art up front street studios and gallery: June 2019

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Painting in the Garden at Art Up Front Street

This is one of our favorite easy, open-ended, no-stress things to do when the weather is nice. Sign-up by email.

Thursdays, June 13, 20, 27, July 11, 18.

10AM to 1PM

Pick one day or all days!

Bring your materials.... it can be ANYTHING you want to do... drawing, writing, collage, painting,...

We have chairs, tables, room for your easel, umbrellas, and a canopy if needed. Parking is on the left rear side of the studio in the back lot. Bathrooms, water, accessible... plus nice people.

Open to all abilities and mediums. Take a break with us to sketch, paint, or watch a process. There is always tea... and cookies.

$5 each day.

SIGN-UPS NECESSARY. No drop-ins. Thanks.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Adrift the Surface... exhibit at Art Up Front Street, July 12-31

We are thrilled to announce our exhibit ... by Laura Harper Lake.
Laura will be wowing us with her mixture of dreamlike suggestions, human form, and alluring imagery.

Laura Harper Lake is an interdisciplinary artist, with a prime focus on painting, illustration, printmaking, and mixed media. She graduated with a degree in Studio Arts from Chester College of New England in 2007. Harper Lake has exhibited her work in various New Hampshire, Maine, and Boston, MA galleries, as well as had her work included in local and regional publications. Harper Lake is a permanent artist represented at the Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery in Exeter, NH, and works under the name Artful Harper Studios. Harper Lake's feature exhibit on July 12, 2019 at Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery is entitled "Adrift the Surface". Through small, delicate oil paintings, Harper Lake explores the physicality of the floating human form in a dream like state, delving to what is deeper within. The emotional release of weightless-ness and the submergence of stress and anxiety are concepts that are explored in Harper Lake's latest body of work.

Opening reception July 12, 4-8. Exhibit through July 31.
See facebook for more event info.

what we do

We are an artist collective with 7 working studios, a street-side gallery & a back gallery. Our work is contemporary, leaning to abstract.

We make art & we exhibit the work of our 7 resident artists ...plus we welcome an occasional guest artist or collaboration with other local art groups.

Original paintings, prints, photography, abstracts, landscapes, assemblage, fiber, jewelry, and tiny paintings.

In addition to regular open hours which are Tu-Sa 11-5, we host two major open studios each year.

SPRING OPEN STUDIOS first weekend MAY

FALL OPEN STUDIOS first weekend NOVEMBER

We are very proud to be the first artist collective with working studio spaces in Exeter, NH.

Website HERE.

apply for studio space

Send us your name, address, and a small bio (10-15 sentences). Include your website, instagram, facebook and a short statement about why you are seeking a studio. Thank you!

~ We are a collective of art peers as well as an art business that operates best when all are involved. We are open to the public Tu-Sa 11-5, but open to studio artists almost all hours.

~ We all participate in 2 Open Studios each year.

~ We require 6 hours of gallery tending time each month.
~ We are looking for experienced artists who will be a good fit for our contemporary gallery, our abstract thought, and our collective working energy.

~ A year's lease is required.

~ If you would like to take a tour, let us know!