Exhibitions
Now on View
Beth Wittenberg
The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts presents Beth Wittenberg: Selected Works, a posthumous exhibition celebrating the life and work of Seacoast artist Beth Wittenberg (1966–2025). The exhibition offers visitors a glimpse into the wide breadth of Wittenberg’s creative practice while acknowledging a career that ended too soon. Throughout her career, Wittenberg created art that was bold, experimental, and deeply personal. Working across a wide range of media, including spray paint, acrylic, paper sculpture, and fiber, she constantly pushed the boundaries of her practice. Known for her fearless experimentation and evolving visual language, Wittenberg’s work was unified by a strong sense…
Lydia M. Kinney
Lydia Kinney is a painter working in structured and layered abstraction. Based in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and cat, Kinney exhibits her work throughout New England. She is an honored BFA graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She characterizes her process as one where ideas are pushed to their fullest expression, stating, “I am exhausting a spark, taking an idea and exploring it fully.” “In resolving a painting, I am letting it finally rest,” Kinney explains. “One image is a commitment, but a painting is devotion to the passage of time. I am…
Picturing Rising Tides
For 13 years, the New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup has invited community members to photograph extreme high tides in New Hampshire’s coastal watershed. These photos give us a glimpse of what daily water levels could be like in the future. This year, 20 people submitted 53 photos from 10 communities across New Hampshire’s coastal watershed illustrating coastal flooding. From there, 156 members of the public cast 654 votes supporting the most compelling photos. Thank you to everyone who submitted photos and voted! Picturing Rising Tides is hosted by the NH Coastal Adaptation Workgroup, a collaboration of over 40 organizations working to ensure…
Pamela Bates
While creating has been an integral part of Pamela Bates’ life from her earliest memories, a pivotal moment during a visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston brought the greatest transformation. Standing in front of El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent was an otherworldly experience that could not be denied—taking her breath away and knocking her back across the room. A visceral epiphany. Pamela knew that while she had been creative all her life, she had to go home and, after a 23-year career as a graphic designer and writer, begin creating in a new way: with a paintbrush. Self-taught,…
