30th Annual Student Art Exhibition
Visual and Performing Arts Department Students Graduating in 2006.
Continues through September 8, 2006

Monroe Community College Visual and Performing Arts Department
Visual Art Faculty Exhibition
Babiarz, Benjamin, Blumendale, Brien, Burger, Buscemi, Cole, Coogan, Crum, Demott Downer, Evanitsky, Farrell, Ferrari-Rowley, Flack, Galambos, Gordon, Jackson, Lendeck, Mangione, Monacelli, Moncibaiz, Parsons, Michael Ross, Margaret Ross, Sardisco, Smith, Taddonio, Tennant, Weldgen, Watts, Whiteside
September 15-October 20, 2006
Opening Reception Sept. 15, 7–9 p.m.

Robert Heischman and Alan Singer
Subject/Subjective
October 27–November 24, 2006
Opening Reception, October 27, 7–9 p.m.
Gallery Talk November 2, at 7 p.m.

AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION EVENT

WHAT IS An Internal Combustion Event ?
INTERNAL COMBUSTION is video, film, sculpture, painting, drawing, dance, theater, performance, installation, on the wall, off the wall, in the gallery or outside the gallery. We see Internal Combustion as an open-ended 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. All Internal Combustion events are free to the public.
Drawing Installation
Bring A Drawing —Take A Drawing
This exhibition will be based on statistical and geographic parameters of various sorts depicting placement and inclusion of each drawing. This exhibition is open to all and varied artists, philosophers, mathematicians, wanders, travelers, settlers, magicians, madmen and poets.
December 1–December 22, 2006
Opening Reception, Dec. 1, 7–9 p.m.

Happy Birthday Mercer Gallery
Almost Legal at 20 Celebration
A 20th Anniversary Birthday Celebration for the Mercer Gallery, November 17. 7–9 p.m.

Greg Stewart
January 26–February 23, 2007
Opening Reception, January 26, 7–9 p.m.
Gallery Talk Friday January 26, 12:00 noon
Greg Stewart has displayed his work as solo and group exhibition at galleries such as Yaffe and Ruden, Adams Gallery, McDonough Museum of Art, Brownson Gallery, New York City Street Project, 1708 Gallery, Chautauqua Center For The Visual Arts, SPACES, and others. Stewart currently teaches sculpture and three-dimensional design at James Madison University. Stewart states “My current work and research investigates the potential for new systems of mobility, dwelling, vocation, connectivity, and survival. I’m interested in the affects of the changing relationships between the areas of public and private life, between the architected, constructed environment and it’s inhabitants, between traffic structures and the rhythms of human activity“.

Kelly Roe
Mapping Linguistics
March 2–March 30, 2007
Opening Reception, March 2, 7–9 p.m.
Gallery Talk Friday March 2, 12:00 noon
Kelly Rowe has displayed her work as solo and group exhibition at galleries such as Tyler Art Gallery, Oklahoma City University, The Company Gallery, Syracuse, NY, Oswego Art Association, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, and Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. Kelly Roe teaches at the State University of New York at Oswego’ Art Department in its Graphic Design Program.

spurse
Drawing From/For The Everyday: Experimental Practices Of Drawing
April 6–April 27, 2007
Opening Reception: April 20, 7–9 p.m.
Workshops, April 17–20, 2007
spurse will exhibit a selected variety of drawings made by experimental drawing machines as well as experimental practices of drawing. The drawings for this exhibit are part of a spurse archive of drawings that total over 1000 and represent a wide range of experiments with drawing that transgress drawing as a representational practice but rather use the activity of drawing as an experimental practice. Our investigation is of drawing itself (both human and non-human). What is drawing and how does it produce new relations to our environment that are not contingent on fixed representations of the world we live in? How can drawing be used as a dynamic mediator of experience? Along with their exhibit, spurse will hold a four-day workshop in the Mercer Gallery that will include the production of simple drawing apparatuses, experimental drawing walks on campus, drawing drives, and urban investigations exploring the potential applications of drawing machines and the drawings they produce. spurse will also present a lecture on their activity of working with experimental practices in drawing.

31st Annual Student Art Exhibition
May 11–September 7, 2007
Opening Reception May 11, 6–8 p.m.
Awards at 6:00 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m.
This exhibition of student art is open to all graduating Visual and Performing Arts students at Monroe Community College enrolled in Fine Art, Commercial Art, Graphic Arts, or Interior Design. All students are welcome and encouraged to bring your family and friends to this important event, which includes a backyard barbecue.

The WALL Project
Mike Moncibaiz will begin an installation of his work in October based on his reaction to Graffiti and other things. THE WALL is an area in 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 2007. This project commissions artists from the MCC community and/or the greater Rochester area. Potential artists or groups of artists can submit a proposal.

Another Mystery Video Hour
Join Us 4 a very good reason for wednesday.
the return of a great one hour spent.
help put the mystery back into the hour.
it’s the talk of the town–no one should miss this.
very nice!

The WINDOW Project
The Mercer Gallery is seeking proposals for “The Sibley Building Window Project”. This exhibition window space is 16.5 feet long x 6.1 wide feet x 8.5 feet high and window faces Main Street, Rochester New York.
Katie Atkinson - Fundamentally Employed – through November 1, 2006
A project that explores three specific levels of consumer production through live performance, costume, objects, and documentation.
Greg Lendeck Without a Trace- Illuminated Drawings November 2- February 28, 2007

DIRECTORS’ CHOICE
Four show-cases each measuring 67.5” long x 34.5” wide x 5” deep are located on the second floor of building 12. The art work displayed in these cases are part of the bi-monthly exhibitions space curated by Mercer Gallery Director, Kathleen Farrell. If you have an idea for a potential artist, or groups of artists submit a proposal. Currently on view is the work of Surjit Singh, who is currently pursuing an art degree at MCC. November 1- January 30 will be the work of Pete Snyder, 2003 MCC Alumni in Fine Arts, currently a 2006 BFA candidate at Rochester Institute of Technology.