campus Center Art Gallery (Hammond Campus Center)
Gallery Talk with sculptor Gillian Christy
Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 6:30 PM
Meet with exhibiting artist Gillian Christy as she discusses her work, influences and inspiration behind her works.
ASL interpreters will be provided
Opening Reception at 7 PM
Admission: free |
Inside Outside is an exhibition of Gillian Christy’s newest work consisting of sculptural wall pieces inside the Campus Center Art Gallery as well as outside--across the campus. This body of artworks is based on the familiar objects that one may view on a daily basis in existing architecture or industry. Christy states, “These objects’ shapes intrigue me enough to recreate them, skewing their perceived form, function and size. It also strikes me as humorous that these objects could potentially retain personality traits! Clearly, I create an imaginative world but often the underlying themes illustrated within the piece are serious in content.”
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| Dec. 8 – Jan. 26 |
Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Show
What‘s New?
Campus Center Art Gallery (Hammond Campus Center)
Gallery talk with artists
Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 6:30 PM
ASL interpreters will be provided
Opening Reception at 7 PM
Gallery talk with artists
Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 6:30 PM
ASL interpreters will be provided
Film and Video presentations
Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 7 PM
Ellis White Lecture Hall (Hammond Campus Center)
Admission: free |
Art and Communications Media faculty have been creating new works in photography, sculpture, design, painting, drawing, film, video, and mixed media. This exhibition highlights some of their best works completed since the last faculty show in 2006. Participating faculty will speak at either the opening or the closing gallery talks. Video work will be screened on the evening of January 26.
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| Feb. 2 – March 9 |
Gallery Exhibition: The La Defense Photographs
Campus Center Art Gallery (Hammond Campus Center)
Gallery talk with photographer Robert Alter
Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 6:30 PM
Opening Reception at 7 PM
ASL interpreters provided.
Admission: free |
Photographer Robert Alter’s MIT degree is in the photography of architecture. His art disregards both the rules of photography and, explicitly, architectural photography. The large-scale ink jet prints—printed on cotton rag paper or canvas—create a purposeful contradiction of surface and feeling.
Of this work Alter writes: “The La Defense Portfolios are for me a way to observe and try to understand the corporate and commercial world that we are building for ourselves and that we must inhabit. The photographs have been taken over the past six years and are my exploration into this somewhat confusing and intimidating oversized world.
My photographs are not condemnations or political statements. They are visual interpretations of the awe and diminution that we humans feel in the presence of these giants.” www.alterarts.blogspot.com
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| March 23 - April 20 |
Gallery Exhibition: Quoted Paintings
Ten Years and Counting: My Love Affair with Vermeer
Campus Center Art Gallery (Hammond Campus Center)
Gallery talk with painter Terri Priest
Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 PM
ASL interpreters will be provided
Opening Reception at 7 PM
Admission: free
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Terri Priest, known as an abstract painter for decades, began “appropriating” Vermeer images since 1998. In her Vermeer Women series, she combines Vermeer's women with quoted images from recognized paintings of such 20th-century artists as Georgia O'Keefe and Roy Lichtenstein. Regarding this series, Priest says:
“Art History has always provided the impetus for my work. As an 18-year-old art student, I fell in love with the works of the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionist painters, but when I saw Vermeer's “Lady with a Maidservant” at the Frick Museum in New York; I realized how much I had yet to learn. Vermeer's responses to natural light, his unerring eye in the design and execution of the painting had much to teach me. Much later, and many more visits to the Frick Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, set the course. It was the isolation and anonymity of Vermeer's characters that encouraged me to create my own narratives.”
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| April 28 – June 30 |
VISIONS ‘10
Opening Events: Wednesday, April 28
4:30 PM Forum, Ellis White Lecture Hall
5:30 PM Reception, Hammond Lounge
5:30 PM Gallery Opening, Campus Center Gallery
7 PM Film and Video Screening, Weston Auditorium
Admission: free |
VISIONS is the juried honors showcase of the year's best original student work in the Communications Media department. The entire campus and local community look forward to this annual event, which consists of a gallery art exhibition, a film/video screening, and a presentation forum.
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