Supra Natural brings inquiry through abstraction at STCC’s Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College opened its latest show called “Supra Natural,” a collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures curated by area artist Donnabelle Casis.

STCC Professor of Photography and Philosophy, Sondra Peron said the school chose a guest curator for this show because she brings a wealth of connections with other, similar artists.

“We have 11 artists who have been brought together by Donnabelle, who assembled all the artists around the concept of abstraction,” she said. “A lot of the work you will see here leans toward the abstract side of life.”

Casis said most of artists she invited to show are from Massachusetts and are people she knows or follows on social media and is intimately familiar with their work.

“I am someone who questions how we make out work as artists,” she said. “There is this aspect of taking what we know, what we see, what we experience and sort of transform that into something that is tangible, that is made into a form that we could feel, touch, hear and see.”

Among the artists shown is Holyoke Community College Art Professor Raichad Glover who hung two examples of his print-on-mirror technique.

Adria Arch was represented by two of her Styrofoam sculptures over which she lays on layers of acrylic to give textual to the framework. One piece, Sentinel 1, stands over 10 feet tall.

Other works include Vick Quezada’s “Anthropocene Teen” and Jai Hart’s “Love Us Together” a combination oil of canvas with a polyfill and stitched border.

Brantner DeAtley contributed several examples of his abstract pencil drawings on paper.

The artists showing in Supra Natural are Reed Anderson, Adria Arch, Kim Carline, Brantner DeAtley, Raishad Glover, Sean Greene, Jai Hart, Molly Kaderka, LoVid, Vick Quesada and Andrew Zarou.

Supra Natural is open through Nov. 15, and gallery hours are Monday and Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30. Friday the gallery is open from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.