Curated by artist and director Ellen Wineberg, “Paint and Poetry” is a collaborative show at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown, featuring the poems of Edison Dupree, and the abstract paintings of Pam Rajpal and James Kinny. Wineberg is skilled in organizing communities in the New England arts scene, knowing how to throw a small and intimate soirée of artists and writers. Wineberg described herself as a matchmaker in a past life. The small space is elongated by the abstract art and concise, stanza poetry on the wall. At first glance, it may seem like Kinny’s work is on one side while Rajpal’s is on the opposing, but the paintings are in every corner and crevice of the space, including a painting of Rajpals in a back hallway entering Wineberg’s own studio space. In addition to the full-scale paintings, sketches from Rajpal and Kinny are displayed under their works, … [Read more...] about Paint and Poetry As Reassurance

Danielle Mailer is not author Norman Mailer and painter Adele Morales’s daughter for nothing. She shares the same socio-political sensibilities as her late father, but expresses them in a very different voice, through her visual art. She shares the same Latin American soul as her mother and highs and lows of heart. (She’s the second eldest of Mailer’s nine children by varied wives, who remarkably are all very close and very talented.) Danielle has put together an exhibition, "Autumn Reveries" of some 20 pieces — paintings, sculptures, print and collages and a new experiment, shadow boxes, all of which were birthed out of concern for the upcoming election. The exhibition which opens October 30 and runs through December 20 at the Jamie Gagarin Gallery at the Oliver Wolcott Library, 160 South St., Litchfield, Connecticut, has an opening reception on Thursday, November 7 from 5-7 … [Read more...] about HEALING THROUGH ART: DANIELLE MAILER’S AUTUMN REVERIES ON VIEW AT CONNECTICUT LIBRARY

Following a long, ascending road up the side of a mountain eventually leads to the campus of the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Along the way, one finds installations of outdoor sculptures peppered amidst the trees and vast grassy meadows surrounding the complex. Getting out of the car, one feels instantly to be in a very welcoming place, buildings very accessible, and walking trails within easy reach. The 120 acres of land houses several buildings: The Yester House is the main building, built in 1917 as a private estate of the Webster family. It was bought by the Southern Vermont Artists in 1950, a mansion with endless rooms devoted to rotating exhibitions, including the iconic Solo Exhibition program. The Elizabeth De C. Wilson Museum is relatively new, having been built in 2000, a contemporary space which not only features rotating exhibitions, but also houses the … [Read more...] about SAND TO SPLENDOR: VERMONT GLASS GUILD ARTISTS’ FAR-REACHING SHOW AT SVAC