Exhibition Dates: May 23 - August 10, 2022

Oresman Gallery (located in the museum building)
Smith College
22 Elm Street
Northampton, MA

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm (closed Memorial Day and July 4th), masks required.

Opening in the wake of COVID-19, AREA CODE is New England's newest contemporary art fair that runs throughout the month of August online and onsite around Greater Boston.

Curator and art writer Octavio Zaya selected artists to feature in solo presentations in AREA CODE's Main Section, which includes five artworks by Jessica Tam. The Main Section goes live on August 1st at 1pm.

More information, including the full schedule and maps to storefront art and event tickets, is available starting August 1st at: www.areacodeartfair.com

Also, check out the Boston Globe write-up, which includes Jessica Tam's Monument Field: Grey Blue Trip, for a sneak peek.

Exhibition: June 18 - July 27, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 20th, 6-8pm


"Working It Out" features 112 artists of all disciplines who begin their creative process with preparatory drawings. This enables visual problem solving throughout the execution of an artwork that is both fluid and beautiful. Drawing can be an exploration of materials, mark making, the emotional tenor of a piece, compositional arrangements or color. Working drawings are the visual manifestation of a work in progress; a working idea. Typically, this work is not seen by the public. These are private musings that reflect thought processes. They are, by definition, incomplete. This exhibition will allow the viewer to see the private world of the artist’s creative process.

This work is about discovery. We looked for exploration rather than refinement: the beginnings of ideas rather than their execution. The pieces here show artists at their most personal ”working things out”. Happily, the forms these explorations take, are varied in both material and process. Some are 3 dimensional. Most, but not all, are works are on paper. Dimensions vary from 1 inch to 6 feet. Some use photography, printmaking and collage as well as the more traditional drawing media of pencil ink and color. Occasionally paper is added to change scale, shift perspective, or cover an earlier thought. There are erasures, corrections and emphatic marks. These represent an active field. We see artists making choices throughout these inventions. We viewers follow and contrast both thought and process.

More information can be found on The Painting Center's website here

Link to Inveroart's review here