Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders

Hampden Gallery

By Anita S. Hunt
September 8 – December 15
Reception: September 17

Anita S. Hunt presents a synthesis of old and new pieces — prints, drawings, books, collages, assemblages, and paper sculptures — that remix her extensive printmaking archive into new two- and three-dimensional compositions.

Central to Hunt’s practice is a dedicated engagement with the natural environment surrounding her home in rural New England, a beautiful edge habitat where forests, wetlands, and old farm fields converge. Through a daily practice of walking, close observation, photography, and field and audio notes, Hunt has attuned herself to this transient ecosystem for nearly forty years. Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders reflects this sustained engagement, invoking themes of impermanence, mortality, memory, and the ordinary magic of light and shadow.

“This work has led me through a dark passage and helped me to cobble myself back together. It is infused with pain and resilience and hope. Working this way has allowed me to understand that there is always more to discover in familiar things and places through curiosity, patience and deep looking.” — Anita S. Hunt

Black and white drawing of beetles, grass, bushes, and moths

Anita S. Hunt, Remembered Islands 2, 2024. Pigmented wax crayon rubbings taken from found wood carved by beetles, collage on translucent Sekishu paper, 18’’ x 18’’.

Anita S. Hunt, Shadow Bouquets (detail), 2025. Drawings on Gasenshi paper, india ink on hand-marbled Suminagashi paper, 11’’ x 10’’ x 1’’.

Black and white print of a tiger moth sitting on a log. Leafy foreground.

Anita S. Hunt, Today’s Version (Tiger Moth), 2025. Archival pigment print on rag paper, 7’’ x 7’’.

Anita S. Hunt

Anita Hunt’s creative work centers around printmaking, drawing, photography, artist’s books, writing, and, more recently, collage, sculpture, and installation. An Ohio native, she studied at Antioch College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where she trained in traditional printmaking before adopting safer, non-toxic methods in the 1990s. A member of Zea Mays Printmaking since 2001, she taught monotype and intaglio workshops there for twelve years. Hunt is a past president of the Monotype Guild of New England and a member of several major printmaking organizations. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous public and university collections including the New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. She lives and works in rural New England.