spheris gallery | 59 South Main St | Hanover, NH | 603.640.6155

January 23, 2008 Contact: Ann Thompson Spheris Gallery 603 640 6155

Circularities, Singularities: Group Show Opens at Spheris Gallery

Spheris Gallery opens a group exhibition, featuring artworks by Ann Conrad, Tayo Heuser, Meg Lucas and Craig Stockwell. The exhibition opens on Saturday January 26th and runs through March 5th. There will be an artists’ reception on Saturday, February 2nd between 6-8 p.m., and event that is open to the public. The Spheris Gallery, located at 59 South Main Street in Hanover, NH, is open from 11:00 - 5:30 Tuesday - Saturday.

The thematic link to the show is a rigorous inquiry into the circle as a graphic element. Craig Stockwell has been utilizing the broken circle as a ‘grid’ underpinning to his work for several years. By breaking out the positive and negative areas of the painting, the interplay of shapes becomes quite dynamic. Stockwell holds a MFA from Vermont College and is a professor at Keene State College. His work is exhibited nationally and is included in many public collections including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Fidelity Group, Boston and Alliance Capital, NY

Tayo Heuser is also quite formal in her approach. Her austere and beautifully crafted drawings are meditative studies in graphic shape, concentric shadings, and tonal range of color. Heuser was born in Washington D.C., and grew up in Africa and Europe. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and her MFA from Vermont College. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in such collections as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, R. I., and the Werner Kramarsky Collection in New York, NY.

Meg Lucas, an artist who recently moved to the Connecticut River Valley from San Francisco, is also looking at the partial line of the circumference as a compositional tool. This, then, allows her to put her energy into the surfaces of her paintings, while carefully modulating its tonal content. Lucas has had numerous exhibitions on the West Coast prior to coming east. Her work has been included in the collections of the Slater Museum in Connecticut, the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, the American Embassy in Singapore, and the Hyatt Hotels, among others.

Ann Conrad’s work employs the circle as a building block, working from the center out in clear, vibrant colors. The high color gives each piece a marvelous depth of field; the lively patterning imbues them with a great deal of energy. She holds an AB in Art and Archeology from Princeton University. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions across the Nation and is in both public and private collections including Princeton University and Teitler and Teitler, New York.

For more information, call 603 640 6155.