Hingham campus Art Galleries
South Shore Music Circus Gallery & Robert & Dorothy Palmer Gallery

In cooperation with South Shore Art Center, the Conservatory presents the work of regional artists in its two art galleries. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm, Saturday, 9:00 am - 12 noon and during scheduled concerts. There is no admission charge. Call (781) 749-7565 for exhibit information.

Transformations
Investigations in Months, Decades, and Eons
Photographs by Dennis Roth
April 4 - June 30, 2026

Artist’s Notes
Transformations is an exploration of color, form, texture, history, change and the delight of finding unexpected beauty beyond the object photographed; not what it is, but rather what else it is. The three collections of this exhibit represent four months of recent time, eighty-five years of local history, and eons of geologic drama.

Creating abstract images from ordinary subjects allows the transformation of the routine to the special: a simple vegetable, a distraction during a walk down a rail trail, or a walk along the rocky coast of Massachusetts Bay ignite the celebration and memorialization of obscure bits of everyday beauty.

Section 1: 32 Views of Peppers and Eight Other Things
Four months passed between bringing the first peppers home from the market and the appearance of the grand wrinkled harlequin of Pepper 53 in my studio lit by a single window. Smooth forms and primary colors are transformed into wrinkled skins and tertiary hues.

Section 2: Fingerless Posts
Eighty-five years after the US Navy erected the ”lightning masts” in the Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot Annex, while walking down a rail trail with my wife and our dogs Fingerpost 1 caught my eye. Manufacturer’s machines, military color codes, waves of taggers self expression, and endless nature all make their mark.

Section 3: Avalonia
Approximately 609 millions years ago, the granite rocks of Strawberry Point were formed as the microcontinent of Avalonia moved through the Rheic Ocean. The igneous formations echo the drama of their molten formation; mid-century color field painters are reimagined; animal limbs are evoked.

Artist Biography
Dennis Roth obtained his master’s in architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975. He showed his color photography in museums and galleries in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. In the past decade he has made and exhibited photographs on the south shore of Massachusetts Bay.

Influenced by American mid-century and other painters and photographers his work tends toward abstractions based on close examination of natural and manmade

phenomena. His influences include artists Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Agnes Martin and Pierre Bonnard and photographers Eliot Porter, Minor White, William Eggleston and Saul Leiter.

The Ellison Center Art Galleries

The Duxbury Art Association presents the work of DAA faculty, students, member and special guests in the foyer, the Lillian & Ture Bengtz Gallery and Bobbi Cutler Gallery at the Ellison Center For the Arts in Duxbury. There is no admission charge. Call the Duxbury Art Association office at 781-934-2731, ext 12 for exhibition information.