Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Varujan Boghosian & Erick Hufschmid

There are two ways to look at Varujan Boghosian this month at Rochester’s BigTown Gallery: through the work of the master collagist himself, in a show called “New Collages & Constructions 2009-2011,” and through the photography of New Hampshire artist Erick Hufschmid, who spent last spring documenting Boghosian’s studio. From “the dense jungle of materials covering nearly every conceivable studio surface,” Hufschmid zeroes in on those chance compositions — as opposed to Boghosian’s intentional ones — that are the byproduct of the collagist’s 50 years of obsessive collecting. Through August 22. Pictured: “Childhood Dreams (The Archer)” by Boghosian.