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FIFTH ANNUAL REGIONAL WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION

NOW THROUGH DECEMBER 21, 2007

The Foundation of Fulton-Montgomery Community College presents an exhibition featuring the works of regional and local artists working on or with paper. Works for the exhibition were chosen from entries submitted by artists working within a 100 mile radius of the Fulton-Montgomery campus. The exhibition opened with a public reception on Thursday, November 29, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. 

The Works On Paper Regional is in its fifth year and is becoming an annual event in the College's Perrella Gallery.  "The exhibition serves to showcase the diversity of artistic expression produced on or with the traditional material of paper. It is such an ancient material and yet it remains the foundation for some the most contemporary of art forms," said Joel Chapin, Director of the Perrella Gallery. The exhibition is also to inspire and educate many of the art students studying drawing, painting and design as part of the college's fine arts curriculum.

This year 17 works were selected from nearly 80 entries submitted. The selected works include a wide variety of works on paper including, drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, photography and digital works on paper. Three Jurors' choice awards were announced at the exhibition's opening reception.

The juror for this year's exhibition is Ian Berry, Associate Director and The Susan Rabinowitz Malloy Curator of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. A specialist in contemporary art, Berry has organized several exhibitions for the Tang that combine collections of antique maps, scientific equipment, Edward Curtis photographs, Rube Goldberg cartoons, and Shaker furniture with new works of international contemporary art. At the Tang he also initiated the Opener series of focused solo exhibitions and accompanying books that has featured the work of Martin Kersels, Jim Hodges, Alyson Shotz, Michael Oatman, Lee Boroson, Shahzia Sikander, Nina Katchadourian, Kathy Butterly, and Nayland Blake among others. Berry earned an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and served as Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art before coming to Skidmore. He teaches in the Art History Department at Skidmore and is a regular guest lecturer at a variety of institutions. He is a former chair of the Visual Arts Panel of The New York State Council on the Arts and serves on the artistic advisory committees for Etant Donnes - The French American Fund for Contemporary Art and Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century among other advisory groups and panels. Berry also serves as Consulting Director of the Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. In that position he directs the current operation of the college gallery and acts as liaison between Hamilton and the architects in the planning for a new museum on that campus.

The exhibition will run through December 21, 2007. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., with  extended evening hours until 9:00 p.m. on Thursdays or other times by appointment. The Gallery is closed weekends and holidays.

For more information please contact the Foundation Office at 762-4651 Ext. 3702

Publicity images available by request.