Through July 19
BigTown Gallery
99 North Main
Rochester, Vermont
August 10 - 26
Berta Walker Gallery
208 Bradford Street
Provincetown
It doesn’t matter that 81-year-old Varujan Boghosian is celebrating 55 plus years as an artist this summer with a survey of his career from 1963 to the present at the BigTown Gallery and a collection of more recent work at the Berta Walker Gallery – or that his house already holds two rooms of potential artifacts for his multi-media collages. The 81-year-old Hanover, New Hampshire artist is still in a constant search for new materials.
“Yesterday I drove to Keene a hour and a half away,” he said. “There’s three terrific antique shops there I visit at least once a month. Three or four times a week I’ll visit a flea market area in Timber Village that has maybe 100 dealers. There’s always new stuff coming in. You look for material that some time over the years, you can use.” Lately, he’s been searching for horseshoes, inspired by a painting by trompe l’oeil painter John Frederick Peto. “I look for ones with the nails still in it.”
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