By twisting, folding and pinching the hollow tubes, D’Arrigo knowingly occupies a territory first opened up by George E. Ohr, “The Mad Potter of Biloxi,” who has also been an inspiration for Ken Price and Kathy Butterly.
On behalf of Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Burlington City Arts, The Current, and Hall Art Foundation, we are delighted to congratulate Sarah Amos of Enosburg Falls on being selected as the winner of the 2024 Vermont Prize! The Vermont Prize celebrates and supports the best visual art being made in Vermont today. The […]
These small, intense things create a menagerie of the little and imaginary, of objects that evoke wonder and its twin, curiosity.
Delightfully bodied and splendidly decked out in glazes of many colors, the 20 new ceramic works in Elisa D’Arrigo’s current exhibition (on view through October 21, 2023) make their presence emphatically felt despite the modesty of their measurements.
My work has evolved in a circular manner, with an ongoing re-working, re-visiting and re-imagining of forms and processes.
Pilar Agüero-Esparza, 2022 Photo courtesy Pilar Agüero-Esparza Claiming Space: Refiguring the Body in Landscape About The large-scale painted and woven canvas tapestry mural by Pilar Agüero-Esparza, brings together the power of the hand-made, references to the body through skin color and prismatic color found in the landscape. While juxtaposing ideas related to social hierarchies and […]
Pilar Agüero-Esparza is a mixed media artist working in painting and spatial processes…
Pilar Aguero-Esparza’s Ferguson 7: Sepia and Mahogany (2017), crayon, color pencil on paper, is a simple yet powerful image of resistance.
OUT OF VERY LITTLE: A CONVERSATION WITH HELEN O’LEARY by Kay Whitney May/June 2024
At a distance, the monumental nine-panel painting appears to be an explosion of black calligraphic brushstrokes and electric neon-toned splashes. Wakana Kimura’s (b. 1978) work CHARACTER is a dynamic yet elegantly balanced exploration of the energy expressed in line and color, one that pays homage at once to the Abstract Expressionist movement of the West and the bold Zen Buddhist brush painting of her home country, Japan.