What the critics are saying:

By Bill Van Siclen for the Providence Journal, March 13, 2003, about the exhibition, Beneath the Surface: Rock Paper Threads:

“Hancock, who presides over one of the nicest contemporary art spaces in southern New England also wanted to explore paper’s sculptural side. The result is a show that fills almost every nook and cranny of the gallery’s sleek white-walled space. In fact Hancock already has a lock on my vote for best exhibit installation of the year. Step through the door and here’s what you see: artworks sitting on the floor, perched on pedestals, protruding from walls and hanging from the ceiling.”

By David Boyce, correspondent to the New Bedford Standard Times, January 23, 2003 about the exhibition, Love and Death During the Age of Innocence: Fall River and the Granite Mill Fire of 1874. An Installation by Mary Giehl.

“Researching the infamous 1874 Granite Mill fire, in which all the fatalities were young women and children, the artists interest was piqued by the questionable working conditions that could lead to these losses. While she found the specific number of losses impossible to ascertain, Ms. Giehl has memorialized them metaphorically by stringing 28 smoked canvas hammocks within the framework of an 1/8- scale model she built of the mill’s stone building.”

Bill Van Siclen for the Providence Journal, December 26, 2002 about the show Fire Water Air Earth: A Perpetual Alchemy:

“According to art scholar James Elkins, painting is alchemy – a mysterious process by which oil, water, earth and other common materials are turned into the pure gold of art. But after seeing Fire Water Air Earth: A Perpetual Alchemy at Fall River’s Bristol Community College, I’d advise Elkins to expand his definition. Here both painters and sculptors perform artistic transmutations.”

Bill Van Siclen for the Providence Journal ( November 15, 2001) about the show Maferefún: African Spirituality in Cuban Art:

"Like Cuban music, Cuban Art is a spicy mix of African, American and European cultures. Look closely at a contemporary Cuban painting, for example, and you're likely to see West African masks and totem figures sharing space with a portrait of the Virgin Mary. The melding of different cultures is the focus of Maferefún: African Spirituality in Cuban Art, a traveling exhibition of contemporary Cuban art at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery at Fall River's Bristol Community College. "

By David Boyce, correspondent to the New Bedford Standard Times, about the exhibition, Embodied: Images and Reflections of the Figure, September 27, 2001:

"Embodied: Images and Reflections of the Figure, the current exhibition at BCC's Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, includes the recent work of three figurative artists whose endeavors reveal their efforts to explore and extend that label's definition. An exceptionally strong exhibit, curated by gallery director Kathleen Hancock, it is beautifully and thoughtfully installed to provide the viewer with a paced and rhythmic engagement with its varied and related offerings, both visually and intellectually."

From In the Landscape, reviewed by Channing Gray for the Providence Journal, February 8, 2001.

"Head to Fall River this weekend and you'll get to see not only a decent landscape show but a stunning new gallery, that being Bristol Community College's Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, which opened in October and is hosting its first regional show. The space, as fine as any in the area, boasts just under 2000 feet, with maple floors and lots of natural light that streams in through three clerestories and a long angular corner window."