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Joseph Fichter: Clarion Call

Joseph Fichter’s horse sculptures are more than descriptions of living animals: they are dynamic depictions of energy in motion. In some ways they are bold, …

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» November 22, 2009 - February 21, 2010

Bill Long: Through The View

At the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, we spend a lot of time with children and adults thinking about and discussing what we see. Bill …

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» November 22, 2009 - February 21, 2010

Eric Aho: Ice Box

The viewer can almost hear the crunch of snow underfoot, the chattering of ice on the branches, and the groans of ice on the river

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» November 22, 2009 - February 21, 2010

Back Through Black: Marcy Hermansader

One does not become enlightened by drawing figures of light but by making the darkness visible. —Carl Jung

Marcy Hermansader’s images create a dark cosmos under …

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» November 22, 2009 - February 21, 2010

Drawing Itself: A Survey of Contemporary Practice

What comes to mind when we say “drawing”? A common answer is something done quickly on paper with pencil or charcoal. What else? Sketching from …

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» November 22, 2009 - February 21, 2010

Beth Krommes: The Poetry of Lines

The old saying is that “you can’t judge a book by its cover,” but with such a renaissance in children’s picture books in the last …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Vermont Collects: Modern and Contemporary Masters

VERMONT COLLECTS: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MASTERS is the first in a series of exhibits showcasing the diverse aesthetic and cultural sensibilities within our community. It …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Exploring Inner and Outer Space: The Art of Anne Eaton Parker

For more than five decades Anne Eaton Parker has created paintings which evoke a sense of human drama. Many of her canvases are relentless in …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Waterfall: Installation by Shuli Sade

In Waterfall, time is metaphorically arrested in space. Reality and dream are in the hands of the viewer, who selects the order of time by …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Art of Vermont: Landscapes from the State Collection

It was a tie. On a late November day in 1837, the Vermont Senate voted whether or not to purchase a large oil portrait of …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Time & Motion: Paintings by Ralph DeAnna

Ralph DeAnna is chasing time. Influenced by Marcel Proust and his classic attempts to “see” time and unravel memory, DeAnna plays with time and space …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Playing Around

This group show features works that incorporate toys or toy imagery. Like the original tales of the Brothers Grimm, each piece emerges from the complex …

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» April 5 - July 26, 2009

Joseph Fichter: Bolt

Working with the varied characteristics of steel, Fichter imbues his welded metal horses with fluidity, strength, grace, and movement. Bolt is one of three Fichter …

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» August 7 - November 8, 2009

Stephen Knapp: Lightpaintings

Rainbows are magical. Whenever a rain shower bursts on a beautiful sunny day, I always wheel around frantically to make sure I don’t miss nature’s …

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» April 5 - July 26, 2009

Lisa Hoke: Color Wheels

Lisa Hoke creates rich, large-scale patterns from banal yet gorgeous materials–in this case, paper and plastic cups, some partially filled with paint, each assiduously fixed …

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» April 5 - July 26, 2009

Self-Portraits in the Activity Gallery

The Activity Gallery is transformed into a studio for visitors to create a self-portrait or a rendering of someone else. Easels, mirrors, paper, oil pastels, …

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» November 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009

Dana Clancy: Network

The portraits of Boston-based painter Dana Clancy subvert the traditional relationship between subject and viewer. Her figures peer out of irregular forms and bright shapes …

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» November 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009

The Brattleboro PhotoBooth Portrait Project by Christopher Irion

This PhotoBooth project is part of an ongoing photographic project to document communities across the United States and create public installations of the collected portraits …

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» November 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009

Injured Soldiers and Marines: Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Well-known portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders was invited to make portraits of seventeen Iraq war veterans to accompany the 2007 HBO film, Alive Day Memories: Home …

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» November 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009

Chuck Close: Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, 2000

Chuck Close, one of the most prolific and inventive portrait painters of the last few decades, is also an innovative printmaker. For Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, he …

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» November 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009

As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait

The need to connect with others begins when a baby gazes up at its mother. We need to know and be known, and to be …

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» November 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009

Sabra Field - Pandora Suite

Artist Statement

A few years ago I decided to look for an explanation of our human condition that I could translate into images. I was

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Exhibit » August 9, 2008 - November 16, 2008

What Remains in an Artist’s Life

Sculptor Walter Collier Nicolai is interested in how meaning in art is derived from human interaction with form and material, and how the relationships of …

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Exhibit » August 9, 2008 - November 16, 2008

Jules Olitski: An Inside View

A Survey of Prints 1954-2006

Jules Olitski (1922-2007), one of America’s pre-eminent artists, is celebrated for his lyrical Color Field paintings, large-format abstractions

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Exhibit » August 9, 2008 - November 16, 2008

Robert Flynt: Highlights and Darks

Robert Flynt revels in ambiguity. Purposefully obscure in their meaning, Flynt’s photographs combine contemporary images of nude men interacting with nineteenth and-early-twentieth-century images of

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Exhibit » August 9, 2008 - November 16, 2008

Inside-Outside

Video installation by Walter Ungerer and Dianna Rust.

Photographer Dianna Rust and filmmaker Walter Ungerer share a home in Maine. They have created

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Exhibit » April 19 - August 3, 2008

The Magic of Chris Van Allsburg

 

Selections of Caldecott Medal winning author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg’s original artwork are exhibited in the Museum’s Activity Gallery. Famous for

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Exhibit » April 19 - August 3, 2008

In the Zone II

On view in four galleries throughout the Museum, In the Zone II is a juried exhibition of new work by artists living in

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Exhibit » April 19 - August 3, 2008

Kaori Hamura- Dream Seasons

Through whimsical paintings by Vermont artist Kaori Hamura, we enter a world of magical places and playful characters. Dream Seasons, a

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Exhibit » August 9, 2008 - November 16, 2008

InTension

Installation by Alisa Dworsky

 

Nested within the “exhibition” box of the gallery, a small yellow hand-crocheted room is supported in tension by a series …

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Exhibit » November 30, 2007 – March 22, 2008

Worth a Thousand Words II

The impulse to tell stories is an old as mankind and as current as internet blogs. These contemporary painters—Matthew Blackwell, Katherine Bradford and Renee Radell …

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Exhibit » November 30, 2007 – March 22, 2008

Urban Blooms

Ceramic Sculpture by Linda Huey

The yin and yang of growth and decay, the perseverance of nature despite the destructive effects of humans on

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Exhibit » November 30, 2007 – March 22, 2008

Networks and Intersections

Finding Meaning Through Complexity

In nature and in art the repetition of simple pattern often organizes complex structures. Each artist in this exhibit explores

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Exhibit » December 19, 2007 – March 22, 2008

Cosmos

Barbara Takenaga creates dense abstract paintings composed if discrete elements that radiate or spiral energetically …

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Exhibit » December 1, 2007 – March 22, 2008

From Street to Studio

In the early 1980s, young people, with art training or not, took to making art on the streets of New York City’s East Village. The …

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Exhibit » August 11, 2007 – December 16, 2007

Peter Sís – Tibet Through the Red Box

Enchanting original illustrations from Peter Sís’s picture book Tibet Through the Red Box are accompanied by many of the artist’s books, and by hands-on activities …

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Exhibit » August 11, 2007 – March 22, 2008

The Life of Toussaint L’Ouveture

Silkscreen Prints by Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence was a highly acclaimed artist associated with the Harlem Renaissance, whose work is in the collections of many major …

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Exhibit » August 11, 2007 – November 25, 2007

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Four Generations of African-American Quiltmakers
Improvisational quilts made by four generations of African-American women in one Texas family—Gladys Henry, Laverne Brackens, Sherry Byrd, and Bara Byrd—comprise …

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Exhibit » August 11, 2007 – November 25, 2007

Book of Night – Chuck DeWolfe

Part of a series based on poetic works DeWolfe produced between 2002 and 2004, Book of Night abstracts language to create images. The artist has …

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Exhibit » April 28 – August 5, 2007

Image & Text – Brian Cohen

Pierrot Lunaire is a group of poems by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud. Inspired by the poems, and by composer Arnold Schoenberg’s song cycle of …

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Exhibit » April 28 – August 5, 2007

Accumulated Mysteries – Leslie Fry

Leslie Fry uses the ancient technique of casting to create her layered imagery. For this series, she made cast-paper forms from molds she fashioned or …

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Exhibit » April 28 – August 5, 2007

Four Sculptors: Other Dimensions

Four Southern Vermont artists—Willard Boepple, Paul Bowen, Jon Isherwood, and Millicent Young—exhibit large-scale, abstract sculptures in a variety of materials, including wood, steel, resins, computer-cut …

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Exhibit » April 28 – August 5, 2007

Worth A Thousand Words

The impulse to tell stories is as old as humankind and as current as Internet blogs. The six contemporary painters in this exhibit—Matt Brackett, Herman …

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Exhibit » April 28 – August 5, 2007

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