Julianna Furlong WilliamsPersonal Expressions

Friday, September 7 - Saturday, October 6, 2012Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

This show is in honor of the late Julianna Furlong Williams who passed away on August 4, 2011. This exhibition is in celebration of her life as an artist, teacher, and visionary. Her personal, imaginative, and impassioned art has been acknowledged both nationally and in the local community. As a professor at Monroe Community

College from 1986 until she retired in 2004, Professor Emerita Julianna Furlong Williams inspired the lives and minds of thousands of students. Following her retirement, she spent most of her time creating layered paintings that were repositories of both public and private history. Julianna was a graduate of RIT and Tufts University. This

exhibition is curated by her husband Lawrence (Judd) Williams.

Jose Olivieri RiveraRadical Departure

Friday, October 12– Friday, November 9, 2012Opening Reception: Friday, October 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Friday October 12 at 12:00 (noon)

Puerto Rican native Jose Olivieri Rivera received his MA from SUNY Albany. In 1973 Jose went to N. Y. City to study painting with Isaac Soyer at the Art Students League. Jose has participated in numerous exhibits among them “The New Talent Show”, Allen Stone Gallery, “Latin American Presence in New York”, Bronx Botanical

Garden, SUNY Albany Master Thesis Show, Michael C. Rockefeller Center, SUNY Fredonia; as well as local venues at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center and Hungerford Gallery Artists Group of Rochester. This exhibition represents a radical departure from the large-format satirical/political imagery that characterized his

previous works. Represented in this exhibit is a simple, direct, and spontaneous approach to the movement and application of pigments that is based on the Japanese Art of Kendo, which Jose has studied and taught for over 20 years.

MCC Visual and Performing Arts Faculty ExhibitionBenjamin, Bogdanovska, Burger, Crum, Downer, Farrell, Ferrari-Rowley, Flack, Sardisco, Smith, Weldgen and many of the visual arts adjunct faculty.

Friday, November 16 – Friday, December 21, 2012Opening Reception: Friday, November 16, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Patti AmbrogiWomen in History, The Cover Girls

Friday, January 25 – Friday, February 22, 2013Opening Reception: Friday, January 25, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Friday, January 25 at 7:00 p.m. - a reception will follow the talk.

Patti Ambrogi is an Associate Professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT. She holds an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recently the series Women in HIstory ws shown in Everything in Time: Maximalist Works by Media Artists, at the Visual Studies Workshop and at the Center for Book Arts in NYC and in Syntax, the Boston CyberArts Festival at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA.

Patti Ambrogi has lectured about moving media and the still photographer at conferences, including the Society of Photographic Education, and at Visual Communications, and the International Conference on the Arts and Humanities. She is the founder of the Media Cafe at RIT, a curriculum that promotes the production

of temporal work crossing disciplines and media. Patti Ambrogi is the recipient of RIT’s Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching.

Jack Wolsky Soundings

Wednesday, February 27- Friday, March 29, 2013Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 (noon), Jack Wolsky, who received his MS from the State University College at Buffalo in 1957, who was a Professor of Art at the State University College at Brockport for 35 years. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout New York State and the surrounding areas. His work is prized in many public and private collections

including: the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY; and the Charles Rand Penney Collection. “With my latest series of paintings, I am attempting to create through the media and style in

which express myself best, encaustic abstract paintings, my own auto/ visual biographical statement.”-Wolsky

Murray Tinkelman Illustrations

Monday, April 1 - Friday, April 26, 2013Murray Tinkelman is an award-winning illustrator who has won gold medals from The Society of Illustrators, The New York Art Directors Club and The Society of

Publication Designers. He has over 200 Awards of Merit from The Society of Illustrators. His illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Washington Post. In addition, he has worked for

publishers such as Ballantine, Berkley, Doubleday, Putnam, HBJ, Macmillan, and Time Life, among many others. Murray has also been commissioned by the National Park Service to do drawings and paintings of National Parks and Monuments, as well as by the U.S. Air Force to be an artist-reporter on specific missions. He had a one-man exhibition of his baseball art at The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1994 and The United States Sports Academy in Daphne,

Alabama in 1995. Murray gives presentations on his work as well as on The History of American Illustration and related subjects at museums, universities, colleges, and art associations nationwide. Murray, a Professor Emeritus from Syracuse University, taught there for 27 years in the undergraduate program and was the

Director of the Limited Residency MFA in Illustration Graduate Program. Lecture: Thursday, April 11, at 2:00 p.m.. 50 Years in 50 Minutes: Discussing The History of illustration

Lecture: Thursday, April 11, at 7:00 p.m.. The History of American Illustration 1850 - 1950. An artist’s reception will follow the talk.

37th Annual Student Art ExhibitionFriday, May 3 – Friday, August 23, 2013

Opening Reception Friday, May 3, 2013 6:00–8:00 p.m.This is an exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture, design, 3-D design, video, photography, digital & multi–media pieces and any aspect of course work accomplished while studying at MCC. This exhibition includes the work of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Photography, Television and Video, Commercial Illustration and Interior Design

majors graduating May, August or December 2013. The Opening Reception is a backyard barbecue: hots, hamburgers, salads, and desserts will be served. Awards and dinner at 6:00 p.m. MCC faculty, staff, family and friends of the graduates are encouraged to attend and celebrate this exhibition of hard work.

Music provided by the MCC Jazz Band.

THE WALL PROJECT - The mural currently on view is the work of Torrell Arnold. Torrell Arnold is a MCC 2010 alumnus and currently a senior in the BFA program at Brockport State College. This mural will be on display through January 2013. The Wall Project is an area in the Building 4 corridor near the North Atrium and Mercer Gallery. Its’ dimensions are 12 feet x 20 feet. We are now accepting proposals for Spring and Fall 2013. This project commissions artists from the MCC community and/or the greater Rochester area. Potential artists or groups of artists can submit a proposal.

Mercer Gallery Calendar 2012-13

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GENERAL NOTESFor more specific information about Mercer Gallery events, proposal application and up-to-date Internal Combustion Events, workshops and Mystery Video Hour schedules call, write or stop by the gallery. The Mercer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building 12 in the North Atrium on the Brighton Campus. This non-profit gallery is sponsored in part by Monroe Community College, the MCC Visual and Performing Art Department, the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development, the MCC Creative Arts Committee, the MCC Student Art Organization, and the MCC Student Life Fee. The Mercer Gallery is a member of the SUNY Association of Museums and Galleries, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), the American Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.

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FACTS and SCRAPSThe Mercer Gallery is named in memory of Thomas Mercer, MCC student, veteran, musician poet and artist. The Mercer Gallery’s schedule of exhibitions and cultural events began in November of 1986. The purpose was to meet an instructional need for a department gallery which would present current, challenging work, not readily available in the Rochester area in a context exemplifying excellent curatorial and gallery management practices. We envisioned a gallery which would present art and artists, which could be integrated with the work of our curriculum to serve as instructional model of contemporary art, practice for our students.The mission of the Mercer Gallery is to provide aesthetically challenging, original, contemporary artwork which embodies current developments in the visual arts. The gallery and the exhibition schedule is integrated with our curriculum objectives and accessible to the students, faculty, staff and alumni of Monroe Community College and the greater Rochester community.The Mercer Gallery endeavors to present works of divergent, cultural and aesthetic viewpoints, free of gender, racial, ethnic or national bias. The Mercer Gallery promotes an environment for students to participate in academic and cultural activities that fosters their education as individuals and members of society and is integral to the college’s mission.

The Mercer Gallery is located on the Brighton campus of Monroe Community College of the State University of New York, in Rochester, New York. Though the Mercer Gallery is located on a college campus and has enthusiastic attendees from the student and faculty of the college, its mission is not one of the common campus gallery. Since it’s founding, the gallery has been dedicated to presenting exhibitions that present work not readily exhibited in the upstate New York area. This policy has resulted in the gallery being cited as having “the most original exhibitions of any gallery in upstate New York”. The gallery was cited by dissonant artists of the Red Rider Group of Dresden in their negotiations with the then East German Democratic Republic as “a significant gallery having a major cultural impact in upper New York State”. The Mercer Gallery’s reputation as a venue for exhibiting international artists helped gain a presentation grant in the Montage Festival of the Image. The Mercer exhibition in the Montage Festival was reviewed favorably by Vicki Goldberg, photography critic of the New York Times.The Mercer Gallery was cited in the book Don’t Just Applaud-Send Money! by Alvin H. Reiss, The Issue is Censorship, this was in regard to exciting ways to promote your program.

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE includes eight show cases measuring 67.5” long x 34.5” wide x 5” deep and are located on the first and second floors of Building 12. The artwork displayed in these cases is part of a curated exhibition of the Mercer Gallery. Ideas for a potential artist or artists, please submit a proposal.

Currently on display is a select grouping of drawings and paintings of Julianna Furlong Williams. These works will be displayed in the eight show cases located on the first and second floors of Building 12 from Sept 2- October 8. An exhibiton of Julianna’s work is concurrently on display in the Mercer Gallery from September 2- October 6, 2012.

October 9, 2012- December 23, 2012 is the work of George Wegman. Wegman earned an AS degree from MCC and BFA and MFA from RIT. His work has been exhibited extensively nationally and internationally.

Michael O’Keefe, MCC Alumnus, and graduate of SUNY at Buffalo in Law, will exhibit his work from January 7, 2013 – March 25, 2013.

SIBLEY WINDOW PROJECT The work of Peter Monacelli entitled An Aging Artist Reviews Ecclesiasticus is currently displayed in the Sibley window through January 15, 2013. This exhibition window space measures 16.5 feet long x 6.1 feet wide x 8.5 feet high and faces Main Street, Rochester, New York. The

Mercer Gallery is seeking proposals for The Sibley Building Window Project for January-June 2013

INTERNAL COMBUSTION What is an Internal Combustion Event? It is video, film, sculpture, painting, drawing, dance, theatre, performance, installation, on the wall, off the wall, in the gallery, or outside the gallery. We see Internal Combustion as open- ended, a vehicle for traditional and non-traditional forms of expressions, often running concurrently with scheduled gallery events. How do you see it? Interested? Submit a proposal for the calendar. All Internal Combustion events are free

and open to the public. Various exhibition spaces such as MCC Forum - R. Thomas Flynn Center Exhibition Space, LeRoy V. Good Library and MCC Reflections Restaurant are also available for exhibition proposals.

INTERNAL COMBUSTION EVENTBradley and Sarah of Butler Studios Handmade Books Workshop on Friday, October 18, 2012The Butler’s will conduct a day-long workshop to discuss their work and lead the group in making their own handmade books. Maximum number of students: 18. Sign up prior to the workshop is a must. Students must provide some materials.

Images from left to right, top to bottom: Jose Olivieri Rivera, Murray Tinkelman, Bradley and Sarah Bulter, Michael O’Keefe, Julianna Furlong Williams, George Wegman, Jack Wolsky

MYSTERY VIDEO HOUR Wednesdays at Four (4:00 p.m.), Fine Arts Building, Mercer Gallery, 12–114 Brighton Campus. Art and Artist video viewing with introductions and discussion. Have an idea, a film, a video, animation, and want to be part of this? Submit a proposal. Submissions of original work are welcome.

MERCER GALLERY HOURS:Monday – Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.Friday 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.Summer and Vacation Hours: T-Th. 11:00 -2:00 p.m.Other times by appointment.

KATHLEEN FARRELL, Gallery Director585-292-2021 or 585-292-3121fax: 585-292-3120email: kfarrell@monroecc.edu http://www.monroecc.edu/go/mercer