Returning: A Solo Exhibition featuring Bri Custer
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming On View feature, Returning, showcasing new original landscape paintings by New Hampshire-based artist Bri Custer on the main wall of Sorelle Gallery, opening Saturday, April 5, 2025.
Bri Custer is a plein air painter investigating perception, memory, and color through the New England Landscape. She is currently a full-time artist based in Concord, New Hampshire with her husband Bryan, daughter Helen, and their hound-lab mix, Vinny.
"Before becoming a parent, the heart of my work was made en plein air, painting the New England landscape on location," Custer says in reference to her newest collection and body of work featured in this exhibition. "I often return to paint places many times to form a connection with the landscape and watch it change through the year. While plein air adventures are less accessible to me in this season of life, the ritual of returning is still embedded in my practice. This body of work is an evolution of my 100 Day Project, a series of one hundred 4” x 4” daily paintings made in the early days of motherhood. I am doubling back to subjects I’ve painted before and discovering what happens when I continue to translate these places multiple times over. These new paintings magnify the small-scale works that came before them. Shapes that were made by single brush strokes in the small paintings become larger shapes of color, and I’m forced to reconcile those changes with instinct and invention. Color and mark-making lead the way as I build each surface and find the identity of each new piece. As in all of my work, each piece becomes an artifact of the process and the moment in which it is made."
Bri Custer's paintings will be on view on the main wall at Sorelle Gallery through April 26, 2025. This On View feature is free and open to the public during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Street parking is available.