Cindy Rizza

Habitats
November 7, 2022 - January 6, 2023
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter who received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and insecurity, shelter and confinement, and love and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant,…

Eric Shaw

September 6, 2022 - November 4, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Eric Shaw is a self-taught painter whose bold geometric abstraction draws from the rich visual environment of New York City. Elements of graphic design found in street signs, logos, and advertisements are stretched and skewed as Shaw sketches out what he sees using a drawing app on his phone. The sketches are further copied, pasted…

Merk Aveli

Pixel Pusher
August 6, 2022 - September 2, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Merk Aveli is an independent artist floating between conflicting worlds of fine art and street art. Merk Aveli has been working in graffiti, digital art, and murals for the past 30 years. His work blends traditional spray, pen and brush techniques techniques with digital tools. His original style developed over a lifetime of exploration and…

Hunter Macleod

Time Flys
June 4, 2022 - August 5, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Hunter Macleod is a film and digital photographer working and living on the Maine seacoast. He has a huge passion for photography and cameras. Around 2012, he started collecting old film cameras and became obsessed with how they all work. He then quickly fell into digital photography along the way and began bringing a camera…

Joris Graaf

Joris Graaf
May 9, 2022 - June 3, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

In his abstract digital photo-art, self-taught visual artist Joris Graaf (The Hague, 1980) seeks to create tension by forming a synthesis of opposites: melody and noise, rhythm and chaos, darkness and light. His work is inspired by music and contemporary abstract painting. He is fascinated by the emotive power of colour and shape. Joris has…

Tom Hodgkinson

April 4, 2022 - May 6, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

A Bristol, UK based artist, Hodgkinson creates unique works which have been used commercially for bands such as Keane, Archive & Brigade, as well as moving visual productions for live events, working with a broad scope of artists, including Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, Dave, Mabel, The Rolling Stones. “Collage occupies the central focus of my work; creating…

Arunas Kacinskas

Heroes and Foes
April 4, 2022 - May 6, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Arunas Kacinskas is a Vilnius-based mostly commercial illustrator. Previously based in London, Arunas worked for The Design Surgery and Toaster working on large-scale projects for clients such as Google, IBM, and Thomson Reuters. At the moment he is mixing the two styles which makes him very versatile and capable of achieving interesting depths in his artworks. From sketchy and…

Nick Zaremba

Everything Happens So Much
March 7, 2022 - April 1, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Nick Zaremba (b.1979) is a mixed media artist currently residing in Massachusetts. Zaremba’s studio and commercial creative practice ranges from illustration, publication design, printmaking, painting, and graphic design to site specific 3D installation work and mural work. “Amongst things coming and going, cycles cycling, and people and situations in constant flux and change, sneaking away and…

Kyle Jardine

March 7, 2022 - April 1, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Kyle Jardine is a Cape Town based visual artist, working in a contemporary pop art style. His work has a quirk and naivety that brings charm and personality to the ordinary. Kyle has largely focused on architectural themes, both interior and exterior breathing a new life into usual objects. Influenced by the old and new, with an appreciation for history, heritage, prints, pop culture,…

Kathleen Robbins

February 7, 2022 - March 4, 2022
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867

Kathleen Robbins earned her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art where she later became a faculty member. A resident of the Button Factory Artist Studios in Portsmouth, many of her landscapes reflect the Seacoast area and recently the Maine coast. Professional experience also includes her work over the past decade, as an art therapist at…