Gallery Home: Upcoming Shows

 

Visions from the Edge:
The Artists of Pure Vision
Jan. 26-Feb. 19
Opening Reception:
Jan. 26, 5-7 p.m.

Visions from the Edge confronts a world of art that thrives beyond the confines of reality, comfort and expectation.  Showcasing talent and vision, artists with developmental disabilities challenge the community to connect with a world of order and sense unique to them.  This show is organized by students from MCLA's Advanced Museum Studies class in partnership with the artists of Pure Vision Arts, New York City.  Click [here] for the class' blog on creating the show. {More Info!]

Branching Together
Feb. 23-Mar. 25
Opening Reception:
Feb. 23, 5-7 p.m.

A mixed-media exhibition of works by artists whose work is rooted in wilderness. Featuring Helen Hiebert's Mother Tree, a larger-than-life handmade paper dress with yards and yards of crocheted roots that cascade down and around the base of the dress and into the gallery, branching towards the work of India Flint and Lilian Cooper. Curated by Melanie Mowinski.

Strange Soup:
Wayne Hopkins & Cathy Wysocki
Mar. 29-Apr. 22
Opening Reception:
Mar. 29, 5-7 p.m.

Visually striking, politically charged paintings and sculptures by North Adams-based artists Wayne Hopkins & Cathy Wysocki.  Image: Wayne Hopkins, Fence #1

Coming Up Next:
MCLA Senior Art Show
Apr. 26-May 27
Opening Reception:
Apr. 26, 5-7 p.m.

MCLA graduates its largest class of art majors in 2012. Join Gallery 51 as we celebrate those coming up next, MCLA's emerging artists. Image: Sculpture by Signe Kutzer

Gillian Jones:
Twenty Years of Photojournalism
in the Berkshires
May 31-Jun. 24
Opening Reception:
May 31, 5-7 p.m.

A survey of photographs by Gillian Jones from her 20 years as a photojournalist for the North Adams Transcript.  Image: Photograph by Gillian Jones.

Ven Voisey: vs.
Jun. 28 - Jul. 22
Opening Reception:
June 28 6-9 p.m.

An environment of songs, images, and objects derrived from conflicting forces, ideologies, and logic systems. Voisey's works are simultaneously dark and playful with a sensibility, mythology and imagery hovering somewhere between Joseph Beuys and Mr. Rogers. Image: Ven Voisey, I love you, octopus (detail).