Protection art at Hammond Castle, in Gloucester

Part of Sarah Dineen’s show “Protection: An Abstract Art Installation,’’ at Hammond Castle Museum, Gloucester, Mass., March 19-March 30.

The museum says she has “amassed an army of painted helmets, shields, tubes, and microphone-trees... Working in multiples to magnify the uncanny human and industrial presence of each form, she uses abstraction to suggest familiarity while leaving open to the viewer the possibilities of their own imagination." The pieces will be available to buy, with some of the proceeds to go to support the museum.

The castle, built in 1926-1929, was the home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr., an inventor and pioneer in the study of remote control who held over 400 patents. The building had modern and 15th-, 16th-, and 18th-century architectural elements and sits on a rocky cliff overlooking Gloucester Harbor.

The front of Hammond castle

— Photo by Dale E. Martin 

Wind-powered landscape

“Dunes Ride In’’ (photo) by Trish Crapo, in her show at the Hampden Gallery, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, through Oct. 7

The gallery says:

”Through photographs, video and spoken word, Leyden, Mass., artist Crapo explores if wind, a clothesline, and a white nightgown can summon someone from the other side. She has been awarded the Dunes Shack Residency, at the Cape Cod National Seashore, two times.’’

See:
fineartscenter.com/TrishCrapo

Frizzell Hill, looking west towards the town center of Leyden, Mass. (pop 711), on the eastern side of The Berkshires and home of Trish Crapo

Leyden Town Hall