Current Exhibitions
Recent Exhibitions
Events
Upcoming Exhibition
August 28 – October 14, 2012 (Closed August 31 – September 3)
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 6-8 p.m.
Multiple Perspectives: New Work by Peter Milton and Doug Prince
Carter Gallery
This exhibition pairs the work of two artists, sympathetic in their interests, working independently, each of whom creates digital collages based upon historical, often autobiographical, events and people. Their work, richly layered, offers multiple perspectives of entirely new worlds created from past events, those imagined, and those that may yet be.
Images: Top: Doug Prince, Picture Plane 04, gigital print, 11" x 14", courtesy of the artist; Doug Prince, Picture Plane 07, digital print, 16 x 20, courtesy of the artist; Doug Prince, Picture Plane 05, digital print, 11" x 14", courtesy of the artist. Bottom: Peter Milton, Sightlines I: Tracking Shot, light box, 29" x 45", Courtesy of McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH; Peter Milton, Dress Rehearsal, light box, 29" x 45", Courtesy of McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH. ,
August 28 – October 14, 2012 (Closed August 31 – September 3)
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 6-8 p.m.
Art Faculty Review
Scudder Gallery
This exhibition highlights work by studio art faculty members in the Department of Art and Art History, UNH, who are new or returning from sabbatical leave. It features work by Benjamin Cariens (sculpture), Craig Hood (painting), Michael McConnell, (public sculpture), and Jennifer Moses (painting).
Craig Hood, Living by the River
Gary Haven Smith Sculptures
Outside Courtyard
Works by UNH alumni Gary Haven Smith (B.F.A., 1973) are featured.
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October 27 – December 9, 2012 (Closed November 12 and 21 -25)
Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m.
Working Model: Figurative Drawings and Sculptures from the Collection
Carter Gallery
This exhibition features figurative drawings and sculptures from the Museum’s permanent collection to examine the many and varied ways artists have represented the human form from the early 20th century to the present. Approximately 18 works of art have been selected to illuminate different approaches to working from a live model.
Barbara Swan: Portraits and Still Lifes
Scudder Gallery
Barbara Swan (1922-2003), a well-known Boston artist whose still lifes were widely exhibited and collected beginning in the mid 1960s began her career in the late 1940s as a student of noted Boston Expressionist, Karl Zerbe. This exhibition provides a historical overview of Swan’s artistic career, tracing her early work from the late 1940s, her expressive paintings as a new mother and drawings of her friends and fellow artists in the 1950s, to the subject that would dominate her later work: objects transformed through water-filled bottles.
Barbara Swan,
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January 26 – March 28, 2013 (Closed March 8-17)
Opening
Reception: Friday, Jan. 25, 6-8 p.m.
Sacred Landscapes of Peru:
The Photographs of Carl A. Hyatt
Carter Gallery
Portsmouth photographer Carl Austin Hyatt regularly travels to Peru to document and study indigenous spiritual practices. His black and white photographs range from images of Machu Picchu, to abstracted images of Inca stone- work, portraits, images of a shaman ritual, and landscape images of Cusco. The exhibition also includes a selection of Q’ero textiles Mr. Hyatt has collected during his many journeys.
Hyatt's photography expertly blends the science of photography with the art of capturing the spiritual essence of all of his subjects. In this presentation, portraits and landscapes become the conduit for a deeper exploration of the relationship between past and present, light and dark, and the ebb and flow of time.
A 1996 MacDowell Colony Fellow, Hyatt's work is represented in collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
California Impressionism, Paintings from The Irvine Museum
Scudder Gallery
During the late nineteenth century and twentieth century, California’s majestic landscape was the inspiration for a profusion of light-filled paintings. Artists set out to capture its vivid colors and intense sunshine in a distinctive style that has come to be called California Impressionism or California plein air painting.
This traveling exhibition from The Irvine Museum features the works of many of these important California painters, including: Franz A. Bischoff (1864-1929), Donna Schuster (1883-1953), and Thaddeus Welch (1844-1919).
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April 13 – May 17, 2013
Reception: Friday, April 12, 6-8 p.m.
2013 Senior B.A. and B.F.A. Exhibition
Scudder Gallery
This annual exhibition celebrates the achievements of the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree candidates from the Department of Art and Art History, UNH.
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April 13 – April 26, 2013 (Closed April 27-May 3)
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 6-8 p.m.
2013 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (I)
Carter Gallery
Candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Department of Art and Art History, UNH, showcase work, representing the culmination of their two-year program.
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May 4 – 17 2013
Opening
Reception: Friday, May 3, 6-8 p.m.
2013 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (II)
Carter Gallery
Candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Department of Art and Art History, UNH, showcase work, representing the culmination of their two-year program.
All Museum of Art exhibitions and programs are supported in part by the Friends of the Museum of Art.