On Friday, February 2, Brattleboro, Montpelier, and Burlington’s art venues stay open late to welcome art lovers as part of monthly art celebrations.
BRATTLEBORO
Gallery Walk
5:30-8:30PM
Brattleboro’s monthly First Friday celebration of the arts offers 30 to 40 exhibit openings at galleries, eateries, and other venues in the downtown and a few satellite locations nearby. Many offer meet-the-artist receptions, some with refreshments, and a few present live music. Visit the Walk website for a map and complete listings with examples of the art on display as well as feature articles for the month; a printed version of the Walk guide is available at all venues, a number of other downtown locations, the I-91 Welcome Center, and many local lodging options. Official Walk hours are 5:30 to 8:30, but many venues are open earlier, and a few remain open later. Most exhibits run all month long; see listings for more details and venue contact information.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center welcomes you “Open Call NXNE 2018”, which deals with paper, its inherent properties, and the range of possibilities it offers in the hands of an artist. Jane O’Beirne’s The Scarf is a new work funded in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation’s Vermont Arts Endowment Fund, comprised of photographs, video, and a giant scarf fashioned out of bright orange industrial extension cords. “Touchstones, Totems, & Talismans: Animals in Contemporary Art” features prints by Andy Warhol alongside paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture by Walton Ford, Bharti Kher, Colleen Kiely, Stephen Petegorsky, Shelley Reed, Jane Rosen, Michal Rovner, and Rick Shaefer. Anila Quayyum Agha’s sculpture and light installation, Shimmering Mirage, “cover(s) and beautify(s) all within it, and suggesting the underlying orderliness of the cosmos revealed through the purity and symmetry of geometric design.” At Vermont Artisan Designs, see the ongoing displays of pastel landscapes by Susan Gordon Hilliard and oil landscapes and animal portraits by Marlborough, New Hampshire artist Mary Iselin.
Gallery Walk WEBSITE
Image: Schoodic Island by Linda Mahoney (10.5″x15.75″; watercolor woodblock print; 2017)
MONTPELIER
Art Walk
4-8PM
Downtown Montpelier showcases work by Central Vermont artists at over 20 venues. Pick up a guide book at any of the participating venues. Montpelier Alive produces the Montpelier Art Walk.
The T.W. Wood Gallery presents an artist talk with painter Axel Stohlberg at 5:30PM in conjunction with his show of acrylics, “The Abstraction Around Me”, which is presented with Susan Abbott’s show of oils and watercolors from the Bahamas and Provence, “Warm Places”. The members of the f/7 photography group are holding an art talk at 6:30PM in conjunction with their show in the Contemporary Hallway. (image: Windy Day in Provence by Susan Abbott)
Pulp paintings by Claire Van Vliet, “Sky and Earth” is at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery. Linda Mirabile’s “Avian Inspired” paintings are at the Governor’s Gallery. Meet Rochester, Vermont artist Caroline Tavelli-Abar at the Vermont Arts Council’s Spotlight Gallery for her show, “Glimpse: an evolution in water, line, and collage, 1998-2017”.
Learn more about the Art Walk and the 23 venues open for visitors at Montpelier Alive’s Art Walk WEBSITE.
BURLINGTON
First Friday Art
5-8PM
First Friday Art is a monthly, community-wide event where dozens of art venues across Burlington host openings, exhibitions, and happenings. The event is free and open to anyone. Most venues are open from 5-8PM, but some are open earlier or later. Art Map Burlington is the official guide to First Friday Art, pick up your copy around town.
At the BCA Center, Dusty Boynton’s “From Within” merges memory and personal experience to create works that are seemingly childlike in appearance but sophisticated in gesture and expression. (image: Be As You Are by Dusty Boynton (46″x58″; oil on linen; 2015. Courtesy of Denise Bibro Fine Art)). In “New Constructions”, Edwin Owre references the sensibilities of the formative American art movements of the 1960s and 70s, while embracing contemporary expressions of mark-making. Elise Whittemore’s “One by One” uses patterns to develop a narrative that explores the physicality of printmaking as well as formal constructs that are inherent to the natural world.
At The Green House at 180 Flynn Avenue, stop by Holly HauxJeffers’ studio on the 2nd floor to see her new series of work, “Lit by Love”. Other artists in The Green House to welcome you during First Friday art include Nancy Stalnaker, Jude Domski, and Molly Roland.
Find out what else is going on during Burlington’s First Friday Art at Art Map Burlington‘s WEBSITE.
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