BRATTLEBORO — Five new exhibits have opened at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. They include an artistic celebration of paint, a collaboration among three artists mourning the deaths of their sons, and solo shows featuring sculptures fashioned from found objects, images created through a hybrid of photography and printmaking, and an immersive installation reflecting a day's walk in the Connecticut River Valley.
A celebration of paint, “Luscious” investigates the myriad ways in which artists make conscious statements of painterly intent. The 14 artists featured in the exhibit “explore and exploit [paint's] materiality, pushing technique to the edge,” according to a news release.
In “From Luminous Shade,” painter Margaret Kannenstine, poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, and poet and translator Ann McGarrell mourn the untimely deaths of their sons. Kannenstine's dramatic landscapes, reflecting a year's seasonal change, are coupled with Ungaretti's poems in McGarrell's translated interpretation, delicately exploring the depths of his love and loss. Kannenstine will give a talk at the museum on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m.
“Rust Work: Paul Bowen” features sculptures fashioned from wood and metal that Bowen has scavenged along the rivers in Vermont and shorelines of Cape Cod.
“Each spring, when the Connecticut River dams are opened, trees and all kinds of debris flow downstream,” Bowen says. “In this detritus I often find wood stained with iron that has leached out of the rocks. I collected much of the wood in these sculptures near Wilder Dam. Other sculptures in the exhibit are made from boards and driftwood I gleaned from Cape Cod's beaches.” Bowen will give a talk at the museum on Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m.
Curated by artist Tim Allen, “Printographs: Collaged Images by Stan Sherer” showcases a veteran black-and-white photographer's foray into new territory - the combining of digital imaging and traditional printmaking. Sherer will give a talk at the museum on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m.
“Eyes Toward Heaven,” an immersive installation by Chris Page consisting of paintings, photographs, and video, reflects a walk the artist took on July 18, 2016, in the fields of the Connecticut River Valley in Hadley, Massachusetts. Three large paintings express distinct moments during a 25-minute period of transformation in the daytime sky.
Also on view in the museum's ticket gallery is “Windows to Creative Expression,” which opened Sept. 30 and features poetry and artwork by students of The Poetry Studio in Marlboro.