Devin Swett

The Call of the Forest
February 3, 2025 - May 2, 2025
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867
Reception: March 1, 2025 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Devin Swett (b. 1986, Hanover, NH) is a photographer based in Manchester, NH. His work often explores the interplay between humanity and the environment, using photography to document the ways people engage with nature. Trained in fine art photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, he primarily works with analog black and white film…

Zach Ellis

Nevertheless
February 3, 2025 - May 2, 2025
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867
Reception: March 1, 2025 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Zach Ellis is a photographer whose work navigates the human, natural, and abstract. Through his artistic practice, he seeks to deepen his awareness of what already holds his attention. At its core, his work embraces duality—both/and—grappling with contradictions in the world and within himself. With a camera in hand, everything becomes a reflective surface, a…

Joseph Podlesnik

Seer Unseen
December 9, 2024 - February 28, 2025
65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867
Reception: January 4, 2025 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Joseph Podlesnik is trained mainly in drawing and painting and it is this experience which seems to influence his approach to photography.  For Podlesnik, the camera lens depicts perspective too easily, which is why he captures and makes photographs which often frustrate readable perspectival space. For him, the photographic image is not only a window…

UNH Art Department collaborates with Local Arts Orgs to present ‘NFS: Not For Sale’ in former Museum of Art

July 15, 2024

Durham, NH – The University of New Hampshire (UNH), in collaboration with Katzman Contemporary Projects of Dover, the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts of Rochester, and See Saw Art of Manchester, is proud to present NFS: Not For Sale, an invitational exhibition showcasing the work of nearly 40 artists.  The exhibition marks a significant milestone…

Ryan Nelsen

A Lot Closer
November 4, 2024 - January 31, 2025
150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867
Reception: December 7, 2024 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Ryan Nelsen is an illustrator whose vibrant, mixed-media creations bring a playful, whimsical energy to life. His journey with art began with a Magna Doodle and a three-year-old’s drawing of Thomas the Tank Engine. Today, Ryan combines traditional and digital techniques to create textured, imaginative pieces, starting many of his works with freeform scribbles, paper…