Current Exhibit
Threads of Tapestry by Suzanne Pretty will open February 10 through June 12, 2012.
The exhibit is a combination of tapestries and mixed media from which these pieces have evolved. These paper weavings, gouache and multi media pieces show the thought process evolving through the different stages and the coming together of all the elements. Each medium brings a different perspective feeding the development and end product.
Pretty states “In the tapestry the Forest of Blocks, a set of blocks is strewn across a barren landscape as if by a child playing. I have used the blocks and floating trucks as design elements and icons in multiple pieces. Working in sculpture the blocks were created with plaster, paper weaving and gouache. Landscape Divided is also included in the exhibit. With this pile of configurable blocks I developed into the design for the tapestry the Divided Landscape. 
Truck and heavy equipment imagery has been elements in my work for a number of years including the tapestries All That Glitters with flying trucks against the blackening sky surrounding the glowing city and Truck Stop in which trucks are depicted in strong primary colors preparing for the trips out on the highways. Several multi media images of construction with trucks are included of a new series including Waiting at the Ready, trucks lined up neatly in a row waiting for the next day and In the Shadow is toy trucks in a pile left under the rear of the father's pick truck. The bright colors of take the images out of the everyday setting but these image of heavy equipment contain the incredible power to rip through the landscape and disrupt.”
Pretty has exhibited internationally and received numerous awards including First Prize in the American Tapestry Biennial 8 exhibited at Elder Gallery in Lincoln, NB
and The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA and has twice been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Her tapestry Road Construction in Detail 
has been accepted to the American Tapestry Biennial 9 opening at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens OH. Suzanne also has work in What is Home? at the Children's Museum of NH and a number of upcoming show. Her work has appeared in a number of publications including Fiberarts, Summer issue 2011, Handwoven, November/December 2010 and Gods in Granite: the Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire by Robert L. McGrath.
All That Glitters, (upper right) by Suzanne Pretty, woven tapestry
Truck Stop, (middle right) by Suzanne Pretty, woven tapestry
Waiting in the Ready, (lower left) Suzanne Pretty, multi media
Previous Exhibits and Gallery Artists
Small Works Exhibit, Holiday Exhibit 11
Reflections on a Garden, Summer 11
Life is Colorful: Works of Ethel Hills, Spring 11
Tactile Surfaces, Judith Heller Cassell, Janet Carlson, Suzanne Pretty, Julie Serrano 11
Holiday Exhibit 2010, Tess Feltes, Suzanne Pretty , Robert Roux, Winter 10
Embroidered Stories by Jill Snyder Wallace, Fall 10
Inner Garden: Photographs by Susan Lirakis, Summer 10
Maidens of Pharos by Cori Caputo, watercolors, Spring 10
Pat Giebutowski and Suzanne Pretty, Reflections, Winter 10
Tess Feltes, Ethel Hills and Robert Roux, Holiday 09
Judith Heller Cassell and Suzanne Pretty, Fall 09
Media - Mixed and Otherwise, Gail Smuda, Summer 09
Resurgence, WCA-NH, Spring 09
Exhibit of George Longfish & Carly Glovinski, Summer 08
Donna Catanzaro, Universe of Wit & Irony, Spring 08
Dimensions in Fiber & Print: Janet Carlson & Sue Pretty, Spring 07
Laura Morrison: Mixed Media and Commentary, Fall 07
Judy Cassell and Robert Roux, Fall, 06