Mark Guglielmo: Portraits of My People art exhibition

Award-winning Northampton-based visual artist Mark Guglielmo will mount the first solo exhibition of his new series of life-size collage portraits of his Southern Italian ancestors at Barn Door Gallery, Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA running from April 2—30, 2025. **Opening Reception** will be held on **Friday April 11 from 5-9pm** (coinciding with Arts Night Out), with an **Artist Talk at 7:30pm** that same night in the gallery. There will also be a **Community Conversation** entitled “Italians and Whiteness in the United States” on **Saturday April 19 from 4-5pm** in the gallery featuring Guglielmo, his dear sister **Jennifer Guglielmo** (Professor of History, Smith College), and good friend **Heshima Moja** (Musician, Composer, Sonic Architect). Gallery hours are Wed-Sat 11am- 7pm, closed Sun, Mon, and Tue. The gallery is fully accessible and admission is free. At the intersection of current events, contemporary art, and social history, Guglielmo’s new body of work uses collage portraiture as a vehicle to examine issues of race, class, migration, and power. Combing through thousands of old, black and white, archival and family photographs, the artist drew inspiration from his childhood growing up in New York and from those that came before him. Themes of memory, identity, family, and belonging permeate the portraits.