The exhibition "New Turf" is on display at the Fleming Museum
through October 30. (Please see below for more information about the
exhibit.)
In conjunction with the exhibit, a series of talks will take place on
Wednesdays at 12:15 P.M., at the museum.
- September 14: "Earth Art: Frank Hewitt's _Four Corners Series_
in Context" by Bill Lipke, Art, Emeritus, University of
Vermont;
- September 28: "From George O'Keeffe to Brice Marden: The
Abstracted Landscape in American Art" by Evelyn C. Hankins, Curator,
Fleming Museum;
- October 12: "Inventing a New England Landscape" by Dona
Brown, History, UVM; Director, Center for Research on Vermont and Vermont
Studies.
"New Turf"
JULY 6 – OCTOBER 30, 2005
East Gallery
New Turf upends conventional notions about the means by which we
represent the landscape. This exhibition brings together 15 artists from
Vermont and across the nation who draw inspiration from the rural, urban,
and suburban environments around them. The American landscape has long
exerted a strong pull on artists. These contemporary artists have
distinguished themselves with thought-provoking, abstract works that make
use of humor, politics, memory, and perception to evoke the rapidly
changing American scene. Featuring works ranging from aerial photographs
of environmentally impacted sites and pencil drawings charting the layout
of suburban big-box stores to click to hear sound piece, room with sky,
by John Hudak paintings offering rigorous, formal explorations of
nature’s light, color, space, and mood, New Turf maps the diverse terrain
where landscape and abstraction meet.
Exhibited artists: Anne Appleby, Louise Belcourt, Janice Caswell, Marsha
Cottrell, Jane Fine, Tom Fruin, Richard Garrison, John Hudak, McKendree
Key, Marie Krane/Cream Co., Sandy Litchfield, David Maisel, Sam Prekop,
Lordy Rodriguez, and Gail Salzman.
For more information, please contact the Fleming Museum at
802-656-0750.
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Kristin Peterson-Ishaq
Coordinator, Center for Research on Vermont
and Vermont Studies Program
University of Vermont
589 Main Street, Nolin House
Burlington, VT 05401-3439
Email: <[log in to unmask]>; Telephone: 802-656-8363
Fax: 802-656-8518; Web site:
<www.uvm.edu/~crvt>
