BRATTLEBORO — Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts (MGFA) presents GROUP EXHIBIT 2016, a diverse selection of work created in a variety of media by current and new gallery artists.
This show opens with an artists reception Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., and continues through April 17. An artist forum is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m.
MGFA opened one and a half years ago with seven represented artists. GROUP EXHIBIT 2016 includes more than 20 artists from Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York, including first-time exhibitors Will Finkel, K. William LeQuier, Scott Nelson, Susan Osgood, Michele Ratté, Donald Saaf, and Margaret Shipman.
Will Finkel transforms functional clay and stoneware into lustrous objects of fine art. Bill LeQuier layers, carves, and sandblasts glass into intricate, flowing shapes. Scott Nelson creates illustrations suggesting a planet with surreal topography.
Susan Osgood creates broad, spacious color fields into which she adds delicate abstract marks and a map. Michele Ratté is a printmaker and textile artist, inventing and patenting a method of permanently gilding onto fabric.
Donald Saaf's work includes colorful, dreamlike worlds inhabited by stylized characters. Margaret Shipman will show paintings that show organizers describe as “hint[ing] at a mysterious undefined spiritual narrative.”