No Landscapes in 100 Market Exhibit

EXHIBIT RUNS to Jan 29, 2011  

This Gallery 100 show features more than a dozen by Erin Murray, one of the region’s up and coming painters. Her large canvases demonstrate the reason this gallery was established over a decade ago, according to Michael Simchik, building owner and gallery sponsor. (Continued below)  

 

As the show title “No Land Ho” indicates, this exhibit is sans landscapes. Curator Jeanne McCartin said it’s simply a matter of shaking things up, challenging the artist and offering the viewer a greater variety and richness in viewing -- a perfect show to feature Murray’s work.  

Murray is best known locally as the artist who painted for a month in downtown Portsmouth for a Kennedy Gallery exhibition/fundraiser for A Safe Place earlier this year. The work exhibited in “No Land Ho” is her more personal art, works that explore the lives of women and relationships. The show features a number from her series on birthing and the multi-canvas “Temptation: Chocolate Cake Revelation,” among others.  

Midway through the exhibition “Last Supper (Remix),” will be re-hung in reverse. Murray painted the piece to be viewed in full rotation, each direction creating a new focus.   

“There are a lot of reasons to get excited about this show,” says Jean Hurlbut McLane Law Firm’s gallery liaison, a show supporter. “It includes representational to abstract work and spans from still life to evocative, powerful, narratives. It certainly requires more than one viewing to take in and process the imagery in this show.”  

“No Land Ho” includes sculptural masks, photography, textile art, egg tempera, oils, watercolor and acrylic. The show features a mix of longtime established and emerging, both returning and first time exhibitors.  They include Bill Oakes, Deb Murray, Tess Feltes, Fabienne Lord, Joann Portalupi, Jane Sydney, Susan Stetson, Ann Howland, Stephanie Holt, Darlow Gams, Gene Galipeau, Toby Gordon, Wen Redmond, Jan Waldron, Jaclyn Toffic, Amy Palmer, Jasmin Hunter and Dick Lord.  

It’s time to remember this gallery was established to exhibit quality works that have a harder time finding wall space in the city and to connect those artists directly to buyers and hopefully to commercial galleries here and nationally, says Simchik. “I can’t recall the last time the walls spoke so loudly.”  

WHAT NO LAND HO at The Gallery at 100 Market

WHERE 100 Market St., Portsmouth NH.

WHEN: Opening reception November 12, 5 to 7 p.m. and through January 29; Hours: Floor 1 & 2 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday through Saturday; floor 3 & 4 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

CONTACT: Jean at 436-2818