Globe Institute Gallery is devoted to promoting the art-historical, theoretical, and critical understanding and informed experience of contemporary visual works of art, focusing on painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, architecture, video, installation art and other innovative mediums.

Founded in August 2002, it has transformed the entrance hall of an educational building located a block north of City Hall into a visual space. The works on display are both glanced while in motion and examined more closely at other times.

The Gallery’s greatest strengths have so far been in paintings by contemporary artists residing in the United States and Europe. Photography has also taken an important place either on its own or as an indirect counterpart to both abstract and partially photorealist paintings.

One major role of the Gallery to Globe Institute of Technology is its link to the various art history courses the college offers. As a way of learning and research, students have selected specific works, submitting them to a formal analysis and examining their links to specific works within art-historical contexts.

What gives Globe Institute Gallery an edge is a contextual one. As a “local,” “small,” and “alternative” space, it “is beautiful, or at least appropriate. Perhaps it is better to serve a local community well than to pretend to embrace the world.”¹

¹ Stuart Morgan, “Bobbies and Buddhists and Boone, Oh My!” Artforum (September 1993), p. 180. Within this same issue of Artforum, Rosalind Krauss likewise addresses the issue of contextualization through the postscript of an essay on the works of Cindy Sherman, writing: “Even if I am calling for nothing more than a certain level of competence in reading works of art, that very call marginalizes readers whose lack of access to the cultural center has deprived them of such competence.” Rosalind Krauss, “Cindy Sherman’s Gravity: A Critical Fable,” Artforum (September 1993), p. 206.

Artists who are interested in exhibiting a coherent body of work must submit slides, biographies, and statements to the attention of Norene Leddy.