The Gallery is temporarily closed as we prepare for Form + Function this weekend and to install our final exhibit of 2025. Check here for the next exhibit announcement - coming soon!
Third Space concludes 3S Artspace's 10th anniversary year with an immersive, community-driven experience in the Gallery. The exhibit builds on the beloved success of our 2019 exhibition, Room for Memory, and is rooted in the social concept of a "third space" or "third place"—a welcoming environment beyond home and work. Third Space transforms the Gallery into a sanctuary of creativity, connection, and comfort during the holiday and winter season.
The exhibition features three unique lounge environments by invited designers and creatives:
The Listening Room, curated by 3S, features works created by artist Dylan Metrano for the popular Diaspora Radio concert series held at The Press Room. Both his source papercuttings and the resulting promotional show posters will be on view.
The Nature Escape room is curated by 3S Artspace Board Member and Gallery Committee Member, Emily Leach. Featuring works by multiple regional artists, visitors are surrounded by a magical world inspired by the outdoors where families and friends can retreat on bleak winter days to entertain, uplift, and rejuvenate.
The Ski Lounge room, curated by 3S Board Member, filmmaker, and photographer Harrison Buck brings together stories from slopes and trails across the country, breathtaking winter landscapes, and the intersection of visual arts and the craft of handmade custom skis.
A ski lodge bar, Après Ski, joins together the three rooms and provides additional space to gather during exhibition hours, before shows, for live music and DJ events, and more! Stay tuned for pop-up event announcements and co-working opportunities in the Gallery this winter season.
Artist Bio
Ryan Rasmussen
Ryan Rasmussen is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans practices in sculpture, installation, kinetic and electronic works, haptic installations, sonic environments, collaboration, design, two-dimensional media, video and things that have mass or do not. Ryan has exhibited work nationally and internationally in such venues as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar; CICA Museum of South Korea; Kyoto Cultural House, Kyoto, Japan; Art Space in the Bay area of CA; the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago, IL; the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery in Midland-Odessa, TX; and Clough Hansen in Memphis, TN. In 2022, Ryan’s work was featured in the Wrong Biennial. Ryan received his MFA from the University of Iowa and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Intermedia at Elon University. Ryan previously served as Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.
About Jennifer Moore:
Jennifer Moore is a creative collaborator working at the intersection of sustainability, storytelling, and design. She is the co-founder, with 3S Artspace, of Project Upcycle—a regional sustainable fashion competition that challenges emerging designers to create runway looks using secondhand, surplus, and deadstock materials. Since its launch, the event has grown into an always sold-out event spotlighting bold ideas in circular fashion and regional reuse.
3S Artspace is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and NHCF's Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund; Horizon Foundation; and Little Bay Fund.
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