Join us for an opening reception for Hilde-Kari Guttormsen’s exhibit, Portals.

Guttormsen was insired by the cave drawings found in Northern Norway, now a UNESO site. The drawings feature showcasing Stone Age hunter-gatherer life with carvings and rare paintings depicting showcasing Stone Age hunter-gatherer life with carvings and rare paintings depicting reindeer, elk, boats, humans, and hunting rituals.

Come see Guttormsen’s stunning interpretations.

Reception: January 24th, 2026 | 12-2pm | FREE with registration

On display through February.

Artist Bio:

I was born in Bergen, Norway, where I grew up pursuing my love for medicine and science (M.D., Ph.D.). I came to Boston to become a research fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1993 and stayed on as faculty. However – I have always loved music and visual art – both as performer/artist and listener/viewer – which led me to Massachusetts College of Art and Design to study studio art. I had four exciting, thought-provoking, and inspiring years at MassArt obtaining a BFA in painting, and in sculpture in 2015. I have worked as a full-time studio artist since graduation, first at Fountain Street Studios in Framingham, and since the fall of 2018 as a member of the Lincoln Studios in Waltham, Massachusetts.

To me, the essential nature of art and science are closely linked. My art practice is about seeing, questioning, and examining the relationship between biological evolution and cultural evolution, between nature and humans, and the fluidity of nature and of the human condition.

I have for many years reflected over relations and connections – especially the liminal space in-between. Exploring the relationship between us and our surroundings – close and far – in distance or time. The idea for the Portal exhibit came to me when I read a scientific report on newly discovered 2,000-8,000 years old Scandinavian stone carvings in Western Norway. Most of the carvings were of animals, hunters and weapons. However, a photograph of a rubbing of a 1” x 2.5” carving depicting a female animal with a little standing miniature animal inside caught my eye.  The baby was proudly standing inside the mother’s belly – the baby ’s head was the heart of the mother – and the baby looked like it was on the way out. I used this image for several works of art – I transposed the artwork from carving in stone to a soft additive technique where I added soft materials like thread (silk, wool or mercerized cotton) and linen – later I also used canvas thread on canvas and acrylic yearn on fleece. The series of artworks consists of images of life I would want to leave behind.