PUTNEY — An art exhibition titled Series, curated by Landmark College art faculty member Christie Herbert, will open at the Landmark College Fine Arts Gallery with a reception on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Series features five artists who live and work in Windham County: Ricia Gordon, Stephen Procter, Michael Poster, Elizabeth Ungerleider, and Susan Wilson. The exhibit will be open daily through April 14. Admission is free.
In March and April, according to a news release, each of the artists will give a free talk about his or her work. The talks will take place in the Fine Arts Gallery on Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., as follows: March 2, Gordon; March 9, Ungerleider; March 23, Wilson; March 30, Procter; and April 6, Poster.
“A series can hark back to a romanticized time when stories were released in print as a serial,” Herbert wrote in the catalog that will accompany the show. “... The tension lies in the unfolding, the waiting to see the next installment in a series, noting the telling detail or unexpected plot twist.”
Gordon's series of paintings explores how the artistic process itself unfolds, and how she mines a rich theme and allows it to materialize over a series of pieces.
Gordon is a Brattleboro resident with an MFA in writing and decades of experience teaching writing and creative writing, including at Landmark College. Since retiring from Landmark College, she has shifted from creative writing to developing a serious painting practice.
Like all his work, Poster's series in this show documents a theme over time as he immerses himself in a particular community. In this case, he shares his experience with a women's roller derby team as he developed trust and knowledge of his subjects. He delivers a series that is at once a documentation of the raw, feminist energy of this kind of aggressive sport as well as a nod to the tender and unguarded moments captured outside the rink.
Poster moved to Dummerston in 2011 from Pennsylvania, where he had shown his work for decades in a wide range of regional galleries and colleges.
Procter's series of monumental ceramic vases speaks to classical gardens and architecture, where vases can unite the interior with the exterior vista.
Procter is a ceramic artist who has shown his work locally and regionally in a wide variety of settings and institutions. He has a studio in The Cotton Mill.
In her long-term daily photographic documentation on Facebook, Ungerleider “allows us to explore what happens when those sequences are juxtaposed over a period of years- a modern-day visual diary delivered via modern technology and social media,” according to the release.
Ungerleider has been photographing her surroundings since she received her first Kodak Instamatic camera at age 10.
Wilson's large-scale sculptures capture a series of emotions and personalities via the skillful and subtle use of the materials of her trade. Wilson taught art in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey for 30 years. She retired to Putney, finding the vibrancy and richness of the communities of southeast Vermont an inspiration for her new figurative ceramic sculpture.