May 13 - July 22
Opening Reception - Wednesday, May 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m., CM200
The talents of 27 Mercer County artists will be on display May 13 through July 22, 2024 at The Gallery at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) in “Mercer County Artists Exhibition 2024,” a juried exhibition open to visual artists who live, work, or attend school in Mercer County. The MCCC Gallery is located on the second floor of the Communications Building on Mercer’s West Windsor Campus at 1200 Old Trenton Road.
April 8 - May 6
The gallery is proud to exhibit the 2024 Spring Student Show open from April 8 - May 6. Seventy-three works by forty-six students have been submitted this year from Mercer's very own visual arts program including fine art, advertising design, game design, print making, photography, ceramics and sculpture. This show is a notable display of the hard work and talent of our Mercer students, many of which are exhibiting for the first time. For many this show is an essential step in their journey as professional artists and helps promote confidence in exhibiting their art publicly.
An Opening Reception will be held on Wednesday April 10th from 5:30-7:30pm.
January 22 - March 29
Douglas Witmer is an American artist based in Philadelphia. He is internationally known within the field of reductive geometric abstraction.
Witmer’s work manifests decades of inquiry into the materiality of the painted object through refined processes within the framework of reductive abstract painting. His elemental compositional structures are activated by sensuous color and various improvised gestural and incidental actions.
The subject is presence--establishing a visual place that offers someone an open invitation for a personal experience of seeing and feeling.
"Throughout my career I have consistently explored how to create experiential context that can highlight contemporary reductive abstraction as a direct response to the conditions of our world"
October 9 - December 12
Brutality, survival, and hope in the daring art by a Holocaust survivor artist
Curated by Yevgeniy Fiks, Professor of Visual Arts, MCCC
Yonia Fain: Refugee Modernism is a solo exhibition of the 20th -century modernist painter and Yiddish poet Yonia Fain (1913-2013).
This exhibit is made possible, in part by the Mercer County Culture and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the NJ State Council of the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts.
Mercer County Culture and Heritage Foundation, Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center @ MCCC, The James Gallery @ CUNY Graduate Center, Congress for Jewish Culture, League for Yiddish
Opening Reception Wed., September 13, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
According to MCCC’s gallery director, Lucas Kelly, the faculty show is an opportunity for community members and students to view the work that MCCC professors accomplish when they aren’t working with students.
“There is a distinction between the work we do in the classroom and the work we do out of the classroom,” said Kelly. “This exhibition allows students, colleagues and community members the opportunity to see the range of content that MCCC faculty are currently investigating in their professional practice.”
Opening Reception Wed., June 14, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Gallery at Mercer County Community College is proud to display "Mercer County Artists Exhibition 2023," a juried exhibition open to visual artists who live, work or attend school in Mercer County from June 12th to August 2nd. An Opening Reception will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14. Awards will be presented at the Opening Reception with representatives from the college and the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission on hand to make presentations of merit prizes, purchase awards and a membership award.
The exhibition features 34 works by 30 artists in a variety of media selected from 160 pieces.
The juror for the show is artist and educator Wes Sherman. Wes has been painting since 1992, in that time he has had over 40 solo exhibitions and included in numerous group shows across the county. He received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2003. Sherman has been a visiting artist at many universities among them Temple, Rutgers, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011, he also received a fellowship for painting from New Jersey Council of the Arts. Sherman is represented by local gallery J Cacciola Gallery W in Bernardsville, NJ.
Gallery hours for this show are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 9:30-4:30 and Wednesday 12-7.
The exhibition is co-sponsored by and supported through a grant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
May 8th - June 2nd
The work for this show represents students from many different majors across the college who took photo classes this semester in both 100 and 200 level courses. The general theme was “What is Home” which is an assignment given in the 100 level classes and then frequently revisited as a project in the 200 level classes.
40 works from the college’s visual and graphic arts programs including fine arts, advertising and graphic design, digital arts, photography, and sculpture will be displayed at the gallery from April 3 to May 3. This exhibition allows students to showcase their work and gain experience in the gallery world, aiming to provide MCCC students with an opportunity to build a portfolio while providing diverse artwork to the community.
“From an academic point of view, [it's] the most noteworthy show of the season,” said MCCC Gallery Director Lucas Kelly. “It provides an opportunity for students to showcase their work – many for the first time – and to document their creativity and initiatives outside the safety of the classroom. To celebrate this moment with our students is an honor.”
The gallery will be holding an opening reception for the artists and public on Wednesday April 5th from 5:30-7:30 pm.
Gallery hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-4:30 and Wednesday 12-7. For more information, feel free to email us at gallery@mccc.edu.
“The unbeautiful can be as powerful/attractive as the ‘professed’ beautiful” –Johnson
Johnson, who passed away in 2022, was born in 1937 in the Eastwick community of Southwest Philadelphia. He was a self proclaimed “urban expressionist” whose work was shaped by African American history and life in the inner city. Largely self taught, Johnson sought to create mixed media through painting, collage, and assemblage sculpture within the “Arte Povera” movement — an Italian art movement from the late 1960s to 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconventional processes and non-traditional 'everyday' materials
an evening of jazz inspired by the life and work of Leroy Johnson
Gallery hours are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Wednesdays from noon till 7 p.m..
Since its earliest beginnings in 1890 as Trenton's Evening Drawing School, Mercer County Community College has been directly connected with the artists in New Jersey's capital city. A key to the city's growth as a producer of art and artisans is a productive and meaningful relationship between the citizens of Trenton and MCCC's urban and suburban campuses. Capital Connection showcases the work of artists living and working in Trenton today, many with a direct connection to the college, and seeks to inspire current Mercer students to pursue a life creating art in and around the capital city.
a juried exhibition open to visual artists ages 18 or older who live, work, or attend school in Mercer County, NJ
40 works by 23 student artists from all of the college’s visual and graphic arts programs including fine arts, advertising and graphic design, digital arts, photography, and sculpture.
“From an academic point of view, [it's] the most noteworthy show of the season,” said MCCC Gallery Director Lucas Kelly. “It provides an opportunity for students to showcase their work – many for the first time – and to document their creativity and initiatives outside the safety of the classroom. To celebrate this moment with our students is an honor.”
Double Vision presents collaborative project between artists, Jamie Greenfield and Madelaine Shellaby. It reflects, and is determined by, existing similarities of intention and a progression of possibilities that stem from dialogue and critique going forward in their respective bodies of work. Recently, they discovered they had both been working in a stream of consciousness way: looking inward to memory, and outward to the immediate environment for subject matter. The resulting drawings and digital montages reflect a common vision of fields of energy and awareness: what may be seen, felt, and known.
The Mercer County Artist Exhibition is available for viewing on:
Tuesdays, from 10AM - 2PM
AND
Thursdays, from 3PM - 7PM by appointment only
Masks are required and a Symptom Tracker Form is still required to be filled out 24 hours prior to arriving. The link for the Symptom Tracker is on the Gallery Website. Enter through the Student Welcome Center, check in with Security, and proceed to the Gallery.
Request a date and time and wait for a confirmation email.
Despite the global impact of COVID-19 and the resulting challenges, especially relating to the arts, MCCC students have persevered, continuing to produce and show art. The Student Exhibition celebrates the resiliency and creative spirit of the 2021 as well as 2020 Fine Arts students. We welcome you to our show.
DATES & TIMES
February 1, 2021 - “Puddle Architecture” exhibition opens
Viewing by appointment only – Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
February 10, 2021 - Virtual Artist Talk from MCCC Gallery (Time 7 p.m.)
March 11, 2021 - “Puddle Architecture” exhibition ends
Léni Paquet-Morante was born in Canada and raised in Maryland. She lives in Hamilton, New Jersey with a studio on the nearby Grounds for Sculpture complex. She studied at Palomar College and The Johnson Atelier, and has a BFA in Painting from Mason Gross School of Art.
Exhibitions for 2021 include solo shows at Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ and Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal, NJ, and a dual show at the Arts Council of Princeton, NJ. She is listed in the Women Artists of America National Directory and is registered with the Canada Arts Council. Her work is included in private and public collections internationally.
In-person viewing of the current exhibit is suspended at this time.
Colleen McCubbin Stepanic
Colleen McCubbin Stepanic is an artist who creates physical forms from
painted canvas. She was born in Newport News, Virginia and grew up
in the suburbs of Chicago, Cleveland and Washington DC. Her transient
childhood instilled a lifelong love of travel and exploration which heavily
influences her artistic practice. She earned a BFA from the University of
Dayton and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art. McCubbin Stepanic
has been the recipient of many grants and awards and has successfully
completed numerous artist residencies including the Joan Mitchell Center, the Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center all of which were
completed in 2016. She was also a Ballinglen Fellowship Artist in 2017.
McCubbin Stepanic’s work has been featured in exhibitions in New York
City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Buffalo. She has had 13 solo exhibitions
of her work since 2003 and has participated in art projects in Budapest,
Hungary and Batoufam, Cameroon.
January 27 - March 5
Artist:
Zahar Vaks
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“Zahar Vaks explores a conversation between the ancient and the contemporary,” said Alice K. Thompson, director at The MCCC Gallery, “Vaks’ paintings depict spaces — whether scenes from memory or the sensory recalls of a corporeal experience. The passage of time in a painting can be specific or elusive or even completely timeless. A quick, bold gesture can dissolve into a slow and subtle remnant.”
October 28 – December 19
Reception November 6, 5 to 7 p.m.
Artists:
Philip Hart
Sandra Hoffman
Nicole Michaud
Robert Sampson
Ekaterina Vanovskaya
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“This exhibition examines the notion of ephemerality and how each of the artists chooses to represent that which is fleeting. The ephemeral quality of the work displayed varies from artist to artist. Some of the works represent direct interactions or interpretations with the surrounding environment. Other works are somewhat autobiographical, with the collective works creating a narrative we are privileged to witness. Still other works consider architectural elements in a deliberately ephemeral manner.”
Curated by Alice K. Thompson
Ekaterina Vanovskaya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 and an MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2015. Ekaterina has exhibited nationally including New York City and Chicago. She completed the Artist in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and recently participated in the Governors Island Art Fair, New York and the AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Ekaterina has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2017 and 2018.
Philip C. Hart’s work is based in an exploration of pattern recognition, which is fundamental to language and intelligence. He is concerned with the fragility and malleability of consciousness. The composition of his mobiles is based on form, order, and balance.
His mobiles are constructed with simple materials: wire, sheet metal, and fishing line. Components are joined as sequential cantilevers, reinforcing an underlying 2D pattern. Using fishing line rather than a more conventional wire hook-and-loop connection, each component rotates freely relative to its neighbors. The fishing line is minimally visible; the compositions appear to float in space.
The materials and scale of the work affords an element of interactivity; walking up to a piece generates enough air movement to activate it. Set in motion, new patterns evolve in 3D. space.
In the vocabulary of this work, motion is a much a subject of it as is its composition.
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September 10 through October 10
The MCCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit showcases the range of styles and formats of MCCC's diverse full-time and adjunct Visual Arts (computer graphics, alternate media, painting, photography, print-making, sculpture, video) faculty. All exhibited work is current, produced in the last two years. Recent shows have included artworks in oil painting, watercolor, ceramics, photography, digital design, interactive technology, sculpture, installation, and more.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 25 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., CM250
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["Best in Show" award winner]
May 20 through July 8
In partnership with the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission, The Gallery showcases the work of artists who live, work, or study in Mercer County, New Jersey. This popular exhibition is a juried show with multiple levels of awards, including the coveted County Purchase Awards.
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony:
Wednesday, May 22 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., CM250
March 25 through April 25, 2019
Visual Arts students at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) will display their rich and varied talents as the Gallery at Mercer presents its annual "Visual Arts Student Exhibition." This exhibit, featuring the best works of MCCC students, runs from Monday, March 25 to Thursday, April 25. It is presented free and is open to the public.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 27, 5 to 7:30 p.m, CM250
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January 28 through March 7, 2019
Saturated Geometry brings together the works of five New York-based artists -- Robert Erickson, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Alex Paik, Richard Tinkler, and Andrew Zimmerman -- who look at both formal geometric abstraction and color in different ways. These artists draw from a variety of sources from observation to experience to develop their systems of abstraction. These works may utilize topics such as architecture, structure of musical composition, or process to create pieces that are both formally and conceptually saturated in some way. Curated by Professor Lucas Kelly.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 6 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., CM250
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October 29 through December 20, 2018
Works by five artists celebrate the small objects that inhabit people's personal spaces. Some items may be subversively political while others may be secretly emotional touch points. Relating to classic European still life painting that told a story of class, economics, and stature by the objects selected in each tableau, these artists depict mundane everyday items that inherently discuss our contemporary lives, celebrate our existence.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 7 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., CM250
Artist Talks: (all at 12 noon)
* Wednesday, November 7, CM107: Eric Hibit
* Wednesday, November 14, CM109: Lauren Whearty
* Monday, November 19, CM109: Chris Bogia
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October 10 through 18
Originally part of the seventh Micro Film Festival #7, this special exhibit featuring interdisciplinary artist Taji Ra'oof Nahl projects three films simultaneously as the artist explores the past- and present-day surveillance state.
An Evening with Taji Nahl
Wednesday, October 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. (presentation at 6 p.m.)
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September 5 through October 4
The MCCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition features work by the college's Visual Arts (computer graphics, alternate media, painting, photography, print-making, sculpture, video) faculty members. All exhibited work is current (produced in the last two years) and portrays the range of styles and formats present in MCCC's diverse faculty. Recent shows have included artworks in oil painting, watercolor, ceramics, photography, digital design, interactive technology, sculpture, installation, and more.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 19 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
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[award winners]
May 21 through July 9
MCCC Gallery Hosts 'Mercer County Artists 2018' May 21 to July 9
Award Winners to be Announced at Opening Reception May 23.
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: Wednesday, May 23 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
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April 2 through May 3, 2018
Allowing students to showcase their work and gain experience in the gallery world, this exhibition is aimed to provide MCCC students with an opportunity to build a portfolio while providing diverse artwork to the community. This show features a variety of styles and media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, installation, and mixed media formats.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 4 from 5 to 7 p.m.
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January 22 through March 8, 2018
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October 16 through November 30, 2017
Allowing students to showcase their work and gain experience in the gallery world, this exhibition is aimed to provide MCCC students with an opportunity to build a portfolio while providing diverse artwork to the community. This show features a variety of styles and media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, installation, and mixed media formats.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 12 from 5 to 7 p.m.
In partnership with the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission, The Gallery will showcase the work of artists who live, work, or study in Mercer County, New Jersey. This popular exhibition is a juried show with multiple levels of awards, including the coveted County Purchase Awards. Other past awards have been sponsored by Blick Art Supplies and the West Windsor Art Council.
Opening Reception/Awards: Wednesday, February 22 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
MCCC Gallery Calls for Entries for "Mercer County Artists 2016"
"Mercer County Artists" Award Winners Announced
View the roster of contemporary artists whose works were exhibited along with the corresponding historic "adopted" artist chosen by each. |
Exhibition introduces the works of five young, emerging artists: Dan
Hodgkinson, Jason Houck, Eric Kennedy (website),
Matt Lucash, and Kathryn Sclavi. In an effort to further the artistic conversation of
the exhibit, the artwork on display will be accompanied by essays by art professors/art
critics familiar with the exhibited works (Greg Drasler, Mel Leipzig, Frank Rivera,
Kyle Stevensen, and Kate Somers.) Each essay discusses a dialogue which the
author believes is happening between the work of one of the young artists
and that of any other artist, contemporary or deceased.
Mon., Wed.: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tue., Thur.: 12 to 7 p.m.
October 14 - December 18
Distinguished Lecture featuring Tim McFarlane
October 16, 12PM-1PM
Opening Reception
October 16, 5:30-7:30pm.
(609) 570-3589
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The Gallery at MCCC
1200 Old Trenton Road
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