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McCoy Gallery
Gallery Hours
9:00am - 4:00pm
Monday - Friday
open to the public
Ralph Claflin: Paintings
November, 2011
Ralph Clafin, Burial Ship at Sutton Hoo
Ralph Clafin, Great Alfred’s Troublesome Danes
Ralph Clafin, Noah’s Ark Goes Thundering By
The exhibition of fifteen paintings by New England Artist Ralph Claflin runs from November 8 through December 20.
Fourteen of the fifteen paintings currently being exhibited in the McCoy Gallery are part of a large gift of his paintings that Ralph Claflin is presenting to Merrimack College. Several years ago we presented the work of the artist and have maintained contact with him all these years through his connection with others whose work we have also shown, such as painters Andy Syrbik and Richard Barnhart. Claflin’s paintings explore unusual themes for a contemporary artist including Old and New Testament stories, the early Church and medieval history. His work employs a fresh and colorful design straightforwardness that recalls ancient tales with verve and humor.
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Current Exhibition
Gary Green: Terrain Vague - Photographs
January 24 - February 24, 2012
Reception Thursday, February 9, 3:00 - 5:00
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Gary Green, Elm City |
Spanish Architect Ignasi de Solà-Morales coined the term ‘terrain vague’ to describe the abandoned, ambiguous, or marginalized pieces of land within an urban landscape that stand in contrast to the otherwise cohesive, definable organization of the city. These kinds of spaces – abandoned lots, post-industrial sites, bridge underpasses, for example – define the character of a cityscape through these pauses and stutters of visual dissonance.
Gary Green’s intention with this work is to expand on Morales’s notion and definition to use it more poetically to describe a sense of longing he finds so prevalent in these Central Maine landscapes. The empty storefronts, the spaces between modest homes, and vacant lots are for Green filled with the beauty, despair, yearning, and disappointment that defines this time in history in many places throughout the world.
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Richard Brown Lethem: Paintings
February 27 - April 6, 2012
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Richard Brown Lethem, The Surveyor |
Seeing is in the case of Richard Brown Lethem’s paintings compounded by his practice of frequently calling attention to the act of seeing, whether his, ours or the characters’ in his paintings. Lethem’s long painting career is an authentic journey of personal investigation and an openness to uncovering an evolving iconography. These recent paintings demonstrates the artist’s large capacity for invention within a freewheeling network of color and gesture.
Richard Brown Lethem, Wink
see Richard Brown Lethem’s paintings
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Student Show
April 11 - June, 2012
Eric Milligan, Untitled, 2011
Contact
David Raymond, Director, McCoy Gallery
Professor of Fine Arts, Department of Visual and Performing Arts
David.Raymond@merrimack.edu