Ledyard Gallery

The Ledyard Gallery is the Howe Library’s space for exhibiting work by artists of the Upper Valley. In addition to exhibits by individual artists, we host annual group exhibits such as the Elden Murray contest, the Hanover High Art Show, and the 55+ Art Show.

To inquire about showing your work in the Ledyard Gallery, email Tessa Johnson at tessa.johnson@thehowe.org.


Current Exhibit


Old No. 8
Photograph by Kip King

AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS
ABOUT LIFE & CHANGE
KIP KING

on display through
May 1, 2024

Gallery Reception
Sunday, March 17

from 3 – 4:30 pm

Artist Statement:

As a young boy, I took my first photograph with an antique Kodak folding bellows camera I discovered abandoned in an attic corner. Ever since, I have been captivated by photography and inspired by photographers from Julia Cameron and Eugène Atget to Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter to Michael Kenna and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Recently, I have had an opportunity to pursue my interest.

My work is inspired by nature:

Nature is a language, and every new fact that we learn is a new
word; but rightly seen, taken all together, it is not merely a language, but
the language put together into a most significant and universal book. I wish
to learn the language, not that I may learn a new set of nouns and verbs,
but that I may read the great book which is written in that language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am drawn to the intimate landscape of New England. My color and black-and-white photographs celebrate and reconnect us with our natural landscape and the places that have shaped us. They remind us of our responsibility of stewardship so that nature can continue to nurture us in return.

I am also an astrophysicist researching the origins of our Milky Way Galaxy. I live and work on a small hillside in the beautiful, brave little State of
Vermont.

www.kipkingphotography.com


Up Next: 55+ Art Show


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