Suzanne Moxhay, Staircase, digital pigment print

Gallery Director, Jay Block of Wallace Anderson Gallery will host a reception and talk on Wednesday, April 29 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. for Interiors by Suzanne Moxhay. This is the final gallery talk and reception for the academic year at Bridgewater State University. Interiors is an exhibition of digital pigment prints inspired by the composite photographic images produced in the mid-nineteenth century and later in early films. To create her montage images, Moxhay appropriates pictures from a variety of vintage and contemporary sources and borrows from the photomontage process developed in the early days of filmmaking in which movie backdrops were matte painted on sheets of glass and then integrated with live-action. In her mysterious and memory filled images Moxhay seeks to achieve an ambiguous narrative where fact and fiction intermingle. To create the environments, she experiments with texture, surface, depth, space, scale, movement and architecture, to "involve the viewer in the construction of the image, and to make them question it."  Interiors by Suzanne Moxhay is on view through April 14 with a closing reception on April 29 at Wallace Anderson Gallery. For more information, click here.

Lisa Lyman Adams, The Politics of a Glace, acrylic

During the Members/Elected Artists Exhibition, Mystic Museum of Art's (MMoA) Liebig Gallery will display Flipped, a selective exhibition of works from the permanent collection focused on women artists. Erika Neenan, MMoA's Curatorial Assistant, explained that the title of the exhibition "reflects the under-representation of women artists in major permanent art collections in the United States, where women account for three to five percent of total holdings." To provide a fresh point of view, Flipped "flips" the numbers so that male artists account for four percent of the work on display. The exhibition is important because it highlights the fact that many of the museum's founders were women. Works in Flipped include paintings by museum co- founder Frances D. Davis; a charcoal drawing and watercolor by Charlotte Eastman, the former director of the Norwich Art School, whose works depict local scenes of everyday laborers; and Julian Joseph's Helene, a striking portrait of brilliant and floral color. The Annual Members/Elected Artists Exhibition features 129 works, and this year's exhibition marks the third year of the combined show. Mystic Museum of Art (MMoA) is open 11:00am- 5:00pm, Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, click here

Mara Trachtenberg, Wings, mixed media, ink jet print

Working togther and individually, artists Uli Brahmst and Mara Trachtenberg present Wings at Hera Gallery. This collaborative exhibition features interpretations of the wing motif, as idea and physical subject, in multiple media. The wing design is recognized as a symbol of flight, expansion, hope and freedom, universally associated with birds and the spiritual world. Entities with wings are believed to transverse the physical and cosmic realm - "angels and other winged creatures of hybrid nature move freely between these seemingly opposite worlds, guiding us through diverse realities." The work presented in Wings engage the symbol to convey and encourage personal, cross-cultural, and political questions that defy "simplification and overgeneralization." To create the property of inbetweenness, the artists construct visuals in which light and shadow are equal in value, and where recognizable forms are abstracted to eliminate distinctions between superior and inferior conditions. Wings is on view at Hera through May 5. The opening reception is April 8 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. For contact information click here.

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