Of the 81 artists featured last year in AVA Gallery and Art Center’s juried exhibition of regional artists, juror John Stomberg, director of the Hood Museum of Art, selected three winners of the Juror Recognition Award: sculptor Bruce Blanchette, of Walpole, N.H.; Quechee painter Helen Shulman; and Susan Wilson, a Putney, Vt.-based sculptor.
An exhibit featuring work by the winning artists opens on Friday at the Lebanon art center. All three will participate in a panel discussion Friday afternoon at 4, before an opening reception at 5. Through Aug. 24.
Openings and Receptions
A retrospective show by the noted photographer Jack Rowell, a Tunbridge native who now lives in Braintree, Vt., went up this week at Randolph’s White River Craft Center, in the Kimball House at the end of Randolph Avenue (in the same building as Saap Restaurant). The exhibit, “Jack Rowell: Cultural Documentarian” will continue through September, and possibly through October.
The summer art exhibit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center opens tonight at 5. Featured artists are Becky Cook and NatEli, the Norwich artists behind the collaboration “Miss-Match”; Robert Chapla, an oil painter from Newbury, Vt.; the late David Eckert, who painted hundreds of watercolors while suffering from Parkinson’s disease; North Sutton, N.H.-based photographer Larry Harper; painter Doris Ingram, a part-time resident of Weston, Vt.; oil painter Tatiana Yanovskaya-Sink, based in Rockland, Mass.; and Keene, N.H. oil painter Anne Ward, as well as work by members of the Upper Valley Woodturners.
The reception will take place in the Level 4 Lounge, with artist remarks and introductions at 5:30. Afterward, guests may go on a self-guided art walk.
A reception for “Velvet Brown Disease,” Linda Ducharme’s exhibit of horse-themed paintings at Chelsea Public Library, will take place tonight at 6. Ducharme, who lives in Chelsea, shows her paintings through August.
Bradford, Vt. native Madeleine Murray shows new paintings this weekend in “Imagining Home,” an exhibit at Towle Hill Studio in Corinth, with a reception on Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6. The gallery is at 28 Center Road, and hours are Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m.
Of Note
Monday night at the Howe Library in Hanover, “traveling sketch artist” Sue Anne Bottomley presents her book, Colorful Journey, for which she visited and drew all 234 towns and cities in New Hampshire. The presentation starts at 7. Afterward, Bottomley, who lives in New London, will lead a traveling sketchbook demo, to run until 8:30.
Pentangle Arts in Woodstock is calling for entries to its sixth annual Light Garden, which lines the footpaths of the Woodstock green with sculptures incorporating light.
Individuals and small groups may enter sculptures up to 10-by-10-by-10 feet, that are outdoor-safe and weatherproof, and ideally use recycled or repurposed materials. The sculptures will be lighted Friday, Sept. 21 and Saturday, Sept. 22, from dusk to 10 p.m.
The deadline to fill out an entry form is Aug. 17, and spaces are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information on the Light Garden and how to enter, go to pentanglearts.org/artist-call or email Serena Nelson at info@pentanglearts.org.
Ongoing
Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden. “Exhibition XXXI: Forms Hidden, Forms Revealed,” curated from three series of Duckworth’s work, and “Strata Series,” an exhibition of new prints by Sheri Hancock-Tomek, continue through Sunday. Column II, an outdoor sculpture by artist and musician John McKenna, is on view through Oct. 22. McKenna grew up in Norwich and lives in Barrington, R.I. Parliament of the Souls, an outdoor sculptural installation by the Vershire artist Sande French-Stockwell, shows through Oct. 28.
BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vt. “Hyper Flora,” paintings by part-time Vermont resident Joanne Carson, and “Light & Paper/Mes Plantes” by the Massachusetts-based photographer Peter Moriarty, continue through Aug. 25.
“Light Field,” an exhibit of paintings by the upstate New York-based artist Alison Weld, shows through Saturday.
Center for the Arts, New London. Work is shown in three micro-galleries: at New London Inn, showing paintings by Vicki Koron, of Sunapee; at Bar Harbor Bank and Trust, featuring work by Newport, N.H. oil painter Ludmila Gayvoronsky; and at Whipple Hall Gallery, which displays the work of Proctor Academy students.
Chew & Co. Design, Hanover. The closing date for an art show by recent Dartmouth graduates has been extended to mid-August.
Cider Hill Gallery, Windsor. “Garden Visions,” a show of flower portraits and landscape paintings in egg tempera and gold leaf by Cider Hill co-owner Gary Milek, continues through Sept. 16.
Converse Free Library, Lyme. “Paintings: Places Near and Far” by Thetford artist Jean Gerber, shows through Sept. 29. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon.
Gifford Gallery at Gifford Medical Center, Randolph. Watercolors by Bonnie Fallon, of Brookfield, Vt., are on view through Aug. 15.
Hood Downtown, Hanover. “The Firmament,” an exhibit of drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola that explores the conceptualization of race, is on view through Sept. 2.
Howe Library, Hanover. “O This Verdant Valley,” an exhibit by the Upper Valley’s en plein air Odanaksis Art Group, is in the Ledyard Gallery through Aug. 1.
Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hanover. “Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged: Broken Treaty Quilts,” an exhibit of quilts by Gina Adams, the current artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College’s Studio Art Department, continues through Sunday.
Kilton Library, West Lebanon. Elizabeth R. Moore, of Grantham, exhibits mixed-media paintings in the library’s gallery space through Oct. 9.
Long River Gallery and Gifts, White River Junction. Piermont artist Stephanie Gordon’s show of encaustic (wax) paintings continues through August.
Matt Brown Fine Art, Lyme. John Lehet, of Hartland, exhibits decades’ worth of photographs of Lyme’s Post Pond in “Post Pond In and Out of Time.” Through Aug. 12.
New London Hospital. The latest rotating art exhibition features Garrett Evans, a South Sutton, N.H.-based photographer; Bow, N.H., photographer Charles S. “Whitey” Joslin, Jr.; and Enfield painter Penny Koburger. Through Aug. 31.
Norwich Public Library. Norwich resident Chad Finer exhibits his show “Back to Africa: A photographic return to Peace Corps Sierra Leone, 1968-70,” through Aug. 31.
Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield. “Marking the Moments,” an exhibit of oil paintings by Plainfield artist M.J. Morse, continues through Aug. 15.
Roth Center for Jewish Life, Hanover. Mort Wise shows photographs in “Fading Memories, Vanishing Voices” through Labor Day. A former Upper Valley resident who continues to summer in West Lebanon, Wise currently lives in Charlotte, N.C.
Royalton Memorial Library. Peter Shvetsov, a part-time Royalton resident and native of Saint Petersburg, Russia, shows a series of etchings. More of his work is on view elsewhere in town, at South Royalton Market and Worthy Burger.
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish. “The Etcher’s Journey: A Retrospective of Prints by Charles A. Platt and Stephen Parrish” features the work of two Cornish Colony artists, in the Picture Gallery through July.
“Natural Forces: Three Sculptors’ Visions,” featuring work by Fabienne Lasserre, Clive Moloney and Rosalyn Driscoll, is scattered around the site through Oct. 31.
Scavenger Gallery, White River Junction. The gallery, which shows the jewelry and mixed-media assemblages of owner Stacy Hopkins, will be closed Friday and Saturday and Aug. 4 through Aug. 31. Revolution, in White River Junction, has a collection of Hopkins’ bronze work on permanent display. Sterling pieces from Scavenger can be purchased through Rachel Obbard, owner of Long River Gallery and Gifts next door.
SculptureFest, 509 Prosper Road, Woodstock. Thirty-six artists, many based in the Upper Valley, exhibit new or continuing work in the annual outdoor showcase of three-dimensional art. Featured artists this year are Mary Admasian, of East Montpelier, and Robert Hitzig, of Montpelier. The show typically continues through foliage season. A guide to SculptureFest, including audio clips of artists speaking about their work, is available on the mobile app Otocast.
Steven Thomas, Inc. Fine Arts & Antiques, White River Junction. Work by Upper Valley “vintage” artists, such as Alice Standish Buell (1892-1964), Arthur B. Wilder (1857-1949) and Ilse Bischoff (1901-1990) is on view.
Tunbridge Public Library. Marion Lent, of Tunbridge, shows handmade felted figures in “Sprites To Live By.” Through Aug. 18.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction. Carol Lippman, a part-time West Newbury, Vt. resident, shows work through July.
White River Gallery at BALE, South Royalton. “Streams of Light,” a show of paintings by Chelsea artist Susan G. Scott, continues through Aug. 4.
Zollikofer Gallery, White River Junction. A show of abstract oil paintings and mixed-media on black-walnut-stained paper by Dian Parker, the curator and director of South Royalton’s White River Gallery, is up through Sept. 26.
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