"Self Portrait as Revealed by Trash, Installation,
500 square feet/5,000 photographs
Tim Gaudreau
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"Self Portrait as Revealed by Trash, Installation,
500 square feet/5,000 photographs
Tim Gaudreau
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April 19, Saturday:
Sharon Arts and the town of Peterborough will be celebrating Earth Day early this year, with special events and drop-in activities for the whole family! Keep an eye on our website for more information.
This exhibition uses the visual arts to address the consequences of thoughtless consumption and explore our relationship with waste.
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Tim Gaudreau timgaudreau.com Portsmouth artist and activist showing his installation project "Self Portrait as Revealed by Trash" -a photo of each and every thing he threw away in one year. 5,000 photos total in a mosaic-like collage covering almost 500 square feet of gallery wall.
Chris Jordan chrisjordan.com
A Seattle artist, Chris' project is called "Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass
Consumption," a collection of large photos that are beautiful to look at and happen to be
piles of trash.
Naomi Graham and James Mitchmyer SAC faculty
Naomi and James collaborate on a floor-to-ceiling illuminated sculpture highlighting the benefits of natural items, and how much one can experience in nature, versus the sameness of man-made objects and their inability to stimulate.
ArtAccess Group Sharon Arts Center Teen program
High-school students re-create a forest made from waste materials in the front window display to illustrate how our trash is taking over the environment.
ArtAccess Group Sharon Arts Center Teen program: High-school students re-create a forest made from waste materials in the front window display to illustrate how our trash is taking over the environment.
Rachel Garceau Artist, SAC Craft Gallery Manager
Rachel is a talented potter, who, for this exhibition, has created a series of bowls to highlight the difference in resource-use between one unit of corn and one unit of beef.
Deb Cinamon-Whalen
Deb is a fiber artist from East Kingston, NH who creates wall-hangings and 3-D sculpture using shibori-dyed silks and photo transfers. Her work aims to raise awareness of global warming and our effect on the environment and nature.
Kim Cunningham
A local artist from Hancock, who creates multi-media collages from roadside trash found while traveling. An artist who uses what is available and finds worth in the worthless.
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"Cell Phones 2, Photograph, "44" x 90"
Chris Jordan
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"Detail from Cell Phones 2, Photograph, "44" x 90"
Chris Jordan
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Sharon Arts Center is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit arts organization in southern NH.
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OUR MISSION
The mission of the Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to support and serve artists and craftspeople, to engage our community in the artistic process, 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.
OUR VISION
The Sharon Arts Center will be the heart of artistic experience and education in our community, a vibrant center of individual and collaborative activity, providing a stimulating environment that nourishes a wellspring of ideas and creativity. Our organization will protect and preserve the traditions and history of art and craft, while embracing and encouraging innovations of experimental media and advances in technology. As a highly valued, integral part of our community, the Sharon Arts Center will be known as the comprehensive arts resource in our region, where the artist in all of us, from the newly-awakened to the long-established, can connect with the intrinsic value of art in our lives.
Contact: Ann Wilkins, Sharon Arts Center, (603) 924-7256
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Gallery Winter Hours - Through March 1: Monday: Craft Gallery 11-6 (Exhibition Gallery Closed),
Tuesday: 11-6,
Wednesday: 11-6,
Thursday: 11-6,
Friday: 11-7,
Saturday: 10-6,
Sunday: 12-5
Gallery Spring Hours:
Monday: Exhibition Gallery Closed,
Tuesday: 10-6,
Wednesday: 11-6,
Thursday: 10-6,
Friday: 10-7,
Saturday: 10-6,
Sunday: 12-5
Directions: NH Routes 202 & 101, go north .5 mile on right 30 Grove Street. Admission is always free.
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