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	Michael Tillyer: Portent Incidentals Sunday, September 13 - Tuesday, October 13  Free and open to the public In his portrayals, each installation combines reclaimable material (steel, wood, glass, sand) and sets the model of the figure in the representation of the landscape. More...
Opening Reception Michael Tillyer: Portent Incidentals Sunday, September 13   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm   Newly Added! - Artist Talk Wednesday, September 16   6:00 pm  Hampden Gallery  Free and open to the public
	Four Weeks of Anchor House Artists Curated by Michael Tillyer Sunday, September 13 - Monday, October 12  Free and open to the public Week 1: Kyle Mitchel: In Memorium, Week 2: Wendy Chicoine, Week 3: Peter Mishkin. Week 4: Kevin Bouricius, Genevieve Burnett, Adam Porth More...
	Group Dynamics Sunday, May 10 - Thursday, May 14, 2009  It is a given that artists need time alone to develop their work. What happens, then, when they meet as a group, share work in progress, discuss content, process, ideas? This diverse group of painters has met monthly at Hampden Gallery for the past half year and includes painters from Easthampton, Greenfield, Northfield, Leyden, Amherst, and Florence. Their painting processes encompass printing, collage, xerography, drawing and traditional oil painting. More...
	BFA Thesis: Tempor Incognitum William Griffin and Patrick Krok-Horton Sunday, May 3 - Thursday, May 7, 2009 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm More...
	Crossing Borders: Comparing Thoughts Elizabeth Geissler • USA Juliet Armstrong • South Africa Ian Calder • South Africa Vulindlela Philani Elliot Nyoni • South Africa/Zimbabwe Here, There, and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of The Future Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 30, 2009  Free By promoting the exchange of artistic ideas and expressions, the artists write, we can encourage [an] understanding of our varied backgrounds and creative methods. More...
	We Are All Related: Ruby Barnes from the US and Roland Idaczyk from New Zealand Here, There, and Everywhere: Anticipating The Art of The Future Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 30, 2009  Free About their project, the artists write, There is a native American expression, ‘Mitakuye Oasin.’ In the language of the Lakota Sioux it means ‘we are all related.’ More...
	Mother/Memory Here,There, and Everywhere Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 30, 2009  Free and Open to the Public About their work, the artists write, “To look after, to care for, to protect, to tend, to nurture, to soothe, to heal, to teach. In our project, the intimacy, attachment and routine of motherhood was investigated [in order] to develop a collaborative grouping of artwork, similar to a cerebral collage by three artists from different cultural backgrounds. More...
	Artist In Residence Dorothea Fleiss Wednesday, April 1 - Saturday, April 11, 2009  More...
	Prayer Flags Around The World Here, There, and Everywhere: Anticipating The Art of The Future Wednesday, April 1 - Thursday, April 30 Tentative, 2009  This project was inspired by a ceremonyThomas Matsuda initiated on Hiroshima Day 2006, while attending the D. Fleiss Residency/ Symposia in Romania. More...
Reception: Prayer Flags Around the World Wednesday, April 1, 2009
	Monica Rabinowitz: Line #5- Knyazhevo Monday, March 30 - Thursday, May 14, 2009  Free and open to the public Monica Rabinowitz re-creates the memories of her Bulgarian grandmother’s life and projects them onto the interior windshield of a deconstructed tram car. More...
	Mind Bridge: Mary Robinson from Columbia and the U.S. and Ha Ran Kim from South Korea Here,There, and Everywhere: Anticipating The Art of The Future Sunday, March 1 - Wednesday, March 25, 2009  Free For Mind Bridge, the two artists took turns creating works on paper that would become part of an ongoing, ten-month visual dialog, resulting in twenty images and a documentation of the process. More...
	Timothy Gough The Resulting Effect Sunday, February 1 - Thursday, February 26, 2009  In his debut solo exhibition The Resulting Effect at Hampden Gallery, Umass alumni artist Timothy Gough sculpts with large quantities of a single object, Gough arranges and manipulates these items until their most provocative form is revealed. More...
	Kristin Nason: 16/28: Places/Years Sunday, February 1 - Thursday, February 26, 2009  Free and open to the public This series attempts to address the rift between one's experience of place, and the detached objectivity of documents that describe only its physical characteristics. More...
Opening Reception w/Kristin Nason Sunday, February 1, 2009
	Kristin Nason: Cold Storage Sunday, February 1 - Thursday, February 26, 2009  Free and open to the public This installation deals with memories, and their gradual transition from "cold storage" into our present experience. More...
	New England/ New York/ New Talent 2008 Friday, November 7 - Sunday, December 7, 2008  Everyone wants to know who the next important and influential artists will be: We’re conditioned by popular culture to want to know who is the latest and the greatest and who is on the rise to the top. More...
Opening Reception Friday, November 7, 2008   6:00 pm to 8:00 pm   Curator Talk w/David Gibson Saturday, November 8, 2008
	Stephen Foley: In a Glass House Sunday, September 14 - Sunday, October 19, 2008  Free and open to the public More...
Opening Reception Thursday, September 18, 2008   4:30 pm to 6:30 pm   Artist Talk w/Stephen Foley Friday, September 19 - Saturday, September 19, 2008
	Sean Greene: Calligraphs Sunday, September 14 - Sunday, October 19, 2008  Free and open to the public Color intervals are calibrated to provoke the fleeting sensations of light animating a space. More...
Opening Reception Thursday, September 18, 2008   4:30 pm to 6:30 pm   Artist Talk w/Sean Greene Friday, September 19, 2008
	Petula Bloomfield: Laced Sunday, September 14 - Sunday, October 19, 2008  Free and open to the public The technique of using multiple overlaying layers of paint attempts to reveal both the transparent and opaque nature of the physical, emotional and spiritual experience of being human. More...
Opening Reception Thursday, September 18, 2008   4:30 pm to 6:30 pm   Artist Talk w/Petula Bloomfield Friday, September 19, 2008
	Josiah Cuneo Four Songs for My Countrymen Thursday, May 15 2008 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm What is a sixteen foot piñata wall doing on the U-Mass campus? Artist Josiah Cuneo combines both visual art and music composition in presenting his latest installation Four Songs for my Countrymen. Through the use of his inventive visual vocabulary and conceptually driven musical scores, Cuneo addresses crucial topics ranging from Mexican immigration to U.S oil trade. The result is work that intelligently tackles delicate issues using a language that is personal and imaginative. More...
	MFA Thesis Exhibition James Rhea Sunday, May 11 - Thursday, May 15 2008  Free and open to the public More...
	MFA Thesis Exhibition Eric Ruegg Sunday, May 4 - Thursday, May 8 2008  Free and open to the public More...
	Deborah Garner Astral Journeys/Inner Worlds Friday, April 4 - Tuesday, April 29 2008  Free and open to the public New works on paper in monoprint, collage, and mixed media, as well as paintings in oil and watercolor. Imagery is sourced from the realm of dreams and personal excursions in the nocturnal stream of consciousness. More...
Opening Reception Friday, April 4 2008   6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
	Alicia Hunsicker Between The Darkness and The Light Friday, April 4 - Tuesday, April 29 2008  Free and open to the public Through her choice of subject matter, she explores the dualities of existence, particularly the integration between the shadow and light. In this new work, she considers the concept of pendulum, and the relationship of being and perceiving (the veils of perception) More...
Opening Reception Friday, April 4 2008   6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
	Laura "Lola" Baltzell Bright Promises Friday, April 4 - Tuesday, April 29 2008  Free and open to the public Bright Promises is an exploration in mixed media collage. Baltzell's previously worked primarily in oils which lends itself to the multiple transparent layers that make up her surfaces. That technique is extended into her new collage work, to which she adds ephemera, both text and images. More...
Opening Reception Friday, April 4 2008   6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
	George Wardlaw Recent Paintings Windows I Sunday, March 2 - Sunday, March 30 2008  Free and open to the public The latest series in paintings which looks at windows on two sides. One side looks out, the other looks in; they, like art, are both private and public. They are the object of daydreams and nightmares. More...
Opening Reception Sunday, March 2 - Inclement weather reschedule: Sunday, March 30, 2-5 PM 2008   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
	Art Gone Postal Sunday, March 2 - Sunday, March 30 2008  Free and open to the public Five artists from Germany, Washington, Kentucky and Massachusetts collaborate on handmade mixed media books with the theme "Nature" More...
	Cover Me Mo Ringey: Curator Sunday, February 3 - Tuesday, February 26 2008 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Free and open to the public Featured Artists: Carey Ascenzo, Line Bruntse, Ian Burns, Mike Karmody, Greg Kline, Holly Murray, Mo Ringey, Lisa Scollan, Maggie Nowinski, Lisa Scollan, Larry Slezak, Jon Whitney, Anila Zaidi. More...
Opening Reception Sunday, February 3 2008   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
	AmericAura Monday, December 3 - Wednesday, December 12 2007  Free and Open to the Public An exhibition of contemporary works on paper by fifty U.S. artists addressing the notion of national identity. The group includes emerging and professional artists, and enables the diversity of ethnic, racial, gender, philosophical, and political views to shine! More...
	One Nation Under Surveillance Harriet Diamond Thursday, October 25 - Tuesday, November 20 2007  This mini installation is made to surround and draw the viewer into the unfolding drama. The pieces are fired and painted ceramic and wood. More...
Opening Reception Harriet Diamond Thursday, October 25 2007   4:00 pm to 6:00 pm  Hampden Gallery
	Inherent Jesse Connor Thursday, October 25 - Tuesday, November 20 2007  Free and open to the public Connor's work is fresh, innovative, and an original response to the landscape and the architecture around him, including industrial complexes, houses, and military installations. More...
Opening Reception Jesse Connor Thursday, October 25 2007   4:00 pm to 6:00 pm  Hampden Gallery  Free and open to the public
	Creative Rejuvenation Workshop with artist Alicia Hunsicker Saturdays: September 22, 29 and October 6,13,20,27 and November 3, 10 2007 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm $200 for 8 weeks of workshops 8 weeks of Saturday workshops designed to get your creative juices flowing and to increase your creative output. For artists who would like to break through creative blocks. More...
	When I Go Like This, You Will Know It Is Time Angela Zammarelli Sunday, September 16 - Friday, October 19, 2007  Zammarelli's work always refers to a domestic setting, even the most fantastical installations are tied to the home. They are worked out through play. Play as the practice realm and the realm of possibility. More...
Opening Reception Angela Zammarelli Sunday, September 16, 2007   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Hampden Gallery Incubator Project Space  Free and open to the public
	Paula and Brendan Recent Projects and Installations by Paula Hodecker and Brendan Stecchini Sunday, September 16 - Friday, October 19, 2007  Free and open to the public Hodecker will present spiritual renditions of reality and fantasy using paint, plaster, paper and wood. Stecchini will present new work that is an amalgam of past experiences and new discoveries of family history. Stecchini will also present developmental projects based on his earlier works. More...
Opening Reception Sunday, September 16, 2007   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Hampden Gallery  Free and open to the public
	Jeremy Broussard: MFA Jeremy Broussard: Last Meals Monday, May 14 - Thursday, May 17, 2007 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Free and open to the public MFA Thesis exhibition featuring paintings depicting the last meals of Texas prisoners who have been executed. More...
	Chris Perry: MFA film Chris Perry: Towards Tower 37: A Director's Journey Monday, May 7 - Thursday, May 10, 2007  Free and open to the public MFA Thesis exhibition focused on direction the 3 specific components of character performance, color and sound within the context of an 11 minute film. More...
	Damian Cote: BFA Damian Cote: Schematic Solutions for Our Energy Crisis Tuesday, May 1 - Thursday, May 3, 2007  Free and open to the public BFA Thesis exhibition featuring prints which the artist states are: "visual descriptions of places I have been. The images are of situations that have happened, and will happen again. Together they are a plan to solve our everlasting energy deficit problem." More...
	Terry Jenoure: Between Heaven and Earth An Exhibition of Sound Sculpture and Hand-Sewn Figures Monday, April 2 - Sunday, April 29, 2007  Free and open to the public Between Heaven and Earth is an installation by Terry Jenoure that combines her hand-sewn, soft figures and her original soundscape of multi-track violin and vocal music. More...
Terry Jenoure: Between Heaven and Earth Opening Reception Monday, April 2, 2007   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
	Lillianna Pereira Fractured Tales Monday, April 2 - Sunday, April 29, 2007  Archetypal and mythological themes explored in collage. More...
Lillianna Pereira: Fractured Tales Opening Reception Monday, April 2, 2007   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm  Hampden Gallery Incubator Project
	GEORGE WARDLAW: Recent Paintings Windows I Friday, March 2 - Friday, March 30 2007  More...
	Martha Roe Mulcahy Domestic Territories Monday, February 12 - Monday, March 12, 2007  Martha Roe Mulcahy’s work is non-objective and abstract. Domestic Territories refers to the source of her media and to the family members who have used them. Her husband and two adult sons are artisans and a constant source of inspiration. Mulcahy turned to art as a career after losing her very creative mother at age 53. More...
Martha Roe Mulcahy: Domestic Territories Opening Reception Monday, February 12, 2007   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
	Kiriko Shirobayashi Lines Monday, February 12 - Monday, March 12, 2007  Free and open to the public NY based artist Kiriko Shirabayashi first showed at Hampden in New England/New York/New Talent. She returns to UMASS with a solo exhibition of new works. More...
Kiriko Shirobayashi: Lines Opening Reception Monday, February 12, 2007   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
	Erin Ruetsch: Redemptive Form Monday, January 22 - Tuesday, February 6, 2007  An exhibition of paintings and works on paper that document the artist's move from painting the figure in space in representational style to that of a more abstracted process which describes the figures relationship to space through line and mark making. More...
Erin Ruetsch: Redemptive Form Opening Reception Sunday, February 4, 2007   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Hampden Gallery
	No Show/No Problem Wednesday, December 12 - Friday, December 14, 2006  Paintings by University of Massachusetts Painting 220 Students. More...
	Scott Sawtell: The Definitive American Presidential Portrait Series The final installment of the "God and Country" exhibition series Saturday, November 4 - Sunday, December 3, 2006  Free and open to the public The last in a series of three exhibitions by the Canadian artists: Scott Sawtell and Matt Bahen. This exhbition concentrates on Sawtell's American Presidential themed paintings. More...
God and Country reception for the artist Thursday, November 2, 2006   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm  Hampden Gallery  Free and open to the public
	Tim Folland Swill Hole featuring the Paintor Thursday, November 2 - Sunday, December 3, 2006  Free and open to the public The Paintor, armed with a make shift wine box camel pack of his own design, will primarily be working on two homemade, junk yard-dog experiments: the recipe for a perfect cup of coffee and a magical wine making apparatus, both of which will fuel a roller coaster of work throughout the month. More...
Tim Folland Opening Reception Hampden and Central Galleries Thursday, November 2, 2006   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm    Free and open to the public
	God and Country featuring Canadian painters: Scott Sawtell and Matt Bahen Sunday, October 22 - Friday, November 3, 2006  Free and open to the public The second installment of the "God and Country" exhbition series in which the Canadian artists: Scott Sawtell and Matt Bahen will exhibit their paintings together, allowing visitors the opportunity to see the works of these important young painters using immensely powerful themes playing off of each other in the same venue. More...
God and Country reception for the artists Thursday, November 2, 2006   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm  Hampden Gallery  Free and open to the public
	The Raw and the Cooked Part I In the Incubator Space Thursday, September 21 - Saturday, October 21, 2006  Free and open to the public Curated by David Gibson. Featuring sculptual works by Victoria Calabro, Katerine Daniels, Anna Pedersen, Marilla Palmer, Mark Power, Carol Salmanson and Gae Savannah More...
	Matt Bahen:Fatal Surveillance Series Thursday, September 21 - Sunday, October 22, 2006  "Matt Bahen:Fatal Surveillance Series" is the first installment of two "God and Country" themed exhibitions at Hampden Gallery featuring the artworks of Matt Bahen and Scott Sawtell, both Canadian painters dealing with complementary subject matter. More...
	Rachel Gurske BFA Thesis Exhibition Monday, May 15 - Thursday, May 18, 2006  Free and open to the public More...
	Melinda Placko MFA Thesis Exhibition Monday, May 8 - Friday, May 12, 2006  Free and open to the public More...
	Sammy Seung Min Lee SPACE: BOOK Master of Science in Architecture and Design Thesis Exhibition Monday, May 1 - Friday, May 5, 2006  Free and open to the public SPACE : BOOK is an investigation of poetic qualities that are shared by space and books - including the concept of passage, time, story-telling, sequential thinking, user engagement and kinetic aspects. More...
SPACE: BOOK Opening Reception Friday, May 5, 2006   6:00 pm    Free and open to the public
	Remapping Black Germany New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture Friday, April 21 - Sunday, April 23, 2006  Free and open to the public The disparate and fragmented histories of Black men and women in Germany long created a barrier to the recognition of the commonalities among Black Germans as subjects of their own history and historiography. More...
Performances by Olumide Popoola with Eugene Uman and Chima with Jeff Cashen Friday, April 21, 2006      Olumide Popoola (spoken-word poetry), accompanied by jazz pianist Eugene Uman / Chima (acoustic performance), accompanied by jazz guitarist Jeff Cashen Opening Reception Friday, April 21, 2006   4:00 pm to 7:30 pm
	Martha Roe Mulcahy: Domestic Territories Photographs by Eileen Claveloux and Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker Sunday, April 2 - Thursday, April 27, 2006  Free and open to the public Marked for Life examines the markings on women's bodies. The marks on our skin tell powerful stories. They can reveal our histories; give clues to the lives we lead. More...
Opening Reception: Marked for Life Sunday, April 2, 2006   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Free and open to the public
	JACK BALAS SEEKING QUESTIONS TO LIFE'S BIG ANSWERS Monday, February 13 - Monday, March 13, 2006  For years, my work has focused on painting and photography, with occasional works in other media fixed in for variety. Across them all, I have been interested in linking the visual and the verbal, conceptual and material, the viewer and history, fact and fiction, abstraction and representation. Broad territory, granted, but I have long been interested in maps, and the idea that you, the viewer, can build bridges between images and ideas, interpreting a construct where, despite my intent to have laid out a map in front of you, I can not guess where you might choose to go, nor even which route you might take. More...
Gallery Talk with the Artist followed by a reception Jack Balas Tuesday, February 21, 2006   2:00 pm
	Budge Hyde film strip Thursday, November 3 - Sunday, December 4, 2005  Free and open to the public These large paintings suggest opening and closings, concealing and revealing fragmented images of the human body, insect and flower world. More...
	New York/New England/New Talent 2005 Sunday, September 18 - Thursday, October 27, 2005  Anna Bayles Arthur - Renee Bouchard - Steve Budington - Taiga Ermansons - Lee Fearnside - Martha Fleming-Ives - Sean Greene - Matthew Kreher - Francoise McAree - Jon Petro - Susan Schwalb - Kiriko Shirobayashi - Victor Sgnore - Matthew Southerlin - Jeff Warmouth Jurors: Amy Eva Raehse and Trevor Richardson More...
Opening Reception Sunday, September 18, 2005   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
	Hieronymus Bosch, Revisted Sunday, September 18 - Sunday, October 30, 2005  Free Full sized transcription of Bosch's painting 'Garden of Earthly Delights", circa 1500. The piece is a triptych (approxiamately 8' x 17') depicting scenes of heaven, hell, and paradise. More...
Hieronymus Bosch, Revisited Opening Reception Sunday, September 18, 2005   2:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Hampden Gallery
	MFA Thesis Exhibition Christy Patrick Sunday, May 8 - Thursday, May 12, 2005  More...
	MFA Thesis Exhibition Aric Russom Sunday, May 1 Thursday, May5, 2005  More...
	Chris Nelson REFLECT Sunday, April 3 - Tuesday, May 3, 2005  Nelson captures the essence of nature through synthetic means. More...
Reflect Opening Reception Chris Nelson Reflect Sunday, April 3, 2005   2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
	Sally Curcio Family Resemblances Sunday, April 3 - Thursday, April 28, 2005  This work explores taxonomies of everyday objects through drawings, paintings and installation, inviting the viewer to identify the similarities and the differences in the posed collection of objects. More...
Family Resemblances Opening Reception Sally Curcio Family Resemblances Sunday, April 3, 2005   2:00 pm to 5:00 pm   Sally Curcio: Family Resemblances Gallery Talk Thursday, April 21, 2005   4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
	Kunst Berlin Exhibition Series Featuring Michael Goering, curated by Klaus Postler Monday, March 7 - Wednesday, March 30, 2005  ABOUT THE ARTIST Conceptual Artist Michael Göring studied at the Art Academy Münster and has been exhibiting his sculpture and installations throughout Germany and in London for the past eight years. Kunst Berlin will mark his U.S. debut. More...
Artist in Residence with Michael Goering Kunst Berlin Exhibition Series Wednesday, March 2 - Thursday, March 10, 2005      Opening Reception with the Artist Michael Goering Kunst Berlin Exhibition Series Monday, March 7, 2005   4:00 pm to 6:00 pm    Free and Open to the Public
	Alien Bones New Work by Steve Foley Monday, February 14 - Wednesday, March 2, 2005 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Foley describes his work process as one akin to the surrealist technique of automaticism. The material used in the initial phase of the work will suggest a direction to move in, and each subsequent manipulation of the form will take the piece further. What might appear as suggestive warm and womb like, will suddenly re-appear as harsh cold and parasitic. What might first appear as a product of decay, will re-invent itself as a dynamic ecosystem. More...
Opening Reception: Alien Bones Sunday, February 20, 2005   2:00 pm to 4:00 pm    Free and open to the public Steve Foley artist workshop workshop at Marks Meadow School in Amherst Friday, March 4, 2005      Students from Marks Meadow elementary school work with artist Steve Foley, learn first hand about the power of phosphorescence. Students will complete their own hand painted glow in the dark switch plate.
	Heimo Wallner SAU AUS USA Monday, January 24 - Thursday, February 10, 2005  Beginning on January 24, 2005, Austrian artist Heimo Wallner will begin transforming the bare, fourteen-foot high walls of the Hampden Gallery lobby into a drawing installation populated by his signature linear figures. More...
Heimo Wallner - Artist's Talk Tuesday, February 1, 2005   4:30 pm  Location Changed to Hampden Gallery Heimo Wallner Studio Visit conducts studio visits with graduate students Wednesday, February 2, 2005      Master class with foundation students Line Bruntse and S. Budington foundation class with students Wednesday, February 2, 2005
	Line Bruntse and Steve Budington Intimate Exposure Monday, January 24 - Thursday, February 10, 2005  Intimate Exposure provides a fresh look at the work of sculptor Line Bruntse and painter Steve Budington. The artists comprise the UMASS Department of Art Foundation Program. More...
Intimate Exposure - Opening Reception Thursday, February 3, 2005   4:00 pm to 6:00 pm  Hampden Gallery Line Bruntse and Steven Budington Artist Talk Intimate Exposure Thursday, February 10, 2005      Featured artists of the Intimate Exposure Exhibition will hold a talk for students and faculty.
	Writing Class Gallery Tour Sarah Morzak's freshman writing students Wednesday, November 17, 2004  More...
	The Garden of Earthly Delights Revisited Arts In Reach Mural Project at Southwest Residential Area Monday, November 1 - Friday, December 31, 2004  Free Arts in Reach starts with Bosch's most famous and unconventional painting - "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (c.1500; Prado, Madrid), a large, 3-part altarpiece which chronicles the creation of the world progressing from Eden to the torments of hell. More...
The Garden of Earthly Delights Revisited Opening Reception Monday, November 1, 2004
	Shameless Voyage One Artist’s Intrepid Obsession with Reproduction by Kathleen Anderson Monday, November 1 - Wednesday, December 1, 2004  Installation, drawing, and painting. More...
Shameless Voyage Opening Reception Monday, November 1, 2004   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm   Artists Talk: Idea and Image with Kathleen Anderson Tuesday, November 2, 2004   3:00 pm  Hampden Gallery  free and open to the public
	Truth and Folly Incubator Project Monday, November 1, 2004  An Installation by Boston Artist Bridget Lynch. " My installation is a metaphorical exploration of human nature and our journey th rough life. Like the seasons of the year we travel from fresh-budded innocence to a wintry decline. My cast of characters, made from mixed media, role-play many of the choices we all face. Like Shakespeare I enjoy equating life with the stage, and like him I remember that our lives are ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY, and urge us all to make the most of our brief time upon the boards." More...
Truth and Folly Opening Reception Monday, November 1, 2004
	Masters of the Obvious Mary Heilmann, Jill Moser, Stanley Whitney - Curated by Roger Boyce Saturday, September 18 - Thursday, October 28, 2004  Free Masters of the Obvious is an exhibition, of three seasoned artists, that aspires to highlight the critical contribution of distinguished, yet under-acknowledged, mid-career practitioners. More...
Masters of the Obvious Reception Saturday, September 18, 2004   3:30 pm to 5:30 pm  Hampden Gallery  Free Criticize This! Panel Discussion Saturday, September 18, 2004   1:00 pm to 3:00 pm  Herter Auditoruim Room 227  Free and open the the public Criticize This! is an opportunity to meet members of the art press and to learn why and how they write criticism. Critics representing a range of art publications will address issues of criticism, including ethics, aesthetic criteria and editorial policy. Panel Discussion with Roger Boyce - Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Art New England, Grace Glueck - New York Times, Barbara O'Brien - Art New England. Moderated by Maren Brown - Fine Arts Center at UMass Amherst
	Second Generation Ego Diana Shpungin & Nicole Engelmann Thursday, September 16 - Thursday, October 14, 2004  Free New Video Works by NY artists Diana Shpungin & Nicole Engelmann, Curated by David Gibson More...
	Sneak Preview The Garden of Earthly Delights in Progress Monday, July 26 - Saturday, August 21, 2004  Free Although Hampden Gallery is closed for the summmer, you are invited to peak at the mural project in progress The Garden of Earthly Delights More...
	XI PAINTING COLLECTIVE Monday, May 3 - Thursday, May 6, 2004  XI Collective Members: Marian Adams, Rebecca Alexander, Louise Barry, Soomin Han, Alison Jacobs, Meghan Kallman, Elizabeth Knox, Carissa McAbee, Katarina Riesing, Emily Schlemowitz More...
	Sean Greene Pausing in Passing, an MFA Thesis Exhibition Monday, April 26 - Sunday, May 2, 2004  Greene's paintings address formal issues of s shape and color, to produce subtle images that allude to the experience of observing light interacting with architecture. More...
	Jennifer Tibbets VISAGES Tuesday, April 6 - Sunday, April 25, 2004  In the 1800's the pseudo-science of phrenology purported that most personality characteristics were revealed through facial characteristics. Today, facial readings still assist us in navigating social terrain. In Jennifer Tibbetts' solo exhibition, each face-front portrait is distinguished by a type of covering, The covering may disguise a section of the face, or envelope it entirely. Tibbets' paintings show the infinite variety of ways in which the human face can be adorned, camouflaged, marked, scarred or otherwise altered to indicate or obscure social standing, professional status, familial roles or just plain vanity. More...
	John Simpson UNWRAPPED Tuesday, March 9 - Sunday, April 4, 2004  The exhibit includes Simpson’s new paintings which feature portraits of Egyptian mummies brought to life through electric color and careful attention to rendered detail in these visages of well-preserved, and in some instances poorly-preserved, human remains. More...
Gallery Talk by John Simpson      Hampden Gallery
	Sam Van Aken HYBRIDS Thursday, January 29 - Friday, March 5, 2004  Bordering between medical mishap and obscenity Sam Van Aken’s Hybrids installation provokes thoughts surrounding genetic modification, sexual objectification, and our immersion in consumer culture. More...
Gallery Talk by Sam Van Aken Sam Van Aken Thursday, March 4, 2004
	Incubator Project featuring SCOTT MAYBERRY Seven Deadly Sins Thursday, January 1 - Thursday, February 5, 2004  For all those making the annual resolution to change behaviors, Scott Mayberry's exhibit in the Hampden Gallery Incubator may be just the thing to get the juices flowing. In these new works, Mayberry personifies pride, envy, gluttony, lust, avarice, sloth, and anger. For ages, humankind struggled to find a conceptual system to categorize their spiritual shortcomings. The system had to be complex and inclusive enough to implicate a vast range of unattractive behavior, yet simple and memorable enough to inspire guilt in an illiterate peasant. More...
	BFA Student Thesis Eliza Gray: State of Order and Hillary Milens: Holy Sugar! Wednesday, December 10 - Tuesday, December 16, 2003  State of Order includes plaster and concrete vertical structures accompanied by lithographic drawings. Holy Sugar! includes sculpture that fuses the artistic and meditative processes. Milens manipulates sugar, plaster and wood to emphasize repetition, rhyth and the cause and effect of accumulation on a single unit into a greater whole. More...
	BFA Exhibit Garrett Piermarini Opposing Forces: Balance and Contradiction Thursday, November 20 - Thursday, November 27, 2003  Large scale abstract paintings with an emphasis on formal concerns and process. Piermarini works out of an action painting tradition to move the work in new suggestive terrain. More...
	Olivia Bernard Descent and Flight: Terra Incognita Thursday, October 16 - Sunday, November 16, 2003  Olivia Bernard is an artist whose work has developed from single sculptures to site-specific installations that merge natural materials and sculptural objects in evocative and sometimes subtly disturbing environments. More...
Gallery Talk by Olivia Bernard Olivia Bernard Tuesday, October 28, 2003     Hampden Gallery, 7pm  Free and Open to the Public Olivia Bernard will host an open discussion about her work corresponding to her ongoing show at Hampden. All are welcome.
	Jeanette Cole Food and Shelter Tuesday, September 16 - Sunday, October 5, 2003  Jeanette Cole’s paintings bypass the cliches, stereotypes and limitation of language to convey elements of her experience growing up in the small village of Yanakwelle, in Liberia, West Africa. More...
Gallery Talk by Jeanette Cole September 18, 2003     Hampden Gallery 2pm Jeanette Cole will engage the audience in an open discussion of her art.
	Nora Valdez The Journey Part II: Tag Your Luggage Monday, September 1 - Wednesday, December 31, 2003  Become Part of The Journey! A continuation of The Journey sculptural installation with new participatory component which invites university and 5-College students, faculty, local school students and community members to comment in words or images on their journey through life. More...
	BA Thesis Exhibition in Photography Judith Tesler - The Beauty That Is My Bed Sunday, May 11 - Thursday, May 15, 2003  Free and open to the public A provocative photographic exhibition by Judith Tesler. More...
	BFA Thesis Exhibition Emily Kalina and Sara O'Brien Sunday, May 11 - Thursday, May 15, 2003  Free and Open to the Public Painting and Printmaking More...
	MFA Thesis Exibition Heather W. Tullio Thursday, May 1 - Thursday, May 8, 2003  "Little Fish: Exploring Creative Expressions Of Children Through Animation": "Little Fish" is a 3D computer animation inspired by the voices and drawings of children. More...
	Face to Face: Portraits Liora LaPerle Wednesday, March 26 - Sunday, April 27, 2003  Free Admission Painted in a meticulous realist style, this Israili-born artist’s works depict her friend, mentor and late, great painter, Gregory Gillespie. More...
	Liminal Curated by David Gibson Wednesday, March 26 - Saturday, April 26, 2003  Free Admission Moving away from the exuberant gesture of abstract expressionism, championed by the likes of Jackson Pollok and Willem DeKooning and turning toward a subtle and controlled gesture that still retains a sense of awareness and introspection, the artists in LIMINAL present new directions in the evolution of abstraction. More...
	Draw Like an Egyptian: Workshop for young artists aged 6-12 Hampden Gallery Outreach Saturday, February 15, 2003  Free Admission. No pre-registration required but space is limited. Call (413) 545-0680 for more information. Walk (like an Egyptian) down to Hampden Gallery for a day of workshops for children. Your child will learn how to write their name in Egyptian hieroglyphics and how to create colorful mummy decorations, scarab designs and more! Gallery Manager and Ancient Egyptian Project Director, John Simpson, will provide the theoretical base for the activities by introducing Egyptian art to the kids. Massachusetts educator, Martha Burkett, developed and organized all the hands-on activities for the event. More...
	Incubator Project Karen Moss: Keep it Simple Sunday, February 2 - Monday, March 10, 2003  Free Admission In 1998, Boston Globe columnist, Chet Raymo, wrote that there where 64 consumer catalogues for every American. Soon after reading this statistic, Boston based artist, Karen Moss, began thinking about the cost of producing these disposable catalogues and the trees that were being cut down to make the paper. She began saving the catalogues that came unsolicited through her mail, and neighbors began giving her their catalogues too. In 6 months she had over 600 catalogues. After shredding the catalogues she began making collages and then sculptures in the form of trees. More...
	Incubator Project The LayerCake Project Sunday, February 2 - Friday, February 28, 2003  Free Admission Start with an idea, and put it on the butcherblock. In the tradition of Exquisite Corpse poetry, The LayerCake Project redefines both chaos and collaboration. A single cake involves a circle of artists (4-6) who each create their own original piece of digital art. Each piece is then catapulted around this circle for the next artist to modify and pass on. In the end what emerges is a new digital organism, which, though unpredictable, shows a clear evolution. Paradoxically, the individual stylistic contributions of each artist are not lost, but accented. More...
	New England/ New York/ New Talent 2003 Sunday, February 2 - Monday, March 10, 2003  Free Admission New England / New York / New Talent 2003 gives emerging artists a chance to participate in an exhibit that showcases some of the best new works in painting, photography, sculpture, drawing and printmaking being made in the region. Gallery visitors view a cross section of new art and determine for themselves the similarities and differences among these new works, how this new work might connect to issues in the larger culture, and what these new works add to the rich tradition of east coast artists. More...
	David Henderson: New Work Thursday, November 14 - Sunday, December 8, 2002  More...
	Abstraction as Indicator Thursday, October 10 - Thursday, November 7, 2002  Free Admission Work by Massachusetts based artists Rita Edelman, Mary Sherman, and Jennifer Tibbetts. More...
	Incubator Project Hair Trigger and Baggage Claimed Sunday, September 8 - Sunday, December 8, 2002  Free Admission Hair Trigger: Sally Curcio explores the meanings our culture associates with hair. Baggage Claimed: Amy Corey studies the sculptural forms and relationships women share with their bags. More...
	Omens in Nature: Oriole Feshbach Sunday, September 8 - Sunday, October 6, 2002  Free Admission Arctic waterscapes, celestial arrays, and reflections in water, all blaze from the walls of this salon-style presentation of Oriole Farb Feshbach’s work from 1995 to 2002. Drawing from astronomy, poetry, and mythology, Feshbach creates images imbued with symbolic and literary associations. More...
	Timothy Cummings Aberrations- Spot Portraits Monday, March 11 - Thursday, April 18, 2002  Free Timothy Cummings' meticulous technique brings to life his portraits of androgynous youth marred by unidentified spots, suggestive of alienation, sexuality, and the possibly of violence. More...
	Robert Taplin The Major Moons of Jupiter Monday, November 5 - Thursday, December 6, 2001  Free This exhibit is part of an ongoing series of works that began in 1999. Taplin blends the physical characteristics of the planets with the mythological characteristics of the figures for whom they were named. Jupiter is the king of heaven, the god of the sky, associated with storms and the lightening bolt. Neptune and Pluto are his brothers, the gods of the seas and underworld respectively. In this exhibition the figure of Jupiter will be almost twice lifesize, scraping his head on the ceiling while the smaller figures of his four major moons will be suspended around him. The figures will be illuminated providing the only light in a darkened gallery. More...
	Barry Lester New Paintings Thursday, October 4 - Tuesday, October 30, 2001  Free A genXer and painter, Barry Lester is completing her graduate studies at Yale University. Hampden Gallery invited Lester to exhibit new works, thus completing the spectrum of artists the gallery will show this year, from younger emerging to older established artists dealing with body-related themes. Lester's paintings are rich in surface detail and focus on the human form. Her recent works have moved off the canvas into mysterious mixed media sculptures. More...
	Other Ways of Seeing An exhibition of outsider art Wednesday, September 19 - Sunday, September 30, 2001  Free Facilitated by UMass Professor Jeanine Young Mason and by Parisian artist Christine Boiral, Other Ways of Seeing features the work of Paris-based artists who defy catagorization. All five artists have severe developmental delays; some do not have the ability to speak. Their art is a significant means of communicating with the world and has been featured in many international exhibitions. More...
	Nora Valdez: The Journey Wednesday, September 5 - Friday, May 24, 2002  Free Nora Valdez's site-specific installation of The Journey will continue through Spring 2002. More...