THE GALLERY

The Gallery is a public-private partnership of the Summit Free Public Library and Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Funding for the gallery was provided by a grant from the Summit Area Foundation. For more information on the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, please visit www.artcenternj.org.

Currently on display:

Bruce McClellan: Feel the Moment

January 3 – February 28, 2025

Fifteen years ago, Bruce McClellan enrolled in instructor Valeri Larko’s landscape painting class at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. Continuing his studies since, Feel the Moment showcases the development of McClellan’s skills over the past decade and a half under Larko’s instruction. McClellan credits his classes and classmates with introducing him to a wide range of landscape subjects, from fields and skies to urbanscapes. This exposure helped him understand the space his work occupies within this genre and contributed to his progression as an artist. McClellan believes that landscape paintings, in addition to depicting a scene, represent a moment as it is felt and experienced, which is thereby shared with the viewer.

Bruce McClellan is a geologist with a bachelor’s degree from New Jersey City University and master’s degree from Rutgers University. He enjoyed a career as an environmental consultant, focused on studying and restoring contaminated soil and groundwater throughout the country. His study of geology and work in the natural environment contributed to his interest in natural settings as subjects for his paintings.