Upcoming Exhibitions
Patricia Bellan-Gillen | No Safe Structure/The Widening Gyre | colored pencil, acrylic, on birch
Patricia Bellan-Gillen | No Safe Place/Fake Heros and Too Quiet Gods (detail) | colored pencil, acrylic, fishing weight on birch
Monsters, Beloveds and Invisible Whales: Patricia Bellan-Gillen
September 3rd, 2026 — March 7th, 2027
Meet Pat at the opening reception September 3rd.
In drawings and mixed media works that blur the boundaries between memory and myth, Patricia Bellan-Gillen mines personal narrative, fairytales, and pop culture ephemera to create compositions that seek what she calls “a weird elegance”—confronting viewers with beauty, humor, and the uncanny in equal measure.
Patricia Bellan-Gillen | The Year of the Horse/Dark Rain (detail) | colored pencil, acrylic, Godzilla on birch
Between Here and Elsewhere: A Portrait of the New American Experience
Opens July 29, 2026
To arrive in a new place is to step into a life shaped as much by possibility as by change. For immigrants and refugees, the act of arrival is a continuous negotiation between past and present, and between identity and belonging. Between Here and Elsewhere emerges from these tensions, centering on the creative practices of contemporary artists whose work speaks to the experiences of New Americans.
Between Here and Elsewhere investigates several themes that appear in works by New American artists, including memory, identity, and belonging.
Curated by Maria Ferguson, director of the Bruce Gallery at Penn West Edinboro.
