Collection Guide

The collection includes art by Susan Kare, graphic designer responsible for many of the interface elements and typefaces for the original Apple Macintosh; Wayne White, renowned painter, puppeteer, set designer for Pee Wee’s Playhouse; Bob Gruen, famous rock ’n roll photographer for John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Tina Turner, and many more; Sunday B. Morning, the screen printing company behind Andy Warhol’s second Marilyn Monroe series.

The art in our collection is organized by number. ID numbers can be found on the wall, to the right of each piece. Scroll to the matching ID number to learn the artist's name, title of the piece, and medium. This listing is only for art currently on display and does not include anything stored or borrowed. Some images are cropped for design consistency. No biographies or statements were written or edited by the museum. The views and opinions expressed are those of the artists and do not reflect the position of the museum, sponsors, or volunteers.

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SHANNON RANKIN

Bound
Pen & Ink, Thread

Shannon Rankin was born in California in 1971 and currently lives and works in Rangeley, Maine. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine (1997).

Her recent solo exhibitions include Fathom, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine (2011) and Disperse / Displace, Gallery Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany (2010). Her work is included in private and public collections both nationally and internationally. Select group exhibitions include Crux, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine; Moving Maps, EPFL Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne, Switzerland; Maps, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine, and Constructed Territory, Wright State University, Ohio. Her work has been featured in Geo Graphic, Elephant, Maine Home and Design, Maine Magazine, Papercraft 2, Data Flow 2, and Perfect Paper.

Recent awards include the 2010 Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial Juror’s Prize, and residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

“I create installations, collages and sculptures that use the language of maps to explore the connections among geological and biological processes, patterns in nature, geometry and anatomy. Using a variety of distinct styles I intricately cut, score, wrinkle, layer, fold, paint and pin maps to produce revised versions that often become more like the terrains they represent. These new geographies explore notions of place, perception and experience, suggesting the potential for a broader landscape and inviting viewers to examine their relationships with each other and the world we share.”

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SAM PAOLINI

Unknown Title
Pen & Ink

Sam Paolini is a visual artist, illustrator, printmaker, clothing designer, community organizer, curator, publisher, and teacher living in Dover, New Hampshire.

Paolini has been a professional artist since dropping out of Massachusetts College of Art in 2008. In March 2010 Paolini founded Wrong Brain, a zine featuring the art and writing of local creatives. Wrong Brain has since expanded to 9 zines, 3 audio compilations, annual alternative art fairs, gallery shows, poetry readings, and other multimedia art events.

From 2010-2013, Sam directed the curatorial committee of 30 Under 30, a locally renowned annual art exhibition featuring the Seacoast’s best emerging artists. Paolini has been teaching art at the non-profit art center Main Street Art in Newfields, NH since 2011.

In 2012, the children’s book Dream Detectives: Something Funny About the Cake was published, featuring 30 pages of illustrations by Sam. In 2017, Sam travelled across the United States for 77 days, painting murals for free for community centers, nonprofits, communes and collectives.

Paolini currently works as resident artist instructor for nonprofit Arts In Reach. In 2019, Sam will open their first retail store and studio combo, in collaboration with Wrong Brain.

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Kira Leigh

Rad
Pen & Ink

"Using Dali’s paranoiac method of creation I engage my drawing and painting materials with an attempt to exorcize personal anxiety and demons. The end result is usually a female nude expressing contrary social norms, such as being highly sexual but not sexualized, possessing abundant body hair but still being attractive, being objectified in a sexual situation but being physically unattractive.

Sometimes my females have male sexual organs, sometimes they are conjoined twins, and sometimes they are corpses or mutilated in some way. My attempt to personalize the female form and make it an expression of anti-patriarchy, pro-feminist ideals is a direct result of my life as a female in the oppressive western cisgendered Christian white male society.

My works often have bright, anime-inspired symbolism and color palettes, drawing inspiration to my early life as an anime addict. Anime is highly misogynistic with very few strong, complete female characters within it that aren’t simply objectified bodies.

I draw, I paint, sometimes I collage, often times using anti-art materials such as highlighters, gel pens, glitter and sharpie markers. I often employ facial makeup to touch on the way females are expressly held up to an unrealistic physical standard and apply copious amounts of strange face paint in order to appear younger or more sexually enticing.

My version of the male gaze is how I honestly experience it as a gross invention created to strip women of their inherent female power and reduce them to objects for use by heteronormative males. I plan nothing, preferring to simply let it pour out of me, using anxiety and depression as a fuel for my distaste of current societal standards and culture."

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Ryan John Lefebvre

October Twenty Ninth
Mixed Media

Lefebvre’s works touch upon poignant topics like politics and culture, while not shying away from topics as sacred as religion and New England folk art. The pieces offer intrigue and haunt the viewer like unsolved puzzles, just when you think you’ve got an understanding of a piece, a minute detail will pop out bringing with it, the realization that you’ve only scratched the surface.

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James Gallagher

Immeasurable Thought
Paper Collage

James Gallagher uses collage to investigate human form and personal identity. His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world and featured in publications such as The Lab Magazine, Elephant Magazine, unFlop Paper and NYArts. His images have appeared in numerous books from Die Gestalten Verlag, including the 2010 title Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage which Gallagher co-edited. Over the past decade he has curated numerous international collage exhibition and is the publisher, editor and creative director of the contemporary art magazine Secret Behavior which launched to much acclaim in 2013. Gallagher earned a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. In addition to creating and curating art, Gallagher is the Creative Director for the Museum of Sex in NYC and an Instructor at Parsons the New School for Design. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

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James Gallagher

To Be Attractive
Paper Collage

James Gallagher uses collage to investigate human form and personal identity. His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world and featured in publications such as The Lab Magazine, Elephant Magazine, unFlop Paper and NYArts. His images have appeared in numerous books from Die Gestalten Verlag, including the 2010 title Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage which Gallagher co-edited. Over the past decade he has curated numerous international collage exhibition and is the publisher, editor and creative director of the contemporary art magazine Secret Behavior which launched to much acclaim in 2013. Gallagher earned a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. In addition to creating and curating art, Gallagher is the Creative Director for the Museum of Sex in NYC and an Instructor at Parsons the New School for Design. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

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Amber Lavalley

Self Portrait as Queen
Oil

Amber Lavalley is a young emerging artist from Rochester, NH. In 2004, Amber graduated from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, where she received her BFA in painting. She spent two years living in Boston, working in a contemporary American craft gallery. Since moving back to Rochester, she has shown her work at Market 100 in Portsmouth, and artstream, and in 2008 won Portsmouth Herald’s Spotlight Award in visual art.

Amber’s one of a kind pen illustrations, are portraits of women with imaginative details. Unique jewelry embellishments, faces and hair styles make the drawings interesting and reflect Amber’s original style. Her portraits combine the confidence expected from the pen, with the capriciousness of a female artist. Each drawing expresses generic sensuality and linear narrative, creating playful and unique works of art.

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Jessica Bell

Unknown Title
Sewn Textile Assemblage, Stretched

Jessica Bell lives and works in a house in Vancouver, British Columbia and the physical parameters of her daily life are a persistent point of inquiry in her materially-sensitive practice. Her recent solo exhibitions are Jessica Bell, curated by Tobin Gibson (Unit 17, 2017), Fits and Starts (Central Art Garage, 2017) and All things being equal. (Ottawa Art Gallery, 2015).

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JESSICA BELL

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James O’Brien

The Storm
Oil

James M. O’Brien is an avid outdoorsman who has spent the majority of his time living among the rural New Hampshire and Hudson Valley scenery. O’Brien was inspired by the British and American romantic landscape painters of 18th and 19th centuries.

In 2007, he began his studies at the New Hampshire Institute of Art graduating four years later with summa cum laude. O’Brien soon began exhibiting his work across the New England Area and taking on commissioned projects across the United States focusing on landscape. An interest within academic draftsmanship and classical painting led him to briefly join the Ingbretson Atelier in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he studied for two years within the Boston School Tradition. In 2017 O’Brien earned his master degree in, Visual Arts, from the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

James O’Brien now lives on a large tract of land in Dunbarton, New Hampshire where his wife (an avid naturalist and artist) explore the diverse New England landscape and study the native wildlife.

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Pablo Picasso Lithograph

Vollard Suite, Planche Xxvii
Limited Edition Lithograph

Lithograph by Société de la Propriété Artistique et des Dessins et Modules. During the 20th century, a group of celebrated artists, including Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso, rediscovered the largely undeveloped art form of lithography. Printmakers encouraged the painters to work directly on lithographic stones in order to create original artworks that could then be executed under the direction of master printers in multiple editions. The combination of modern artist and master printer resulted in unique and visually striking lithographs, which were often used to promote the artists’ work.

This lithograph was produced by the Société de la Propriété Artistique et des Dessins et Modules, signed by Picasso in the plate. SPADEM is a print organization that publishes limited editions of various artists from around the world. SPADEM is a copyright protection and collection society, in France, formed by visual artists and their heirs.

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Kristen Dolloff

Erosion
Screenprint

No information provided.

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Susan Schwake

Embrace
Oil

Fine artist and art teacher Susan Schwake is best known for her bold use of color in her nature-inspired paintings and for her playful-process oriented teaching style. In her own work she is most interested in the role color plays in nature and often alters or amplifies color to uplift the work or draw greater attention to overlooked details. She explores and documents her love of nature in her daily practice of watercolor sketches and gelatin monoprints – often fusing them together. Profoundly interested in blurring the lines between reality and dreams, her landscapes and larger works on canvas feature specific and composite locations rendered in unexpected color. Most recently she has been daily illustrating and annotating a memory a day of her mother for the 100 Days Project.

Along with exhibiting her own work in galleries Susan has also created several large-scale, site-specific public artworks for local municipalities. Her illustrations have been featured by United Airlines, Editions Boreal, Small Magazine from China, ON Magazine, and others. She has been featured online at The Working Proof with two of her gelatin prints, at Juxtapoz with an illustration and she has written for WhipUp and Illustration Friday Blog about artists, DIY and teaching art.

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Daniel Fleming

Far From My Mother’s Home: The General
Oil

Daniel Fleming currently works full-time as an illustrator and designer for The Shepherd Express and has been their main go-to designer and illustrator for a variety of outside clients, both for the paper and their internal design company, Express Creative, for over three years. He’s taken on a variety of tasks and projects throughout the years, getting hands-on experience designing everything from romance novels to trade-show booths.

Although his current full-time employment is design-based, he has simultaneously been building a career as an emerging fine artist and saw his best year yet in 2013 with multiple solo and group shows, increasing sales, and also became a finalist in the “Tournavation Pitch” alongside such big local names as Reginald Baylor and John Rippenoff. Despite continuing to work full-time, he’s steadily inching closer to his goal of becoming a “full-time artist” and hopes to progress even more in the coming year with new mural projects, show proposals, and new art/business ventures.

“I explore a variety of social and political issues, creating insight into perspectives and ideas that many would not otherwise encounter. I take pride in creating work that spans various religious, political and cultural boundaries, creating a discussion and narrative that informs the viewer of the vast world around them. With a combination of symbol, representation, mark-making and a unique approach to titling, I provide various aspects of a topic and ask the viewer, using their own experiences and perspectives, to discover their own narrative in the work. This leads to an ever-changing and ever-growing artwork that develops alongside the people who view it. Though I call myself a painter, I use a wide variety of media and am always exploring new tools and techniques. While I almost always include painting in my work, drawing and mark-making has become an equally important aspect of my recent collections, as exemplified in this series of ink-drawings and paintings.”

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DANIEL FLEMING

Far From My Mother’s Home: The Soldier
Oil

Daniel Fleming currently works full-time as an illustrator and designer for The Shepherd Express and has been their main go-to designer and illustrator for a variety of outside clients, both for the paper and their internal design company, Express Creative, for over three years. He’s taken on a variety of tasks and projects throughout the years, getting hands-on experience designing everything from romance novels to trade-show booths.

Although his current full-time employment is design-based, he has simultaneously been building a career as an emerging fine artist and saw his best year yet in 2013 with multiple solo and group shows, increasing sales, and also became a finalist in the “Tournavation Pitch” alongside such big local names as Reginald Baylor and John Rippenoff. Despite continuing to work full-time, he’s steadily inching closer to his goal of becoming a “full-time artist” and hopes to progress even more in the coming year with new mural projects, show proposals, and new art/business ventures.

“I explore a variety of social and political issues, creating insight into perspectives and ideas that many would not otherwise encounter. I take pride in creating work that spans various religious, political and cultural boundaries, creating a discussion and narrative that informs the viewer of the vast world around them. With a combination of symbol, representation, mark-making and a unique approach to titling, I provide various aspects of a topic and ask the viewer, using their own experiences and perspectives, to discover their own narrative in the work. This leads to an ever-changing and ever-growing artwork that develops alongside the people who view it. Though I call myself a painter, I use a wide variety of media and am always exploring new tools and techniques. While I almost always include painting in my work, drawing and mark-making has become an equally important aspect of my recent collections, as exemplified in this series of ink-drawings and paintings.”

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Beth Wittenberg

Magnetic Hands
Mixed Media

Beth Wittenberg is a contemporary artist currently living in the Seacoast area. She earned a degree in Philosophy and a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. She is currently in the midst of her latest series Beasts, Buildings, & Storms which has amassed over 200 individual works on paper. Wittenberg is inspired by outsider art and children’s art. Her work can be found at Blackbird Studio & Gallery in N. Berwick, ME. She is a member of the Berwick Art Association and the Wrong Brain Collective. Currently she is self-publishing a ten volume graphzine called “INNERSCAPES” based on her drawings.

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Anita NH

Blanche Big
Collage

Anita is a self-taught collage artist and former librarian who embraced mid-life crisis, dropped out of the corporate world, and moved to rural New Hampshire to become creatively self-employed. Owner of Anita’s Beads and Toad Hollow Minerals, Anita also designs jewelry, fabric, and digital art prints.

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Morli Wilcox

We Are Connected
Oil

Molecular and organic formations inspire this painter whose abstract works are made up of a metaphysical and psychokinetic connection to the all energy encompassing life force. The results are beautifully woven shapes, movement and patterns that layer together boldly in a macro-organic explosion of expression, structurally intuitive in capacity.

"I've become focused on abstract expressionism. I call it “chaos theory expressionism.” I can do portraits. I can do landscapes. But I can’t let myself completely go when I’m trying to copy something that’s in front of me. Abstract work is the only work I’ve discovered that you’re able to let yourself go. The rules create themselves as the piece develops. I’ve been compared to Jackson Pollock before. When I compared his work to mine it wasn't that they looked the same, but it was more of once I started researching more of a mathematical process of his work that I had to admit to myself that we were similar as far as our application. Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cindy Sherman are influences of mine. Not necessarily because of their style but more of their perspective."

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Michele Johnsen

Landscape
Acrylic

"I’ve considered myself a landscape painter for more than a decade, but my Master’s work has prompted me to inquire into precisely where my work fits into the landscape tradition and why I choose this particular motif as my primary focus.

The description of intimate spaces and sublime vistas are my response to the way the landscape reflects the light and creates patterns on the forms of natural surfaces. Through the use of graduated hues, abstracted mark-making and highly saturated color I am able to articulate a range of emotional responses that speak to aesthetic rationales, and to psychological and spiritual concerns, allowing access into the magic of those special places."

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Jessica Burko

Fragments and Alterations
Mixed Media

This work brings together traditional photography, digital technology and mixed-media elements. Images are sewn and collaged with layers of beeswax and found papers and wood. The pieced, layered, and stitched techniques in Fragments and Alterations illustrate feelings of falling apart and holding together. Wax muddles the surface, and creates a translucent barrier of imaginary protection, while the body withdraws into line and shape. Sealed under wax the frenzy is calmed, and the static becomes quiet.

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

Misfit
Oil

Daryl-Ann Dartt Hurst was born in Palmdale, California, and spent her first 31 years in southern California. She received her BA in Art at California State University, Northridge, California and did a year of post-graduate work in Art there, as well. In 1986, she relocated to New England.

Dartt Hurst began showing in juried competitions and exhibitions in 1978. She has since been included in many group shows nationally and has had solo exhibits in Boston, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, NH; Lincoln, NH: Littleton, NH; Rochester, NH; Rollinsford, NH; Saint Johnsbury, VT, and Somersworth, NH. She is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH and was awarded the Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts by the City of Rochester Commission for Arts and Culture. She has also been nominated for Ourstanding Painter, Non-Traditional in the Seacoast Spotlight Awards, 2015.

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Cindy Rizza

Fuel
Oil

Native to Maine, Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter with her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her nostalgic, iconic representations of ordinary subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. She has won numerous art awards, including the NH Spotlight Award for Outstanding Representational Artist, The Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, and more. Her work is collected internationally. Cindy lives and works in Southern New Hampshire.

"My work quietly examines familiar domestic comforts and the objects that we use to feel secure. In examining the unique identities of heirloom textiles and childhood nostalgia my work summons conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. I aim to expose the contradictions within the subjects- to honor the comfort and love they bore, but unfold the truths of what we are fearful of in the darkness."

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Soosen Dunholter

Trabadelo 6
Mixed Media

"Like my daily practice of walking in nature, I find the process of creating art similarly meditative. By taking each activity one step at a time, with no concern – or plan – for my destination in either experience, I remain grounded in the moment. I love collecting materials and images, thinking and pondering, and then launching into the hands-on aspect of making art when the spirit moves me.
I never rely on a preconceived idea or preliminary sketch in my collage and monoprint work. By utilizing a meditative or intuitive process, I orchestrate the array of chaos around me until all the diverse elements find their ideal fit and fall into place in perfect harmony."

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Hollie Chastain

Noon Keeping
Collage

Hollie Chastain is an artist living and working in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Following studies in both fine art and business she spent several years in marketing and graphic design before returning to the studio to launch a career as an artist and illustrator. Hollie uses mainly paper, mixing found images with modern colors and compositions to create work full of originality and narrative. Influenced by her love for found ephemera, she has become best known for her works created on the covers from vintage, tossed-aside books letting the scribbles, stamps and history found there contribute to the composition. She works in her home studio as both a gallery artist and illustrator. Her first book, If You Can Cut You Can Collage was released in November 2017 through Quarto Publishing.

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Kelly Moore

Slow Boat
Acrylic

Santa fe Art Renegade Kelly Moore is one of the most original creators of Folk Art in the United States. His work has at times been referred to as outsider art, art brut and folk art. He is self taught and originally from the Ozarks of Arkansas. His colorful paintings are composed of a whole variety of strange figures and beasts often in a carnival procession across the surface or set within a distant landscape. Other compositions are more involved with lettering, swirling, colors, thick impasto and dark surrounding atmosphere, while others show different series of strange figures, including ghosts, or ornamental beasts lined up in rows before one's eyes. An attractive book which is an impressive documentation of Moores work.

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Sam Trioli

Plus Unleaded
Oil

Sam Trioli is a contemporary artist, curator, and musician currently living and working in New York City and New Hampshire. Trioli’s work plays with the concepts of abstraction, pop and traditional painting methods. His work explores the simplicity of social abstraction and cognitive association within minimal form, color and structure. The hand of the artist remains hidden behind the concept and foreground of each piece, making process secondary to structured form.

Trioli has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Farm Project Space + Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (2012); “Some Girls,” Launch F18, New York, New York (2011); “Can’t Hear The Revolution,” Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York (2011); “Team Work,” Allan Nederpelt, New York (2010) and “Duck and Recover,” The F.U.E.L. Collection, Philadelphia (2009). Solo exhibitions include “Sagebrush Gulch,” Site95, Miami, FL (2012) and “Brumaire,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA (2012).

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Joe Martell

Expression
Acrylic

Born in 1950, Joe has had numerous solo and group exhibits of painting and sculpture in the US and Europe. His work is in many public and private collections.

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Rebecca Klementovich

Bright Mountains
Oil

“It is true I weigh 104lbs, less than most trees on Mount Washington, which I paint. Painting the 2,644 foot mountain in and around is an enormous process. I love the smuchy feel of paint dragging on the canvas. Painting is a lot like the tactile enjoyment of putting frosting on a hot cake-delicious.

Why paint on the top of Mount Washington, NH? The study of massive wind, loss of horizon lines by fast moving weather patterns, and the observation of generous diagonal lines that the mountain tops produce are intoxicating. Somedays when the clouds are at the same level that you are, you are literally painting in clouds, making it a rather wet painting adventure. The mountain studio floor is made of thousands of tons of granite. I must add that painting beyond the white gallery walls is essential in producing paintings that feel alive. Lately, I have realized that weather and abstract work are bedfellows due to them both erase details of leaves and the edges of landscapes.

There is a small thrill, I admit in the State motto of New Hampshire, “Live Free or Die”. To some degree it gives me permission to expand my color palette in representing the mountains, to paint beyond green, brown, and blue skies, to go deeper, to see the layers. The visual state treasure, the alpine glow on the mountain ranges shows the complexity of the purple mountain majesty which has twenty two variations of purple in it, an example that illustrates the level of color unexpressed here. It is my hope that a new language of color to represent the mountains becomes more common. The mountains deserve at least twenty colors of purple.

My co-painter Kristen Pobatschnig and I developed the photo concept of the Femme Fatales of the North to move away from women as art hobbyists. We want to show what it is like to paint on mountains, unabridged by white walls. The fatales were created to give another voice for women to step and paint with conviction and focus. The last public examples of women being photographed as painters in this region are the photos in the 19 century. The photo piece titled, “Climbers at the White Cairn on Lowe’s Path, 1897” by Guy Shorey, depicts women who finished climbing wearing long heavy skirts of the day .Many younger women in the valley get what we are doing and appreciate that we are raising the bar for painters in the area. My work has a language of its own to create a new value of landscapes with unexpected color weaved into weather under tundra conditions, with the remembrance that all art work was once modern to the eye. Our mission is to grab the highest talent and paint the highest standards of these peaks.

Vonnegut says it best about his abstract painter friend Syd Solomon,” He connects his hand and paint brush to the deeper, quieter, more mysterious parts of his mind.- and he paints pictures of what he sees, and feels down there.” I am glad Vonnegut has been besotted to the mysterious part of his mind.”

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Calvin Libby

Birch Trees in Autumn
Pen & Ink, Watercolor

Calvin Jacob Libby, born June 22 1931, died 1998, was one of nine children growing up on a farm in Stowe, Vermont. He went on to the University of Vermont, The New England School of Art in Boston and later to the Museum of Modern Art in Trier, Germany, where he studied while serving in the armed forces.
After the military, he landed a job as Art Director with an advertising agency in New York City. His wife, Ann grew up in Nashua, NH with her parents and her sister. She was also very involved in the arts and theatre. Cal and Ann met while they were both attending The New England School of Art.

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Nate Twombly

Sing!
Ink, Egg Tempera, Digital

Nate Twombly is a freelance illustrator and artist. Nate earned his BFA in Illustration from New Hampshire Institute Of Art 2009. He also studied Drawing/Painting at Firenze Arti Visive in Florence, Italy in 2008. His work is represented locally and internationally.

"At some point in history someone has done at least one of the activities I portray; whether they collected firewood, shot an gun, stole money, flew a bi-plane, explored the African jungle, fought in a World War or played in the 1919 World Series. Life is too short for one person to experience it all. For what I cannot do I choose depict here."

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Anne O. Smith

Assyrian Symphony
Mixed Media

Anne O. Smith lives in Strafford, New Hampshire, and is an artist whose work is whimsical, abstract, and often includes collage work. She is a member of the New Hampshire Art Association and exhibits her work frequently.

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Wayne White

Wayneorama
Letterpress Print

Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film, television, and the fine art world.

After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, Wayne traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine, and the Village Voice. In 1986, Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and his work was awarded with three Emmys. After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi Pond, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, Riders In The Sky, and Bill & Willis. He also worked in the music video industry, winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight, Tonight’ and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Big Time.’

More recently, Wayne has had great success as a fine artist and has created paintings and public works that have been shown all over the world. His most successful works have been the world paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape reproductions. The message of the paintings is often thought-provoking and almost always humorous, with Wayne pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South. Wayne has also received great praise for several public works he has created recently, including a successful show at Rice University where he built the world’s largest George Jones puppet head for a piece called ‘Big Lectric Fan To Keep Me Cool While I Sleep.’

In 2009, Wayne’s life and career were chronicled in an incredible 382-page monograph, edited by Todd Oldham. The book features hundreds of images from Wayne’s earliest work as an illustrator all the way to his most recent fine art sculptures. Since the book’s release, Wayne has been traveling the country delivering an incredibly entertaining hour long talk where he discusses his life and work, while making time for a little banjo and harmonica playing.

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WAYNE WHITE

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Ian DeCelli

Unknown Title
Digital Collage

Ian DeCelli is a contemporary artist currently living in the Seacoast area. He earned a degree in fine arts from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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IAN DECELLI

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Various Artists

A Collaborative Effort
Mixed Media

This collaborative piece was made by several artists at an impromptu studio party, hosted by artist Heather Hilton. Each artist has left his or her distinct markings. Various artists include: Heather Hilton, Lisa Arnold, Marcus Greene, Eileen Greene, Sam Johnson, Carol Whalen, Adrienne Silversmith, Stephen Greene, Ian Greene, and Tina Guay.

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Chad Kouri

Shape & Color Studies
Collage

Chad Kouri is an American artist from a small town north of Detroit, currently living and working in Chicago where he maintains a studio art and design practice while actively participating in the thriving art community on both a local and international level. His decade-long curatorial and collaborative efforts as part of The Post Family have played a large part in creating national and international dialog around Chicago and its world-class creative community. Previously, he has held the title of Art Director for the award-winning contemporary art magazine Proximity.

Notable upcoming and past exhibitions include displays at Northeastern Illinois University; The Hyde Park Art Center; The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Johalla Projects, Chicago; The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, New Hampshire; Toledo Museum of Art; Purdue University; Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts, San Francisco; Apexart, New York and the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France. Notable past appearances include visiting artist engagements at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Glasgow School of Art, Portland State University, Otis College of Art and Design, Pratt University, and The Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.

His projects range in diversity from one of a kind and editioned artwork to self-publishing, interactive displays, large-scale installations, design direction and consulting, book design and most recently, an exploration of painting.

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Erin Gardner

Birds
Mixed Media

"Using the mediums of drawing, painting, and collage, I incorporate imagery from memory and observation, in combination with more intuitive and primitive marks. Through filtering and processing experiences, perceptions, and memories, I develop a personal narrative that allows me to comprehend reality. We as humans depend heavily on our minds’ ability to construct and reconstruct events, and to connect the multitude of fragments that form a map of our lives.

My process is both additive and subtractive. Sometimes what I am looking for already exists underneath the layers of paint. In a similar manner to the way our minds work to find forgotten or missing pieces, sections within the artwork must be excavated in order to reveal truth. It is through the creation of art that I am able to bridge gaps and unearth further questions for investigation."

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Heather Hilton

Fields
Oil and Encaustic

"In the United States, suburban development is overtaking the natural landscape. Much of the art I have seen reflecting this idea is sort of negative in nature, viewing the movement of “suburbia” as a villain. My formative years were spent in the Midwestern U.S. and the exact spot where a suburban housing development meets an open field or the building of a shopping mall meets a century old farm is part of my visual memory as a child. I am interested in painting that spot, not as a morality lesson, but as a marked place in the landscape where something is lost and something is gained. I’m not sure what is lost or gained at this intersection, but the transition fascinates me."

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John Paul Gardner

Unknown Title
Paper Collage

John Paul Gardner is an internationally exhibited award winning artist currently living and working in New York. His works range from immense installations to intimate works with paper. Gardner is currently the Director of Visual Arts and Exhibitions at View Arts.

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Nate Twombly

Piano
Ink on Rives BFK

Nate Twombly is a freelance illustrator and artist. Nate earned his BFA in Illustration from New Hampshire Institute Of Art 2009. He also studied Drawing/Painting at Firenze Arti Visive in Florence, Italy in 2008. His work is represented locally and internationally.

"At some point in history someone has done at least one of the activities I portray; whether they collected firewood, shot an gun, stole money, flew a bi-plane, explored the African jungle, fought in a World War or played in the 1919 World Series. Life is too short for one person to experience it all. For what I cannot do I choose depict here."

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Heather Macleod

Pickle Palace
Collage

"My art has a light and a dark side to it. I love to paint landscapes on silk. The vibrancy of the colours in the dyes are like nothing else I can create with other mediums. Inspired by the views of Arran, mountains, forest, seascape and machair, the inspiration is endless.

My darker Steampunk Creations, which mostly involve musical instruments and clock pieces or engine parts, is a very 3D style with interesting shapes and textures. It’s exciting to interlace wood, copper, brass and slate into a collage of colours and density.

To put it all together, I am also a Picture Framer and offer a bespoke service using quality wood mouldings and conservation mounts."

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Elena Peteva

Offering IV
Charcoal

"My work is an allegorical representation of our individual and human states. The image functions as a subtle but charged signifier that creates a delicate net of meaning. The outer representation becomes emblematic of the inner, whether it reveals my subject’s inner state or my subject acts as a personification of an idea. I often think what I try to do in my work is to present and illuminate things that are perhaps unrepresentable."

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Elena Petrova

“My window is too small to see the cherry blossom”
Oil

Petrova Elena was born on November, 19th, 1974 in Novosibirsk. Elena Petrova is a restorer and art critic. She studied at the Moscow Art School and St.-Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Elena admits that the restoration has given her a lot, helped to understand how to achieve a particular effect in painting.

”Painting for me is, first of all, the color. Color of pure, saturated, without “impurities”. I like bright life, and generally speaking, I simply love life. Therefore, creating my paintings, I wish that it carried joy, good mood. And to express that, above all, color.”

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Susan Kare

Classic Apple Icon Series
Digital Edition

Susan Kare graphic design, located in San Francisco, California, welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on icon sets, corporate identity, or other design projects.

According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Susan Kare is “a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, Kare has designed thousands of icons for the world’s leading companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.”

She began her career at Apple, Inc. as the screen graphics and digital font designer for the original Macintosh computer, initially advertised as “the computer for the rest of us.” Her studio’s work continues to optimize for clarity and simplicity–whether for icons, corporate identities, web design, or murals–and to present concepts in clear, concise, and memorable ways.

Kare believes that good icons should be more like traffic signs than illustrations; easily comprehensible and not laden with extraneous detail. She has observed that just because millions of colors are available, maximizing their use in an icon does not necessarily improve it. When symbols (icons or logos) are meaningful and well-crafted, they need not be frequently redesigned.

Susan received MA and Ph.D. degrees in fine art from New York University. In addition to her interest in art and design, she is an avid surfer, runner, and Australian shepherd fan.

She creates limited edition fine art prints, available at kareprints.com, and is available as a speaker.

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Hannah Phelps

Life on the Edge 1/5
Relief Print

Sense of place is key to understanding Hannah Phelps. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and raised north of Portland, Maine, New England roots dig deep into her life and art. “I’m a classic New Englander,” she says. “I’m really attached to this geographic place.”

Phelps’ work represents, as she describes it, “the world outside her window and the forces at work there.” Her award-winning plein air oil paintings and relief prints often depict the crashing waves and jagged rocks of the northern New England coast, where she spent summers as a child combing the rugged shore and nearby woods. “I think that’s what really inspired me to become an artist,” she says.

Initially, Phelps explored the natural world through science, studying physics at Mount Holyoke College. But that felt incomplete. “Drawing and painting from nature are not just like scientific study,” she says. “In some fields, drawing is the primary method of recording scientific discoveries.” Her knowledge of physics—for example, understanding the dynamics of water movement—informs her kinetic depictions of the ocean and waves crashing against rocks. “I know how water has to move because of physical laws,” Phelps says. “I think about my subject matter—water, rocks, snow, sand, trees, clouds—in scientific terms.”

While living in Baltimore after college (and plotting a move back to New England), Phelps took painting classes at the Maryland Institute of Art. By the time she moved to New Boston, a small town in central New Hampshire, she was painting regularly.

Phelps considers herself a painter first, painting primarily in plein air. Printmaking evolved naturally. She employs different techniques, including jigsaw woodcuts and white-line woodcuts, a technique popularized by Provincetown artists in the early 20th century and characterized by a white outline surrounding each shape of color. “I love printmaking,” Phelps says. “You have to think about how to apply color and layer your work. You can work on an oil painting for years, but in printmaking there’s a finality to the process that I enjoy.”

Aspiring printmakers can take classes from Phelps, including a summer workshop on Appledore Island, off the coast of Portsmouth. Her work is also available through League of New Hampshire Craftsmen stores in Nashua, Meredith, and Littleton, New Hampshire, and she also has booths at the League’s annual fair and the December Button Factory Open Studios in Portsmouth.

47

Julia Schwartz

All the Clouds Were Moving
Oil

Julia Schwartz is an artist living and working in Santa Monica. Her paintings, straddling figuration and abstraction, are deeply influenced by years of psychoanalytic study and practice. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Amsterdam, London, and Cyprus.

Recent exhibitions include “The Only Way Out Is In” at Citrus College, “Dig For Fire” at Eastside International in Los Angeles, and “Insomnia” in Pelham, New York where more than 100 works on paper were installed. Curatorial projects include “Place Made Visible” in Bushwick, NY (2014) and “States of Being” at the Torrance Art Museum in 2015 and “Black Mirror” at Charlie James Gallery in 2017.

Schwartz received the Foundation Prize for Painting from Peripheral Vision Arts in 2016. She has been the focus of numerous interviews and reviews, including Studiocritical, Ithaca MOMA, Fabrik, and Huffpost, Whitehot Magazine, and Artweek LA, and was interviewed in the February 2017 Coagula Art Journal. She has been included in New American Paintings and listed on 1000 Living Painters. As the Arts Editor for Figure/Ground Communication, Schwartz has interviewed visual and other artists about their creative process. She is currently on the Advisory Board of Fine Arts Complex 1101, a Contemporary Arts Museum in Tempe, AZ.

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Kenneth Eason

Frozen Tundra
Encaustic

I am passionate about nature and natural processes. When I experience nature, out in the woods, along a shore, or even in my backyard, I feel a connection with my surroundings and simultaneously experience a wondrous excitement and an inner peace. My paintings are an attempt to capture and explore that feeling.

I like working with texture and the contrasts found in nature and tend to paint impasto using brushes, paint knives, spatulas and other tools. I work in many layers and like to leave the impression that there is more to be seen just under the surface of the painting. My recent work is with Oil and/or Encaustic (beeswax, resin and pigment) and I often incorporate mixed media for added texture. Encaustic allows me to use natural beeswax and the element of fire to work the painted surface.

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Uchenna Odukwe

Only in Dreams
Acrylic

Uchenna Odukwe draws on the eclectic imagery, color and mood of his African cultural heritage and by his sophisticated eye fro contemporary design, he creates a unique for of African Abstraction that is uniquely his own. Inspired by African drumming and dance, two of the continent's oldest surviving traditions, Odukwe plays with line, color, and movement to create vivid paintings that spring to life with vital energy. Swirling, curling, and dancing across the canvas, Odukwe's graceful lines take center stage his works of varying abstraction. Although many of the artist's works delve into total abstraction, many others depict elegantly simplified figured, but each work, conjured in dreams, expresses the artist's deep philosophical musing and inner psychological workings.

50

Michelle Peterson

Theotokos
Pinhole Transfers on Wood Block

No information provided.

51

Lynn Miller

Inflorescence
Acrylic

No information provided.

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Justin Potts

Majestic
Collage

"I was born in 1972 and raised in Bucks County, PA. My father painted in oils and made mixed media works and my mother sketched flowers and practiced calligraphy. They both influenced me growing up, as did an occurrence involving my older sister when I was 11 or 12. I vividly remember her coming home from school one day and showing me a design she had made in art class. The wavy ink lines were extremely close together but did not touch. The intricacy and fluidity appealed to me and I began to make my own evermore detailed ink drawings. It turned into something of an obsession.

By age 13 I had committed myself to art with a fervor. I’d finish a 30 hour drawing made over the course of a few days and immediately start on the next. I found a meditative bliss in the work and have now spent the intervening 30 years consistently making things and experimenting with materials. I am self taught and have learned by doing and being unafraid to fail. Treating my work like jazz, I’d improvise; believing there is no wrong way to do it- everything is a part of a process. If you are making you are progressing, in my view. Keeping a beginners mind helps me maintain a sense of wonder, which for me is essential. I am humbled and enchanted by the grandeur, complexity and enduring mystery of life. This is at the heart of my work. Art has been my foundation in life. A great therapist and a way to honor my family and what I feel is my extended family - the whole of the universe, including you.

I value peace, kindness, consideration, humor, egalitarianism, conservation of resources, the DIY ethic, awareness, and as a lifelong Utopian, problem solving.

I live and work in Portland, Oregon with my wife, two kids and an underutilized Border Collie. I enjoy writing and recording solo music and play guitar and sing in an experimental rock band called Terwilliger Curves."

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Nate Twombly

Explorer
Ink on Rives BFK

Nate Twombly is a freelance illustrator and artist. Nate earned his BFA in Illustration from New Hampshire Institute Of Art 2009. He also studied Drawing/Painting at Firenze Arti Visive in Florence, Italy in 2008. His work is represented locally and internationally.

"At some point in history someone has done at least one of the activities I portray; whether they collected firewood, shot an gun, stole money, flew a bi-plane, explored the African jungle, fought in a World War or played in the 1919 World Series. Life is too short for one person to experience it all. For what I cannot do I choose depict here."

54

Ian Hartsoe

Girl In The Door
Archival Pigment Print

"I’ve always been in love with photography, the way pictures can tell stories and capture some of the most unique moments in our lives and in our world. It’s why I chose to make photography my life. And why I want to help you create and share memories with your families and friends for generations to come.

After getting a degree in photography and working in the technical side of the industry, I moved to New York City from Boston to pursue a career in traditional photo printing.
I am still working in the darkroom – loving it, growing from it, and getting to peek into so many different moments and realities.

I am the rare son of Boston that has come to love New York in my few years here: I’ve made new friends, fallen in love, discovered the joys of good wine and realized that there are so many amazing moments happening at any given moment. I want to help provide everlasting images for the people of our great city."

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Amber Lavalley

Self Portrait
Oil

Amber Lavalley is a young emerging artist from Rochester, NH. In 2004, Amber graduated from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, where she received her BFA in painting. She spent two years living in Boston, working in a contemporary American craft gallery. Since moving back to Rochester, she has shown her work at Market 100 in Portsmouth, and artstream, and in 2008 won Portsmouth Herald’s Spotlight Award in visual art.

Amber’s one of a kind pen illustrations, are portraits of women with imaginative details. Unique jewelry embellishments, faces and hair styles make the drawings interesting and reflect Amber’s original style. Her portraits combine the confidence expected from the pen, with the capriciousness of a female artist. Each drawing expresses generic sensuality and linear narrative, creating playful and unique works of art.

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Jeannie Griffin Peterka

Unknown Title
Oil

"I suppose my art career began when I enrolled as a freshman art major at Southern Methodist University. I discovered early on that I wanted to be a painter and work abstractly but that wasn’t the focus of the teaching at SMU at that time. After college I continued to paint and take private classes but although I had some very good teachers I was unable to find one who could take me into pure abstraction. I continued to struggle on my own... until I met Zanne Hochberg. The first time I went into her home I was stunned by the gorgeous large abstract paintings that were hung floor to ceiling in every room. I asked her if she would take me as a student and when the time was right in her life she did. She became my mentor and teacher, my friend and always an inspiration. She believed in me as an artist and I will be forever grateful to her.

Besides Zanne, some of my art heroes are Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Morris Louis, Per Kirkeby and Chuck Close.

I don’t have anything in mind when I start to work except for perhaps some colors I might like to use that day. Even that is subject to change, though, as the painting continues to progress. I start by putting color on the canvas, drawing with charcoal or paint, adding layers of paint and soon something will begin to emerge. I turn the canvas constantly so that it’s worked from all directions. I only decide at the end which way it should hang. I’m currently working with multiple panels and joining them together in the back. I like seeing the energy between the panels and the sharp line made from joining the panels. There is nothing more exciting to me than seeing one or more freshly stretched canvases hanging on my studio wall and wondering what the final painting will look like.

As my work has gotten larger and often requires some assembly, I’ve chosen to show mostly in the northeast. I also take students from time to time and enjoy passing on what I’ve learned through the years."

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JEANNIE GRIFFIN PETERKA

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Devin Swett

Jan-cdz-3b28
Archival Pigment Print

Devin Swett is an artist, web developer, designer, and photographer working in Portsmouth, NH. Devin studied photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, in Manchester, NH. He graduated with a BFA in 2008. As a photographer, he has worked in many mediums including film, 8x10 large format, and Polaroid. His work has been featured in a variety of venues such as Art Current in Provincetown, MA and Wyatt Art Studios in Rochester, NH. He co-founded the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in 2011 and received the President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2018. In his free time Devin enjoy being outdoors, camping, and traveling.

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

Unknown Title
Oil

Daryl-Ann Dartt Hurst was born in Palmdale, California, and spent her first 31 years in southern California. She received her BA in Art at California State University, Northridge, California and did a year of post-graduate work in Art there, as well. In 1986, she relocated to New England.

Dartt Hurst began showing in juried competitions and exhibitions in 1978. She has since been included in many group shows nationally and has had solo exhibits in Boston, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, NH; Lincoln, NH: Littleton, NH; Rochester, NH; Rollinsford, NH; Saint Johnsbury, VT, and Somersworth, NH. She is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH and was awarded the Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts by the City of Rochester Commission for Arts and Culture. She has also been nominated for Ourstanding Painter, Non-Traditional in the Seacoast Spotlight Awards, 2015.

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Glen Scheffer

Bushes
Archival Pigment Print

Glen Scheffer enjoys using photography to create images that play between realistic representation and the imagined. Scheffer uses large and medium format cameras to construct his interpretations and cultivate his vision. Scheffer’s work is finished through the darkroom, as large archival pigment prints, as well as handmade books. Scheffer has exhibited his work regularly in the Boston area and nationally. He received his BFA in photography from NHIA in 2002 and completed his MFA in 2016.

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

Unknown Title
Oil

Daryl-Ann Dartt Hurst was born in Palmdale, California, and spent her first 31 years in southern California. She received her BA in Art at California State University, Northridge, California and did a year of post-graduate work in Art there, as well. In 1986, she relocated to New England.

Dartt Hurst began showing in juried competitions and exhibitions in 1978. She has since been included in many group shows nationally and has had solo exhibits in Boston, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, NH; Lincoln, NH: Littleton, NH; Rochester, NH; Rollinsford, NH; Saint Johnsbury, VT, and Somersworth, NH. She is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH and was awarded the Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts by the City of Rochester Commission for Arts and Culture. She has also been nominated for Ourstanding Painter, Non-Traditional in the Seacoast Spotlight Awards, 2015.

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Laura Ruth

Circus Magic II
Archival Pigment Print

“I love art in all its various forms, especially photography. My camera is truly an extension of myself and captures the way I choose to see the world. I hope to share and spread my vision, which is often described as being calming, peaceful, inspiring, uplifting, warm, meditative, dreamy, ethereal, and whimsical.”

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Nate Twombly

Pey Monster
Ink on Rives BFK

Nate Twombly is a freelance illustrator and artist. Nate earned his BFA in Illustration from New Hampshire Institute Of Art 2009. He also studied Drawing/Painting at Firenze Arti Visive in Florence, Italy in 2008. His work is represented locally and internationally.

"At some point in history someone has done at least one of the activities I portray; whether they collected firewood, shot an gun, stole money, flew a bi-plane, explored the African jungle, fought in a World War or played in the 1919 World Series. Life is too short for one person to experience it all. For what I cannot do I choose depict here."

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

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Yangyang Pan

Country Road
Oil

Yangyang Pan, born in 1976, studied at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute where she received her Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998 followed by her Master of Fine Art in 2002. She remained as a instructor in SFAI until 2006 when she immigrated to Canada. Now she is working as an artist in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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James Chase

Vanity
Assemblage

James Chase is the Director of Community Education and Visual Arts Faculty at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, as well as a board member for Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. He’s a national and international exhibiting artist, merging painting, printmaking and photography with social engagement practices. Since 2009, he has been featured in over 50 art exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include Picked Six Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio 2015 and Memory Palace 2016 at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. Recent solo exhibitions include Echoes at the RMFA and Kill The Lights at South Plains College in Levelland, TX.

67

Jeff Vinciguerra

Wood On Wood On Wood
Ink Transfer On Wood

No Information Provided.

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Wen Redmond

Nesting
Sewn Textile Assemblage

Wen Redmond is a mixed media artist who delights in creating dialogue, changing your perspectives and perceptions of fiber. She works intuitively, encouraging ‘flow’, experimentation and the inner muse both in herself and her workshop participants.

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Amber Lavalley

Fire Mast
Oil

Amber Lavalley is a young emerging artist from Rochester, NH. In 2004, Amber graduated from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, where she received her BFA in painting. She spent two years living in Boston, working in a contemporary American craft gallery. Since moving back to Rochester, she has shown her work at Market 100 in Portsmouth, and artstream, and in 2008 won Portsmouth Herald’s Spotlight Award in visual art.

Amber’s one of a kind pen illustrations, are portraits of women with imaginative details. Unique jewelry embellishments, faces and hair styles make the drawings interesting and reflect Amber’s original style. Her portraits combine the confidence expected from the pen, with the capriciousness of a female artist. Each drawing expresses generic sensuality and linear narrative, creating playful and unique works of art.

70

Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

71

Albert Longo III

Construction
Digital Collage

No information provided.

72

Matt Wyatt

Gin
Mixed Media

Matt Wyatt studied at the New Hampshire Institute of Art (Manchester, NH) while pursuing his BFA. His work includes abstract expressionism, collage, mixed media, and photography. He has received regional and national attention and has been featured in a variety of venues such as: Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Art Current in Provincetown, MA; and The Gatehouse Gallery in Tamworth, NH. Matt is the founder of the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts and served as a member of the Commission for Arts & Culture (City of Rochester, NH) for several years.

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Cindy Rizza

Self Portrait - Diptych
Oil

Native to Maine, Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter with her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her nostalgic, iconic representations of ordinary subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. She has won numerous art awards, including the NH Spotlight Award for Outstanding Representational Artist, The Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, and more. Her work is collected internationally. Cindy lives and works in Southern New Hampshire.

"My work quietly examines familiar domestic comforts and the objects that we use to feel secure. In examining the unique identities of heirloom textiles and childhood nostalgia my work summons conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. I aim to expose the contradictions within the subjects- to honor the comfort and love they bore, but unfold the truths of what we are fearful of in the darkness."

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James O’Brien

Canyon
Oil

James M. O’Brien is an avid outdoorsman who has spent the majority of his time living among the rural New Hampshire and Hudson Valley scenery. O’Brien was inspired by the British and American romantic landscape painters of 18th and 19th centuries.

In 2007, he began his studies at the New Hampshire Institute of Art graduating four years later with summa cum laude. O’Brien soon began exhibiting his work across the New England Area and taking on commissioned projects across the United States focusing on landscape. An interest within academic draftsmanship and classical painting led him to briefly join the Ingbretson Atelier in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he studied for two years within the Boston School Tradition. In 2017 O’Brien earned his master degree in, Visual Arts, from the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

James O’Brien now lives on a large tract of land in Dunbarton, New Hampshire where his wife (an avid naturalist and artist) explore the diverse New England landscape and study the native wildlife.

75

Chad Kouri

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Bob Farrell

Morning Sheets Of Surprising Stain
Acrylic

"My name is Bob Farrell and I’m an artist. I’m 52 years old and live in Berwick Maine. My wife’s name is Jenifer and we have a son named Ryan and a daughter named Krista.

When I was young, I started doing lettering and graphics. I designed a few new fonts and I created a lot of designs. When I got older, I started painting with oils. I did abstract and surreal paintings. Dali was a big influence.

While I was going to Jefferson Community College in Watertown, NY, I was the Art Assistant for Klaus Ebling, art teacher. We did murals for an Irish festival and we went to Milwaukee to compete in a snow sculpting competition. After a year and a half at JCC, I transferred to the School of Visual Arts in NYC for graphic design. It was hard to work and go to school so I had to quit after the first semester.

While in New York City, I still painted abstracts and surreals. I also learned how to mix urethanes. I bought a 35mm camera and took black and white photos. I went to Coney Island a lot and all over NYC, even to the World Trade Center. I learned how to develop film and I printed my own photos. I also started to overlap negatives for pictures.

I worked for Traditional Line Ltd. for 5 years when I was in NYC. It was an Architectural Restoration company. We went for 6 weeks to Santa Barbara, California and worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum. We took apart two period rooms from the old museum to be re-installed into the new museum. What was weird is that when we took lunch, we had to tie everything we took apart down in case there was an earthquake.

While in NYC, I lived above the Pyramid Club. I lived with 5 others and we had a 4000 square foot living room. Larry called it “Café Nico” and he had monthly poetry readings. I would display my art there and I started to do sculptures. I also read some of my poems.

I met my wife Jenifer in NYC. We moved towards Syracuse New York and I stopped doing art. Then we moved to New Hampshire.

Early in 2013, I saw a profile picture on Facebook of my friend Mark Traeger at an art gallery. I asked him where he was and he told me he was at the Artstream gallery. I checked out their website and I sent them 10 pictures of my art. Susan Schwake replied and said she was interested in seeing some of my new art. That gave me the motivation to be creative again and since then it’s been nonstop.

I’m a member of the Berwick Art Association, MODspoke, Wrong Brain and Blackbird Studio & Gallery. I’ve shown at Gallery at 100 Market St., Artstream, Berwick Library, Gafney Library, Rochester Library, DOO, Buoy, 2nd Landing, East Tower Gallery, and Gallery 280."

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Liz Wilson

Unknown Title
Acrylic

My canvas is a board I bounce my thoughts off, without knowing what will come back. The act of painting itself affects me, throws things my way that I cannot predict. In the act of painting I am able to walk through my mind and travel avenues I have not yet traveled. I return to paths walked before and revisit them, rewriting them. The way in which I react to the spontaneity of the paint itself reveals new and old points of view and parts of myself. The creation is something outside of myself, a product of my process, of my play.

These paintings are impressions of my experience in the world at a specific moment. When I am able to focus inward, I see in my mind’s eye my sensory experience translated into shape and color. This experience is part of my reality; it is the author, creator of my painting language. In the process of making the images I simplify and to a degree caricaturize my experiences. The source of the images is specific. However, what I am depicting is the sensation that I took from a moment.

There are three sources of inspiration from which I work. These include: memory, visualization and improvisation. When I am in the studio, all of these sources of inspiration are present. However, at one time one of these sources is always more prominent than the other.

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Spring Hofeldt

Tough Love
Oil

Spring Hofeldt’s paintings immerse the viewer in a metaphor of the day-to-day making light of such trials and tribulations… highlighting the offbeat and offering a unique perspective on the familiar. Her works play with glass and portraiture, capturing the whimsical, the critical, and the beautiful in a simple setting.

She received a B.A. in Illustration from Central Missouri State University in 2001, has exhibited in numerous galleries across the country, is a recipient of NYFA grants, and has been featured in on-line publications such as Hyperallergic. Her studio is located in the neighborhood of Red Hook in Brooklyn, NY.

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Ruth Dudley-Carr

Ex Nihilo
Archival Pigment Print

Ruth Dudley-Carr (American, born 1978) received her B.A. from Oakland University (2000) and her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2014). Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Wyatt Art Studios and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been included in many group exhibits throughout the United States and she is held in collection at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, Girls Club in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, NH, as well as many private collections. In 2011, Dudley-Carr was included in the Girls Club exhibition “Reframing the Feminine” alongside Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems, to name a few. Dudley-Carr has opened her practice from photography to sculpture and video art. Her work discusses the human form, sexuality, illness, and the aging process. Dudley-Carr lives and works in Boston, MA.

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James O'Brien

Landscape
Oil

James M. O’Brien is an avid outdoorsman who has spent the majority of his time living among the rural New Hampshire and Hudson Valley scenery. O’Brien was inspired by the British and American romantic landscape painters of 18th and 19th centuries.

In 2007, he began his studies at the New Hampshire Institute of Art graduating four years later with summa cum laude. O’Brien soon began exhibiting his work across the New England Area and taking on commissioned projects across the United States focusing on landscape. An interest within academic draftsmanship and classical painting led him to briefly join the Ingbretson Atelier in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he studied for two years within the Boston School Tradition. In 2017 O’Brien earned his master degree in, Visual Arts, from the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

James O’Brien now lives on a large tract of land in Dunbarton, New Hampshire where his wife (an avid naturalist and artist) explore the diverse New England landscape and study the native wildlife.

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Amy Longberry

How Peculiar
Archival Pigment Print

I’m a self-taught photographer. I love capturing images with a mix of whimsical realism a touch of abstract combined with a surreal vintage feel and all those moments in between. Through my work, I strive to incorporate a combination of color schemes that evoke emotion, ethereal light, intriguing patterns and creative imagination. With my photographs, I want the viewer to feel as though they accidentally stumbled upon a secret keyhole giving them a glimpse of my little visions of the world. Living in a world that can be so complex, it gives me immense comfort to contribute some calm simplicity.

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Cindy Rizza

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

Unknown Title
Oil

Daryl-Ann Dartt Hurst was born in Palmdale, California, and spent her first 31 years in southern California. She received her BA in Art at California State University, Northridge, California and did a year of post-graduate work in Art there, as well. In 1986, she relocated to New England.

Dartt Hurst began showing in juried competitions and exhibitions in 1978. She has since been included in many group shows nationally and has had solo exhibits in Boston, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, NH; Lincoln, NH: Littleton, NH; Rochester, NH; Rollinsford, NH; Saint Johnsbury, VT, and Somersworth, NH. She is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH and was awarded the Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts by the City of Rochester Commission for Arts and Culture. She has also been nominated for Ourstanding Painter, Non-Traditional in the Seacoast Spotlight Awards, 2015.

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Amy Marie Regan

France
Archival Pigment Print

Amy Marie Regan is an artist and photographer from Windham, NH. Amy studied photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, in Manchester, NH, and graduated with a BFA in 2008. Her work has been featured in a variety of venues such as Art Current in Provincetown, MA and Wyatt Art Studios in Rochester, NH. She co-founded the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in 2011 and serves as the co-chair. She also serves as a member of the Commission for Arts & Culture for the City of Rochester, NH. Amy received the President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2018.

"My work is about moments that create a scene. A second before hand or a second after and the image would mean nothing; they themselves are almost pure luck. There are no grandiose landscapes or the ravages of war. There are people on their way to work or three elegant lines. It is these moments within the mundane that excite me. They are all around."

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Ky Anderson

Attention To One
Oil

Ky Anderson’s geometric, abstract paintings are in fact referential of quotidian subjects. Anderson firmly believes that her “imagery is descriptive of the world around us,” particularly in that it conveys a sense of distance. Her compositions frequently feature flat forms, limited palettes, and abstract lines that allude to the horizon. Anderson usually works on a group of paintings incrementally at the same time, which is why suites of paintings often have similar colors. Other times, she begins a work and sets it aside, returning to and reworking it slowly over the course of years. Anderson does not think of a narrative before starting a work, but instead lets them appear as they are completed.

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Justicia Vargas

A New Day
Acrylic & Watercolor

An accomplished mixed-media painter, Justicia Vargas has always looked at the world around her with an artful eye. Growing up in Colorado, she always enjoyed sketching, but discovered painting in her 20s as a way to help her overcome a challenging time in her life.

While she created art for herself, Justicia grew a successful cleaning company. It was while cleaning that she began to help people redecorate their homes and realized she had a passion for this different kind of art and design. Not only could she be creative and help bring that same creativity out in her clients, but she understood that, just like the emotional connections she had to her paintings, people would be emotionally connected to their homes, possessions, and how they were arranged.

This led Justicia to pursue a master’s certificate in Home Staging and Redesign in 2014, after several years in the field of home redesign.

All of Justicia’s artistic endeavors culminated in the creation of MiMod as a way to share and explore the varied styles of art and design she is drawn to.

Justicia’s art has been seen in the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in New Hampshire, and an article in 303 Magazine shined a light on her part in a RAW: natural born artists show. Justicia won Best in Show in Denver’s Modernism Show in 2015 and continues to be a dynamic contributor to Denver’s fine arts community.

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Paul Glorioso

Public Lands
Mixed Media

Paul holds a degree in art education, with a Masters Degree in Humanities from Hofstra University in New York. He taught art for over thirty years on Long Island and exhibited extensively in the New York City metropolitan area before retiring to New Hampshire. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Islip Art Museum in New York, Nassau Community College in New York, as well as the Oklahoma Art Center in Oklahoma. Paul, primarily a printmaker-collagist, now specializes in mixed media reliefs.

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

Truant’s Holiday
Oil

Daryl-Ann Dartt Hurst was born in Palmdale, California, and spent her first 31 years in southern California. She received her BA in Art at California State University, Northridge, California and did a year of post-graduate work in Art there, as well. In 1986, she relocated to New England.

Dartt Hurst began showing in juried competitions and exhibitions in 1978. She has since been included in many group shows nationally and has had solo exhibits in Boston, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, NH; Lincoln, NH: Littleton, NH; Rochester, NH; Rollinsford, NH; Saint Johnsbury, VT, and Somersworth, NH. She is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH and was awarded the Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts by the City of Rochester Commission for Arts and Culture. She has also been nominated for Ourstanding Painter, Non-Traditional in the Seacoast Spotlight Awards, 2015.

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Sunday B. Morning

Marilyn Series
Screenprint

In 1967, Andy Warhol produced what would become one of the most iconic and memorable representations of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Warhol created a series of 10 variations in what is now referred to as the Marilyn series, each with virtually the same composition, but different color variations. These original prints are known as the “Factory Additions”.

These are by far the most expensive Marilyn screenprints, which auction anywhere from $100,000 for a single print, to over $1.5 million for the suite.

After Warhol published his famous Factory Additions of Marilyn, he began collaborating with two anonymous friends from Belgium on a second series of prints.

The original idea behind this partnership, for Warhol, was to play on the concept of mass production. He was essentially mocking the idea that the Factory Addition prints were somehow more important than the second series. Warhol provided the photo negatives and color codes needed to create silkscreens exactly like the ones he had used for the Factory Additions.

In 1970, Warhol’s original silkscreens were reproduced to create the second series of Marilyn screenprints. These were named “Sunday B. Morning” prints. Their dimensions are 36x36 and are printed with high quality archival inks, just like the originals.

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Susan Kare

Classic Apple Icon Series (4)
Digital Edition

Susan Kare graphic design, located in San Francisco, California, welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on icon sets, corporate identity, or other design projects.

According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Susan Kare is “a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, Kare has designed thousands of icons for the world’s leading companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.”

She began her career at Apple, Inc. as the screen graphics and digital font designer for the original Macintosh computer, initially advertised as “the computer for the rest of us.” Her studio’s work continues to optimize for clarity and simplicity–whether for icons, corporate identities, web design, or murals–and to present concepts in clear, concise, and memorable ways.

Kare believes that good icons should be more like traffic signs than illustrations; easily comprehensible and not laden with extraneous detail. She has observed that just because millions of colors are available, maximizing their use in an icon does not necessarily improve it. When symbols (icons or logos) are meaningful and well-crafted, they need not be frequently redesigned.

Susan received MA and Ph.D. degrees in fine art from New York University. In addition to her interest in art and design, she is an avid surfer, runner, and Australian shepherd fan.

She creates limited edition fine art prints, available at kareprints.com, and is available as a speaker.

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Daryl-ann Dartt Hurst

Landscape
Oil

Daryl-Ann Dartt Hurst was born in Palmdale, California, and spent her first 31 years in southern California. She received her BA in Art at California State University, Northridge, California and did a year of post-graduate work in Art there, as well. In 1986, she relocated to New England.

Dartt Hurst began showing in juried competitions and exhibitions in 1978. She has since been included in many group shows nationally and has had solo exhibits in Boston, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, NH; Lincoln, NH: Littleton, NH; Rochester, NH; Rollinsford, NH; Saint Johnsbury, VT, and Somersworth, NH. She is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH and was awarded the Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts by the City of Rochester Commission for Arts and Culture. She has also been nominated for Ourstanding Painter, Non-Traditional in the Seacoast Spotlight Awards, 2015.

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Wayne White

We Laugh at Meaning
Mono Print

Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film, television, and the fine art world.

After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, Wayne traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine, and the Village Voice. In 1986, Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and his work was awarded with three Emmys. After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi Pond, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, Riders In The Sky, and Bill & Willis. He also worked in the music video industry, winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight, Tonight’ and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Big Time.’

More recently, Wayne has had great success as a fine artist and has created paintings and public works that have been shown all over the world. His most successful works have been the world paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape reproductions. The message of the paintings is often thought-provoking and almost always humorous, with Wayne pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South. Wayne has also received great praise for several public works he has created recently, including a successful show at Rice University where he built the world’s largest George Jones puppet head for a piece called ‘Big Lectric Fan To Keep Me Cool While I Sleep.’

In 2009, Wayne’s life and career were chronicled in an incredible 382-page monograph, edited by Todd Oldham. The book features hundreds of images from Wayne’s earliest work as an illustrator all the way to his most recent fine art sculptures. Since the book’s release, Wayne has been traveling the country delivering an incredibly entertaining hour long talk where he discusses his life and work, while making time for a little banjo and harmonica playing.

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Bob Gruen

John Lennon, NYC 1974
Gelatin Silver Print

Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.

Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became John and Yoko’s personal photographer and friend, making photos of their working life as well as private moments. In 1974 he created the iconic images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and standing in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace sign – two of the most popular of Lennon’s images.

As chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine in the ’70s, Bob specialized in candid, behind the scenes photo features. He toured extensively with the emerging punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and Blondie. Bob has also worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith, Kiss and Alice Cooper.

In 1989, he documented the epic trip to Russia of the “Moscow Music Peace Festival” featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe and Bon Jovi. For many years Bob was the official photographer for the New Music Seminar held in New York City, covering dozens of aspiring new bands in the course of a summer week. This seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists. His wealth of personal experiences and uncanny memory provide the most illuminating and comprehensive histories of rock youth culture.

“All Dolled Up,” a DVD documentary made by Bob Gruen and Nadya Beck of their early ’70s video footage of the New York Dolls, was released in 2005 with a follow-up DVD, “Lookin’ Fine On Television” released in 2011.

In the spring of 2007 FAAP University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented an exhibition of Bob Gruen’s work. Titled ROCKERS, the exhibition attracted 40,000 visitors. The ROCKERS exhibition was also shown from April to July 2008 at Morrison Hotel Gallery on the Bowery in New York City.

Bob’s “Sid Vicious with Hot Dog” photo was acquired by The National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1999 for their permanent collection.

The Experience Music Project, Seattle, acquired his “Clash Live in Boston”, “Tina Turner Multiple Image”, and “Bloody Sid Vicious” photos for their permanent collection in March 2012.

In 2011 award winning director Don Letts made a feature length film titled ‘Rock & Roll Exposed – the Photography of Bob Gruen’ including interviews with Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Alice Cooper, Yoko Ono, Billie Joe Armstrong and many more.

Bob was presented in June 2004 with MOJO Magazine’s prestigious Honours List Award for Classic Image in London and in November 2010 he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. For his many charitable contributions, Bob received the first ever John Lennon Real Love Award in December 2014 at the 32nd Annual John Lennon Tribute Concert.

More recently he has also photographed Green Day’s tour of Europe, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Jesse Malin, Ryan Adams, Courtney Love, The Strypes and other new popular acts.

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Bob Gruen

Led Zeppelin, NY 1973
Gelatin Silver Print

Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.

Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became John and Yoko’s personal photographer and friend, making photos of their working life as well as private moments. In 1974 he created the iconic images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and standing in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace sign – two of the most popular of Lennon’s images.

As chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine in the ’70s, Bob specialized in candid, behind the scenes photo features. He toured extensively with the emerging punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and Blondie. Bob has also worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith, Kiss and Alice Cooper.

In 1989, he documented the epic trip to Russia of the “Moscow Music Peace Festival” featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe and Bon Jovi. For many years Bob was the official photographer for the New Music Seminar held in New York City, covering dozens of aspiring new bands in the course of a summer week. This seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists. His wealth of personal experiences and uncanny memory provide the most illuminating and comprehensive histories of rock youth culture.

“All Dolled Up,” a DVD documentary made by Bob Gruen and Nadya Beck of their early ’70s video footage of the New York Dolls, was released in 2005 with a follow-up DVD, “Lookin’ Fine On Television” released in 2011.

In the spring of 2007 FAAP University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented an exhibition of Bob Gruen’s work. Titled ROCKERS, the exhibition attracted 40,000 visitors. The ROCKERS exhibition was also shown from April to July 2008 at Morrison Hotel Gallery on the Bowery in New York City.

Bob’s “Sid Vicious with Hot Dog” photo was acquired by The National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1999 for their permanent collection.

The Experience Music Project, Seattle, acquired his “Clash Live in Boston”, “Tina Turner Multiple Image”, and “Bloody Sid Vicious” photos for their permanent collection in March 2012.

In 2011 award winning director Don Letts made a feature length film titled ‘Rock & Roll Exposed – the Photography of Bob Gruen’ including interviews with Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Alice Cooper, Yoko Ono, Billie Joe Armstrong and many more.

Bob was presented in June 2004 with MOJO Magazine’s prestigious Honours List Award for Classic Image in London and in November 2010 he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. For his many charitable contributions, Bob received the first ever John Lennon Real Love Award in December 2014 at the 32nd Annual John Lennon Tribute Concert.

More recently he has also photographed Green Day’s tour of Europe, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Jesse Malin, Ryan Adams, Courtney Love, The Strypes and other new popular acts.

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Bob Gruen

The Clash, Boston 1980
Gelatin Silver Print

Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.

Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became John and Yoko’s personal photographer and friend, making photos of their working life as well as private moments. In 1974 he created the iconic images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and standing in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace sign – two of the most popular of Lennon’s images.

As chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine in the ’70s, Bob specialized in candid, behind the scenes photo features. He toured extensively with the emerging punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and Blondie. Bob has also worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith, Kiss and Alice Cooper.

In 1989, he documented the epic trip to Russia of the “Moscow Music Peace Festival” featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe and Bon Jovi. For many years Bob was the official photographer for the New Music Seminar held in New York City, covering dozens of aspiring new bands in the course of a summer week. This seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists. His wealth of personal experiences and uncanny memory provide the most illuminating and comprehensive histories of rock youth culture.

“All Dolled Up,” a DVD documentary made by Bob Gruen and Nadya Beck of their early ’70s video footage of the New York Dolls, was released in 2005 with a follow-up DVD, “Lookin’ Fine On Television” released in 2011.

In the spring of 2007 FAAP University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented an exhibition of Bob Gruen’s work. Titled ROCKERS, the exhibition attracted 40,000 visitors. The ROCKERS exhibition was also shown from April to July 2008 at Morrison Hotel Gallery on the Bowery in New York City.

Bob’s “Sid Vicious with Hot Dog” photo was acquired by The National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1999 for their permanent collection.

The Experience Music Project, Seattle, acquired his “Clash Live in Boston”, “Tina Turner Multiple Image”, and “Bloody Sid Vicious” photos for their permanent collection in March 2012.

In 2011 award winning director Don Letts made a feature length film titled ‘Rock & Roll Exposed – the Photography of Bob Gruen’ including interviews with Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Alice Cooper, Yoko Ono, Billie Joe Armstrong and many more.

Bob was presented in June 2004 with MOJO Magazine’s prestigious Honours List Award for Classic Image in London and in November 2010 he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. For his many charitable contributions, Bob received the first ever John Lennon Real Love Award in December 2014 at the 32nd Annual John Lennon Tribute Concert.

More recently he has also photographed Green Day’s tour of Europe, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Jesse Malin, Ryan Adams, Courtney Love, The Strypes and other new popular acts.

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Michael Philips

Unknown Title
Oil, Sewn Textile Assemblage, Stretched

Michael Phillips is a United States postal worker and self taught artist from Litchfield, New Hampshire, now based in Concord. His work brings together various antithetical and contradictory sentiments, as well as a wide range of influences, techniques, and mediums, into a cohesive body of work that puts more stock in an oeuvre than singular pictures. He attempts to elevate and highlight the accidental, overlooked, and non-art we pass every day: cracked city buildings, rusty metal, dirty walls, runny paint.

Phillips draws from his time as a musician and brings the ideas and ethos of DIY music scenes to his art. He is relatively new the art scene but has shown in galleries in New Hampshire and is in private collections in Europe, Canada and across the USA.

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Rochester Opera House

Hand painted stage curtain
Oil on Linen, Rescued Fragments

The Rochester Opera House, opened on Memorial Day 1908, readied for use with ten magnificent scenery curtains, hand painted on linen by the O.L. Story Scenic Studio of Boston. These grand drapes, with their lavish center scenes, were ornamented with elaborate fringe and tassels to give an illusion of heavy drapery.

During the restoration of the Rochester Opera House in 1996, one last tattered and torn curtain was discovered and stored away for safekeeping. Several years passed, memories faded, and the exact location of the curtain became a mystery. After a concerted effort in 2011 to locate this century-old treasure, it was discovered that the curtain had been hid away into the dark recesses of the theatre fly space.

Christine Hadsel, Director of Curtains Without Borders in Vermont, advised that the curtain not be unrolled until she could assist. Hadsel began work on painted theatre curtains in Vermont in 1998 and that collection has been given the status of National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Treasure.

Hadsel arrived from Vermont for the “unveiling” of this treasure. Unfortunately, after much study, she concluded that a complete restoration of the last remaining scenery curtain was not feasible. Although a century of wear and tear had taken its toll on the once magnificent grand drape, the beauty endured.

In an effort to share the legacy of these priceless hand-painted theatre curtains, a series of fragments have been preserved. With mat and frame, these grand drape vignettes have been transformed into precious works of art. Some pieces resemble the impressionism of a Monet painting, while others have a feel of the Orient. No two pieces are the same, but all are stunning.

Martha Cox (Great Works Painting Restoration, Shapleigh, ME) and Lee Copp (Timeless Framing, Rochester, NH) worked together to determine the best method to preserve and to frame the vignettes. Cox explains, “Artifacts like these theatre curtains are significant historical documents that deserve to be preserved, maintained and retained as part of the overall history of the Rochester Opera House. The current theatre curtain project is a small documentation of the theatre’s history that can be shared by the public.”