Scale: Models to Monuments
June 24-September 2, 2017
This non-profit gallery connected to the historic Chandler Music Hall holds approximately eight shows per year highlighting a wide range of artists from the surrounding area who work in a variety of media.
“Scale: Models to Monuments” is curated by sculptor Jim Sardonis. Models of public sculpture accompany photographs of the finished pieces in the sites they currently occupy. Sardonis is best known for Reverence, two tails of whales “diving” into a sea of grass located on Interstate 89 just north of the Williston exit, but his impact on sculpture is felt throughout New England. Taking inspiration from natural forms, Sardonis specializes in site-specific commissions in stone and bronze. The bronze and granite Fiddleheads Bench (image) is installed at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. A granite mother polar bear with three cubs, Vigilance, is at the Andover Library in Massachusetts. A giant granite dog swims with a bronze stick in his mouth in a pond of grass at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. In Vermont, you can see the loving, carrara marble Vermont Family at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph; a bronze, kneeling and peering through a telescope Samuel de Champlain at Champlain College in Burlington; two granite hippos, Father and Son, rest next to the famed floating bridge in Brookfield. An eight-and-a-half foot tall, carved granite statue of St. Michael honors alumni of St. Michael’s College who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
This information about “Scale” at the Chandler Gallery was featured in Vermont Art Guide #4. Each issue of Vermont Art Guide has over a hundred places to see art around the state. The full-color, printed magazine has artist and venue profiles as well as articles and news about Vermont Art. Our goal is to document and share the state’s incredible art scene.
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INFORMATION
Chandler Gallery
71-73 Main Street
Randolph 05060
(802) 431-0204
Hours:
Friday-Saturday, Noon-6PM
Also open during events and by appointment on weekdays
Image (top left):
Scale model of Fiddleheads Bench by Jim Sardonis
Image (top right):
Fiddleheads Bench (in situ at University of Maine at Presque Isle)
by Jim Sardonis
114″ tall
bronze and granite
Edition of 3
2006
Courtesy of the artist