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PORTSMOUTH – New Hampshire Art Association artists Claudia Rippee and Angelique Luro will have a unique exhibition titled “Call and Response” at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery during the month of June. 

“Call and Response” is an exhibit deeply rooted in the layering of collaborative efforts between the artists, each responding to the other.

 

Rippee has photographed graffiti from various locations around the world for many years. Each photograph captures the ideas, composition, color and style of each artist unbeknownst to the other. Her composition of their work is yet another layer of collaboration.

 

As a counter to Rippee’s work, Luro has responded in abstract. Through her use of color, line and texture her work is an interpretation of each photograph. This partnership between photographer and artist has created a multi-faceted exhibition to spur the imagination and bond these artists for a lifetime in collaboration.

 

“The show consists of six to eight of my large format photos, printed on canvas that depict urban street art in various cities in the United States and Europe and Angelique’s abstract paintings that depict her emotional response to those images,” Rippee explained.

 

Rippee is a photographer living in Manchester who works in a variety of photographic mediums. As an avid traveler, many of her photographs are taken in urban settings and are focused on the rhythm of life in the streets and on the multi-layered art applied to urban street canvases. She looks for and seeks out patterns and meaning found on urban walls that becomes a random collaboration of unknown authors and by selective framing and cropping creates another layer of meaning.

 

In addition to her focus on street photography, Rippee works with a pinhole camera, the handmade cyanotype process and makes wet plate tintypes.  She taught color photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art from 2002 to 2012 and has been a member of the NH Art Association since 1998.

 

She works from Silver Sunbeam Studio which is located at the historic Kimball Jenkins Estate in Concord where she focuses on creating wet plate still life images.

 

“From the first moment I saw Claudia’s work I was inspired,” Luro said. “We met by as volunteers for the NHAA. Weeks went by and I kept thinking about these graffiti images she had shown me. Then one night I had this idea of ‘Call of Response’. I reached out to Claudia and we began our journey to bring this exhibition to life.”

 

Born and raised in Maine, Luro has resided there for the majority of her life. She is an empathic, intuitive, abstract artist who creates out of her home studio in southern Maine, primarily working in acrylic and occasionally incorporating collage into her art.

 

Discernment is at the forefront of the creative process for her. Inspired by the love of family, animals, and the natural world, Luro intertwines her innate knowledge of color, texture, and line with curiosity, playfulness and a passion for creating.

 

Luro currently lives on a small farm in southern Maine with her husband and their assortment of feathered and furry family members. She is represented by Gallery Sitka, Shirley, Massachusetts, and Singulart, Paris, France. She is a juried member of New Hampshire Association.

 

In addition to the works of both artists complementing each other, there will be an edition of 10 signed, matted prints of mergers of two of Rippee’s photos and Luro’s paintings. Both editions will be archival pigment prints with documentation and signed by both artists and are available for purchase.

 

 

 

GO & DO

“Call and Response,” a collaboration of NH Art Association artists Claudia Rippee and Angelique Luro

 

Where: Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State Street, Portsmouth NH, and online at www.nhartassociation.org.

 

When: June 2 through June 26.  Opening reception at the gallery on June 3, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Gallery hours: Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sundays from 12 to 5 p.m.

Shown: “Nexxus,” a collaboration of the works of Claudia Rippee and Angelique Luro

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