'Shadows and Light'

Image from the “Shadows and Light’’ show at The Franklin Gallery at Riverstones Custom Framing, in the very lively and interesting city of Rochester, N.H., through January. The show, coordinated by Peter Abate and featuring 34 artists, is a travelin…

Image from the “Shadows and Light’’ show at The Franklin Gallery at Riverstones Custom Framing, in the very lively and interesting city of Rochester, N.H., through January. The show, coordinated by Peter Abate and featuring 34 artists, is a traveling exhibition. Shadows and Light’’ is about the interplay and interpretation of shadow and light in art. The pieces in “Shadows and Light’’ explore the technical aspects of light and shadow as well as the symbolic and metaphorical ways these elements are expressed.

The Cocheco River provided power for Rochester’s early factories and mills, which made it a very prosperous place for many decades, starting in the early 19th Century. Shoes and blankets were among the major products. Prosperity spawned a remarkable…

The Cocheco River provided power for Rochester’s early factories and mills, which made it a very prosperous place for many decades, starting in the early 19th Century. Shoes and blankets were among the major products. Prosperity spawned a remarkable degree of cultural energy, which continues to this day and has included the construction of an opera house and the residence of numerous visual artists, albeit some only in the summer.

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