GC Art Galleries

Jeanne Rauch Gallery

Robert Tynes, Contemporary Trompe L'oeil, featuring eleven of his "cutout" paintings, opened in Jeanne Rauch Gallery at Gaston College in October and closed in December 2004.

The Jeanne Rauch Gallery in the Rauch Scienceand Fine Arts Building (RCH) has approximately 1,100 square feet of floor spaceand 150 linear feet of wall space. The exhibition space includes a foyer and corridor gallery at the main entrance of the building that looks into a large, enclosed gallery with light oak floors and off-white painted walls. The ceiling height is twelve feet to thirty feet with indirect natural light and excellent state of the art track lighting. The main gallery space overlooks a natural forest and opens onto an outdoor plaza at the rear of the building.

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Beam Gallery

The Beam Gallery in the Dewey F. and Prue K. Beam Center for Visual Arts (CVA) has approximately 600 square feet of floor space and 60 linear feet of carpet covered wall space. The gallery is a large, open space with a smaller, partially enclosed space at one end. Ceiling height is nine feet to 16 feet with indirect natural light and track lighting.

The Gaston College Art & Music Department features the work of local and regional emerging and professional artists in its exhibition program.  A wide range of temporary exhibitions is scheduled each semester and lectures, gallery talks, and visiting artists supplement classroom and studio work.  The Art Department and the Student Art Club mount a Student Art Show & Sale in the fall and a juried Student Exhibition in the spring.

Questions?  E-mail freeman.gary@gaston.edu

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