Innovative Exhibit of Vintage Photographic Masterworks Elicits Responses from 24 Regional Photographers at Sharon Arts

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In a ground-breaking juried exhibit, Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks, Sharon Arts Center is displaying vintage masterworks by such renowned photographers as

Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Weegee, Edward Weston, Lee Friedlander, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and more. Local artists were invited to submit responses to the vintage collection. Photographs that most closely responded to the collections were selected by the curators for inclusion in the show.

 

“This exhibit is a truly unique chance to view photographic history in a distinct way. As one of the artists lucky enough to hang in the same wall space with many of the great founders of a modern photographic vision, it is compelling and essential to think about what traditions remain within contemporary image making; at the same time those modes lost to us have an equally profound importance.” — Sean Lamoureux, participating artist.

Joining those illustrious names in a dynamic “call and response” photographic reply to the masterworks are 24 regional photographers including:

Albert Sylvester (Peterborough, NH)
Amy Regan (Windham, NH)
Annie Holt (Manchester, NH)
Blake Ogden (NYC)
David Potter (NYC)
David Putnam (Claremont, NH)
David Rheubottom (Sharon, NH)
Frank Armstrong (Worcester, MA)
Fernando Martins (Winchendon, MA)
Gary Samson (Concord, NH)
Glen Scheffer (Nashua, NH)
Jason Eskenazi (NYC)
Kimberly Kersey-Asbury (Greenfield, NH)
Linda Claff (Sharon, NH)
Mark Summers (Harrisville, NH)
Molly Vivilecchia (Manchester, NH)
Nina Earley (Manchester, NH)
Robert Sargent Fay (Hancock, NH)
Sam Trioli (New Boston, NH)
Sara St. Lifer (NYC)
Sean Lamoureux (Marion, MA)
Stephen DiRado (Worcester, MA)
Stephen Gelbach (Jaffrey, NH)
Tim Donovan (Peterborough, NH)

Click! opened Friday May 6^th with a reception generously sponsored by Lake Sunapee Bank. Admission to this exhibition (open through June 25^th) is free and open to the public. Hours are Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 11am-5pm.  For further information, call 603-924-7676.

 

 

 

 

 

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square.

The Sharon Exhibition Gallery is located on Grove Street in Downtown Peterborough. Downtown hours are: Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 11am-5pm.

Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by: The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, The Putnam Foundation and art lovers like you!