New Gallery To Open on Hanover’s Main Street: Kyle Timothy Fine Art
Opening date: Thursday, June 18. And, Oak Hill Music Festival returns.
There is not always enough beauty in the world.
Kyle Timothy Blood aims to help change that. He is the gallerist and proprietor of a new art gallery, Kyle Timothy Fine Art, that opens Thursday, June 18, at 53 South Main Street in downtown Hanover, New Hampshire, “one block from the Dartmouth green and one block from the closest corner of Dartmouth’s Arts District.” Upper Valley folks will remember the location as that of the former Hood Downtown, the place where the Hood Museum staged exhibitions while the museum was closed for three years for renovations. More recently, the space opened up when rpmNH, a record, poster and memorabilia store, moved into a different retail space in the rear of the same building.
Blood, an interior designer by profession, has lived on Prince Edward Island for the past eight years, where he owns another business, Details Fine Art Gallery. PEI continues to have its charms but he began to think about relocating to the United States in search of a life with more of a sense of community. Blood graduated from Dartmouth College in 1990 and retains friends in the area. Last fall, at an arts weekend that included the reopening celebration for the Hopkins Center, he was reflecting on the growth of the college’s arts district: an expanded Hood Museum, a renovated Hopkins Center, an arts plaza anchored by the Visual Arts Center. He wondered: where’s the art gallery? And realized that the town might need one.
Since then, everything has moved quickly, a whirlwind of drafting and reviewing business plans, consulting with artists, scouting out a location. Blood “got the keys” to the space on South Main Street just one month ago. With some help from friends—one showed up ready for action with a table saw and a floor cleaner—and what he describes as “overwhelming support” from the Upper Valley arts community, the gallery is now more than ready for its closeup.
I visited on Tuesday afternoon amid some final touches in progress. The art currently on display is of high quality with a range of price points. Blood views it as a gallery for Dartmouth alums working in the visual arts, and has lined up four such artists so far (with more to come): KT Taylor, Margaret Jacobs, Ruth Douzinas and Felicia Hwang. But works by other artists are also prominent: Larry Horowitz, Brian Lorimer, and Sharon, Vermont artist Henry Isaacs. There are paintings in a variety of media, landscapes and vivid abstract works, sculpture, fiber art, photography, Inuit carvings from Cape Dorset, some gleaming hammered steel homeware, and jewelry.
There is also a small, white round table and chairs in one corner, some cafe chairs and tables just outside the front door, and a canine greeter named Tucker. An espresso machine has just been delivered. Kyle wants the gallery to be a place where people meet each other, chat, purchase something beautiful to take home or just come in for a visual antidote to what may be the troubles of the day. Stop in the next time you have reason to be in Hanover. Better yet, make the gallery destination-viewing.
Scheduled hours are 10 am to 6 pm Wednesday through Sunday. For more information and to browse the gallery offerings, check out the gallery’s website.
All photos by Susan B. Apel
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On a different note: A word from founder Leah Kohn: “Oak Hill Music Festival returns June 20–28 for its fifth season, bringing musicians from around the country to venues in Lebanon, Norwich, and Hanover. The four-concert series opens with guest artists—the Vieness Piano Duo performing Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, followed by programs featuring Beethoven’s Razumovsky Quartet No. 3 Dvořák’s "Dumky" Trio, and a finale built around Mendelssohn’s celebrated Octet. The festival also includes free community events in Hanover.” For more information on dates, times, locations and tickets, click here.
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