If one word could describe the Southern Vermont Arts Center “Yester House 2021 Solo Exhibitions,” it is eclectic. In two words, wonderfully diverse. On view until September 26, the popular exhibition includes work by 10 artists selected to have their work shown in individually dedicated galleries. Works ranging across various media share the creative use of photography, welded metal art, egg tempera painting, ceramics, Japanese woodblock printing and more. Charlotte Ghiorse’s work, with its large installation “Polling Place” and black-and-white images about poverty, convey social justice art. She was inspired by her relationship with the Fire Department of New York in the 1990s, which led to her portrayal of the events of 9/11 in Manhattan. Christian Schoenig’s “Forged Scales” reveal fish sculptures and welded metal art that transforms industrial bits and cast-off metal pieces … [Read more...] about WONDERFULLY DIVERSE AND ECLECTIC: 1O ARTIST SHOW AT SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER

Purple, green, pink and turquoise are colors you think you may see on the sharp gem facet edges of North Truro’s colonial houses, because when Mitchell Johnson paints them, they seem logical, not fanciful, but real. Indeed, color and shape seem to be the point rather than the subjects themselves. The houses and landscapes Johnson paints are, in a way, excuses to express colors. One wonders, is he suggesting our world is just color and form? And yet those colors and forms evoke the essence of place: his European vistas are somehow, well, so European. His vistas of New York, are utterly New York; those of San Francisco as from Russian Hill, could only be San Francisco. So, too, his Cape Cod vistas essentialize the Cape. You can inhale the sea and the musty scent of a pearly gray-blue sky. You can see Johnson’s homage to the Cape’s town of Truro at his exhibit, “Sixteen Years in … [Read more...] about SEASONAL WARMTH AT CASTLE HILL: JOHNSON CAPTURES TRURO’S SPECIAL TEXTURES AND COLORS