Currier Gallery of Art
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New England Views: Real and Imagined
The 2000 Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition
The Currier Gallery continues its commitment to contemporary art
from New England with a carefully selected show of emerging landscape artists.
New England Views: Real and Imagined gathers the work of nine lesser-known
painters from Maine, N.H. and Vermont who explore how geography informs
their art - in styles that range from the representational to the abstract
to the whimsical. Working in acrylics, oils, and polymer egg-wax emulsion
on surfaces of wood, canvas, linen and paper, the artists chosen for this
exhibition have painted roads and rooftops, trees and rocks, sea and sky.
Choosing subjects from the almost-urban to the purely natural, these artists
collectively reveal a deep sense of place.(left: James Mullen, Acadia
Forest, 2000, oil on linen)
From
a field of more than 80 applicants, the following artists were selected
for the show: Maureen Ahern of Peterborough, N.H.; David Brewster of Halifax,
Vt.; Gordon Carlisle of South Berwick, Maine; Craig Hood of Portsmouth,
N.H.; Brigitte Keller of York, Maine; Melissa Miller of Concord, N.H.; James
Mullen of Brunswick, Maine; Clifford Smith of Henniker, N.W.; and Molly
Doe Wensberg of Strafford, N.H. (Melissa Miller, Rooftops in Spring,
2000 (detail), oil on canvas)
"My painting is influenced by nature, by the landscape I see around me every day," writes Wensberg in her artist's statement. Similarly, fellow artist Maureen Ahern reveals, "My images are responses to the landscape in New Hampshire where I now live, and places elsewhere in New England."
For
more than a decade, the Currier Gallery of Art has displayed the work of
talented regional early-career and mid-career artists though the generous
support of the Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition Fund and Mr. and Mrs.
Abrasha Wilcher, and their daughters Sandra Scheckman and Marilyn Benson
to honor their daughter and sister Gloria Wilcher. This is the seventh Wilcher
Memorial Exhibition, which will mark the event's support of nearly 100 emerging
New England artists since its inception. New England Views: Real and
Imagined runs through September 11, 2000. (left: Craig Hood,
Dead Man's Curve, oil on canvas)
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