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ART ON VIEW
The Light Show
Clay Mohrman at Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury through March 24, 2019. The exhibit features artful and surprising choices of design and materials to decorate each source of illumination. Clay Mohrman creates sculptural lamps out of wood from the forests and shores surrounding Lake Champlain. The Burlington artist uses lighting to connect interior spaces with nature through the combination of LED lighting technology and the found wood. Using geometric form, function and materials, the sculptures exist at the intersection of nature and the built environment. Work by Kristian Brevik, York Hill Pottery artisans Elizabeth Saslaw and Susan Kuehnl, and Cindi Duff is also on view. MORE
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Forest Recollection
Joseph Salerno at Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury through April 11, 2019.
The exhibition shows paintings that wander into memory. Paint is used as both a cloak and a window. Moving through these works calls to painting’s ability to live on the edges of abstraction and representation, like watching a film set to slow motion or paused for a moment in soft focus. Haunting, resonant Vermont forests, drenched in mist or glowing with ethereal light, wind an elegant trail through the gallery. MORE
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Close to the Cloth
A textile exhibit at T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier through March 29, 2019. The exhibition features the work of Barbara Bendix, Karen Henderson, Stephanie Krauss, Skye Livingston, Kate Ruddle and Neysa Russo. The gallery has assembled a varied group of Vermont fiber artists that showcases a range of techniques and sensibilities toward textiles. The work ranges from pieces seated firmly in traditional craft to conceptual work that uses fiber as a vehicle, and work that straddles the divide. MORE
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ARTIST TO WATCH
Risk-taking & Forgotten Knowledge
Rhonda Ratray is an artist of many interests. When she is not making chenille Krampus ornaments for Christmas or finishing an album cover for a local band, or leading art projects at the Vermont School for Girls and the Vermont Veterans Home, she is serving as the the artist-in-residence and curator at the Left Bank, a multi-use community gathering space in North Bennington where Ratray has produced a series of exhibitions that bring artists from across New England to the southwest corner of Vermont. And then there is her own art practice. Find out why she is one of ten 2019 Vermont Artists to Watch. MORE
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Yearning for a Sense of Place
"For my entire life, Vermont has held a mythic status in my mind," writes 2019 Vermont Artist to Watch Andrew Frost. "My family has lived here since 1786, basically in the same town. In the late ‘70s my dad left and joined the Navy. I'm a flatlander with roots going back to the republic. This strange relationship with place is at the center of most of my work. Here I am in this place that I'm deeply connected to, yet simultaneously it's all completely foreign." MORE
“Artists to Watch 2019” is a survey of contemporary Vermont artists that appeared as special feature in Vermont Art Guide #9 and in an exhibition at the Vermont Arts Council, January 7-February 28, 2019.
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Ascent
Ryan Geary at River Arts in Morrisville, through March 28, 2019. The exhibition is a collection of collages, which tell the story of multiple Americas. Geary says, "At once it is a story of the death of the America we have been taught to know, and the story of an America that has been enslaved, oppressed, beaten, and marginalized. It is the story of an America that is rising despite the entrenched power of its oppressors and the story of an America that is destructively flailing about in its death throes." Through images of our past and present, images used in their historical context or just for their symbolic and emotional power, "Ascent" is an attempt by the artist to deconstruct the “reality” and “history” of the America he, as a white male, has known. According to Geary, it is an attempt at "scrubbing through the whitewash of history and seeing the America worthy of veneration." MORE
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Small Worlds
“Miniatures in Contemporary Art” at The Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington through May 10, 2019. Historic and contemporary miniatures have the potential not only to delight us, but to provide us with a window into the intentions of the people who made them. The artists featured in "Small Worlds" either create or employ found miniature figures, rooms, and landscapes, displaying them through photographs or sculptures. The exhibition explores the ways contemporary artists use miniatures to inspire awe, whimsy, and even dread. A related exhibition of miniatures drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, "Global Miniatures", explores the universal appeal of miniatures found the world over and throughout time. MORE
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Vermont Art Guide is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary art in Vermont. We offer a curated list of places to see art and publish profiles on artists, art venues, and public art. Each issue is a celebration of the state's great art scene. Our website announces events and exhibitions; and reports on contemporary art news.
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