Exhibit Reception: Currents
Featuring the work of Lee Thomson and Sophie Chambers
Live music by Shannon Lambert
Friday, March 10, 5:00-8:00pm
Free!
Please join the Northampton Center for the Arts, A.P.E. Ltd., and Northampton Open Media at 33 Hawley for a reception for Currents, with refreshments and live music by Shannon Lambert during Arts Night Out on Friday 3/10 from 5:00-8:00pm! This exhibit, hosted by the Northampton Center for the Arts, is two in one! Currents and Coastlines, with artwork by Lee Thomson, can be seen on the mezzanine level, and Cutting Currents, with artwork by Sophie Chambers, can be seen on the ground floor level of 33 Hawley.
Sponsored in part by River Valley Co-op and Downtown Sounds Workers Co-op. THANK YOU!
Lee Thomson is a contemporary fiber artist living and working in western Massachusetts. Her stitched textile works draw on a background in geology, geography and cartography to explore the landscape from the bones up. Using quilting materials and fine art sensibilities, she creates visual work in a tactile medium. Starting with layered fabric, details are drawn in thread and the finished work shows a familiar landscape in a new way. Lee’s work has been shown in regional exhibits in New England, including group and solo shows, as well as local galleries.
Sophie Chambers started making art with more regularity during the summer of 2022 in a concerted effort to not burn out at her day job. That being said, art has been a companion throughout her life; first in the form of music and musical theater, and in more recent years through writing poetry and doodling. Sophie does her best to access the curiosity and freewheeling imagination that was so intrinsic to her childhood while using art to process her lived experiences. As a result, her art often speaks to more serious sociopolitical issues even while her creative self is very much rooted in the playfulness of an inner child.
Born across the river and raised in Amherst, MA, Shannon Lambert’s music fuses electro-acoustic and American roots elements with the DIY aesthetics of bedroom pop. Her self-produced debut album, Cool Girl (2021), utilized the challenges of recording in early-pandemic isolation as a creative framework through which the singer explored themes of finding and losing home against the backdrop of Western Mass. As she writes with a sophomore album in mind, Shannon’s newer work leans further into alt-folk aesthetics and draws on the singer’s choral background to showcase the voice as an instrument of both storytelling and texture-making capabilities. Her music is available to stream everywhere.
