Located in historic Union Station at the foot of Main Street in downtown Brattleboro, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center has cultivated a stellar reputation over the years for engaging and thoughtful exhibitions and quality programming. Six exhibitions open on March 17, 2018 for BMAC members and the exhibiting artists at 11AM. The exhibits open to the general public at 1PM.
“We Walk in Their Shadows”: Gowri Savoor
March 17-June 17, 2018
Barre-based artist Gowri Savoor says about this work:
Through my practice, I am exploring our understanding of a sense of place. In this exhibition, I draw on my personal experience as a first-generation immigrant. Cultural dislocation, loss of language, and the quest for home are all common within the first generation’s experience. Whether one arrives at a shore as a migrant or a refugee, the quest for home remains the same. The “Murmuration” series of wall sculptures speaks to our search for a sense belonging–for a land that is safe, at peace, and free of judgment.
Savoor will discuss her work on Thursday, May 17 at 7PM.
(image: On the Brink by Gowri Savoor (30″x30″x8″; polymer clay, wire, wood, paint; 2016))
“Bottle in the River”: Richard Klein
March 17-June 17, 2018
“Bottle in the River” is a collection of sculptures by Richard Klein made from found glass objects. In addition to maintaining his art practice, Klein is Exhibitions Director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He has said that he uses found glass “because I believe that there is too much ‘stuff’ in the world and it is better somehow to repurpose what already exists.” Klein will discuss his work on Thursday, May 31 at 7PM. (image: Driftwood Motel by Richard Klein)
The exhibits and artist talks by Richard Klein and Gowri Savoor are part of The Confluence Project, a collaborative experiment in creative placemaking involving BMAC, Vermont Performance Lab, Windham Regional Commission, and numerous other partners. More information is available at www.vermontperformancelab.org.
“3D Color”: Gloria Garfinkel
March 17-June 17, 2018
“3D Color” consists of painted aluminum sculptures by New York-based artist Gloria Garfinkel. Viewers are invited to reconfigure the sculptures by flipping panels and twisting colored discs. “I find intriguing the concept that a finished painting is complete, done, frozen in time, never to be changed,” says Garfinkel. “I want you to see how it feels to change a piece of art and feel the excitement of experimentation.” (image: 5 Arcs by Gloria Garfinkel)
“Best of ‘Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys'”
March 17-October 8, 2018
“Best of ‘Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys'” marks the return to Brattleboro of artist Steve Gerberich’s zany interactive sculptures. BMAC exhibited “Gerb’s Gadgetry” in 2011, and, according to Director Danny Lichtenfeld it was one of the museum’s most popular exhibits in recent memory. For his latest installation, Gerberich has cleverly assembled a hodge-podge of everyday materials (kitchen utensils, furniture scraps, and discarded toys) into elaborate clanking, whirring, buzzing sculptures, which will be installed throughout the museum’s Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery. Gerberich will lead a guided tour of the exhibit on Sunday, June 17 at 2PM. (image: Cash Cow by Steve Gerberich)
“100 Views Along the Road”: Alfred Leslie
March 17-June 17, 2018
In the spring of 1978, the prolific painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie was driving East across the United States from California when, as he put it, “a singular pile of colossal stones came into view” near Laguna, New Mexico. He felt he had no choice but to stop and sketch the stones, which he did, and then he made similar sketching stops all along the route back to his Massachusetts studio. Several years later, Leslie developed those sketches into a series of 100 black-and-white watercolor landscapes called “100 Views Along the Road”. The complete series was exhibited several times between 1981 and 1983, and then many of the watercolors were sold to private collectors. For the exhibit at BMAC, Director Danny Lichtenfeld selected approximately 30 of the watercolors remaining in Leslie’s possession to be shown in the museum’s Center Gallery.
“Hereandafter”: Susan von Glahn Calabria
March 17-June 17, 2018
“Hereandafter” is a collection of evocative opaque watercolors by former BMAC Education Curator Susan von Glahn Calabria. Calabria’s detailed still-lifes and depictions of imagined assemblages reward prolonged, close observation. Calabria will discuss her work on Sunday, April 22 at 2PM. (image: Last Nasturtium by Susan von Glahn Calabria)
INFORMATION
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
10 Vernon Street
Brattleboro 05301
(802) 257-0124
Hours:
Closed March 11-16 for installation
Daily (except Tuesday), 11AM-5PM
Open until 8:30PM for the First Friday Gallery Walk