Taber Art Gallery
Art is for everybody.
The gallery features innovative contemporary artists from the western Massachusetts area and beyond and holds an annual exhibition for Holyoke Community College art students.
Free and open to the public, the gallery is accessed through the HCC Library Lobby in Donahue Building. For directions and parking accessibility, see Getting Here.
We are always accepting applications for exhibtions by one or more artists, with application reviews taking place over the summer. See Open Calls for more information.
On View
Winter Break December 22, 2025 – January 20, 2026
Taber Art Gallery is closed during this time.
Pressed: Post-war Prints by Fred Becker (1913-2004) from the HCC Collection
November 3, 2025 – January 30, 2026
Library Lobby Display
Curated by Rachel Rushing, Director, and Savannah Comstock, Gallery Assistant
Translated by Mayrangelique Rojas De Leon, Gallery Assistant
Post-War Art refers to work made following World War II, from around 1945 to the 1970s. Because “post-war” is a time period, there is no defining style or movement. Instead, many post-war art movements focused on experimentation either through the tools or materials artists were using, what artists understood as the purpose of their work, how art was presented, and even experimentation with what made something Art. Artists had to make sense of a world that had just experienced, and perpetrated, a level of devastation, death, and destruction that had previously been unimaginable. Becker’s prints from this period fall under Abstract Expressionism, an art movement focused on the emotional inner world of the artist, expressed through increasingly distorted, abstracted forms.
El arte de posguerra se refiere a las obras realizadas tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, desde aproximadamente 1945 hasta la década de 1970. Dado que la "posguerra" es un período, no existe un estilo o movimiento que la defina. En cambio, muchos movimientos artísticos de posguerra se centraron en la experimentación, ya sea a través de las herramientas o los materiales que utilizaban los artistas, lo que los artistas entendían como el propósito de su trabajo, cómo se presentaba el arte e incluso la experimentación con lo que hacía que algo fuera arte. Los artistas tuvieron que dar sentido a un mundo que acababa de experimentar y perpetrar un nivel de devastación, muerte y destrucción que antes era inimaginable. Los grabados de Becker de este período se enmarcan en el expresionismo abstracto, un movimiento artístico centrado en el mundo interior emocional del artista, expresado a través de formas cada vez más distorsionadas y abstractas.
Coming Soon
River Valley Radical Futures
January 20 – March 12, 2026
Imagining the Connecticut River Valley 100 years beyond the fall of capitalism
2026 HCC Student Art Exhibition
April, 2026
Join us for our annual celebration of the remarkable work done by students in the Visual Art Department at HCC.
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