On Friday, June 1st, Brattleboro, Burlington, and White River Junction’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.
Ross Smart is a Brattleboro-area artist and illustrator, who has been drawing and teaching drawing for 20 years. His show opens at the River Gallery School’s Gallery 34 during the Gallery Walk.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center unveils “Displaced”, the newest work by Montpelier sculptor Angelo Arnold. In this work, Arnold repurposes vernacular forms to be highly functional objects of a new kind. The museum welcomes you to its continuing exhbitions: “3D Color” is Gloria Garfinkel’s interactive sculptural installation. “100 Views Along the Road” is selections from Albert Leslie’s black-and-white watercolors of American scenes. “Hereandafter” is Susan von Glahn Calabria’s paintings in gouache on paper. “Bottle in the River” presents Richard Klein’s glass sculptures. “We Walk in Their Shadows” is Gowri Savoor’s meditation on the processes of migration and belonging. “Best of ‘Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys’” is Steve Gerberich’s show of blinking, whirling, humming, buzzing sculptures.
Gallery 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.
New City Galerie, as part of “Optimist Prime”, hosts the artist talk, “My Modernism”, during First Friday Art starting at 6PM. Artist and art historian Peter Gallo offers a personal account of modernism. He will trace the shift from thinking to feeling in modern aesthetics, citing a wide range of examples including concepts of subjectivity in Kant and Baudelaire, to Malevich, Clement Greenberg, Peter Seville’s record designs for Factory Records, and the trauma work performances of Joseph Beuys, drawing threads back to his own artistic practice. (image: Twin Bridges by Catherine Haggerty, one of the “Optimist Prime” artists)
“You Know What I Mean?” opens at The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. Throughout history, abstract paintings often comment on an underlying subject matter or cultural reference. This exhibition is subjectless, completely abstract, though meaning can be found in all visual art if you look and think hard enough. The goal is to encourage the viewer to push back and see if they can, in fact, answer the question at hand, presented uniquely by each of the five artists on display.
Find out what else is going on during Burlington’s First Friday Art at Art Map Burlington‘s WEBSITE.
White River Junction
First Friday
5:30-8PM
First Fridays are a regular, ongoing series of events each month in White River Junction. Musical events happen all over town, most starting at 5:30. Many galleries and art venues are open as well, including Lampscapes, Zollikoffer Gallery at the Hotel Coolidge, Northern Stage, the Main Street Museum, Steven Thomas, Inc., and many more along South Main Street and Gates Street.
The Long River Gallery & Gifts at 49 South Main Street opens a three-month show of work by Stephanie Gordon. Gordon’s encaustic paintings of trees in the Upper Valley “feel like you’re walking right into a forest.” The musical guest for the evening is Rob Oxford, 5:30-8PM. (image (l to r): Red Trees and Norwich Hillside by Stephanie Gordon)
First Friday is also the beginning of the 2018 White River Indie Film Festival, which runs through June 3rd. Find out more HERE.
To find out what else is going in White River Junction on First Friday, go to @WRJctFirstFriday on Facebook.
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