Beauty can sometimes be in short supply. Kyle Timothy Blood wants to help fix that by bringing top-tier art to downtown Hanover. Kyle is the proprietor and gallerist behind Kyle Timothy Fine Art, a newly opened art gallery at 53 South Main Street—a block from the Dartmouth Green and at the edge of the college’s Arts District. Longtime Upper Valley residents will recognize the address as the former home of Amidon Jewelers and later, Hood Downtown, a satellite location that hosted exhibitions while the Hood Museum underwent a three-year renovation. The space became available again when rpmNH, the record and memorabilia shop and most recent tenant, relocated to another storefront in the building.

An interior designer by trade, Kyle has spent the last eight years on Prince Edward Island, where he runs Details Fine Art Gallery. He recently began weighing a move back to the United States, and as a 1990 Dartmouth graduate, he’d kept close ties to the area. Last fall during an arts weekend that included the Hopkins Center’s reopening celebration, he found himself struck by how much the college’s arts scene had grown: a redesigned Hood Museum, a freshly renovated Hopkins Center, an arts plaza anchored by the visual arts center. One thing seemed to be missing: Hanover, he realized, didn’t have an art gallery.

From there, things moved quickly. A business plan was drafted and redrafted, artists came on board, and a location fell into place. Kyle picked up the keys to the South Main Street space on May 15; friends began pitching in—one arrived armed with a table saw and a floor cleaner—and the local arts community rallied behind him. Kyle Timothy Fine Art opened in mid June of 2026.

 

Global Artists and Local Ties

The collection spans paintings in various media, from landscapes to bold abstracts, alongside sculpture, fiber art, photography, hand-hammered stainless-steel homeware, and jewelry. Inuit carvings from Cape Dorset are an intentional choice. Kyle has a business relationship with a professional arts cooperative in Toronto that ethically represents the Inuit carvers: The carvers are paid for their work when it leaves their studios (no waiting for commissions), and the sculptures are authenticated, providing provenance for collectors.

Kyle envisions the space as a home for Dartmouth alumni working in the visual arts, and has five on board so far—Ruth Douzinas ’98, Daniel Heyman ’85, Felicia Hwang ’90, Margaret Jacobs ’08, and KT Taylor ’97—with more expected to join. Other artists feature prominently too: Larry Horowitz and local artists Henry Isaacs of Sharon, Vermont, and Chad Etting of Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Margaret Jacobs’s work may be familiar to Upper Valley residents. Her sculpture (with Justin O’Rourke) Steel Umbrella was installed in 2018 on the Mascoma River Greenway. As an inaugural artist at KTFA, she hopes that her work “contributes to the cultural life of the Upper Valley and Hanover by encouraging curiosity, conversation, and a deeper appreciation for the arts while helping strengthen the vibrant creative community that already exists here.”

Of Henry Isaacs, Kyle notes that “In addition to his international and national
reputation (his commissions span the globe), he has had a long and involved history with Dartmouth, as he taught anatomical drawing at the medical school [specifically, the C. Everett Koop Institute] for a time and has also been commissioned to paint many works for both the college and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, but he hasn’t had representation in the Upper Valley in decades.” Conversations with other prominent artists are in the works.

More Than a Gallery

Need a consultation? Kyle can provide that. “One of my services is to provide a consultation, in a residence, assessing a client’s existing artwork and its placement.” He continues, “I have found, in both my own home and in clients’ homes, that rotating and rehanging artwork from time to time can make a house feel as if it’s just been redecorated, at little cost. Within that mix, we may find a spot for a new piece of artwork from the gallery, one that the client never tires of looking at, that enlivens the entire home.”

Given its enviable location and compelling aesthetics (not to mention availability of parking), the gallery presents possibilities for using the space for special events: artist talks and demonstrations, live art classes, birthday and anniversary celebrations, Dartmouth alumni gatherings, and coordinated events with other arts institutions such as the Hood Museum of Art and AVA Gallery and Art Center.

Outside at the gallery, a few café tables invite passersby to linger, and gallery greeter Tucker (a Cavapoo) most cheerfully welcomes visitors. Kyle’s vision goes beyond selling art—he wants the gallery to be a gathering spot, somewhere people can run into each other, talk, pick up something beautiful, or simply step in for a moment of visual relief from their day. “Politics, health, climate, migration, the pandemic: People are stressed for reasons and at levels that are beyond our collective experience. The Upper Valley, while not immune to those challenges, seems to be a region where people thrive,” Kyle says. “In the few months since we’ve been open, some people have become ‘regulars,’ stopping in on their lunch breaks, on their way to or from work, on their Sunday stroll, or just at random times during the day, if only to look at art and to be transported from the vicissitudes of life. I call that a visual vacation.” 

 

Kyle Timothy Fine Art 

53 South Main Street, Suite 101

Hanover, NH

(603) 277-2065

kyletimothyfineart.com