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Raymon Elozua, “Enamelware #39-6173,” 2007, archival ink jet print.

Nancy Vonnegut, “Passing Through,” 2007, oil on canvas, 36 by 52 inches. Photo: Scott Prior.

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FERRIN GALLERY SHOWING EXHIBITIONS AT LENOX AND PITTSFIELD, MASS., LOCATIONS w/2 cuts

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LENOX and PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Ferrin Gallery is presenting five exhibitions at its two locations through October 8.

The group show in Pittsfield, “We Were There,” features works by gallery and invited artists from throughout the region. This show presents a range of artwork by artists who are geographically affiliated with the region.

Two new shows currently on view at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield feature the artists Raymon Elozua and Warner Friedman.

New York artist Elozua’s show, “Temporal Objects: Photographs,” continues his exploration of the beauty in the evidence of time passing as explored through photographic still life. Composing with deteriorating household enamelware culled from long forgotten trash dumps in Upstate New York, Elozua uses these objects to explore formal relationships of color and shape.

Sheffield, Mass., artist Warner Friedman’s show “Black, White & Blue” presents a group of paintings from the mid-1980s that each features a single, large-scale object against a sky. Industrial objects such as smokestacks and water towers are set into a formal, centered composition.

In Lenox, Northampton painter Nanny Vonnegut is showing a new series of paintings, “Just Passing Through,” that are surreal semiautobiographical narratives. Coming from a literary background as one of Kurt Vonnegut’s children, it is no surprise that her work is of a story-telling nature, reflecting “the facts and underpinnings of my life.” This is Vonnegut’s second solo show with Ferrin.

Sheffield, Mass., artist Bart Elsbach presents a new body of landscape paintings in “Through Way.” His paintings portray the land in the delicate light of dusk and dawn or partially obscured by changing weather. By focusing on the horizontal line of the place where fields meet trees and trees meet the sky, his paintings evoke the contemplative mood created by light, air, and land in a classic landscape style.

Samples from all of the exhibits can be seen at www.ferringallery.com.

Ferrin Gallery in Lenox is at 69 Church Street. For information, 413-637-4414.

Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield is at 433 North Street. For information, 413-442-1622.