Main Gallery Exhibitions | Rebecca Lawrence | Elizabeth Rowland Mayor | Clifford B. West | E.N. Wennberg Solo Exhibition Proposals Thank you for your interest in exhibiting at AVA Gallery and Art Center. AVA features single exhibiting artists showing concurrently in our three/four spacious exhibition spaces. AVA’s Exhibition Committee consists of artists, art curators, and […]
A group exhibition featuring artwork in a range of mediums depicting light and shadow, both formally and allegorically.
Two exhibitions curated by John R. Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: From the Heart: Sachiko Akiyama, Chris Chou, Kayla Mohammadi, and Tom Fels: Cyanotypes, Drawings, and Watercolors.
The Cyanotype is a historic photographic printing process, which has made a resurgence in this digital age. Known for its deep Prussian blue color, the cyanotype can be toned with simple ingredients to achieve a variety of colors. It is a non-toxic process using sunlight to make a print and water to develop the image, […]
Please join us Thursday, March 30, 5:30-8 PM Art New England Magazine is hosting a party to celebrate AVA's 50th Anniversary and the final days of the two exhibitions curated by John R. Stomberg Wine, Prosecco, and Light Appetizers
Susan Schwake is a NH-based painter who creates playful, small vibrant abstracts in gouache, oil and monotype. Her recent work is landscape and nature-oriented, but the artist explores aspects of both abstraction and representation. Schwake has exhibited across the region and has been involved in numerous public projects. She is also a gallerist, educator and the owner of ArtStream, a gallery and art center in Rollinsford, NH.
Dance Performance | Vulture Sister Song: Ellen Smith Ahern, Kate Elias, Jacob Elias, Pete Dybdahl & Josina Guess : Friday, April 7, 6:30 PM | Wine reception prior to performance: 5:30-6:15 PM Steam + Wood = Sculpture Workshop with Jacob Elias | Thursday, April 6, 6-8 PM Scroll down to purchase performance tickets and/or register for […]
AVA’s 50th Anniversary Benefit: Bloom! Exhibition which will be featured in our named galleries, April 14-28, 2023.
We are inviting all artists to participate in AVA’s 50th Anniversary Benefit: Bloom! Exhibition and Live + Silent Auction which will be featured in our named galleries. Create and donate artwork for our big 50th Year Fundraiser! (Or donate an existing original artwork) Your donation to AVA is an important ingredient to sustaining our community non-profit art center, please join us in nurturing the Bloom! Lend a hand by making and donating original artwork to aid in our fundraising effort. We love artists, we love AVA (we know you do too!), and this is your way of showing the community how important AVA is to you.
Jozimar Matimano is NH-based painter. His gripping paintings depict contemporarily-relevant matters using a traditional approach to oil painting. Matimano was born in the East Democratic Republic of Congo, Butembo, where he grew up and moved to Uganda at ten. In 2016, Matimano moved from Uganda to Manchester, NH as a refugee through the International Institute of New England program. In 2019, he began BFA at the Institute of Art at New England College. Since, he has exhibited in the region, and is actively involved in community organizing and mural projects.
Dustan Knight is a NH-based painter, educator, and writer. The artist's most recent work uses assemblage in wood which is then painted and worked as a collaged image. Knight's expressive, active abstract work embraces a wide range of media. Paint is often dripped, poured, and splattered to create engaging surfaces. Her paintings are informed by personal experiences with nature. The artist creates sketches outdoors that are brought into the studio to work from, and often reference landscape, seasonality and foliage.
Ann Saunderson is a NH-based painter, printmaker and educator. Saunderson works with a variety of media to create expressive, textural paintings that toggle between abstraction, landscape and figure. In the demo, the artist will demonstrate her process of abstraction, and going from a sketch or collage to a fully realized image.