BRATTLEBORO — The Gallery at Headroom Stages (upstairs at 17 Elliot St.), will present “7 Artists 3 Days,” a show that featuring a great variety of work from seven local artists.
The exhibit opens Friday, Dec. 9, with an artists' reception from 5 to 8 p.m. The show continues on Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m., and Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m.
The idea for this show began when painter Petria Mitchell, well known for her dramatic and expressively painted oil landscapes, moved her Brattleboro studio from Main Street to Elliot Street three years ago.
Wanting to expand her annual holiday open studio and sale, she invited a few local artists to join her for a one-weekend exhibit.
Other participating artists include:
• Barbara Baker-Bury, a Brattleboro artist who works in oil on paper, using instinctive gestures to create sensitive abstracts, layering texture and color.
• Josh Bernbaum, who relies on his refined sense of balanced color relationships to juxtapose transparent and opaque areas of glass to create vases and wall sculptures.
• Ann Coleman, whose Wilmington-based gallery was destroyed along with most of her original pieces in flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, will show giclée prints in her signature style of lively realism in watercolor and pastel.
• Mark Littlehales, whose wooden wall assemblages are produced using scrap from the process of building wooden boats, and whose impressionistic seascape pastels and oils are inspired from years of cruising the bays along mid-coast Maine.
• Jude Rondeau, whose acrylic paintings, pastels, and charcoal pieces play with movement and the effects of one color against another.
• Margaret Shipman, who combines a vigorous imagination with old photos to create whimsical scenes in bold oil colors.
For more information, contact Mitchell at 802-257-4021, or visit headroomstages.com.