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Exhibition dates – May 29th – July 6th 2010
Artist’s Reception - Saturday, May 29th, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Jeri Eisenberg and Beth Ganz open an exhibition at the Spheris Gallery on May 29th with an artists’ reception from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public; the exhibition will run through July 6th. Spheris Gallery is located at 59 South Main Street in Hanover, NH, and is open Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 – 5:00 and Saturdays 11:00 – 6:00.

Jeri Eisenberg photographs the wooded landscape with a radically defocused lens, capturing her subject in soft brush strokes that shift her work in and out of abstraction. Much of Eisenberg’s imagery is captured close to her home, transforming places that are generally ordinary into vibrant and engaging compositions. She states, “I feel no need to seek out grand vistas or exotic locales… It’s the common wooded landscape of my day to day life that captures my attention.”

Eisenberg has exhibited extensively on a national basis, is the recipient of several New York Foundation for the Arts awards, and is included in many private and corporate collections, including: McKenna, Long & Aldridge, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Center for Photography at Woodstock, Permanent Collection; Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, New York; and, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York.

Beth Ganz works with a combination of photography, wallpaper and wax to produce layered images with lush surfaces and subtle tonal shifts. Photographs of Spanish moss and vines obscure underlying wallpaper patterns, which provide a soft additional visual layer to the work. Ganz responds most to the push and pull between separate images, stating, “where scale and context collide ... disparate images construct a new reality”.

Ganz has had several solo exhibitions in New York and elsewhere; her prints have been included in many group shows in the United States, England, Europe, and India since 1989. Her work is well represented in public and private collections, including: the Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY; New York Historical Society, New York, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; New York Public Library, New York, NY; and U.S. Department of State Art Bank.