Gallery Says “OMG!” for Graham Elliott Exhibition

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Wednesday, February 18 2026 @ 01:54 am

PARAMUS, N.J. – The work of Bergen Community College visual arts faculty member, illustrator and motion graphics artist Graham Elliott will appear in Gallery Bergen this month.

The exhibition “OMG! Graham Elliott” will open with a public reception on Thursday, February 26 at 6 p.m. in Gallery Bergen, the College’s art exhibition space located on the third floor of West Hall at its main campus in Paramus (400 Paramus Road). The opening reception will feature performances by flutist Carl Aude and cellist The Modesto Kid and refreshments prepared by the College’s culinary students.

‘OMG!’ embraces play, humor and improvisation as serious artistic strategies, inviting viewers into a space where curiosity, obsession and sustained looking are treated with care and rigor,” Gallery Bergen Director Timothy Blunk said. “Graham Elliott’s work is disarmingly playful, yet purposeful - using accumulation, motion, and wit as engines for reflection rather than distraction. The exhibition reveals how whimsy is not the opposite of depth, but one of its most precise and enduring tools.”

“OMG” will feature two tents inside the gallery to house “shrines” to lost keys, sketchbooks, projections, “wall books,” installations, looped motion graphics and videos. Some pieces include collaborations with Graham’s former and current Bergen students.

“My work meets at the intersection of many art forms: illustration, graphic design, advertising, animation, sculpture, collage, film and storytelling all feeding off each other as if all the animals in a zoo were released and were hanging out, partying,” Elliott said. “I think the process can be more interesting than the finished product.”

During his career, Elliott designed some of the first motion graphics for MTV, illustrated for publications such as The New York Times and collaborated with the Rolling Stones. He has worked for Saatchi and Saatchi, Nickelodeon and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He joined Bergen’s faculty in 2023.

The exhibition will remain on view through Friday, April 10. For Gallery Bergen hours, visit gallery.bergen.edu. For more information, email tblunk@bergen.edu.

Alongside the exhibition, the College will screen “New York in Motion,” a film created by Elliott and Roswitha Rodrigues, on Thursday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in the College’s Pitkin Education Center room A-104 (400 Paramus Road). The 2011 documentary spotlights New York’s motion graphics industry.

Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 24,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.