Catherine Callahan

Mazi/Together/Calypso’s Far-Off Island
March 8, 2022 - April 30, 2022
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Catherine Callahan studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Cornell University. She has completed artist residencies at Hewn Oaks in Lovell Maine and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. Her work has been shown in galleries and non-profit venues and she is the founder of the bi-annual Byrdcliffe Outdoor…

Forrest Knight

Common Sights
December 7, 2021 - February 26, 2022
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Forrest Knight is an oil painter that works out of his studio in the Salmon Falls Mills. Knight received a BFA in painting from MassArt in 2013. He was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoekel Fellowship at Yale Norfolk, Gambling Paint Award, and the Paul Celli Award, in recognition of his artistic achievements.  “These paintings are collages of…

Chloe Feldman Emison

January 4, 2020 - March 30, 2020
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Chloe Feldman Emison has exhibited her drawings and animations widely in the United States and Europe, while working also as an illustrator.  She studied fine art at Williams College and at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and animation at Forkbeard Fantasy in Devon. She was a visiting artist at Wasps…

Shiao-Ping Wang

October 1, 2019 - December 28, 2019
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Shiao-Ping Wang was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States in 1981. She studied both Western art and Chinese art in New York and earned a MFA degree from Queens College, City University of New York. She works both abstractly and from observation in various painting media. Her work has been exhibited throughout…

Christa Blackwood

June 1, 2019 - September 28, 2019
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Christa Blackwood is a photo, text and installation artist working with themes related to identity, gender, history, and popular culture. Her visual voice was developed while a student at New York University, when she began producing street art such as the poster, Butcher knives (1991), a work that addressed issues of sexual violence. A chilling juxtaposition…

Brian Chu

April 6, 2019 - May 31, 2019
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Brian Chu teaches painting, drawing, and printmaking at the University of New Hampshire. He also taught the UNH study abroad program in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, and in Chengdu University, China.    Brian went to Artist Residencies at France, Spain, Canada, New York, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, some with honors such as Clowes Fellowship at…

Jason Bombaci

February 2, 2019 - April 5, 2019
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

“I usually end up painting the places I can’t talk myself out of painting. There are certain places that just have an unexplainable draw for me, an attraction. The Piscataqua River is one of these places. Everything in this area is ruled by the sea. The weather is constantly shifting and the light reflecting off…

Tracy Hayes 

December 1, 2018 - February 1, 2019
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

“My current work explores connections and the emergence of patterns in the intersections of lines, textures and values in my attempt to comprehend the contradictions and stressors of daily life. In an increasingly complicated, varied and noisy environment, I am concerned with role of individual voice. Individual efforts struggling to reach out and chart a…

Scotty Arsenault

October 6, 2018 - November 30, 2018
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Scotty is a native of New Hampshire, living and working in Dover as a multimedia illustrator and freelance 2D animator.  “It was all cartoons for me, growing up in Salem, New Hampshire. Drawing on paper plates with crayons, scribbling on the walls in my bedroom, or doodling in my notebooks at school when I should…

Hallie Jay Pope

June 2, 2018 - September 29, 2018
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Hallie Jay Pope is a cartoonist and lawyer living in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder and president of the Graphic Advocacy Project, a nonprofit that uses visual communication tools – like comics, animations, and infographics – to explain legal issues. Pope’s work is motivated by the belief that legal knowledge belongs to everyone,…