Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine
May 2–June 27: Hear, Here, is an exhibition by artist Ann Steuernagel created by listening to and working with the natural environment. Ann accentuates the gestures and quotidian rhythms of her subjects with photographs created by alternative processes along with sculpture, sound and video. WREN is dedicated to providing educational and cultural opportunities in the White Mountains. Opening reception: Friday, May 2, 5–7 p.m.
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Ongoing: Monet: Reimagining the French Landscape highlights two landscape paintings by Claude Monet, the seminal French painter of the late nineteenth century. Through quick strokes of brightly colored paint, Monet prompted his audiences to take a new look at the French landscape. Ongoing: Abstraction in North America predates the founding of the United States by thousands of years. Picking up this story in the 19th century, Always Already: Abstraction in the United States celebrates diverse approaches to color, geometry, and composition. Free and open to all.
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Main Galleries, May 23–June 28: Understory: Don Collins, Stephanie Gordon, Marcie Scudder, Ann Steuernagel; New photographs by Sher Kamman and Jack Morris; New paintings by Meg McLean. Opening reception: Friday, May 30. In the Roesch Gallery, May 9–July 12: Canopy: A group exhibition supporting Mental Health Awareness. Opening reception: Friday, May 9.
Read moreThrough March 7: Catch the end of Jeffrey Augustine Songco: Society of 23’s Conservatory which is an immersive, site-specific installation that creates a multisensory experience. April 1–May 3: Maker Fest presents works from makers in the Phillips Exeter Academy community: students, staff and others. The selections offer both the aesthetic and practical and showcase their community’s ingenuity and imagination.
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Through March 30: Losing Winter: Lynn Cazabon presents a unique and site-specific realization of Losing Winter, an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. Opening April 4: A Hole Hanging in the Air, works by Kate Conlon. Through a meticulous process of archival research and digital modeling, Conlon recreates illusion-generating, precise reconstructions of mechanical devices from the history of cinematic visual effects as cut-paper constructions.
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April 4–May 21: Travels, mixed media paintings of Tom Arsenault. Deftly merging paint and historical artifact, Arsenault creates ethereal scenes that evoke curiosity and emotion. Blending objects of art from both Eastern and Western traditions, his work seemingly transcends time and place, instead drawing the viewer into a mysterious dreamscape of rich color and surprising depth. Reception: Friday, April 4, 5:30 p.m.
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Through December 18: A Sculptor’s Watercolors. Sculptor Wendy Klemperer shows her watercolors and drawings, offering a rare glimpse of an artist’s work across mediums. She will display a sculpture recently purchased for the Dublin School’s sculpture park alongside her intimate, fresh and bold watercolor studies. Reception: Friday, December 6, 6-8 p.m.
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Contemporary fine New England art and photography in a 1780 farmhouse. Through November 11: A Place for the Sacred: Four Artists Reflect Upon A New & Difficult World. Sunday, November 3, 4 p.m.: Closing Arguments & Poetry Reading. Individual and group fall and winter workshops in italic calligraphy, nature cards/journals and raised and tooled gold leaf.
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Ongoing: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts: A Distant Conversation brings together six artworks by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), one of the most celebrated and influential artists of his generation, and seven large canvases by New York-based Ivorian painter Ouattara Watts (b. 1958). Ongoing: Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit. Ongoing: Olga de Amaral: Everything is Construction and Color.
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