Kelley Stelling Contemporary in collaboration with The Lyceum Gallery at the Derryfield School presents a group exhibition titled “How Do I Find You,” open through Oct. 21. An artist reception, open to the public, will be held on Oct. 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The show will feature works by three New Hampshire artists — Rachelle Beaudoin, Zachary Dewitt and Claudia Rippee.
Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables, and performance to explore feminist identity within popular culture. Her Berlin, New Hampshire, roots and love of the outdoors make her work unique alongside contemporary artists exploring feminist issues. What does it mean to be a modern woman living in a rural place?
For this exhibition, the artist mines this territory, literally the landscape around us, in a series of videos which will play during the exhibition. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions, most recently “Welcome to the Bob House”, at 3SArtspace in Portsmouth and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet” at the Magenta Suite, Exeter. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, NH.
Zachary DeWitt is interested in the expressive potential of paint and mixed media. His current body of work deals with the abstraction of landscapes. He is engaging with the memories associated with these places and although specific, the work aims to have the openness to engage with the audience and their lived experiences.
A graduate of the Institute of Art & Design New England College, the artist states: “My artwork serves as a form of visual journaling. Through a variety of material and mark, I am to explore how I am feeling in that specific moment in an abstract way. My work represents a turning point in my creative process- focusing more on the possibilities/potentials of growth from my past experiences abstractly as opposed to my traditional emphasis on observation.”
Claudia Rippee is a photographer living in Manchester who works in a variety of photographic mediums. An avid traveler, many of her photographs are taken in urban settings and are focused on the rhythm of life in the streets and on the multi-layered art applied to urban street canvases. Rippee has photographed graffiti from various places around the world for many years, capturing the ideas, composition, color, and style of street artists.
She taught color photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art from 2002-2012 and has been a member of the New Hampshire Art Association since 1998. She is a member of the Silver Sunbeam Studio located at the historic Kimball Jenkins Estate in Concord where she focuses on creating wet plate still life images.
The Lyceum Gallery is located in the Derryfield School, 2108 River Road, Manchester.
Kelley Stelling Contemporary is a pop-up gallery dedicated to the presentation of works by emerging and mid-career artists, with events hosted throughout New England.