A Visual Conversation With Nature by Alexandra Tursi Cameron Davis is a painter and senior lecturer at the University of Vermont. Her work includes paintings, installations and community art projects exploring the human-nature relationship. Her paintings are currently on view in Burlington at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington International Airport. Alexandra Tursi: Why did you become an artist? Cameron Davis: I have a childhood memory of twirling round and round while the wind danced through these huge white pines and feeling a sense of presence. I have been trying to engage with that presence through my painting ever since. That day, I made up a song. I came inside, picked the notes out on the piano and wrote the notation. It is my first memory (at 6 or 7 years old) of making the connection between an experience and … [Read more...] about Cameron Davis
March/April 2016
I Will Go On…
Koren's Capricious And Compelling Voice by Molly Hamill “Keep Calm and Carry On.” This motivational phrase produced by the British government in 1939 in preparation for the Second World War has had a massive revival in pop culture recently. You see the message on everything from t-shirts to tote bags. But what relevance does this notion of perseverance have for us today? Pam Campanaro, associate curator of exhibitions and programs at Montserrat College of Art, has curated an exhibit showcasing artists who persist. “I Will Go On…,” on view at the Montserrat Gallery through April 2, exhibits artists whose processes “parallel the characteristics of a marathoner: endurance, repetition, and focus.” Inspired by a passage from Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable, in which the author talks to himself — “You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” — the show gathers the work … [Read more...] about I Will Go On…
Message In The Madness At Fairfield
Koren's Capricious And Compelling Voice by Kristin Nord In this era of incivility there is something wonderfully touching about the inquiries of Edward Koren’s often clueless hairy creatures. Whether they are urbanites transposed to the rural outposts of Vermont, or are among the artist’s many loony flights of anthropomorphism, the challenges and aspirations of flora or fauna are often interchangeable. Edward Koren himself describes his cartoons as “frozen moments of storytelling” and his work as that of a cultural anthropologist. The renowned New Yorker cartoonist drew a full house recently at Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum of Art for a talk preceding the unveiling of “The Capricious Line,” his traveling retrospective. The show, which runs through April 8, features 49 of the artist’s works created between 1965 and 2010. Taken together, they offer running … [Read more...] about Message In The Madness At Fairfield