May 26 – June 30, 2016

We close the academic year with an exhibition of works by Stephen Remick and Randy Swann. Under the Influence: Paintings of New England Mill Neighborhoods and their Rural Surroundings is comprised of mostly panoramic paintings that celebrate the living and working environment of Southeastern New England urban and rural life.

Selected Works From All Fine Art and Graphic Design Studio Courses

April 21 – May 5, 2016

Bristol Community College's annual student exhibition features works by students enrolled in the Art and Design Programs. This year's juror is Laura Franz, Professor, Graphic Design Option Head, Design Program, UMass Dartmouth.

March 3 – April 1, 2016

This exhibition was produced by the gallery as part of its ongoing Visiting Curator Series.The Beast and Me was proposed by Leslie Schomp in response to the gallery's 2015 Call for Proposals. In this provocative project on view in the gallery, each artist investigates human relationships to the animal world.

January 21 – February 18, 2016

Our perceptions of memory, both individual and collective, and how they are shaped, are astonishingly vast. We gather memory simply from experiencing life.

Leading | Teaching | Learning

October 20 – December 10, 2015

As part of the 50th anniversary celebration at BCC, the gallery is delighted to showcase the work of Marion Wilner, Ron Lister, Marisa Millard, and Erik Durant.

September 10 – Ocotober 15, 2015

Both artists in this exhibition make reference in their work to the passage and imprint of time. And both, in singular ways, reference notions of landscape, geography, and place.

May 28 – June 26, 2015

This exhibition is a showcase for the winners of the 4th All Media Juror's Choice Award. Established in 2009, our All Media Juried Exhibition, a recurring event, has featured some of the best and most interesting work in the South Coast Region of New England.

Selected Works From All Fine Art and Graphic Design Studio Courses

April 23 – May 7, 2015

Bristol Community College's annual student art exhibition features works by students enrolled in the Art and Design Programs. This year's juror is Elizabeth Duffy, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University.

March 5 – April 3, 2015

This exhibition was produced by the gallery as part of its ongoing Visiting Curator Series. Locker Room Culture (Strategy, Play, and Commentary in Sports and Art) was curated by Glenn LaVertu.

January 22 – February 20, 2015

The ability to create, and to assign meaning to, marks and shapes is a uniquely human trait. Image making, symbol writing, written language development are part of the impulse to assign meaning to and communicate information about things.

October 30 – December11, 2014

James Stroud established the Center Street Studio in 1984 with the idea of creating a collaborative environment for artists to make prints. Over the years Center Street Studio has earned an outstanding reputation as a world-class printmaking workshop and Stroud has worked with many established and emerging artists.

September 4 – October 16, 2014

An artist's life is fraught with the challenge of finding enough time. If we are lucky, our day jobs support our creative lives. But it is all too easy for our own studio practice to take a back seat, to occupy only a small portion of the day.

May 29 – June 28, 2014

In 2009 the first All Media Juried Exhibition ushered in a new exhibition format for the gallery. That first show featured a dynamic, exciting, and diverse array of works from artists across our region. Now a biennial event, the fourth time around is just as exciting as it was the first time. This year, forty-eight artists participated in the process and a total of one-hundred-eight works were submitted for consideration.

Selected Works From All Fine Art and Graphic Design Studio Courses

April 24 – May 8, 2014

Bristol Community College's annual student art exhibition features works by students enrolled in the Art and Design Programs. This year's juror is Suzanne Schireson. Schireson is Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Home Construction

Rock Paintings: Pictures Objects Metaphors Symbols

March 6 – April 5, 2014

Because there is less to distract us, more can be discovered, if we would only look closer. Both Joan Backes' Home Constructions and Todd Moore's Rock Paintings work on us in some of the same ways.

January 16 – February 22, 2014

If you have had the opportunity to walk by the gallery, you are probably already familiar with Nancy Selvage 's work. In the spring of 2013, she worked with the College and landscape architect Michael Radner to dramatically redesign our Employee Recognition Garden. As part of the project, which included landscaping and tree plantings, Selvage developed the garden sculptures to honor and commemorate faculty and staff years of employment and service to the college.

Works by Full-time and Adjunct BCC Art and Design Program Faculty

November 7 – December 12, 2013

Each time the gallery hosts the Art and Design Faculty Exhibition we are reminded of the diverse interests and professional pursuits of our Art and Design program faculty here at BCC. And it is through this forum that we have the chance to witness the enthusiasm, breadth, and creative wealth the faculty brings to those programs.

A sound installation by Mary Edwards

An installation by Charlotte Hamlin

September 5 – October 17, 2013

"No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others."

March 30 – June 28, 2013

Established in 2009, our biennial All Media Juried Exhibition has featured some of the best and most interesting work in the South Coast Region of New England. Last summer 175 submissions were entered into the competition, and our juror, Sabrina Locks, chose 54 works for the show.

Selected Works From All Fine Art and Graphic Design Studio Courses

April 25 – May 10, 2013

Bristol Community College's annual student art exhibition features works by students enrolled in the Art and Design Programs. This year's juror is Glenn LaVertu. LaVertu is an adjunct professor at Parson's the New School for Design, where he teaches courses in Drawing, Illustration and Animation, for the School of Design Strategies and Art, Media and Technology departments.

March 7 – April 10, 2013

Art making is inherently a material process. One could debate the finer points of this statement, but ultimately, art is a process of physical transformation. Sometimes these processes are a means to an end, and, as such, do not necessarily impact the meaning or content of the work in an overt way. More often though, the materials directly inform the work; the meaning of the work is bound to its materiality.

January 24 – February 22, 2013

Simultaneity is a term defining the phenomenon of relative perspectives or points of view in relation to a singular event or occurrence. You and I might witness the same event at the same time, but our frames of reference determine our perception of the experience. Even if our positions are close to each other, it is impossible for us completely agree on some aspects of what we have both witnessed.

November 8 – December 14, 2012

We are pleased to present this collection of photographs by Ron Barboza. Barboza began to photograph Cape Verde during a trip he made in 1975. He continues to document the islands and his images reveal a land and a people through a time of transition toward independence. Cape Verde is an archipelago or island chain almost 400 miles west of Senegal, West Africa.

September 6 – October 19, 2012

Counter Tension asks the question, "What is an art object?" Or in this case, "Where is the art object?" It is a conversation with the space of the gallery itself and one that explores ideas of alchemy - of the transmutation of one thing into another. It also references philosophical notions of illusion and representation.