JESSICA ALPERN, ALLISON MAY KIPHUTH AND HELEN MUSSELWHITE
Portsmouth, NH – This April, Nahcotta exhibits a group show comprised of three incredibly talented women who focus primarily on working within mixed media and beguiling three-dimensional imagery. The work of Jessica Alpern, Allison May Kiphuth, and Helen Musselwhite is on view from April 5 until April 28 and the opening reception is Friday, April 5, from 5-8 p.m., concurrent with Portsmouth’s downtown art walk.
Alpern, a Brooklyn resident with a degree from the New England School of Photography who, upon making the change from film to digital photography, embraced the hands-on experience of creating with cut paper, produces urban images with the delicacy of draping clotheslines and powerlines, as well as bicycles, mix tapes, nests, and hand-holding couples. Allison May Kiphuth lives and works in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and her mixed media (watercolor, ink, thread, pins, paper, et cetera) dioramas reside within antique boxes, often incorporating layered landscapes and diminutive characters such as penguins, dinosaurs, robots, and whales, emanating a somewhat fantastical aspect. Kiphuth considers these individual dioramas to be single images from a larger, imagined narrative. The gorgeous three-dimensional paper creations of owls, cottages, butterflies, and gardens (among other vignettes) from Northwestern U.K.’s Helen Musselwhite are nothing short of jaw-dropping embodiments of craftsmanship, patience, and beauty. All three artists share massive amounts of individual talent and distinct visions in their work, as well as unflagging devotion to their respective and complementary crafts.
The opening reception for this trio of artists is free and open to the public and will take place at Nahcotta on the evening of Friday, April 5, 5-8pm. Nahcotta is located at 110 Congress Street in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Opening:
Friday, April 5, 2013, 5-8pm
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Jennifer Judd-McGee: Real and Imagined
Jennifer Judd-McGee’s third solo show at Nahcotta, REAL AND IMAGINED, will be on display from November 2 through December 2 and the opening reception is free and open to the public, taking place at the gallery on Friday, November 2nd, from 5-8 p.m. REAL AND IMAGINED is about “blurring the lines between landscape and dreamscape.”
For this solo show, Judd-McGee once again presents her wonderfully varied body of work, combining papercutting, mixed media collage and drawings - “each medium telling a part of [her] story.” By nature of the medium itself, her freehand papercuttings are time-consuming and methodical, while her newest drawings contain thousands of tiny lines, resulting in something “resembling a paper patchwork quilt.” The mixed media pieces are messier and looser in this show, exhibiting audacious colors and brave lines, larger shapes. Says Judd-McGee, “together the work is ideas all real and imagined, right brained and left brained, precise and reckless, all woven together over the course of a year.”
Jennifer Judd-McGee’s work has been shown in galleries across the US, in England and Canada, and included in several books, such as Old School, Jen-11, The Handmade Marketplace, and Creative Inc. She has done illustration for Target, P+B Textiles, I-Pop, The Art Group Modern Twist, Timberland, Georgia Pacific, Land of Nod, and the MTA Arts for Transit Program in New York City, among others. She lives and works in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Opening:
11/2/2012
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TERESA MCCUE
From October 5 through October 28, Nahcotta proudly presents the newest body of work from regional artist, Teresa McCue. The opening reception, which coincides with Portsmouth’s Art ‘Round Town event, is free and open to the public and will take place at Nahcotta on Friday, October 5, from 5-8 p.m.
This exhibition includes McCue’s two bodies of work - her pastel and acrylic paintings – both bodies of work linked by their vivid, highly jeweled hues and fascination with subtleties in colorful chiaroscuro. As McCue explains, “I am enamored of the sights and sounds of nature: the patterns, the rhythms, the textures … the quality of the light. The other is my enchantment with color. I love the richness of deep tones used together, the emotion of vivid explosions of color…” While the mediums differ, these disparate bodies of work inform and relate to one another and are clearly borne from the mind and hand of the same artist.
McCue has been an artist-in-residence and workshopped in Italy and Mexico, holding a BA in Art from Bridgewater, and doing post-graduate work at Massachusetts College of Art, Montserrat College of Art, and the New England School of Art and Design, among many others.
The opening reception for Teresa McCues’ solo show is Friday, October 5, from 5-8 p.m. at Nahcotta, located at 110 Congress Street in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Opening:
Friday, October 5, 5-8pm
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