“Revitalize With Nature: Locally Inspired Landscape Photography” by Norwich resident and molecular biologist, Brenda Petrella opens with a reception Friday evening from 5 to 6:30 at Norwich Public Library.
Artist statements tend to be either cryptic or indecipherable, cramped with two-bit art-school jargon. Perhaps owing to her background as a scientist, Petrella writes with a refreshing ease about the straightforward impetus behind her work:
“As an ever-advancing digital society, most of us interact with screened devices and man-made materials more than we engage with the natural world. We too easily forget that we are made of nature, not separate from it, and that some of the best ways to reduce stress involve reconnecting with the natural world. Through this exhibit, I hope to inspire others to find ways to make time to get outside and find solace in our beautiful local landscape.”
The show is on view through October.
“And Still We Rise,” an exhibition of quilts made by members of the Women of Color Quilters Network and organized by Louisiana-based historian, curator and quilter Carolyn L. Mazloomi, opens Saturday at both the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, N.H., and at Canaan Meeting House. The show comprises 44 quilts, and the bulk of them, 34, with be on display in Canaan. The meeting house was chosen as a location for the show’s tour because the establishment of Noyes Academy, an integrated school that was burned down by racist protesters in the 1830s, was debated and approved within the building’s walls.
Organized by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Cincinnati Art Museum, “And Still We Rise” has been touring the country. Its New Hampshire debut, co-presented by the Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center and the Canaan Historic District, opens a tour of the New England states to be coordinated by the Mariposa Museum.
The Mariposa Museum is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. The Canaan exhibition is open by appointment. Contact contact Donna Dunkerton at 603-523-7960. John Bergeron can also help to open the exhibit during the week by calling 603-523-9621 or emailing dunkertonjh@gmail.com.
“Sister Show,” an exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based sisters Carolie and Laura Parker, is on view at BigTown Gallery in Rochester, Vt. Carolie specializes in painting, sculpture and poetry, while Laura works as a photographer and in installation and video animation. A reception is planned for Sunday at 4 p.m., followed by the final installment of the Joan Hutton Landis Reading Series, at 5:30. Carolie Parker will read from her poems, along with Margi Rogal and Woon Ping-Chin.
Also on view at BigTown, sculptures and watercolors by Bruce Edelstein, inspired by years he spent in Oaxaca, Mexico, and abstract paintings by Lucy Mink-Covello, a resident of Contoocook, N.H., who’s the artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College this fall. A reception for those two artists is planned for 5 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 22.
As artist-in-residence, Mink-Covello also will have work on display in the Hopkins Center’s Jaffe-Friede Gallery. She will talk about her work in the college’s Loew Auditorium at 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 18, the day the show opens, with a reception to follow in the gallery.
West Lebanon’s Kilton Public Library will hold a reception for Elizabeth Moore this evening from 5 to 7. Moore’s paintings are on view through Oct. 9.
Closing
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction. “Family,” prints by Norwich artist Sue Schiller, inspired by the nation’s immigration crisis, is on view through Friday.
Chelsea Public Library. “Velvet Brown Disease,” a horse-themed exhibit by Chelsea painter Linda Ducharme, is on view through Friday.
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 Friday.
Long River Gallery and Gifts, White River Junction. Piermont artist Stephanie Gordon’s show of encaustic (wax) paintings continues through Friday.
Hood Downtown, Hanover. “The Firmament,” an exhibit of drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola that explores the conceptualization of race, is on view through Sunday.
Call to Artists
Center for the Arts, in New London, is seeking artists from New Hampshire and its contiguous states to submit work for a juried show this fall. The deadline is Sept. 18. For more information, look to the center’s website, cfavag.org.
Ongoing
Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden. “Inside Out,” paintings by Galen Cheney, is on view through Sept. 9, and “Transparent Bodies,” a series of paintings by the late Aidron Duckworth, will stay up through Oct. 28. Column II, an outdoor sculpture by artist and musician John McKenna, is on view through Oct. 22. Parliament of the Souls, an outdoor sculptural installation by the Vershire artist Sande French-Stockwell, shows through Oct. 28.
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.
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. The hospital’s summer art exhibition features 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.
Gifford Gallery at Gifford Medical Center, Randolph. Watercolors by Vermont artist Barbara Geyselaers are on view through Sept 19.
Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vt. “Made in Vermont” features work by six Vermont artists, including Upper Valley painter Patrick Dunfey. Also on view: “The Solace of Amnesia,” a group show curated by Alexis Rockman and Katherine Gass Stowe from the Hall Foundation’s collections, and “Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros,” curated by Eric Fischl, another group show of the foundation’s work.
Kilton Library, West Lebanon. Elizabeth R. Moore, of Grantham, exhibits mixed-media paintings through Oct. 9.
Ledyard Gallery, Howe Library, Hanover. To celebrate her co-workers, Kris Burnett, who’s retiring as the library’s head of circulation services, has crafted 30 small woolen gifts that will be on display through Oct. 3.
Matt Brown Fine Art, Lyme. “In Search of Shapes by Land and by Sea,” paintings by Strafford artist Jennifer Brown, is on view through Oct. 13.
Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield. “Marking the Moments,” an exhibit of oil paintings by Plainfield artist M.J. Morse, continues through Wednesday.
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. Two shows of his paintings are on view at South Royalton Market and Worthy Burger.
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish. “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 will be closed Saturday 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, Woodstock. Dozens of artists, many based in the Upper Valley, exhibit new or continuing work in the annual outdoor showcase of three-dimensional art at the Prosper Road home of Charlet and Peter Davenport and at the nearby King Farm. 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. A show of two dozen photographs by North Thetford photographer Allison Clayton is on view through Nov. 3. An opening reception is planned for Sept. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m.
White River Craft Center, Randolph. “Jack Rowell, Cultural Documentarian: Portraits of Vermont People and Other Wildlife,” a retrospective of the Braintree, Vt., photographer’s work, is on view into the fall.
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.
Alex Hanson can be reached at ahanson@vnews.com or 603-727-3207.
