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Artist Statement:
We live at a time when visual
data from the sciences -
microbiology, physics, and
space science - are among the
most beautiful and compelling
images we encounter. Our
post-modernist perspective has
moved from an aesthetic that
regards portraiture,
landscape, and still life as
iconic representations of the
true and the beautiful, to the
view that the traces of
sub-atomic particles and
photographs of distant
galaxies may have more to tell
us about beauty, truth and our
place in the universe.
Positioned, as we are, between
the very big and the very
small, something must bring us
back to the human scale, and I
have chosen the humble button.
These little circular forms
(and their painted facsimiles)
suggest to me individual units
of being or matter, like motes
in the sunlight. They
represent, both formally and
symbolically, all the
different orders of magnitude,
from sub-atomic particles
through suns and galaxies. It
is my intention that as
viewers explore these works,
they cast themselves gently
into space-time and drift in a
place where there is no up and
down or falling and rising,
but only floating as one
element in the field.
The work in this exhibit is
about ...
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
ON THE PLANET, Nagoya Citizens Gallery at Yada, Nagoya, Japan, January 27 – February 7, 2010
Mille Cadeaux, Maison Kasini, Montreal, Canada, December 2010-January, 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Flynndog, Burlington, VT, Afterward, (2-person with Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert; Van Fleet: All Aboard) October, 2010
Claire’s, Hardwick, VT, Priests, Red Dresses, January, 2010
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Shunpiker (3-person exhibit), August 2 - October 3, 2009
Lazy Pear Gallery, Montpelier, VT, Rolling Boil, September 23 – November 16, 2008
215 College, Burlington, VT Earth Stories (2-person show, Van Fleet: Gene Pool) October 12 - November 4, 2007
Lazy Pear Gallery, Montpelier, VT, Curious Lifeforms, March 15 - May 14, 2007
Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT, Circular Statements, September 1 - 30, 2006
T.W. Wood Gallery and Art Center, Montpelier VT, South Gallery, Museum Cases, June 1 - July 23, 2006
Flynndog, Burlington, VT, Circular Statements, May-June, 2006
Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT, Circular Statements, March 14-April 15, 2006
Enigma Gallery, Essex, VT, Circular Statements and Ice Shelf, Oct 9 - Nov 18, 2005
Stefanie Ludyny Gallery, 312 W. 36th St, New York, NY, Rivers of Blood, Aug 16 - Sep 11, 2004
Beth Jacob Synagogue, Montpelier, VT, Books, March, 2004
Amy Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT, The Red Dress, Jan 9-Feb 28, 2004
MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA, The Red Dress, Sept 5-28, 2003 (two artists)
Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury, VT, Video Installation, Nov. 11-30, 2002
Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury , VT, The Red Dress, Sept 6 - Oct 12, 2002
Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier, VT, The Red Dress, July 22-Aug 23, 2002
Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL, Red Dresses, April, 2002
Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, VT, The Flood Series, Nov-Dec, 2001
Arthur’s Dress Shop Theater, Ridge St., New York, NY, Brown, October, 2001
Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury, VT, Current 2- and 3-D Work, March, 2001
Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL, Recent Work, Feb. 25 - March 10, 2000
Firehouse Gallery (Install Space), Burlington, VT: Creatures, Sept 17 - Oct 17, 1999
ARA Gallery at City Center, Montpelier, Vermont: Nests and Eggs, Oct 3 - Nov 7, 1999
Horn of the Moon, Montpelier, VT: Messages, August, 1999
AVA (Alliance for the Visual Arts) Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire: Jungian Journey, Aug 27-Oct. 2, 1999
Egger Gallery, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT: Nests and Eggs, March 6- May 7, 1999
Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT. Imprimatura Brown, Feb 17-April 8, 1999
Trident Booksellers, Newbury Street, Boston, MA, Recent Work, Feb 6 - March 6, 1999
Windhorse Visual Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, VT, Recent Work, Oct 26 - Nov 20, 1998
ARA Gallery at City Center, Montpelier, VT, Paintings, Nov 2 - Dec 6, 1998
City Hall Showcase, Montpelier, VT, Martin Luther King Jr. on Racial Diversity, July 1-31, 1998
Rose Street Gallery, Burlington, VT, A Guided Tour of Dante’s Inferno and Other Recent Work, June 4-July 3, 1998
Milne Gallery, Barre, VT, A Guided Tour of Dante’s Inferno, May 2-30, 1998
Vermont-NEA State Convention, Burlington, VT, A Guided Tour of Dante’s Inferno, October 22-24, 1998
Vermont State Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, VT, Brown, Brown, Falling Down, March 21-May 1, 1998
St. Johnsbury Art League Building, St. Johnnsbury, VT, A Guided Tour of Dante’s Inferno, Oct-December, 1997
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
Johnson Works: Downtown Outdoor Sculpture, Johnson, Aug 20 - Oct 25, 2008 (Time of the Signs)
Wrap - Em: Column Art Under McGrath, Sommrville, MA, July-Sept, 2008 (Circular forms on canvas)
Montpelier SculptCycle, Montpelier, VT, selected exhibitor with honorarium (Battering Ram), 2008
Hardwick Outdoor Biennial, Hardwick, VT, (three polychrome steel fish), Summer, 2006
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT, 14th Annual Exposed! Outdoor Exhibition (Steel Fish), July 14 - Oct 14, 2006
Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA, Pulling Strings: Traditional & Contemporary Puppetry (Skater), March 12-Sept 30, 2006
SPA Gallery, Barre, VT, One Earth (two paintings from the Flood series, Lichen series, Ice Storm, three paintings on books), March 9 - April 10, 2004
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, New England Sculpture Association Exhibition (Oracles installation) Oct. 10, 2002- Jan 10, 2003
SPA Gallery, Barre VT, Clean Your Plate (March of the Teapots, video), Nov. 7-30, 2002
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA, Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works (Little Red Dresses), May 24-June 30, 2002
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT, NVAA Exhibit (Priest of Watching and Waiting), Oct 19-Nov 17, 2001
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont, Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting (Nests and Eggs), Sept 22 - Oct 7, 2000
Art in the Round Barn 2000, Waitsfield, Vermont, Sept 23-Oct 8, 2000
Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL, Annual Erotic Show (I’m on Fire, Wood, At Traction), Feb. 11-21, 2000
AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH, Shades of Black and White (Sticks and Stones), Jan14 - Feb 19, 2000
Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury, VT: Y2K (Messenger), December, 1999
Gallery 510, Decatur, IL: Winter Thaw '99 (painting: Jubilation), March 5-28, 1999
Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA: Women Then, Now, and the Future: A Retrospective and Introspective Look at Females in our Society (3 paintings), March 2 -26, 1999
Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury, VT: Triptyck (Creation Triptych), March, 1999
Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT: Four Letter Words (Mixed media: Don’t), July, 1998
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT Adventure Sparks (Sackcloth and Ashes, mixed media sculpture) Aug 24-Sept 25, 2004
SOWA Art Walk, Boston, MA (mixed media sculptures), May 23, 2004
Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT, WORD WORKS: Text-Fortified Visual Art (A Guided Tour of Dante’s Inferno and other new work), April 11-May 3, 2003
Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA, Garden Sculpture (Red Dress, painted steel), June 20-Oct 26, 2002
Interior Design Collection, Dallas, TX, Showroom (2 Red Dresses, Eggs), 2002
Church & Maple Gallery, Burlington, VT, Art Tones in E minor (3-person exhibit), June 1-16, 2001
Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury , VT, Regional Artists, Summer, 2001
Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre, VT, Founders Show (2 installations), March 8-31, 2001
T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT: Playing With Half a Deck (Two Red Dress paintings), Nov 27-Dec 23, 2001
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT Members Show (painting), July 3-25 1999
Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Vermont Week (Ethnic Encampments), April 28 - May 2, 1999
Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT, Enroute 2000 (Mitosis, 3 Oracles), September 2000
Caravan Arts at Rose Street Gallery, Burlington, VT, Theater of the Imagination: Masquerade of the Soul (three Flood Series paintings), Oct 22-Nov 13, 2000
T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, A.R.A. Gift of Art (Creatures installation), Dec 3 - Dec 24, 1999
Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT, Annual Group Show, Sept 1 - Oct 15, 1998
Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL Group Show (painting), January, 1997
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