An artist who takes inspiration from time-ravaged driftwood and colorful flowers is being featured in a month-long exhibit in the Gallery at the Rhodes Arts Center.

The exhibit, “Paintings & Sculpture by Phyllis Rosser,” will be on display at the gallery from February 3–March 3. The gallery is open to the public Monday to Friday, 10 am–6 pm, and weekends from 1–5 pm.

Phyllis Rosser’s work has been featured in 15 solo shows in New York and at the Smith College Museum of Art. In her artist statement, Rosser described her flowing sculptures and paintings as expressing “the beauty and sensuality in the sublimeness of nature.”

“I enjoy transforming and revaluing a material which is often considered refuse into an object that is beautiful and alive,” she wrote. “The pieces become the focus of meditation, similar to the contemplation of a Buddhist thangka.”

The gallery exhibit is sponsored by the NMH Visual Arts Department, which will held a reception for the artist on Friday, February 5.

For more information on Rosser and examples of her work, visit www.phyllisrosser.com

For almost three decades, Peter T. Pettengill, director of Wingate Studio, has walked the fine line between maintaining artists’ visions and reproducing their work for wider distribution. This month, the Gallery at the Rhodes Arts Center presents “Printer’s Proof – Selections from the Wingate Studio Archive.”

The exhibit features 27 prints from Pettengill’s New Hampshire studio, representing his work with 11 artists. In his description of the show, Pettengill wrote that he tried to create a balance between older favorites and newer work.

“A majority of the artists represented here are painters,” he wrote. “Our recent work features a group of established and emerging artists …These artists present a wide range of current approaches to contemporary visual art.”

The exhibition is made up of printer’s proofs, which artists traditionally present to a master printer in recognition of his role in the process. Wingate publishes and sells these prints in small editions to collectors, galleries, print dealers, museums and other institutions.

Although Wingate Studio produces original etchings, monotypes, and relief prints, the studio is particularly known for creating large-scale color images in intaglio (etching). Wingate prints have been displayed at: MoMA, the Library of Congress, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Smith College Museum, The Fogg, The Hood and the Meade Museums.

The Pettengill family has had a long relationship with NMH. Six family members have graduated from the school, starting with Carroll Gillespie Pettengill ’50 and continuing through James Stewart Pettengill ’04 (with Alma Gillespie Niemiller ’53, James Packard Gillespie ’56, Sallie Rogers Pettengill ’77, and Samuel Gillespie Pettengill ’80 along the way).

The opening reception for the Wingate exhibit is Friday, October 16, at 6:30 pm. “Printer’s Proof – Selections from the Wingate Studio Archive” will be on display at the gallery until November 23. To find out more about Wingate, visit www.wingatestudio.com.