Past Exhibits (2003-2024)
For more information, call The Gallery at (609) 570-3589 or e-mail gallery@mccc.edu.Currents by Douglas Witmer
January 22 - March 29
- Opening Reception: February 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
- Artist Talk: February 7, 11:45 a.m.
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"
Yonia Fain: Refugee Modernism
October 9 - December 12
Brutality, survival, and hope in the daring art by a Holocaust survivor artist
- Opening Reception: Oct. 18, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
- Curator Talk and Literary Event: Oct. 25, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
- Fundraiser: Nov. 15, 6 to 9 p.m.
film screening and Q&A from 6:00-8:00pm
private reception starting at 8:00-9:00pm.
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.
Partners
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
2023 Faculty Show
September 9 – September 28, 2023
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.”
2023 Mercer County Artists Show
June 12 – August 2, 2023
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.
Home
2023 Student Photo Show
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.
2023 Visual Arts Student Exhibition
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.
Leroy Johnson
January 30 through March 23, 2023
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. CM250“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..
“Storm Coming”
“El NoLibs”
"Capital Connection"
October 31 through January 9
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 9 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., CM200Artist Panel: Wednesday, November 9 - noon, CM200
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.
MCCC Faculty Exhibition 2022
September 6 through October 19
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., CM250a juried exhibition open to visual artists ages 18 or older who live, work, or attend school in Mercer County, NJ
Mercer County Artists Exhibition 2022
July 18 through August 24
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 20 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., CM250
2022 Visual Arts
Student Exhibition
April 4 through May 11
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 6 at 7 p.m., CM25040 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
November 8 - December 9, 2021
Live Reception/Artist Talks - November 17 at 7 p.m. flyerDouble 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.
MCCC Faculty Exhibition 2021
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. (CM250)Mercer County Artists 2021
July 5 - August 6
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.
Student Exhibition 2021
April 5 - May 14
About the Show
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.
PUDDLE ARCHITECTURE
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
ARTIST BIO
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.
Puddle Architecture by Léni Paquet-Morante:
A Virtual Gallery Walkthrough
Mercer County Artists Show 2020
October 26 - December 17
[overview/details] [award winners announced]
In-person viewing of the current exhibit is suspended at this time.
JUROR
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.
Searching for the Cultural Plumb Bob
January 27 - March 5
Artist:
Zahar Vaks
[preview] [highlights]
“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.”
Transient Brevity
October 28 – December 19
Reception November 6, 5 to 7 p.m.
Artists:
Philip Hart
Sandra Hoffman
Nicole Michaud
Robert Sampson
Ekaterina Vanovskaya
[preview]
“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
Bios
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.
2019 MCCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
[preview]
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
Mercer County Artists 2019
[overview/details] [award winners announced]
["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
Visual Arts Student Exhibition
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
Saturated Geometry
[overview/details] [highlights]
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
I kinda live where I find myself
[overview/details]
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
TR7: Taji Nahl
[overview/details]
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.)
2018 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
[preview]
[highlights]
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.
Mercer County Artists 2018
[preview]
[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.
Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2018
[preview]
[overview/details]
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.
Passing the Palette
[preview]
[highlights]
January 22 through March 8, 2018
#RealNews, Works by Michael Scoggins
[overview/details]
October 16 through November 30, 2017
2017 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
[overview/details]August 28 through September 28, 2017
Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2017
[preview] [overview/details]April 10 through May 4, 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.
Mercer County Artists 2017
[overview/details] [award winners] [jurors statement]February 20 through March 23, 2017
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.
Magic
[curator's statement] [overview/details]November 7 through December 1, 2016
Curated by Tiffany Calvert, featuring artists Hayley Barker, Matthew F. Fisher, Karla Knight, Chris Martin, Kristine Moran, Sarah Peters, Henry Samelson, and Laurel Sparks. All deal with some otherworldly concern -- transcendentalism, mysticism, or the manifestation of imaginary histories -- addressed by the artists as incancatory, paradoxical or futile. The varying works are modest in scale and take a variety of representational and abstract forms.
Thursday, November 10 from 5 to 7 p.m.
MCCC Arts at 50
[overview/details]September 19 through October 18, 2016
In 2016 Mercer County Community College celebrates its 50th year. The Gallery will offer a special exhibit as part of the college's year-long celebration. The exhibit will feature artworks from current and emeritus visual arts faculty as well as selected MCCC alumni representing each of the college's arts programs.
Arts & Communication Reception: Saturday, September 24
Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2016
[overview/details]April 11 through May 3, 2016
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.
2016 Mercer County Artists Exhibition
[overview/details]
February 22 through March 24, 2016
MCCC Gallery Calls for Entries for "Mercer County Artists 2016"
"Mercer County Artists" Award Winners Announced
Passing the Palette: Arts Educators and Their Students
[overview/details]November 16 through December 8, 2015
Art Served Up Trenton Style
[overview/details]October 13 through 29, 2015
2015 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
[overview/details]September 8 through 24, 2015
A Voyage of Many
[overview/details] [recap report]June 13-24, 2015
Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2015
[overview/details]April 20 through May 8, 2015
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.
Frank Rivera Retrospective: Selected Works 1945-2015
[preview] [overview/details]March 10 through April 2, 2015
Mercer County Artists 2015
[overview/details] [award winners]February 2 through 27, 2015
The Ice Next Time: Textiles and Artifacts
of Dark Age North America (2026-2280)
[overview/details]
November 11 through December 4, 2014
2014 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit
[overview/details]October 7 through 30, 2014
Pannaroma
[overview/details]September 2 through 25, 2014
2014 Student Visual Art Show
[overview/details]April 29 through May 9, 2014
MCCC student-produced paintings, photographs, drawings,
prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2014
[overview/details] [award winners]March 11 through April 3, 2014
Left of Central: Later 20th Century Visual Arts in the Capital City
[overview/details]January 21 through February 20, 2014
"My Mercer" Mercer County Photography Exhibition 2013
[overview/details] [award winners]November 19 through December 18, 2013
Sponsored by The Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, showcases artists --
all residents or students of Mercer County -- working in all photographic media/processes.
MCCC Faculty Art Exhibit 2013
[overview/details]September 10 through October 3, 2013
2013 Student Visual Art Show
[overview/details]April 17 through May 10, 2013
MCCC student-produced paintings, photographs, drawings,
prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2013
[overview/details] [award winners]March 5 through April 4, 2013
Mapping Mercer: Celebrating the County's 175th Anniversary!
[overview/details]January 23 through February 14, 2013
Mel Leipzig: Mostly Recent Works
[overview/details]November 26 through December 27, 2012
MCCC Faculty Exhibit 2012
[overview/details]October 16 through November 15, 2012
Roger Hane and The Big Idea
[overview/details]September 5 through October 4, 2012
SOURCE
recent works by Flannery O. Miller (MCCC Fine Arts alumnus - 2010)[exhibit flyer] [artist background] [news announcement]
June 28 through July 1, 2012
2012 Visual Arts Student Exhibition
[overview/details] [highlights]April 24 through May 17, 2012
MCCC student-produced paintings, photographs, drawings,
prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2012
[overview/details] [award winners]March 6 through April 5, 2012
Surface Tension: works by Ayami Aoyama and Florence Moonan
[overview/details]January 11 through February 9, 2012
Mercer County Photography Exhibit
[overview/details] [award winners]November 9 through December 19, 2011
Sponsored by The Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, showcases artists --
all residents or students of Mercer County -- working in all photographic media/processes.
Motus Anima: works by Peter Arakawa and Rita Herzfeld
[overview/details]September 13 through October 20, 2011
Gallery Talk: Monday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m.
Mel Leipzig "MCCC People" Exhibit
June 7 through 14, 2011
Closing Reception: Tuesday, June 14 from 5 to 8 p.m.
2011 Visual Arts Student Exhibition
[overview/details] [photo page]April 26 through May 12, 2011
MCCC student-produced paintings, photographs, drawings,
prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2011
[overview/details] [selected artists] [award winners]March 8 through April 7, 2011
Other Views: The Faculty Exhibit
[overview/details]November 16 through December 22, 2010
an exhibition of work by MCCC's visual arts faculty, including works by instructors in both the traditional and new (computer art, digital, and motion graphics) modalities
From the Warsaw Ghetto to Darfur
[overview/details]October 12 through November 4, 2010
a text and visuals exhibition on genocide in the Holocaust and in recent years -- This humanities exhibition
and the concurrent programming is being offered in partnership with the New Jersey Commission
on Holocaust Education and the Mercer County Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center.
Plastics Alchemy
[overview/details] MCCC Gallery Volunteers Are Artists in Their Own RightSeptember 7 through 30, 2010
Works by artists who have been volunteers at the MCCC Gallery during the past 10 years. (This and
the Faculty Show serve to conclude the year-long commemoration of The Gallery's 20th anniversary.)
2010 Visual Arts Student Show
[overview/details]April 27 through May 13, 2010
MCCC student-produced paintings, photographs, drawings,
prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2010
[overview/details] [selected artists/works] [award winners]Feb. 23 through April 1, 2010
Reconnect
[overview/details]November 24 through December 17, 2009
"a radical re-hanging of the first exhibition [see 'Connect', below] in order
to activate and test new formal and conceptual connections between the works"
Connect
[overview/details]October 17 through November 12, 2009
Visitors are invited to discover and share their own ideas about connections between the works, which
include sound installations, interactive video stations, sculpture, photography, prints, and multi-media sculptures.
Mercer County Photography 2009
[overview/details]September 8 through October 8, 2009
Sponsored by The Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, showcases artists --
all residents or students of Mercer County -- working in all photographic media/processes.
'Best In Show' for 2008:
Through the Storm #1
by Jessica Stearns
2009 Visual Arts Student Show
[overview/details]April 28 through May 14, 2009
MCCC student-produced paintings, photographs, drawings,
prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2009
[overview/details] [award winners]March 10 through April 9, 2009
As Seen By Hand
[overview/details]January 13 through February 19, 2009
touchable sculpture from the artists of SANJ + 3
A Light Without - A Light Within
[overview/details]November 11 through December 18, 2008
Interiors and landscapes by painters of light:
Robert Beck, Joseph Gyurcsak, Kyle Stevenson
Favorite Things
[overview/details]September 16 through October 23, 2008
"Visual meditations on the objects around us" ...featuring the work of
Natalie Featherston, Jamie Greenfield, Alan Klawans, and John Murdoch
Art All Over
[overview/details]June 3 through July 3, 2008
"Celebrates the exuberant 'art spirit' that motivates human beings to adorn, appropriate,
change, embellish, color, and re-create the objects and environments that define their lives."
2008 Visual Arts Student Show
April 22 through May 14, 2008More than 170 paintings, photographs, found-object chairs,
drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and more fill the Gallery.
Mercer County Artists 2008
[prospectus] [overview/details] [award winners]March 4 through April 3, 2008
Mercer County Photo 2007
Nov. 26 through Dec. 19, 2007A juried exhibition of more than 100 photographs, including several from MCCC students and
faculty, selected by Thomas Roma, director of Columbia University's photography department.
Perspectives on the Holocaust:
Women's and Children's Art and Stories
[overview/details]
Oct. 16 through Nov. 15, 2007
Chronicles the histories of 15 female Holocaust survivors in poster-size panels, as well as art created by child survivors -- a cooperative project between the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Kidsbridge Children's Museum in Trenton, NJ, and the Mercer County Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center.
Dangerous Women Two
[overview/details]|
View the roster of contemporary artists whose works were exhibited along with the corresponding historic "adopted" artist chosen by each. |
Featuring the work of 70 outstanding contemporary women artists from the tri-state area, each having
selected one "Dangerous Woman" during her lifetime as her inspiration - an artist, activist, or visionary
from the early 20th century (between the World Wars) connected to this geographic area. The historic subjects,
researched by Gallery director and exhibit curator Tricia Fagan, represent a broad spectrum of women who
took artistic and personal risks, challenging the roles of womanhood, art, and society. Invited artists
have created a new piece of art as an homage to their selected artist's life, art, or philosophy. Works
will be displayed beside a text panel featuring a short biography of the artist they "adopted," and Artist
Statements exploring the relationships will be available in The Gallery for the duration of the exhibit.
FROM LEFT: "Fay Wray" by Jane Lawrence is inspired by the actress' most famous role as King Kong's leading lady; jewelry designer Dori Seider created this piece in homage to Isadora Duncan, one of the mothers of modern dance; Margaret Sanger is the inspiration for this mixed media reverse painting by Deborah Hockstein; detail of Cindy Stockton Moore's encaustic inspired by the life of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel; Denise Dmochowski's "For Georgia" is inspired by the work of acclaimed painter Georgia O'Keefe; the paintings of African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring inspired Livy Glaubitz's watercolor.
2007 Visual Arts Student Show
[overview/details]April 23 through May 11, 2007
Color Theories
[overview/details]March 8 through April 6, 2007
works by Jeanne Calo, Betty Curtiss, Graziella Valenti Smith, Marie Sturken
Reception:
Wednesday, March 14 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Lunchtime Artists' Talk:
Tuesday, March 27 at noon
Mercer County Artists 2007
[overview/details]Jan. 21 through Feb. 16, 2007
Channel Traces
[overview/details]Nov. 20 through Dec. 20, 2006
works by Jean Burdick and Cathy Watkins
Breathing Stones
[overview/details]Oct. 23 through Nov. 9, 2006
works by Arlene Milgram
Gallery Talk: Monday, Oct. 30 at 7:00 p.m.
The H Equation
[overview/details]Sept. 11 through Oct. 5, 2006
works by Eleanor Burnette
2006 Visual Arts Student Exhibition
[overview/details]April 26 through May 12, 2006
Mercer County Artists 2006
[overview/details] [How To Enter]March 6 through April 14, 2006
Corpus Callosum
[overview/details]Jan. 16 through Feb. 17, 2006
works by artists Austin Dodson and Courtenay Q. Long
The Human Face
[overview/details]Nov. 7 through Dec. 21, 2005
photographs by artists Helen Stummer, Diane Levell, and the late Lou Draper
The Listening Eye
[overview/details]Sept. 26 through Oct. 28, 2005
works by Ellen Hackl-Fagan, Chris Harford, Julian Kernes
Dream, Africa
[overview/details][exhibit at ARTWORKS Gallery, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton; 609-394-9436]
Sept. 13 through Oct. 15, 2005
works by Nancie Gunkelman, Diane Levell, Jonas Sarpong
Visual Arts Student Show 2005
[overview/details]April 18 through May 13, 2005
Mercer County Artists 2005
[overview/details]Feb. 28 through April 1, 2005
Class Act
[overview/details]Jan. 19 through Feb. 11, 2005
Last year, distinguished MCCC Painting and Art History professor Mel Leipzig did a portrait of four of his art students -- Jon Allen, Clint Inting, Olivia Jupillat, and Sid Whitfield -- with their artwork behind them. Two graduated from MCCC last year, but Leipzig was so taken with their work that he suggested an exhibition of their current work. "These are extraordinarily talented and dedicated young artists," Leipzig said. "Their work bodes well for the continuing vitality of painting in New Jersey."
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Jan. 19 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Wed., Feb. 2 at 7 p.m.
Portrait/Self-Portrait
November 9 through December 17, 2004Featuring 81 artworks (in every sort of media!) by 77 artists - all members of the Trenton Artist Workshop Association (TAWA).
Lecture: Tuesday, Dec. 7 at noon, CM110 -- "The History of the Portrait" slide presentation by Mel Leipzig
The Space Between
[overview/details]September 20 through October 29, 2004
Featuring the artwork of Randall Greenbaum and David Kaufmann.
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.
Visual Arts Student Show 2004
[overview/details]April 26 through May 14, 2004
Featuring works in all media by the Fine Arts students of Mercer County Community College.
Mercer County Artists 2004
[overview]March 9 through April 10, 2004
Annual juried competition of works in most fine arts media created by artists living, working, or studying in Mercer County. This is a collaborative initiative sponsored by the Mercer County's Cultural and Heritage Commission, supported by the NJ State Arts Council.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 10 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
"Altogether Now"
[overview/details]Jan. 20 through Feb. 19, 2004
A group exhibition by Mercer County Community College's Fine Arts faculty members.
"Glimpses of America"
[overview/details]
Nov. 11 through Dec. 20, 2003
An exhibition of works by at least nine outstanding contemporary African-American visual artists, curated by Larry Hilton.
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. (artist: Russell Murray)
"The Allegory of Immortal Immolation as Portrayed Through a Spectacular Procession of Epic Proportions"
Oct. 21 through Nov. 1, 2003A multi-media installation by MCCC fine arts faculty members Edgar Endress and Mark Stockton.
Gallery Talk: TBA
Optic Axis: Early Conversations
[overview/details]Sept. 2 through 27, 2003
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.
Panel Gallery Talk: Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.
Gallery Hours
Mon., Tue., Thur.: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wed.: 12 to 7 p.m.
Upcoming Exhibits
MCCC Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2024
April 8 – May 6 2024
Opening Reception - Wednesday April 10, 5:30-7:30 pm
[prospectus/terms]
Mercer County Artists 2024
May 13 - July 22, 202
Opening Reception - Wednesday May 15, 5:30-7:30 pm
[call for entry]
Contact Us
(609) 570-3589
gallery@mccc.edu
The Gallery at MCCC
1200 Old Trenton Road
West Windsor, NJ 08550
[directions]
The Gallery at MCCC is located on the second floor of the Communications Building (CM).