Happy New Year: and in the Upper Valley’s visual art community, it will be. Later this month, the Hood Museum of Art reopens with expanded gallery space and a more welcoming entrance.
Until then, we will content ourselves with the many exhibitions on view at local venues, a handful of which are holding receptions in the coming days.
In White River Junction, Scavenger Gallery will hold a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 on Friday evening for a show of recent prints by Lois Beatty. The gallery also shows handmade jewelry by gallery owner Stacy Hopkins and will feature a wine tasting hosted by Artisanal Cellars.
The Gallery at the Space on Main, in Bradford, opens “Mainly Street: Searching for that ‘Decisive Moment,’” photographs by Kathy Davidow, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday. The reception will feature a tasting of wines from Montview Vineyard in Corinth.
Royalton Memorial Library, in South Royalton, opens an exhibition of work by South Woodstock artist Sue Lenfest on Friday, with hours from noon to 6.
Betty Grant Gallery, Converse Free Library, Lyme. “15 Years of Monday Painting: A Journey,” features oil paintings by the Monday painting class led by artist Aline Ordman. The show is on view now; a reception is planned for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
Chelsea Public Library hosts “Aspects of the Universe,” paintings in acrylic and watercolor by Chelsea artist Marina Sprague, is on view through Feb. 28. A reception for the artist is planned for 6 to 8 p.m., Jan. 25.
Closing
John D. Bennett Gallery, Claremont. Paintings by Vermont artist Jamie Townsend are on view through Friday.
Tunbridge Public Library. Photographs by South Royalton photographer Marianne Benoir are on view through Monday.
Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield. “Surf’s Up,” painting and sculpture by Cornish artist Jim Schubert, is on view through Monday.
Ongoing
BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vt. “Late Works,” an exhibition of recent “construction and collage” by Varujan Boghosian, is accompanied by “A Muse: A visit to the studio of Varujan Boghosian,” a portfolio of photographs by Erick Hufschmid, taken in 2011.
Center for the Arts, New London. Current exhibitions include: The seventh annual Juried Regional show at the New London Inn; artwork by Kearsarge Middle School students, at Whipple Hall; abstract paintings by Roger Wells and photographs by Jay Fitzpatrick, at Blue Moon Bakery; and paintings by Tom Pirozzoli and photographs by Ken Schuster, at Bar Harbor Bank and Trust.
Chew & Co. Design, Hanover. Paintings in egg tempera and precious metals by Windsor artist Gary Milek are on view through February.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon. Exhibitions consist mainly of paintings, by artists Nan Darham, a Montana resident studying at Dartmouth; Maureen Harrington, of Killington, Vt.; Youngsheen Ahn Jhe, of Lexington, Mass.; Norman Rhodes, of Lebanon; Alison Vernon, of New London; and Richard Weis, of Castleton, Vt. Also on view is work by the Lone Mountain Artists, from the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, and the Upper Valley Ship Modelers Guild.
The Great Hall, Springfield, Vt. “Healing: The Transformative Imagery of Art” features work by 12 artists, including Margaret Jacobs, of Enfield; Carolyn Enz Hack, of East Thetford; and Robert O’Brien, Robert Carsten and Neomi Lauritsen, of Springfield. Through March 30.
Kilton Public Library, West Lebanon. Recent work by Todd Renninger, through January.
Long River Gallery and Gifts, White River Junction. “The Mind Is a City,” an exhibition of mixed media work by Becky Coburn, kicks off Long River’s series of exhibitions by emerging artists. Coburn, of Amesbury, Mass., is in long-term recovery from substance abuse and draws on her experiences to inform her work.
Main Street Museum, White River Junction. “Jack Rowell, Cultural Documentarian: Portraits of Vermont People and Other Wildlife,” is on view.
Matt Brown Fine Art, Lyme. A holiday show featuring work by artists Susan Arnold and Sara Goodman is on view through Feb. 9.
Norwich Public Library. “Redlining Our Souls,” recent works by Laura Di Piazza about segregation in America, is on view through Jan. 14.
Steven Thomas, Inc. Fine Arts & Antiques, White River Junction. Work by Upper Valley “vintage” artists, such as Alice Standish Buell, John Semple and Horace Brown is on view.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction. The studio’s holiday show continues through January.
White River Craft Center, Randolph. “Branching Out,” an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Amy Hook-Therrien, a Randolph native who now lives in Windsor, is on view through Feb. 8.
Alex Hanson can be reached at ahanson@vnews.com or 603-727-3207.
