Drawing from a series of works addressing ideas of impossible architecture, liminal spaces and temporal and spatial distance, “The Long View: Paintings by Marcia Santore” will be on view from September 2 through 30 at the Belknap Mill Museum Riverside Gallery, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia, New Hampshire. “As someone who has moved many times, both as a child and as an adult, houses seen from within and without, rooms and hallways, doors and windows, and the roads and landscapes seen through and from them have multiple meanings for me,” Santore said. “They are places full of mystery and possibility, suggestive of many potential futures or outcomes.”
Inspired by the 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards which represent significant life lessons, archetypes and spiritual themes, stone sculptor Elisa Adams has used Tarot as a tool for inner reflection and a mirror for the soul. Adams challenged herself to bring the cards to life through a variety of materials. The end result, her “Inner Sojourns,” can be seen from October 15 through November 23 at Three Stones Gallery, 32 Main St., Concord, Massachusetts, where it will be joined by abstract works by Athena Petra Tasiopoulos and paintings by Avery S. Bramhall. “This installation is not just about sculpture. It is about presence, transformation, and connectedness, a space for quiet reflection and mediation,” Adams said.
Describing her paintings as “mysterious portals into the subconscious, a domain that is immersive, dream-like and surprising,” Tina Feingold’s “Wishful Thinking” exhibition, on view through October 18 at Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St., Portland, Maine, is a collection of “fantastical alternate realities made tangible on canvas, works that explode in bursts of blues, yellows, purples, and greens.” Her objects “float amidst layers of paint and stenciled marks, like fossils imprinted on colorful botanical forms” and in the process, “abstract our sense of reality and blur the lines between the real and the artificial.”
Featuring photographs celebrating Cape Cod’s natural wonders of nature — seaweed and sand dunes, along with asphalt memories from previous life stops — “Arthur Nichols: The Sands of Time” remains on view through October 23 at gary marotta fine art g-1, 162 Commercial St., Provincetown, Massachusetts. “Shooting close to home, Chatham resident Nichols captures the subtleties of shifting sands and the visual metaphor of time and place in the cosmos with these minimalist images. These archival pigment prints on 100 percent rag paper with matte varnish express a soft, scintillating, sculptural effect in these simple sandscapes.”
(An expanded version of Artscope Magazine’s September/October 2025 Capsule Previews can be found in the “Current Issue” section of artscopemagazine.com.)