The Bundy Museum Presents:
Pareidolia’s Intended Consequences:
Jerry Macdonell
First Friday Opening Reception, Sept. 5th, 2025
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Exhibition on display from 9.5.25 - 10.1.25
Located in the Bundy Museum 3rd floor art gallery
Admission to art gallery is always free
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
No RSVP is required for the First Friday event
For regular visiting hours, walk-ins are welcome, however, booking a reservation online is recommended. Upon arriving, please check in at our visitor’s center at 133 Main St., Binghamton NY.
Coming Soon:
Watch a virtual tour of the gallery below or in the videos section at Facebook.com/bundymuseum and The Bundy Museum YouTube channel.
From the artist:
I enjoy abstract art for the ebb and flow of the paint and the visuals it brings out, both intended and unintended. My monochromatic oil paintings in particular utilize pareidolia, which is defined on Wikipedia as follows:
“Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas).” - [taken from Wikipedia.org]
I invite you to see what you will in the work. Sometimes I paint what I see myself and sometimes I leave it semi-defined with highlight and shadow to almost look like something but allowing individual whimsy to take over for the sake of what personal meaning the viewer finds within. After all, perception is reality.
Jerry Macdonell - Bio:
Self-taught regional artist and Vestal, NY resident; exploring multiple mediums including acrylics, oils, 3D rendering and computer animation, video and stop-motion animation on a professional basis since 2000. Jerry has created works that have been displayed in Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Seneca and Steuben Counties in New York and has been on display at
Endless Brewing in Montrose, Pennsylvania. He also co-painted a mural, “Clinton Street: Past and Present”, on the corner of Clinton Street and Front Street in Binghamton, NY through grants from the Neighborhood Development Project Fund and the Broome County Arts Council. He has participated in live painting events since 2013 in the Broome County area, including live art exhibitions in conjunction with QuarterYellow Studios and gallery events in 2014 for Fear of Art as well as gallery displays at Stilettos Gallery, the Bundy Museum of History and Art and Atomic Tom’s in Binghamton, NY.
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Art Exhibit Virtual Tour: Coming Soon
Pareidolia’s Intended Consequences: Jerry Macdonell
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The First Friday Art Walk Virtual Gallery Shows at The Bundy Museum are made possible by a grant from The Harriet Ford Dickenson Fund of the Community Foundation for South Central New York.
Support Provided by the General Operations Support Grant from the United Cultural Fund, a program of the Broome County Arts Council.
The Bundy Museum of History & Art
129 Main St. Binghamton, NY 13905