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Thursday, August 9, 6PM<\/p>\nThursday, August 9, 6PM<\/p>\n
“Impressed” features ten artists working primarily in print in Vermont, many of whom are pushing the medium past its limits.\u00a0 From basement studio experimenters, to clusters of artists drawn together around a press and a studio, these artists are engaged in a great visual dialogue about the capabilities of printmaking, with voices that speak with scientific precision, fantastic abstraction, and everything in between.<\/p>\n
Present in the exhibition is the influence of place on the artist\u2019s work.\u00a0 Many of these artists live part-time elsewhere and their work contrasts the Vermont landscape and their roots in other places.\u00a0 In some cases the landscape is the subject, while for others the relationship is represented abstractly.<\/p>\n
Winooski Artist\u00a0Bill Davison<\/strong>\u2019s work addresses the 9\/11 attacks and his emotional relationship with New York City where he lives part-time.<\/p>\n For\u00a0Sarah Amos<\/strong>, a native Australian, data and maps of Australian territory and the waters nearby form the matrix on which her dazzling imagery hangs.<\/p>\n Helen O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>\u00a0co-founded Twin Vixen Press in Brattleboro in 2007.\u00a0 Almost wiped away by Irene, the studio is back in shape and Helen is printing again.\u00a0 She is a gardener whose practice spans the Atlantic -England and the U.S.- and whose life has taken her from Mount Desert Island, Maine to Italy; Bellingham, Washington; Utah;\u00a0 England; and now to Brattleboro, Vermont.\u00a0 Her work reflects the hands-on nature of gardening, and the wide range of territory she has covered.<\/p>\n Twin Vixen co-founder\u00a0Briony Morrow-Cribbs<\/strong>\u2019 imaginative prints represent -in stark precision- animals and animal-humans as a way to examine the differences and similarities between us.<\/p>\n Also at Twin Vixen Press,\u00a0Bobbi Angell<\/strong>\u2019s background as a scientific illustrator results in compulsively precise renderings of plants and organic forms – Albrecht D\u00dcrer approves, and beauty abounds.<\/p>\n Mickey Myers<\/strong>\u00a0of Johnson is firmly rooted to Lamoille County.\u00a0 Working from her car at a variety of locations she makes both muted and fiery landscape monoprints of the Lamoille valley.\u00a0 She reworks these even after the print is made.\u00a0 That her prints are of the same family is obvious, but each is brilliantly unique.<\/p>\n Rachel Gross<\/strong>\u00a0of Two Rivers Press in White River Junction creates her own spaces. Her semi-abstract prints manipulate perspective and volume to make physical compartments, landscapes and architectural forms. Both playful and ominous, these transport the viewer to another dimension.<\/p>\n Also working at Two Rivers Press in White River Junction,\u00a0Lois Beatty<\/strong>\u00a0draws beautiful connections between natural forms and her abstract shapes. Lois uses a range of techniques for her plates including solarplate etching and collagraphs.<\/p>\n Don Hanson<\/strong>\u00a0of Stowe is the experimenter, tinkerer, and rebel of the group.\u00a0 He makes work that is layered, bonded to metal, built up and distressed – over and over again.\u00a0 A core component of his aesthetic is to reject anything precious or pretty. The subjects of man, nature and conflict dominate his images where the evidence of his hand is everywhere and the connection to printmaking as we know it is tenuous.<\/p>\n Similarly sequestered and physical,\u00a0Lynn Newcomb<\/strong>\u00a0of Worcester makes massive, bold images inspired by sculpture -both hers and that of others.\u00a0 It is difficult to tell which influence the other; do her prints map the way to her hand-forged metal sculpture, or does her sculpture practice find a home in printed representation?<\/p>\n The exhibition is presented by Stephen and Petra Levin.<\/p>\n