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Visual artists are at a disadvantage in our culture these days because their contribution to our social discourse is often free of those things that demand our collective attention. The […]
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Caroline Tavelli-Abar made a collage this year and titled it “Inside.” It hangs next to a similarly framed photograph from 2013 called “Green Marble Quarry.” Caroline imagines “Inside” portrays the […]
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Michelle Saffran makes photo-based art. Often, she blends more than one image; sometimes she manipulates, alters, or defaces photographs. Michelle does not always work in portraits, but she has proven […]
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I spent most of May speaking with artists about their community. I feel lucky. My purpose was to curate a survey of Vermont contemporary art organized around artists’ connections to […]
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Laura Jane Walker calls her pieces paintings and says the colored threads are brush strokes. The threads run inches or feet between nails in plywood. Some of the panels are […]
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Kathy Stark’s first winter in Vermont was in the year 2000. Right away, she began to capture “the season’s subtle variation in color” on her canvases. At first glance, those […]
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The paintings are not meek. The frames are substantial, the pigment often dark and generously applied. The drawings are accurate and balanced. Many of the pieces reference relationships: a farmer […]
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Elizabeth Nelson has painted since she was eight. Her work has been shown since the late 1980s and has been presented in juried shows for nearly as long. Well-known for […]
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“My husband and I have traveled widely…” So opens Amanda Amend’s artist statement for “Viajes (Travels).” It’s true; the couple has covered some ground. All over the U.S. and Europe. […]
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“Wait. Those aren’t photographs.” That’s something you might overhear as people look at the careful art of Gabriel Tempesta. Fastidious details construct near-perfect representations of nature. Trees. Bees. The ocean. […]
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It’s early March. Snow and rain take turns icing the roads as Dianne Shullenberger installs a new show in the Spotlight Gallery. She’s hanging twenty-one sculptures, all constructed with objects […]
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The glisten in the eye of this rooster is one bright detail sparkling in the Council’s Spotlight Gallery. Twenty paintings of roosters, sheep, cows, and owls project emotion to the […]
