Art Exhibits
Area museum and gallery listings
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Helen Day Art Center's outdoor sculpture exhibit, "Exposed!" opens Saturday. |
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Published: July 3, 2009
Openings this week
Southern Vermont Arts Center: June Solo Exhibitions, through July 14, Yester House Gallery; Paws and Reflect: Art of Canines, July 4-Aug. 30; Stewards of the Land, July 4 – Aug. 30, Rett Sturman and Orah Moore, West Road, Manchester, (802) 362-1405, www.svac.org. Free opening reception, Saturday, July 4, 2 to 4 p.m.
Vermont Supreme Court: Lois Eby, July 3-Aug. 28, paintings by Vermont artist, 111 State St., Montpelier, (802) 828-0749. Artist’s reception, Wednesday, July 8, 5 to 7 p.m.
New exhibits
Adamant Music School: Helen Rabin, July 6-Aug. 14, paintings, Waterside Hall; sculpture exhibit in Meditation Garden, Haggett Road, Adamant, 229-9297, adamant.org.
215 College: Jude Bond, through Aug. 2, 215 College Street Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, 215 College St. (second floor), Burlington, (802) 863-3662, www.215college.blogspot.com. Hours: Friday, noon to 8; Saturday, noon to 6, Sunday noon to 4.
Major institutions
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center: Playing Around, through July 26, 20 artists look at toys and toy imagery; Stephen Knapp, through July 26, “lightpaintings” by Worcester, Mass., artist projected on center walls; Joseph Fichter, through July 26, “Winter Thunder,” works in steel; Lisa Hoke, through July 26, color wheels; Beth Krommes, through Nov. 8, “The Poetry of Lines,” Union Station, Main Street (Route 5) and Routes 119 and 142, Brattleboro, (802) 257-0124 or visit www.brattleboromuseum.org. Hours (daily except Tuesday): 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for students.
Burlington Firehouse Gallery: Uncharted Territories, through Aug. 1, work by Clark Derbes, Wylie Sofia Garcia and Ted Ollier; Bill Davison, through Aug. 1, “Vestiges, Hues and Fragments: The Lake Champlain Duck Hunting Series, monotypes; Tara Jensen, through Jun 30, artist-in-residence, Burlington City Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington, (802) 865-7551, www.burlingtoncityarts.com.
Chaffee Art Center: Summer Members’ Exhibit, through July 31; Photo Contest and Exhibit, Aug. 7-30, second annual, 16 S. Main St., Rutland, (802) 775-0356, www.chaffeeartcenter.org. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 to 5, Sunday, noon to 4; donations requested. Opening reception, Friday Aug. 7, 5 to 8 p.m. Art in the Park, Aug. 8-9.
Fleming Museum: Elizabeth Billings: The Ties that Bind, through Oct. 4, historic Ikat weaving by Vermont artist; Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont, through Sept 13, rare historic photos of African-Americans fighting in the Civil War; A Beckoning Country, through Sept. 20, art and objects from the Champlain Valley, University of Vermont, 61 Colchester Ave., Burlington, (802) 656-0750 (info: 656-2090), www.flemingmuseum.org (e-mail: fleming@uvm.edu). Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday; 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; $5 admission, $10 family, $3 students and seniors.
Helen Day Art Center: Exposed! 09, through Oct. 10, curated by Meg McDevitt, School Street, Stowe, (802) 253-8358, www.helenday.com. Hours: noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Hood Museum of Art: Caricature of Honoré Daumier, through Aug. 24, “France in Transformation, 1833-1870”; Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity, through Aug. 31, tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia; Félix de la Concha, through Sept. 27, “Private Portraits/Public Conversations”; Spirit of the Basket Tree, through June 28, Wabenaki ash splint baskets from Maine, José Clemente Orozco: The Epic of American Civilization, ongoing, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., (603) 646-2808, hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu. Admission is free and open to everyone. Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Closed Monday. Admission is free.
Middlebury College Museum of Art: Making Sense of Thomas Kinkade, through Aug. 9; Pastoral Vermont: The Paintings and Etchings of Luigi Lucioni, through Aug. 9; Tombs, Temples, Palaces, and Tea: The Social Roles of Ceramics in Asia, through December 2009; Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, ongoing, recent acquisitions and loans explore a wide range of Asian artistic traditions; Ancient Mediterranean and Early European Art, ongoing, survey of early Western art, ranging from its origins in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to Classical Antiquity and Europe through the 15th century; European and American Art, ongoing, Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century;, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, South Street (Route 30), Middlebury, (802) 443-5007, www.middlebury.edu/museum. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 to 5; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 (closed Mondays); free admission.
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art: Robert Polidori, through Sept. 7, photographer captures human tragedy; Christine Davis, through Sept. 7, weaving together the interconnected histories of dance, science and cinema; Spring Hurlbut, through Sept. 7, installation “Le jardin du sommeil (1998) consisting of 140 cribs and cradles; Betty Goodwin, through Oct. 4, a critical survey through the prism of the collection; The Collection, through Aug. 16, “Some Installations,” Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 185 St. Catherine St. West, Montréal, (514) 847-6226, www.macm.org. Hours: 11 to 6 Tuesday-Sunday, 11 to 9 Wednesday (open Mondays June 24-Sept. 7); admission $8, $6 for seniors, $4 for students (free 6 to 9 Wednesday).
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Kent Monkman, through Oct. 4, “Dance to the Berdashe”; Expanding Horizons, through Sept. 27, Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918; Frédéric Back, through Sept. 27, One with Nature, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1379 and 1380 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, (514) 285-2000, 1-800-899-MUSE (6873), www.mmfa.qc.ca. Hours: 11 to 5 Tuesday; 11 to 9 Wednesday-Friday; 10 to 5 Saturday-Sunday (closed Monday); admission $15 Canadian (half price 6 to 9 Wednesday), $7.50 for students and seniors; $3 for 12 and younger.
Southern Vermont Arts Center: June Solo Exhibitions, through July 14, Yester House Gallery; Paws and Reflect: Art of Canines, July 4-Aug. 30; Stewards of the Land, July 4 – Aug. 30, Rett Sturman and Orah Moore; August Solo Exhibitions, Aug. 22-Sept. 20, Yester House Gallery (free opening reception, Saturday, Aug. 22, 4 to 6 p.m.), West Road, Manchester, (802) 362-1405, www.svac.org. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 to 5; Sunday noon to 5; admission $8, $3 for students.
Shelburne Museum: Full Throttle, through Oct. 25, vintage motorcycles, custom choppers and racing machines; Piecing together the Past, through Oct. 25, the quilts of Florence Peto; Patty Yoder, through Oct. 25, rugs of the Black House Farm; In the Eye of the Beholder, through Oct. 25, selections of American and European art from the Theodore H. Church collection; By Land or By Sea, through Oct. 25, American folk art from the Golden Age of Transportation; The Bright and Shining Light of Irreverence, through Oct. 25, Richard Saja and the Historically Inaccurate School; Louis Comfort Tiffany, through Oct. 25, “Nature by Design,” Route 7, Shelburne, (802) 985-3346, www.shelburnemuseum.org. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $20, $10 for children 6-18 (under 6 free). Tickets are valid for two consecutive days; admission is half-price for Vermont residents.
Studio Place Arts: Circus! through July 25, aerialists, sideshows, and three big rings right in the middle of the gallery; Second Floor Gallery: 12x12, fun art on perfect squares; Third Floor Gallery: Briony Morrow-Cribbs & Helen O'Donnell, 201 N Main St., Barre, Vt., (802) 479-7069, www.studioplacearts.com. Hours: 10 to 5, Tuesday-Friday; noon to 4 Saturday.
T.W. Wood Gallery: Fish/Gahagan, through July 19, work of James Gahagan and Robert M. Fisher; South Gallery: The WPA in Vermont; Wood Room: Portraiture from the Permanent Collection; The Figure Show, Aug. 25-Oct. 25, “The Art of Billy Brauer and His Studio,” T. W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center, Vermont College, 36 College St., Montpelier, (802) 828-8743, www.twwoodgallery.org. Hours: noon to 4 Tuesday-Sunday; closed Monday and holidays; free.
Current exhibits
Adamant Music School: Helen Rabin, July 6-Aug. 14, paintings, Waterside Hall; sculpture exhibit in Meditation Garden, Haggett Road, Adamant, 229-9297, adamant.org.
Artpath Gallery: Vermont artists, through July, Randy Allen, Maggie Neale, Jack Sabin and Axel Stohlberger, Wing Building, 1 Steele St., Burlington, 563-2273. Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
Bennington Center: Art of the Animal Kingdom XIV, through July 26, One of the country’s most prestigious wildlife exhibitions; Small Works Show, through Nov. 2, figurative, landscape, still-lifes and cityscapes; photographer Chris Dei, through Aug. 23, “Spirits of the Serengeti,” Bennington Center for the Arts, 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington, (802) 442-7158, www.benningtoncenterforthearts.org.
Bennington Museum: Leonard Ragouzeos, through Aug. 1, “BIO/GRAPHIK: Ink Paintings and Drawings”; The Quality of Place: Photography, Space and Specificity, through Aug. 30, photography drawn from the permanent collection, as well as other local collections, 75 Main St., Bennington, (802) 447-1571, www.benningtonmuseum.org.
BigTown Gallery: Drawings & Prints, through July 12; Penelope Jencks, through July 30, sculpture; A Fine Line, Aug. 2-Sept. 3, Ed Koren, Warrington Colescott and David Bumbeck, Route 100, Rochester, (802) 767-9670, www.bigtowngallery.com.
Bread & Puppet Museum, through Nov. 1, fantastic collection of Puppets of all sizes, from hand puppets to gigantic puppets used in parades and circuses, that fills the newly renovated 1860s barn, Route 122, Glover, (802) 525-3031, www.breadandpuppet.org. Hours: daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; admission is free. Bread & Puppet Museum,
Bryan Memorial Gallery: Masters of Vermont: The Men, through July 12, works by 20th century masters of the Vermont Landscape, including Charles Curtis Allen, Robert Blair, Alden Bryan, Francis Colburn, Thomas Curtin, Emile Gruppe, Aldro Hibbard, and Ron Slayton; ; Flight, Fur and Felines, through July 19, members’ juried show features more than 100 dogs, cats, birds, roosters, chickens, fish, sheep, and an occasional frog or two, 180 Main St., Jeffersonville, 644-5100, bryangallery.org. Hours: 10 to 5 daily.
Capitol Grounds: Center for Photographic Studies, July, Annual Members Show, Green Bean Art Gallery, State Street, Montpelier, (802) 223-7800.
Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, 259 Marble St., West Rutland, (802) 438-2097, carving@vermontel.net, www.carvingstudio.org. Hours 1 to 4 Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment.
Chandler Gallery: Into the Woods, through July 12, 15 Vermont artists explores the broadest meaning of the word “woods,” 73 Main St. Randolph, (802) 728-9878, www.chandler-arts.org. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.
Copley Woodlands: Gene Parent, through August, watercolor, pastel and pen and wash by Brookfield artist, 125 Thomas Lane, Stowe, 253-4203.
Cornish Colony Museum: Women’s Work, through Oct. 24, “The Artistry of the Women of the Cornish Colony,” Old Firehouse Building, 147 Main St., Windsor, (802) 674-6008, www.cornishcolonymuseum.org. Hours: 10 to 5 Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 Sunday; $6 admission, $4 for seniors and children.
GRACE Gallery, Grass Roots Art & Community Effort (GRACE), The Old Firehouse, Route 15, Hardwick, 472-6857, www.graceart.org. Hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 10 to 4, or by appointment.
Green Mountain College: Jim Sulham, through July 24, photography by Maine resident, William Feick Art Center, Poultney, (802) 483-6000.
Johnson State College: Garth Evans, through Aug. 1, “Red Clay Drawings,” Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson, (802) 635-1469, www.johnsonstatecollege.edu. Hours: 10 to 6 Monday-Friday, 10 to 4 Saturday. Artist’s talk and reception, Thursday, July 16, 7 p.m.
Joslyn Round Barn: Annual Photography Show, Aug. 3-Sept. 6, Green Mountain Cultural Center, 1661 East Warren Road, Waitsfield, (802) 496-7722, www.innattheroundbarnfarm.com. Hours: daily, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $3 suggested donation.
Middlebury Town Hall Theater: Phoebe Stone, through July 29, recent works in oil and pastel; Tad Merrick, Aug. 14-Sept. 19, retrospective of photographs (opening reception, Friday, Aug. 14, 5 to 7 p.m.), , Middlebury, (802) 388-1436, www.townhalltheater.org. Hours: noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, art museum and library, 1171 Main St., St. Johnsbury, (802) 748-8291, www.stjathenaeum.org. Hours: 10:30 to 4:30 weekdays; 10 to 3:45 Saturdays.
Saint Michael’s College: Art of Vermont: The State Collection, through Aug. 9, traveling exhibit by the Vermont Arts Council, McCarthy Arts Center, Colchester, 654-2535. Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
The Shoe Horn: Alisa Dworsky, June, “Undercurrents: Drawings and Prints,” Langdon Street, Montpelier, (802) 229-9409.
Spheris Gallery: Various artists, through July 31, works by Sarah Amos, Catherine Farish, Yechel Gagnon and Elizabeth Mayor; H20, Aug. 8-Sept. 30, film on water, 59 South Main St., Hanover, N.H., (603) 640-6155, www.spherisgallery.com.
215 College: Jude Bond, July 3-Aug. 2; Kate Donnelly, Aug. 7-30, New Work artist, 215 College Street Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, 215 College St. (second floor), Burlington, (802) 863-3662, www.215college.blogspot.com. Hours: Friday, noon to 8; Saturday, noon to 6, Sunday noon to 4.
Vermont Arts Council: Sculpture Garden, 2007-2009 exhibit, 136 State St., Montpelier, (802) 828-3293, www.vermontartscouncil.org. Hours: 8:30 to 4 Monday-Friday.
Vermont Center for Photography: Alen MacWeeney, through Aug. 2, “Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More,” 49 Flat St., Brattleboro, (802)251-6051, www.vcphoto.org. Hours: Friday, 2 to 7 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; free.
Vermont Historical Society & Museum: Freedom & Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories, ongoing, touch the past and experience Vermont’s history, 109 State St., Montpelier, (802) 828-2291, www.vermonthistory.org. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 to 4 p.m.; open Sundays through October noon to 4; closed Mondays; admission charged
Vermont Supreme Court: Lois Eby, July 3-Aug. 28, paintings by Vermont artist, 111 State St., Montpelier, (802) 828-0749. Hours: 8 to 4:30 Monday-Thursday; 12:30 to 4:30 Friday. Artist’s reception, Wednesday, July 8, 5 to 7 p.m.