This month, the Currier Museum of Art presents two dynamic exhibits featuring contemporary New England artists.

“Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho” follows the artist on his journey from depictive landscape to the abstract. While Cristi Rinklin’s “Diluvial” transports visitors to an imaginary landscape of dazzling color and light.

“The exciting part of this show and the timeliness of the show is kind of the exclamation point at the end of 20 years of work where I’ve been going outside and painting recognizable landscape views,” Aho said. “I was painting them pretty loosely with an eye toward abstraction and everything but they felt like hillsides and views and long distances and clouds. I hope the new work has that atmospheric impact and impact of temperature and scale and color.”

Born in Melrose, Mass., Aho grew up in Hudson, and is pleased that the Currier has chosen to show this bridge from earlier work, but he doesn’t call it a retrospective.

“It shows a transition, and the curators wanted to show their audience how I got from one way of working to another,” Aho said. Aho’s medium is oil painting.

With “Diluvial,” Boston-based artist Cristi Rinklin combines hand-painting and digital technologies for her immersive installation inspired by a floor-to-ceiling wall of windows in the Currier’s Putnam Gallery.

“It’s abstract,” Rinklin said. “They were done from paintings. It’s inspired by landscape elements from images some of the 19th century American paintings in the Currier’s collection as well as some of the regional areas of the White Mountains.”

“I kind of stumbled across this format,” she said. “It’s a digital print; it’s called dura-clear prints, and the look of it is very intense, very saturated, very rich, very clear.”

The Currier Museum is located at 150 Ash St., Manchester. Museum hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, with extended hours on the First Thursday of each month until 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.currier.org or call 669-6144, ext. 108.

Admission is free for all from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays. Admission for children 17 and younger is always free.