past exhibits

Inspired by quilt designs and symmetrical game boards, Vermont artist Ellen Dorn Levitt’s shimmering drawings are variations on simple geometric structures. Levitt begins with points …

Cecily Kahn’s recent paintings are dominated by opposing forces. A sinewy, biomorphic shape courses through a stark, geometric space. Layers of delicate color collide with …

Consisting of archival digital prints, sculpture, and text, Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick’s City of Salt portrays a fictional tale of greed, oil, and spiritual …

This exhibit showcases the work of some of the leading practitioners of the ancient and exacting technique of egg tempera,
which uses egg yolk to bind …

By skewing the viewer’s relationship with the ground, these artists disrupt visual expectations concerning landscapes and cityscapes, thereby generating physical and psychological effects that range …

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, …

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

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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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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Outdoor installation of portrait photography by Christopher Irion.

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

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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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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 …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …

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 …

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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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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