March 4-April 12, 2008

"American Icons: Paintings from the Baseball and Marilyn Monroe/Joe DiMaggio Series"
The Gallery at New England College presents “American Icons: Paintings from the Baseball and Marilyn Monroe/Joe DiMaggio Series” by Lance Richbourg March 4 to April 12, 2008.  There will be a talk by the artist on Thursday, March 20, 2008 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Gallery, followed by an artist reception the same day from 4 to 6 p.m.  The talk and reception are free and open to the public.

April 19– May 12, 2007

“New England College Student Art Exhibition”  at
The New England College Gallery

The Gallery at New England College presented work by New England College students from April 19 to May 12.

Admission to the Gallery is free. Regular Gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday from 11:00 to 3:00 p.m.  Due to New England College Commencement (Saturday, May 12), The Gallery will have special hours on Thursday, May 10 opening from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and special hours on Friday, May 11 opening from
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Gallery is located on Main Street in Henniker, New Hampshire, adjacent to the College’s Administration Building. For more information, call The Gallery at 603-428-2329.

February 1 - March 2, 2007

(photos by Rose Eaton)

“James Bailey: Works on Paper”
Relief Reduction Prints
February 1 – March 2, 2007

“Richard Brown Lethem:  Heads and Masks”
Paintings and Drawings 1999-2006
February 8- March 23, 2007

“Farid Haddad:  Selected Works on Paper 2001-2006
February 8 – March 23, 2007

Three different exhibits opened in the New England College Gallery in February. The Main Gallery featured selected works on paper by Concord, New Hampshire, artist Farid Haddad and Gallery Two featured paintings and drawings by Maine artist Richard Brown Lethem. Haddad’s and Lethem’s exhibits ran from February 8 to March 23, 2007.  Gallery Three featured the relief reduction works of artist James Bailey from February 1 to March 2.

Admission to the Gallery is free. Regular Gallery hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday from 11:00 to 3:00 p.m. Weekend hours at the Gallery are by appointment. The Gallery is located on Main Street in Henniker, New Hampshire, adjacent to the College’s Administration Building. For more information, call The Gallery at 603-428-2329.

New England College Professor of Art Farid Haddad presented “Selected Works on Paper” in the Main Gallery. The exhibition presented a range of Haddad’s works on paper from 2001 to 2006 and included four series: “Readings in a Mirror,” “The Gentle Poet’s Notebook,” “Drawings I-VIII, Past Place Here,” and “For All Those With Broken Wings.”

A Fulbright Scholar (Fulbright-Hays Foreign Grant, 1972) and a recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the NH State Council on the Arts, Haddad has been on the faculty of the Department of Art and Art History at New England College since 1979. Prior to coming to New England College he taught drawing and painting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  

Haddad’s early works as a painter dealt with color field painting.  In the eighties he turned to an art based on experimental abstraction. He has had several solo exhibitions in Beirut and New York City.  He has also had solo exhibitions Kuwait City, Rome, and Paris.  Haddad has participated in more than forty group shows since 1968 in Europe, the Middle East and North America. He lives and maintains his studio in Concord, New Hampshire.

Also on exhibit from February 8 to March 23 was Richard Brown Lethem’s “Heads and Masks: Paintings and Drawings” in Gallery Two. “Heads and Masks” featured Lethem’s Maya Drawings interspersed with a series of colorful, small portrait heads.

“I felt that the mix of the small, colorful heads by Lethem juxtaposed with the black and white, loosely drawn figures with masks from his Maya series offered great variety and nicely complimented one another,” commented New England College Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp.

Lethem, also a former Fulbright Scholar holds a BFA and MFA from Columbia University.  In addition to the University of Southern Maine, he has also taught at the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University.  He has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and New York.

James Bailey’s work, “The Seven Deadly Sins,” in Gallery Three from February 1 to March 2 was shown specifically to enhance the curriculum of the art program at New England College. “The exhibit will give students an opportunity to see work relevant to their experiences in the classroom and studio,” said Gallery Director Furtkamp. “For example, Bailey's relief prints exhibit a medium and process that students will be engaged with in this semester's printmaking course.”

Bailey, a professor of art at the University of Montana in Missoula, says his latest body of work uses the classical theme of the seven deadly sins to explore human nature in a contemporary setting.  He uses satire to explore modern man’s follies.  “Through my work,” says Bailey, “I hope to capture both the internal struggles, longings and psychological states we experience as well as the external forces acting upon us.”

June 15 – August 3, 2006

“Our Town II”
A Multi-Media Exhibition Featuring Artists of Henniker
 “Intimate Landscapes”
 Digital Photographic Art by Charlie Lemay at
The New England College Gallery 

The Gallery at New England College presented “Our Town II” multi-media artwork by 11 Henniker artists and “Intimate Landscapes,” digital photographic art by Charlie Lemay of Manchester from June 15 to August 3, 2006.

Admission to The Gallery is free. Summer Gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m.  to 3 p.m. (The Gallery is closed Friday and Sunday in the summer.) The Gallery is located on Main Street in Henniker, New Hampshire, adjacent to the College’s Administration Building. For more information, call The Gallery at 603-428-2329.

The Henniker artists featured in  “Our Town II” are: Dawn Blanchard, prints; Wilhelmina Bodine, paintings; Steve Cunliffe, pottery; David Hale, pottery; Jerry LoFaro, traditional and digital paintings; Linda Martin, paintings and drawings; Tara Marvel, video art; Jan Seavey, hooked rugs; Liane Tyrrel, paintings; Lisa Winant, paintings; and Jesi Yager, paintings.

“There are a number of very talented artists living in Henniker,” commented New England College Gallery Director Jan Hodges. “The first time we presented a Henniker artist exhibit was in 2000 and we felt the time was right to again showcase some of the extraordinary talent within our own community.”

 In “Intimate Landscapes” Charlie Lemay presents a series of unframed digital photographic prints. Lemay, native of Manchester, NH, is an artist and graphic designer who teaches at St. Paul's School in Concord and began making digital images 10 years ago.

“My intimate landscapes are an exercise in ‘seeing,’ said Lemay of his work.  “I begin by walking in nature and focusing my awareness on the abstractions of light and shadow. I use lenses with wide apertures so I can isolate the elements...the result is an image that is beautiful, weeds, twigs, branches and leaves reveal a depth that is unexpected,” continued Lemay.

Lemay received a BA in Fine Arts from Bowdoin College in 1972 and attended the Boston Architectural Center. He began creating digital art in 1995 and his first digital work was shown at the Creiger Dane Gallery in Boston and at Framingham State College in Framingham, MA, in 1996.   Since then he has exhibited widely.  Lemay is currently a full-time associate faculty member at St. Paul's School in Concord, NH, where he teaches photography, illustration, graphic design and computer graphics.

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