(pictured above: installation view of the David Giese exhibition, "Recent Excavations from the Villa Bitricci")

 

Annual Student Exhibition
November 17 through December 14, 2011

The Gallery at New England College presents the Annual Student Exhibition November 17 through December 14, 2011, featuring works in all media - photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, two-and three-dimensional design, and graphic design. The public is invited to the opening reception Thursday, November, 17 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Below: Devon Mozdierz '12 - Oil on Panel

“This exhibit provides a great opportunity for our students to share their work with the New England College community and the region,” comments Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp. “Visiting audiences are impressed with the quality of work generated by students in studio art courses, whether created by art majors or other students taking courses as electives. The College has many talented students receptive to the studio process and creating unique and compelling artworks,” Furtkamp continues. This Annual Student Exhibition of also provides an excellent opportunity for visitors to get a first-hand look at the quality and depth of work being produced in the College’s art program.

New England College’s program in art and art history provides knowledge of the basic means of visual expression and a broad exposure to the history of art. Majors acquire a foundation for professional or graduate study or careers in teaching, museum work and studio and commercial art. Students may choose to specialize in general studio art, graphic and communication design,  painting/drawing, photography, or art history.

Above: Heather Chamberlin '14 - Pen and Ink Portrait

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“Transitory Tension” and “Strange Angels”
Two Exhibits of Sculpture

September 22 through October 28, 2011
Two artists, each with a very different approach to sculpture, will open the 2011-2012 season at The Gallery at New England College. Cathryn Mallory’s large abstract forms "Transitory Tension" will hang in the Main Gallery and Michael deMeng’s "Strange Angels" assemblages will be in the Balcony.

While both artists focus on form and use readily available yet non-traditional materials, the resulting art could not be more different. deMeng’s works are literal and mostly wall mounted while Mallory’s forms subtly reference their inspiring source though title and shape.

Cathryn Mallory, Ascend

Cathryn Mallory first studied fiber art as an undergraduate student and went on to attain her MFA in sculpture, combining the two forms in a most unexpected way. Using methods most often associated with fiber (stitching, weaving, wrapping, and plaiting), Mallory creates pieces with wire, chain, copper tubing, and mesh.  She produces pieces that reference items of clothing evolving from her long-time interest in the vessel form and its notions of containment. Mallory's works also acknowledge how dress and adornment define social structure and identity. “Often, the materials guide the direction of the piece,” says Mallory, “and because my process is so intimate—I work for hours stitching or plaiting with it on my lap—the pieces slowly become more personal and began to reference the body.”

“The cathedral ceiling space offers the perfect venue to hang Cathryn’s large, dramatic pieces,” says Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp. Some of Mallory’s sculptures are 12 feet high and seven feet wide. “Her use of material, scale, and placement within the exhibition space will allow the viewer to interact with the works from a more aesthetic point of view. Cathryn’s approach to sculpture is visceral, inviting interaction with the form, its material, and the space that it occupies,” observes Furtkamp.

Cathryn Mallory, Collar Series: Cellular Coil

Mallory will also exhibit smaller pieces from her collar sculptures, works that were inspired by a trip she took to the Netherlands. “A sense of ritual, status, and identity are evoked by the collar forms,” comments Mallory. Like her large dress sculptures, her collars define a presence of body.

Michael deMeng, His Bones are Coral Made: Rahab

Upstairs in the Balcony, deMeng’s "Strange Angels" will instantly grab the viewer's eye with their haunting details. While angels have historically assumed a variety of forms and have been assigned particular roles and attributes ranging from virtuous to demonic, deMeng has created images and icons that challenge traditional depictions of angels.

 

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Rites of Man: Photography by Polly Brown
and
thINK: Boston Printmakers Members Show

Rites of Man: Photographs by Polly Brown and thINK: Boston Printmakers Members Show will be on exhibit at The Gallery at New England College from March 22  to April 29, 2011. The public is invited to attend the reception to meet the artists on Thursday, March 24 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in The Gallery.

Pictured (below):
Polly Brown, Highland Games

The Main Gallery will host the photographs of social documentary photographer Polly Brown and her exploration of her relationship to the world of men in our culture. Many of the images are about men and boys in the process of creating their own myths in the most sacred of male environments - baseball, hunting, and fishing.  “In sports, religion, politics and combat, men of different classes and heritage communicate by doing things together where traditions no longer necessary for survival have been transformed into rituals,” says Brown. “The caveman mentality outlived its usefulness when technology made the hunter obsolete. However, men's inherent survival instincts have created a strong desire to maintain the masculine image,” continues Brown.

Pictured (below):
Polly Brown, Ice Fishing

The men who participated in Brown’s project were always welcoming. It wasn’t long before she came to the conclusion that these male enclaves were more open to her as a female photographer than they would have been for a male photographer attempting to enter this same world. “I was never perceived as a threat, and I wasn't in competition with them. The men wanted to help me, show me their world and were genuinely pleased that I paid attention to them,” says Brown of Rites.

Pictured (below):
Image by Lois Tarlow

In The Balcony Gallery, Director Furtkamp offers students and viewers alike the chance to understand the art of printmaking.  thINK: The Boston Printmakers Show is designed to teach as well as delight the eye. The Boston Printmakers, an association since 1947, created this exhibition to answer many questions they receive about various printmaking techniques - how a particular print is made, how many steps are involved, etc. Viewers will have a more complete understanding of the particular process used including intaglio, etching, monotype, lithograph, or woodcut as each of the prints comes an accompanying "recipe card" explaining its inspiration and process.

Pictured (below):
Image by Dirk Hagner

“This exhibition by members of the Boston Printmakers represents a broad and diverse range of imagery and process,” says New England College Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp.  “The organization began in Boston and has since branched out to include many of the country’s preeminent practitioners in the medium, such as master etcher Peter Milton and co-founder of Normal Editions Press James D. Butler.  As a teaching exhibition, the array of mediums and experimental cross-over exhibited serve as examples to students of the possibilities for artistic discovery within a very controlled and disciplined process,” continues Furtkamp.

Pictured (below):
Image by Henrieke Strecker

The entire thINK exhibition contains 180 pieces but has been divided into three sections based on media, expression and artists’ location. The 61 prints on display at New England College will be from the blue section of the exhibit includes prints by Lois Taylor and Peter Milton. To see the full listing, please visit:  http://bostonprintmakers.org/membersshow.html.

NH Art Educators’ Association
Region VII Exhibit

 

March is Youth Art Month and there’s plenty to celebrate as New England College and the NH Art Educators’ Association from Region VII team up to present K-12 student art to the public March 14 through 18 in The Gallery at New England College. This multi-media show will feature student works in painting, photography, printmaking, and ceramics. The public is invited to a reception for all the artists on Monday, March 14 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Pictured (above): Submission by student at Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School

 

Leonard Ragouzeos: Ink Paintings
and
Michael deMeng: Diablos and Retablos

Leonard Ragouzeos:Ink Paintings and Michael deMeng: Diablos and Retablos will open the new year at The Gallery at New England College from January 25 to March 4, 2011. The public is invited to attend a reception to meet the artists on Thursday, February 10 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in The Gallery.

 

Leonard Ragouzeos - Hamilton Beach - Ink on Paper, 60"x64"

In Leonard Ragouzeos' Ink Paintings, familiar subjects such as portraiture, the human figure, vegetables, tools, and everyday objects are used to elicit interaction often associated with non-representational work or abstraction. Ragouzeos uses non-traditional drawing paper (Yupo) and unconventional tools (putty knives, spray bottles, ink brayers, and electric hair dryers) to produce work both rich in texture and surface while illuminating the intense observation of his subject.

Leonard Ragouzeos - Adirondack Chair - Ink on Paper, 50" x 38"

“I enjoy working on a larger-than-life scale where the painting process becomes more physical and experimental,” says Ragouzeos. “My expectation for the viewer is to engage and understand the image from a distance, and also to be drawn in to view the surface texture of marks, ink spatters, and drips.”

Following his career of teaching at universities in Iowa and Pennsylvania while maintaining an exhibition record, Ragouzeos now resides in Vermont where he devotes his time energy to his art.

For more information about Ragouzeos' work, visit http://leonardragouzeos.com.

Michael deMeng - Mescal

In the Balcony Gallery during this time, visitors to The Gallery will experience Michael deMeng: Diablos and Detablos - assemblages of  transformation. deMeng’s work incorporates found objects with collage, new painting, and drawing. While deMeng uses discarded objects, his selection process reveals his preference for objects that reference a pop art influence, offered with a post-modern sensibility.

Michael deMeng, of Missoula, Montana, is the author of  Secrets of Rusty Things, Transforming Found Objects into Art and most recently, Dusty Diablos. Dusty Diablos reflects on deMeng’s many travels to Mexico and is the inspiration behind the exhibit. Each piece reflects on themes of Mexican folklore, religious practice, and iconography.

For more information about deMeng's work, visit http://michaeldemeng.blogspot.com.

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Annual Student Exhibition

 

(above) Angeliqie Abare - 22"x30" oil on canvas

David Giese: Recent Excavations from the Villa Bitricci

September 7 through October 9, 2010
Reception: October 2 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

The artifacts in this exhibition come from the imagination and studio of artist David Giese. Villa Bitricci is an imaginary place in Italy named for the Italian poet Dante’s mistress. The excavations, a wall of icons: 500 years of shrines celebrating events and family histories; artifacts created of concrete, flotage, paint, and mixed-media by Giese and belonging to the current style known as postmodernism. One key strategy of postmodernism is appropriation, the conscious borrowing of pre-existing images.

David Giese is a professor of art at the University of Idaho having stepped down from also serving as chair of the department in 1996 to devote more time to his art work. He is represented by the OK Harris Gallery of Fine Art in New York.

Project Tandem: Conserve. Record. Change.
A Photographic Exhibit About the Environment

September 12 to October 22, 2010
Balcony Gallery

Reception:  October 2 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Project Tandem is a photographic exhibit chronicling  an 11,000 mile bike ride by two photographers, Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow, who documented how Americans feel about the environment through images and words.

New York photographers Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow recently completed a one year, 11,000 mile bicycle ride around the United States. Project Tandem is the multimedia result of that journey’s goal: to photograph and interview everyday Americans about their views on the environment and climate change. Their ride took them from Rockland, ME, to St. Augustine, FL, to San Diego, CA, to Seattle, WA, and then brought them back to New York through the American Midwest. They rode through thirty states, photographing and interviewing hundreds of people, ultimately creating this exhibition of portraits and a looping video track of voices from all over America speaking candidly about the environment.  “This work illuminates the differences in opinion between regions and individuals, but somehow also brings us all together,” said the photographers of their work. They have also published a book, Project Tandem of the photographs and dialog. More images and information on the project is available at  www.projecttandem.org.

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Annual Student Exhibition

May 5 to May 15, 2010

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The New England College Gallery

Reception:  May 14 from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m

The Gallery at New England College presents their Annual Student Exhibition May 5 through May 15, featuring the works of senior students from their studio art program. The exhibition will feature a range of works including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and graphic design. The public is invited to a closing reception for the artists on Friday, May 14 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. during Commencement weekend.

"Lilith" by Erin Webber - oil painting, 32x48

The scope of the works being exhibited is varied. Some students are highlighting their abilities with varied media, while others are presenting a series or related theme. For example, Tim Rand’s stylistic range in portraits depicts aggressive, gestural mark-making, to subtly modeled color transitions, to gridded and constructed three-dimensional images that explore a shallow projection off the picture plane. Erin Webber’s oil paintings are darkly satirical portrayals of fairytale icons.

New England College senior artists include Tim Rand, Erin Webber, Moriah Christie, Bethany Boisvert, Jess Chauca, Paige Coleman, Justin Rogers, Krystin Talbot, Rohaan Malhotra, Meghan Deyermond, Sara Tripple, Elyse Neilan, and Heather Gray.

Admission to the Gallery is free. Gallery hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  Weekends 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..

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“Collective Body” by Susan D’Amato
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“Drawings by a Curious Observer” by Anne Novado Cappuccilli

March 16 to April 26, 2010
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The New England College Gallery

Opening Reception:  March 25 from 4-6 p.m.

The Gallery at New England College presents the drawings of two artists from New York State, Susan D’Amato in the Main Gallery and Anne Novado Cappuccilli in the Balcony from March 16 to April 26. The public is also invited to a reception to meet the artists on Thursday, March 25 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

 

Admission to The Gallery is free. Gallery hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Weekends 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.

"So often, drawing has been relegated to preliminary sketches, concept drawings, and studies for more ambitious works in other media," commented New England College Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp. "The exhibiting artists each use drawing as a primary art form. Though, at first glance, a viewer may think of their works as abstract, upon closer inspection, it is evident that each is working observationally; D’Amato with the figure and Novado Cappuccilii with natural forms – and from a heightened observational perspective that transcends rendering of their subject."

Susan D'Amato - Reflection

The large charcoal and pastel drawings by D’Amato show her keen interest in the visual and conceptual relationships between the body and universal forms. The recipient of numerous national and international awards, D’Amato has exhibited her work extensively throughout the country, including prominent venues in New York, Boston, Miami, Albany, Chapel Hill, and Baltimore. Her exhibitions have received favorable reviews in several national and regional publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art in New England, and The Boston Herald.

D’Amato received her MFA in Drawing/Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, and her BFA in Painting from the University of Connecticut in 1986. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art and Design at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

 

Anne Novado Cappuccilli -
Biomorphic Form Dividing

Novado Cappuccilli’s drawings are about the beauty of mark-making, the sensitivity of touch, and the mysterious nature of forms. In her work, something occurs that fuses nature and abstraction. Her drawings are the confluence of many interests inspired by observations of place, natural phenomena, and organism behavior. “My drawings exist in an odd place, between the familiar and the bizarre,” comments Novado Cappuccilli. “As the forms come into being, they become my strange, curious, and engaging beauties.”

Novado Cappuccilli received both her bachelor and master of fine art degrees from Syracuse University where she currently teaches. In addition to exhibiting in galleries across the United States, she is the curator of the Limestone Art Gallery in New York.

 

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NARRATIVE PAINTINGS & PORTRAITS
by Dick Morrill

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PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
by Vincent Sferrazza

JANUARY 26, 2010 – MARCH 5, 2010

The Gallery at New England College presents narrative paintings and portraits, large and small, by New York State-based artist Dick Morrill in the Main Gallery and paintings and drawings from Boston artist Vincent Sferrazza in the Balcony Gallery from January 26 to March 5, 2010. The public is also invited to a reception to meet the artists on Thursday, February 4 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Admission to The Gallery is free. Gallery hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Weekends 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.

Dick Morrill - Archeologist 2009
42 x 36 inches, Oil and acrylic on canvas

Morrill’s narrative paintings are mostly political, dealing with the current state of this country and the world, particularly the relationships of power, money and democracy.  He paints a cast of many characters who interact with each other, and while there are some recognizable personages, most of Morrill’s figures are symbolic or fictional. Morrill’s works are complex, allegorical, and sometimes cryptic, but never straightforward. The artist rarely supplies a specific message, but rather gives the viewer the opportunity to create their own interpretations. Morrill in particular is a master of blue, every shade of blue shows up in his portraits, often contrasted to reds and pinks.

Morrill’s portraits are a combination of acrylic and oil, often with a textural ground of fabric, such as cheesecloth, sand, and gesso. The fragmented quality of the faces, along with the vivid color in the paintings, emphasizes the character of the individual.

Morrill’s work in this exhibit was created after he turned 70 (he is now 82). His approach is direct, with no preliminaries. His process is intuitive, working from memory and imagination. Some of the works were developed over a number of months, some years. The style of Morrill’s paintings can be described as figurative expressionism, with roots in the challenging modern art crated in pre-Hitler Germany.

Morrill studied illustration and painting at the Cambridge School of Design. He worked for an advertising design firm before founding his own agency representing illustrators and photographers. He has taught at the Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute and established overseas programs for the State University of New York.

*Morrill's exhibition organized by Katharine T. Carter and Associates.*

Vincent Sferrazza - Listening, oil on linen

 

Vincent Sferrazza, a self-taught artist who lives and works in Boston, will show his paintings and drawings in the Balcony Gallery at New England College. Sferrazza prefers to work from life, but will continue and alternate the process with the use of memory, imagination, sketches, and drawings and to a lesser extent photos. Using only scale, placement and harmony as a parameter, Sferrazza’s drawings or paintings will change many times over. Curious images drift and emerge from the toiled marks and lines that tend to direct his imagination. “Of late,” says Sferrazza, “I have been trying to incorporate these unintentional figures or landscapes, hoping for at least a resolution worth saving if not the elusive finished product.” Sferrazza is represented by the Nielsen Gallery in Boston.

 

 

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IMAGE AS METAPHOR by Tom Blackwell

“Venus Revisited”

Paintings & Drawings

 by

Peter Granucci

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The New England College Gallery

August 25 – September 25, 2009

Reception:

September 10 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM

 

The Gallery at New England College presents “Venus Revisited” an exhibition of paintings and drawings by New England College faculty member Peter Granucci from August 25 through September 25, 2009.   The public is also invited to a reception meet the artist on Thursday, September 10 from 4 until 6 PM.

Admission to the New England College Gallery is free. Gallery hours Tuesday through Thursday from 11 AM to 6 PM and Friday from 11 AM to 3 PM. 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 or www.nec.edu

(click Academics, then Gallery).

Large nude paintings and several drawings by Peter Granucci will hang throughout The Gallery in “Venus Revisited.” In this exhibition, Granucci returns to the familiar subjects of mythology and allegory to give context to his recurrent study of the figure.

“My work continues the millennia's old search for the ideal of the nude as an art form that was begun in ancient Greece,” commented Granucci. “The nude is a perfect means for expressing emotions and ideas. My desire to create beautiful imagery has been a driving force since I began the artists’ journey. The human form is infinitely expressive and is a perfect vehicle to this end,” Granucci continued.

“Granucci is a classically trained painter, having studied at the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York City, and it shows in his process as well as his finished works,” said Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp.  Granucci works from the model, frequently calling them back to resume a previous pose, but alters it slightly—maybe a change in the gesture of the hand or the position of the torso. This series of finished paintings and drawings by Granucci are combined, edited, enlarged and reworked into dramatic and precise multi-figured compositions that exhibit vitality despite their painstakingly rigorous preparation. “ The dramatic juxtaposition of scale from the smaller preparatory works to the largest multi-figure oils contributes to an exciting and fresh exhibition of figurative exploration by a master painter,” continued Furtkamp.

 

 

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Kevin J. Cahill: New Paintings

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The Here & Now: Recent Mixed Media Works
by David Fleming

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The New England College Gallery
June 5-July 17

Artist Reception
Friday June 5, 2009
5-7 P.M.

 

Make sure to read Kevn Cahill's article "Finally Painting" in the Concord Monitor.

 

Kevin Cahill - Love Put a Window in the Sky

 

The Gallery at New England College presents two distinct exhibits by New Hampshire artists June 5 to July 17. In the Main Gallery, the large paintings by Weare, NH, artist Kevin J. Cahill will be on display.  Upstairs in the Balcony Gallery, one can view the mixed media works of David Fleming of Andover. Both artists will be present for the reception on Friday evening, June 5 and the public is invited to come and meet them from 5 until 7 p.m.

 

Admission to The Gallery is free. Summer Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Gallery will be closed on the Fourth of July.  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.

Kevin Cahill - Have You Seen it by Feirmeoir

Kevin Cahill’s large abstract paintings reference the landscapes that are his source of inspiration. “His arrangement of color and form recall the individual segments of abstract grid that form the structure for a Chuck close portrait or the hard edge shapes against flat color constructs of a Sean Scully painting,” said Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp.

“His shapes are stylized and his color transitional,” continued Furtkamp. Cahill’s specific landscape references are not panoramic vistas disguised through abstracted color and form, rather places passed in his daily routine where he pauses to observe the changes that the elements make upon the land distilled and into simple, formal arrangements.

 

Cahill studied at the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.

David Fleming - #3 Self Portrait

Upstairs in the Balcony Gallery, David Fleming’s mixed media works combine old photographs, embossed plaster and collage surfaces with painting in carefully crafted frames. “His selection of material, image and frame shape dually contribute to the formal structure while their individual identity holds deep personal reference to the thematic subject of each work, “ commented Furtkamp.

David Fleming - oil and collage on panel

An example of this would be an early photograph of his mother with children, a handwritten letter from his grandmother, a doily pressed into wet plaster. “Fleming masterfully weaves and layers unrelated visual elements with self-portrait painting and other iconic references to create emotional narratives on the nature of family, time and loss,” continued Furtkamp.

David Fleming has a B.F.A. from the University of Idaho and teaches studio art and art history at Proctor Academy in Andover.

 

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Annual Student Art Exhibition

and

Senior Exhibition

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The New England College Gallery

April 14 – May 12, 2009

 

Student Artist Reception:

Thursday, April 16

4-6 P.M.

Closing Reception for Graduating Senior Artists:
Friday, May 15 from 4-6 p.m.

 

The Gallery at New England College presents work from New England College students enrolled in studio art courses at the

college from April 14 to May 12, 2009.

 

Tomoko Shimazu: pattern graphic design

The public is invited to the opening reception to meet the artists on Thursday, April 16 from 4 to 6 p.m.  In addition, a variety of works by graduating seniors will be on display for the Senior Exhibition in the areas of photography, graphic design, painting and sculpture from May 5 to May 16. The public is also invited to the closing reception to meet the graduating senior artists on Friday, May 15 from 4 to 6 p.m.

 

Tim Rand: mixed media on panel

 

Admission to The Gallery is free. Regular Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 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.

 

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Gerald Auten: Works on Paper

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Paul Bowen: Sculpture

March 3-April 10, 2009

 

Reception: March 26th from 4:30 to 6:30pm

 

 

The Gallery at New England College presents Gerald Auten: Drawings and Paul Bowen: Sculpture from March 3rd through April 10th. There will be an opening reception to meet both artists on Thursday, March 26th from 4:30 to 6:30pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

 

Gerald Auten - Pencilhead

“These recent works being shown at the New England College Gallery expand upon Auten’s previous austere black and white drawings in powdered graphite and oil,” said New England College Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp.  “These works have a physicality to them, building upon the surface with burnished fields of black, subtracted areas of white, and the addition of collage from previously discarded works,” continued Furtkamp.

Gerald Auten lives in the Upper Valley and is director of exhibitions and senior lecturer in studio art at Dartmouth College where he teaches drawing, painting, architecture and senior seminar.  His work has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including exhibitions in Tehran, Mexico City, New York and Vancouver. He holds a BFA in drawing and painting from The University of Iowa and a MFA in painting from Washington University-St. Louis. There will be a ten-year retrospective exhibition of Auten’s work this fall at The Currier Gallery of Art.

Gerald Auten - Graphite on Paper

Paul Bowen - Untitled, Wood, 2004,12x7x22 #DD14

Paul Bowen, who lives in both the Upper Valley and Provincetown, MA, was born in Wales in 1952.  It is from the sea that Bowen that creates his abstract sculpture from wood he finds on the beaches. “There’s something about the rough, splintered quality of wood coughed up by the ocean that can’t be tamed.  And Bowen doesn’t try to,” said Cate McQuaid in a review of Bowen’s work in The Boston Globe.

Paul Bowen - Untitled, Wood and Ink, 2001 ,9x10x4 #222D

Bowen came to the United States as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore where he was most interested in abstract expressionism.  When Bowen’s student visa expired upon his receiving his MFA in the spring of 1974, he returned to Britain and took a position in the department of sculpture at Sheffield Polytechnic. He focused primarily on wood and learned simple carpentry techniques.  It was in the late 70s that he received two consecutive fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, which provided him a place to live and work by the sea, which is where he found an endless supply of materials on the beaches for his work.

The fishing boat (or “dragger” as it is known as on the Cape) is an icon of the now dwindling fishing industry on Cape Cod. Over the past eight years, Bowen has used the image of the dragger in his two-dimensional work as well as in some of his wall structures.

“In many ways,” said Furtkamp, “Auten’s simple repertoire of material and form echoes Bowen’s working method and material with sculpture. Where one might initially find their choice of material limiting, these artists have created quite beautiful and complex works,” continued Furtkamp.

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Recent Works by Thomas Driscoll

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Progress Drawings & Black & White Plans 1999-2009

by Bert Yarborough

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The New England College Gallery

January 27 – February 27, 2009

Reception:  February 5 from 4:30-6:30 PM

Yarborough: Progress Drawing # 30, Spray enamel, acrylic and collage on vellum, 48" x  36", 2008

The Gallery at New England College presents the abstract work of two New England artists, Thomas Driscoll of New Hampshire and Bert Yarborough of Vermont, January 27 to February 27, 2009.   There will be an opening reception to meet both artists on Thursday, February 5 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM.  The reception is free and open to the public.

Admission to the New England College Gallery is free. Gallery hours Tuesday through Thursday from 11 AM  to 6 PM and Friday from 11 AM to 3 PM.. 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 or www.nec.edu (click Academics, then Gallery).

 

Yarborough: "Progress Drawing and Black & White Plans" spray enamel, acrylic and collage on vellum, 2006

“While the works by both Driscoll and Yarborough are abstract, their differences and techniques offer wonderful instructional opportunities,” commented New England College Gallery Director Darryl Furtkamp. “Yarborough’s works are immediate and fresh, and he combines traditional with non-traditional materials,” says Furtkamp. Yarborough’s figurative abstracts are representational. “His (Yarborough’s) working method is direct, while in Driscoll’s layered work,” continues Furtkamp, “you can see he is more deliberate, combining a series of sketches into one image,” Driscoll’s purely abstract form hints of landscape that surfaces in and out of this work.

Driscoll:  "Cairn" acrylic on panel, 2008

“I enjoy layering my work: revising, editing and building a history of marks, shapes and color relationships as the object develops,” says Driscoll of his work.  “I draw parallels between the richness that is created in the surface of a multi-layered painting and the depth of understanding that is created through rich and varied life experiences.  A painting gives back to the viewer the same level of energy and care that went into it’s making.”

Driscoll: "Modes of Speaking" Acrylic and gdraphite on panel, 36"x36" 2008

Driscoll, associate professor of art at Plymouth State University has exhibited throughout New England and holds a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

Bert Yarborough will be showing large (4’ x 3’) multi-media drawings executed on old architectural plans.  His Progress Drawings are on vellum, the Black & White Plans are on black and white blueprint paper.  “These works are experiments, notes and images that I have used in my work over the past ten years” says Yarborough, “they serve as large sketchbook pages.”  Yarborough installs them informally with clips and pins, in keeping with what he describes as their research quality.

 

Yarborough: Progress Drawing # 10, Acrylic, ink and magic marker on vellum, 48" x 36", 1999

 

Yarborough holds a degree in architecture from Clemson University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.  He is currently an associate professor of art at Colby-Sawyer College and has exhibited widely throughout the United States. He will be exhibiting a ten year retrospective of his work at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center this summer.

Both Driscoll and Yarborough are represented by McGowan Fine Art in Concord, NH, where Tom Driscoll’s work will be featured in an exhibition this spring.

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Student Art Association

and

Henniker Artisans’ Holiday Show and Sale

at

The New England College Gallery

December 5 – December 18, 2008

RECEPTION:  December 5th, 4-7pm

 

The Gallery at New England College presents the Student Art Association and Henniker Artisans’ Holiday Show and Sale December 5 to December 18, 2008. There will be an opening reception on Friday, December 5th from 4-7pm, and the public is invited. This holiday show and sale will feature the works of New England College students and artists and craftsmen from the Henniker Community.  All items will be available for purchase.

Steve Cunliffe pottery (Henniker artist)
Admission to the New England College Gallery is free. Gallery hours for this holiday show and sale are Tuesday through Friday from 11am to 6pm. and Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm. 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 or www.nec.edu (click Academics, then Gallery).

Henniker artists participating in this exhibit include: Gigi Laberge (glass jewelry), Steve Cunliffe (pottery), Holly Baum (handbags & scarves), Carol Hamilton (knitted items), Michelle Marson (baskets), Kitty Stoykovich (silver jewelry),Gary LaRose (wrought iron), Diana Lind (collector teddy bears) and Dawn Blanchard (prints).

 

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Reception:  September 11 from 3:30-5:30 PM

 

Main Gallery
New England College Faculty Exhibition: Paintings, Monotypes and Mixed Media by Peter Granucci, Marguerite Walsh, Farid Haddad, Neil Rennie and Darryl Furtkamp.

Second Level Gallery
Social Commentary Photography: Photographs by Lou Jones from the book Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery, an anthology of prison writing by New England College Professor of Special Education and Writing Susan Nagelsen.

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Perhaps practice and theory converge never so well or completely as in the arts. The work is the terminus of theory, so that the symbiotic relationship between the two is perfect and complete. Therefore, teaching complements the practice of art in a very special sense. To practice an art implies mastery of the medium in which the artists works, and mastery, which is never complete or perfect, requires never-ending learning. As beneficiary of this learning, the artist is responsible for passing on the lessons to novices in the medium in which the artist works. But this education of the novice demands that the student also become a practitioner of the art and engage the medium as another learner of its craft. What is called theory fuels the dynamics of the practice.

New England College is blessed in having as gifted and as dedicated a staff of artist-teachers (masters) as may exist anywhere. The arts are drawing, painting, photography, and two- and three-dimensional design.

The artists are Darryl Furtkamp, Peter Granucci, Farid Haddad, Neil Rennie, and Marguerite Walsh. Their studios and their classrooms are completely and perfectly interdependent--as are their works and the audiences that view them. We need these works in ways we come to understand only as we encounter them. They are in the New England College Gallery here and now, so they are about this place as well as what is in the imagination of the artists--here and now. They are about us because the works mediate our world for us. That is what they do. And we are grateful to this group of artists for what they do - our colleagues, our friends, our teachers. Yes, we are grateful to these artists and their works for helping us to see better and in new ways who we are, where we are from, and where we may be going.

 

- Don W. Melander, Ph.D., Vice President of Academic Affairs

 

 

 

 

The Gallery at New England College presents “New England College Faculty Exhibition: Paintings, Monotypes, Photography and Mixed Media” by Peter Granucci, Marguerite Walsh, Farid Haddad, Neil Rennie and Darryl Furtkamp in the Main Gallery September 2 to September 26.

“Social Commentary Photography:  Photographs by Lou Jones”Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery, an anthology of prison writing by New England College Professor Susan Nagelsen, will also be on exhibit September 2 to September 26.  from the book The reception for the artists will be Thursday, September 11 from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m.  The reception is free and open to the public.

 

“New England College is blessed in having as gifted and as dedicated a staff of artist-teachers (masters) as may exist anywhere,” said Vice President for Academic Affairs Don Melander in reference to this exhibition.  “Their studios and their classrooms are completely and perfectly interdependent—as are their works and the audiences that view them,” Melander continued. “We are grateful to these artists for their works.”

 

Work by Peter Granucci

The New England College Faculty Exhibition features portrait and landscape paintings by Peter Granucci, watercolor landscapes by Marguerite Walsh, geometric abstracts by Farid Haddad, digital photography by Neil Rennie, and monotypes and paintings by Darryl Furtkamp.  Each artist will exhibit their most current works along with art made earlier in their careers.

 

Professor of Art Marguerite Walsh’s new works being exhibited are part of a series entitled “Water Drawings.” These oil paintings explore linear and abstract patterns observed while studying plants reflected in, or growing in water. The linear elements appear like drawn lines and shapes floating on, in or against the surface of water, hence “water drawings." They are composed to

 

Work by Marguerite Walsh

heighten visual tension so that the viewer experiences two-dimensional surface patterns playing against the illusion of three dimensional form and space. “Water Drawings” are based on a photographic study of Dorr’s Pond in Manchester, NH, and grows out of earlier photographic and painting explorations Walsh made over the years of the forest pools and wetlands of Henniker.

 

Professor of Art Farid Haddad will be showing two series of works on paper created thirty-one years apart.  A 1970 series of ink drawings titled "Circular Scrambles I-V," which was exhibited at the Jafet Memorial Library Gallery, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, part of an exhibition entitled "Farid Haddad and Jay Zerbe: An Exhibition of Experimental and Emotional Drawings."  The second series by Haddad is titled “Readings in a Mirror I-IV”, and was part of his "Selected Works on Paper 2001-2006" exhibition in 2007 at the New England College Art Gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Work by Darryl Furtkamp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Second Level Gallery will present photographs by Lou Jones of prisoners whose works are included in the book, Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery, edited by New England College Professor Susan Nagelsen.  The book, Exiled Voices contains all new and original poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction from 13 writers currently incarcerated in various state prisons across the US, including one writer who is on death row. 

 

“Our society defines these prisoners by their worst acts. We call them criminals, convicts, murderers, rapists, forgetting they are also human beings,” said fine art and commercial photographer Lou Jones.

 

“I attempted to discover the human behind the scapegoat with my camera. My portraits give a glimpse into an inmate’s life, at times catching moments of weakness, strength, humor, and realization,”  continued Jones.

 

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April 14 – May 12, 2008

“Great Annual Student Exhibition"

Reception to meet the artists:
Thursday, April 17, 4 – 6  p.m.

 

Stone Bridge Poetry Project reading to follow from 7-9 p.m.

The Gallery at New England College presents work from New England College students enrolled in studio art courses at the college from April 14 to May 12, 2008.  A variety of works by graduating seniors will be on display in the areas of photography, graphic design, painting and sculpture. The public is invited to the opening reception to meet the artists on Thursday, April 17 from 4 to 6 p.m.

 

Admission to The Gallery is free. Regular Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and weekends 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.

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.”