Click to enlarge Pamela Polston ©️ Seven days Excerpt from “How I Met My Grandfather” Every culture is a tribe, a pack, and within it are repressive factions that discourage, legislate,Read More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston ©️ Seven days On the wall, from left: “Portrait #158” by Charles Lysogorski, small untitled portraits and “Condor” by Ann Young, and “Study in Blue Light” by August Burns. Front: “Voices”Read More →
“Flowers 1-12”, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger), 12 channel video, 2020 In this hyper-connected digital age, the multidimensionality of video seems to play an increasingly dynamic role in our perception of reality, especially in theRead More →
Click to enlarge Catherine Opie, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul “Untitled #9 (Swamps)” Since the time Catherine Opie asked for and received aRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy Kate Gridley’s “Bittern” In this journal, we usually make lists of seven, rather than the more typical 10. Admittedly, the smaller number makes it more difficult to sort out favorite shows from, in this case, a whole year of viewing art. Thus, some selections are basedRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Cathy Cone “A Capella Crack” Like visual analogues of a foreign language, Cathy ConeThe black and white photographs of escape easy interpretation. Viewers may wonder what happened just before an image was created, or if any clues to the mystery lurk beyond the frame. WhatRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston © ️ Seven days Extract from the installation “Objects of Empire” by Bradley Borthwick Bradley Borthwickthe exhibition of “Empire Items“conveys more than it first appears. In the gallery on the second floor of Burlington’s BCA Center, warm spotlights focus on two rather austere installations. TheRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Erin Jenkins / BMAC From left to right: “Our unfinished business”, “88” and “Taser” William ransomexposure could make you sneeze. “Keep Up / Hold Up”, on display at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, has two unexpected olfactory elements: pine tar and burnt wood. Their nose-ticklingRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Liza Voll Kirsten Reynolds’ “Overflow” With “Unbound, “at Burlington BCA Center, curator Heather Ferrell has created a remarkably cohesive exhibition of abstract works by Rachel gross, Rob hitzig and Kirsten reynolds. The three artists work in painted wood and reject the rectangular frame, this traditionalRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston © ️ Seven days “Are you here?” by Jonathan Gitelson When Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The Medium is the Message” in 1964, the theorist and author was specifically referring to the media of communication. But the saying could easily apply to works of artRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly Kate Gridley’s “Bittern” An introduction to this year Art in Kent The “20/20 Hindsight” exhibit notes that “the buildings that still stand at Kents’ Corner are part of an original industrial site.” In the 19th century, this crossroads in Calais resonated with the intense activityRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston © ️ Seven days Shopping cart icon Before even seeing Kevin doneganfrom the exhibition of mixed media assemblies, you could deduce its theme from the title: “Your basket is empty”. Did you guess that the artist is concerned with unbridled consumerism? The lightness of ourRead More →
Click to enlarge “Injustice Of Silence”, wood-fired ceramic, porcelain, glass, steel, 63 “x 25” x 25 “, 2017 Paddling is a term used by ceramic artists to refer to the gentle tapping and shaping of malleable clay shapes with flattened wooden tools. The six large ceramic sculptures by the Anglo-AmericanRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of James Rauchman “Dance” The ancients invented the portrait, but it wasn’t until the Middle Ages, apparently, that anyone thought of painting, drawing or engraving their own image. This is because “these were an era concerned with personal salvation and self-examination,” according to James Hall, authorRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Cobi Moules “Untitled (Rocky Coast of Maine)” by Cobi Moules The pandemic has forced the Shelburne Museum close last fall, but reopened in June with an appropriate celebratory display. “New England Now: People” features positive portrayals of all kinds of humans. Ten artists created theseRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Shelter Culture Project “The beginnings” of Dylan Fant Of all the ulterior motives one can have in setting up an art exhibition, building a community is a very good idea. That’s what Shawn Dumont had in mind when he put together the Shelter cultureRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Highland Center for the Arts “Chelsea Series # 4” (1978) This story has been updated to reflect the cancellation of several upcoming exhibitions due to COVID-19 restrictions. Paul Gruhler, a Craftsbury painter who turns 80 in September, only wanted to catalog his work. ARead More →
Courtesy of Paul Rogers “Objects of Desire 6” by Meleko Mokgosi Walk inside “Scripto-visual”, Meleko Mokgosithe spectacular exhibition of paintings and prints at the stream gallery in Stowe, the viewer encounters an 8-foot-tall enlargement of a stunning political poem by Gladys Thomas. “You who remade us / your mold willRead More →
Click to enlarge Luke Awtry Christy mitchell A Smart Message begins with the very title of Christy Mitchell’s latest solo installation at Burlington’s SPACE gallery. “Holding Pattern” is a double meaning – at least – and a meaning is immediately evident in Mitchell’s use of old-fashioned pattern wallpaper. Less obviousRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Bundy Modern “Sunday Morning (Colorado)” by Adolf Dehn The summer exhibition at Modern Bundy in Waitsfield combines the work of two very different deceased artists: Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) and Virginia Dehn (1922-2005). The two were married but very distant from each other and their careersRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Sam Simon “Where the sun shines everyday” by Pip & Pop During a recent visit to BCA Center, a girl under 6 looked out the window and exclaimed, “Don’t you just want to live there?” She was referring to Pip & Pop’s “Where the SunRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Homer Horowitz “Tunnel” Boston-based artist Katrine Hildebrandt Hussey presents “Vessel”, his solo exhibition currently at Soap Box Arts in Burlington, with a confessional artist statement. She has produced the show’s work over the past year, she writes, as a way to overcome the depression sheRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Sam Simon “Falling into Language: A Travelogue” at the BCA Center The soundtrack is perhaps the first thing visitors notice about “Falling Into Language: A Travelogue”. This is the title of the conceptual artist Kaylynn Sullivan Two Treesimmersive installation of two-dimensional framed video and artworkRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Michael Sacca Installation in the Equinox Highlands natural area Works of art generally don’t share space with 142 species of endangered birds, bobcats, and bats. But the Raven Ridge Natural Area, which straddles parts of Hinesburg, Charlotte and Monkton, is not a conventional gallery. FarRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Studio Place Arts “Blue Sky” by Marc Awodey Marc Awodey was a painter from Burlington and former Seven days art critic who died suddenly in 2012 at the age of 51. Since then, Sue Higby, Managing Director of Studio Place des Arts in Barre, thinksRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Artist And Hall Art Foundation “Hero No. 1” by Daniel Richter The color blue has proven visually appealing at least since the Chinese began making blue-on-white patterned ceramics during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) using cobalt ores from Persia. “Deep Blue”, the main exhibition ofRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Sam Simon “Inclined grid” by Meg Lipke Appropriate warning to visitors to an exhibition in progress at the BCA Center would be “Do not squeeze art.” On the ground floor of the Burlington Gallery, “Meg lipke: In the Making “features the artist’s soft works cutRead More →
Click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-embroiderer Axel Stohlberg Artist Axel Stohlberg finds endless inspiration in the standard shape of a house – a square or rectangle with a pitched roof. There is no need to read a deep philosophy in this choice, he said; in his work, the house represents whatRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Center Bca “Owl” The disconnection between humans and other living creatures is not a new theme, nor is the precipitous destruction of the planet by mankind. Along with scientists, philosophers, politicians and writers, artists have long approached the pride of people motivated more by profitRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly View of the installation “Color Fields”, with Anthony Caro’s “Green Sleeper” in the foreground When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he began to connect with artist fields and living artists related to the mid-century heyday of Bennington College. Founded inRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Northern Girls “Late in the afternoon” A Hannah morris the painting is full of cunning. First of all, her designs are both paintings and collages, and it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Although they are trompe l’oeil, his piecesRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly “Great Auk” by Gail Boyajian (left) and “Flow Thru” by Duncan Johnson The annual Art at the Kent Exhibition is one of the state’s premier arts events, drawing hundreds of people to its fall opening each year. The 2019 edition, entitled “reVision”, has developed fromRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Bigtown Gallery Piggy Bank by Liz Quackenbush In an article titled “Artistic getaways: four galleries worth seeing, “Art New England was recently named BigTown Gallery in Rochester, Vermont’s must-see gallery. The decidedly small town gallery, bordering the edge of the Green Mountain National Forest alongRead More →
Click to enlarge Howard Ursuliak | Courtesy of Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Installation “The name and the nameless” always. Just before crossing the Honoré-Mercier bridge towards Montreal, we see aRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History “Adirondack Faerie Lodge” It’s no surprise that Vermont is particularly welcoming to the Fae, if you know where to look. Queer oriented Fate of the fairy camp in Northfield in Burlington, artist Emily Anderson Bluebird Fairies annually FairyRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater “Collected Rooms” Visitors who think they will see dogs at “Guillaume Wegman: Outside In “at Shelburne Museum are in for a surprise. Pleasant, most likely. Certainly, many of the artist’s famous Weimaraners appear in the exhibit in various forms, capturedRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly “Draft of a new harmony in a zippered dress pocket” Sam Talbot-Kelly is a multimedia artist with a particular interest in costume and fashion. Her work has appeared locally in Strut, the Burlington fashion show Southern art hops; in pop-ups at Salam clothing store inRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Galerie 77 “Worker Mandala” by B Amore Try inviting a dozen artist friends to submit a few pieces of their art and see what happens. It was so William T. Ramage made a first call to artists for the exhibition “70+: Gero-Transcendence” at Rutland’s 77Read More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Janet Van Fleet “The beginning” Central Vermont Artist Janet Van Fleet has often shamelessly referred to social, political or environmental realities in his work. Perhaps his sculptural works made of buttons don’t exactly call for revolution. But her use of mundane and found material isRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy picture “Hole in My Childhood” Upon crossing the front door, visitors to Studio Place Arts in Barre generally discover multimedia collective exhibitions with works hung on the walls or the ceiling, or perched on pedestals and plinths. Current example: “Deep Blue”, with works inspired by waterRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Harold Weston Foundation “Sunset over Baxter Mountain” Cobalt blue: This is the color Shelburne Museum painted his gallery for the current exhibition, “Harold Weston: Freedom in nature.” On the lower level of the Center for Art and Education Pizzagalli, the electrifying hue provides anRead More →
Click to enlarge Photo: provided by Frizk The alleged Banksy painting (center) at the Contemporary Arts Center, hung among the works of “Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks”. World-famous art maverick Banksy may have left a mark on the Contemporary Art Center last month in the form of a half-peeled banana. ARead More →
Click to enlarge Image courtesy of Galerie 77 “A Aimless Pilgrimage II” A visit to see “Aimless Pilgrimage”, an exhibition of paintings by Danielle Klebes at 77 Gallery in Rutland, becomes a pilgrimage in itself. Minus any religious connotation, it is a pilgrimage in the sense of a journey worthRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Gerald Auten “Tokyo in Los Angeles” Graphite generally suggests pencil drawings consisting of strokes and lines, but in “Gerald Auten: Graphite Insomnia “, currently playing at White River Gallery in South Royalton, the artist uses powdered graphite or graphite pencil to construct pictures in aRead More →
Click to enlarge Photos courtesy of Helen Day Art Center / paul Rogers Photography “White Forest (Duna)” by Jaume Plensa On the lawn of Helen Day Center for the Arts, afternoon sunlight streaming through the trees stains “Intertwining”, adding a sense of movement to the already intricate sculpture. The weather-resistantRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Craig Mooney “Serenade at Sunset” Craig MooneyThe large landscape paintings are a brilliant antidote to Vermont’s November skies and the leafless boughs of stick season. Many of the 21 oil paintings in his solo exhibition at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery are reminiscent of longRead More →
Click to enlarge A mother turns her back on her three young children as she searches the back of a car trunk for something out of sight. Behind her, one of her children circles a sign indicating the loading area, while her little brother tackles cracks in the sidewalk outsideRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Susan Calza “DON’T pretend,” “As humans we are so clumsy,” says Susan Calza, “[but] we also have this incredible influence. “In a recent phone interview, the artist from Montpellier shared information about her current exhibition,” DON’T PRETEND, It’s Ordinary Gold “at Axel’s Gallery & FrameRead More →
Courtesy of Dian Parker Bunny Harvey’s “Verges” The pale yellow walls of the White River Gallery provide a bright backdrop for ‘Fully Involved: Bunny Harvey Paintings’, an exhibition of 17 works by the TunbridgeRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston “Looking Away #1 & #2” by Jonathan Waters Sixteen artists and a poet are contributing to this year’s ‘Expositions’ exhibition, presented by the Helen Day Art CenterRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Helen Day Art Center Untitled, 2008 Pat SteirThe abstract paintings of seem to involve physical dexterity as much as artistic sensibility. At 76, this acclaimed scion ofRead More →
Click to enlarge Hugh Townley’s “Horizontal 8” Sometimes the exhibitions are so radiant that you want to soak up them like the sun. “Director’s Choice”, currently at the BigTown Gallery in Rochester, is one of them. Curated by director Anni Mackay, this exuberant group exhibition showcases the work of sevenRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston “Sweet Spill” (left) and “Fabricate” Cal channelThe art of is a matter of dichotomy – in fact, multiple dichotomies. It invites the contemplation of opposites, even of what opposing means. An exhibition of Lane’s work in plasma-cut steel and mixed media is mind-blowing, as mostRead More →