External Exhibitions

Casey Blanchard (pictured)

Primarily a self-taught artist, Casey explores her experiences through the engaging and often unpredictable print medium of monoprinting. She is most interested in the spiritual aspects that emerge in the image, particularly relating to how we live in the world and how the world lives in us. In the beginning, the work may be a search for answers, but in the end it's more about being here without them.

Casey Blanchard was born in Greenwich, CT in 1953. She lives in Shelburne, VT with her husband, Dan Cox, and their daughter, Julia Cox. Her artwork is found on the walls of health care facilities, private residential collections, corporate offices, the hospitality industry, on web designs, and various published materials.

Johanne Durocher Yordan    

Johanne is a Burlington based artist who works out of her studio on Pine Street. She was born in Quebec, Canada, but has lived most of her life in Vermont. It was not until 1998 that Johanne began committing herself to her artwork and finding her own voice. She studied at the University of Vermont and has since developed a diverse body of work that is a testament to her ability to succeed as an independent artist. Creating work that fits a variety of audiences, while always building upon her unique self-taught style, is the secret to her success. Johanne has always been the type of person who explores on her own, tapping into the unknown and developing her own fashion and techniques. Many of her paintings include found or collected items which add depth and meaning to combine form and function to her work. Her abstract work captures her emotions and represents her unique style and expression. Johanne has exhibited her work extensively throughout Vermont in both solo and group exhibitions over the past 12 years.

Cameron Schmitz

Cameron Schmitz grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and spent idle time in her youth drawing. Encouraged by two artistic parents, including her mother who is also a painter, she learned at a very early age the joy and satisfaction of participating in the visual arts. 
Schmitz holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the University of New Hampshire, in addition to studying Art and Art History at Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy. 

Following a month-long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2006, Schmitz moved to Vermont after discovering Vermont's rugged landscape to be uniquely inspirational. Now located in the Brattleboro area, Schmitz actively exhibits her work regionally and nationally. Her work has been featured at Fitchburg Art Museum's biannual exhibition, Ne England/New Talent, Green Mountain College, Kyoto Seika University in Japan, Emory University, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, and Rogue Space in Chelsea, New York. Her work is represented by The Drawing Room Art Gallery in Cos Cob, CT and Furchgott Sourdiffe in Shelburne, VT, and she is an artist member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston. In addition to her painting practice, Schmitz is also the Gallery Curator of The Drawing Room Art Gallery and teaches painting at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro, VT.

Carl Rubino
 
I strive to create unique interpretive, impressionistic and abstract images that relate my personal vision of or reaction to the subject matter before me.   Before I even pull out the camera I try to experience all that my subject reveals, or even what it makes illusive – not just the obvious, like the literal view, the colors, texture and patterns - but the less obvious sensual aspects, the energy and the “feeling” that it conveys. Whether in landscape, abstract, street photography, fine art nude or whatever else captures my interest, I seek to find and interpret life’s visual symphonies, one click at a time. 

I feel that to a large extent my photographs consist of three different points of view: the raw material that is the literal subject matter of the image that my camera captures; what I see, sense, and work to portray when I interpret that subject; and what the viewer sees when looking at the image on the wall.  Those may be three very distinct views of what is essentially rooted in the same thing.   That, to me, is stimulating art.  And that is a great part of what draws me to photography.

Jeff Schneiderman 

Jeff Schneiderman works as a wedding, portrait and fine art photographer in Williston, VT.  He has been taking photographs for over 35 years, traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the world and has made Vermont his home for the last 27 years. Patterns are a major theme in Jeff’s work as he is fascinated with the designs in nature how they are reflected in things manmade.  More of Jeff's work can be found here. 

Krista Cheney

Krista Cheney is a native Vermonter, currently living in St. George, Vermont. She studied English Literature and Agricultural Economics at the University of Vermont. She has studied photography since 2003, taking classes and workshops at local venues and the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Carolyn Enz-Hack

Carolyn Enz-Hack's work includes painting, sculpture, and scenery design. While she has spent most of her life on a farm she holds a degree in theatrical design from Rutgers University and has spent years designing for the theatre. Her rural sensibility is informed by themes explored in ancient theatrical and religious literature, and by developments in cross-disciplinary Science. Each piece is an attempt to process the exterior world through an internal lens. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been at the Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland, Vermont, and Creare Inc. and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center both in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Endowment Award, a painting merit award from the Chaffee Center for the Arts, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and her work has been selected for exhibition in regional and nationally competitive shows.

Erinn Simon

Erinn Simon is a fiber artist and yarnbomber. She crochets tapestries, toys, baby mobiles, vegetables, baked goods, blankets, scarves for trees, and the occasional bloodthirsty zombie cupcake. Her work has appeared in group shows in Burlington, Seattle, and Australia and she ships her one of a kind creations to customers around the world. She lives in the Old North End of Burlington with her husband and three kids. You can find her on facebook as Callie Callie Jump Jump.

Lorraine Manley, acrylic on canvas (Blue Path & Mary Fletcher)

Trevor Tebbs, watercolors (McClure 4)

Trevor Tebbs’ landscape paintings are inspired by his immediate surroundings in the hills of Vermont and his many pilgrimages to coastal Maine.  The artist’s work reflects a lifetime of observing the nuance of natural places, the complexities of texture, color, and light, and the many emotions of sky, water, forest and mountain.  Through the medium of watercolor, Tebbs seeks to capture vast, powerful landscapes as well as intimate portraits of dappled hillsides, quiet meadows, sculptural river rocks, and waterfalls

Tessa Holmes, mixed media collage (Smith Patrick 3)

Tessa Holmes utilizes a slurry of brilliant color in her dreamscape collages, capturing an intoxicating mix of joy, beauty, fantasy and familiarity in her work.  Seeking a safe hyper-reality where details hold little appeal - unless they are found by accident - Holmes finds herself comforted in nature. Holmes often employs bold color and thick textures in a post-impressionistic manner to create an exaggerated view of the natural world around her.

Kari Meyer, acrylic on canvas (Breast Care Center & Shepard 2)

Kari Meyer views art as a form of communication that has a power beyond that of words. Through imagery, she attempts to portray ideas that words cannot - the archetypal beauty that connects all things. Meyer explores the idea of the movement of eternity - of everything either coming from or returning to nothingness, the constant cycle between birth and death, the cyclical rhythm of time and of each moment to the next. Her work urges the viewer to contemplate the relationship between oneself, nature, and the universe.

Kelly O’Neal, photographs (Hematology/Oncology)   

Kelly O’Neal creates ethereal, painterly photographs that explore the beauty of place.  Unlike most photographers, she seeks to move the camera during exposure, relying on years of practice to create the look she wants using digital film.  Rather than documenting what your eyes directly see, she captures colors and shapes, and seeks to evoke the essence of a locale and its quintessential moments. 

Carol Boucher, monotypes (Breast Imaging)

Carol Boucher utilizes a process of rolling ink and paint onto thin metal or acrylic plates, then placing damp paper over the plate and pressing the image onto paper, using an etching press to evenly apply the ink to the paper. The paper that is pulled away from the plate is called a monotype – a mirror image of what was on the plate. Multiple colors can be applied together, making the process more like painting.  Boucher will occasionally apply ink to thin pieces of card, fabric or leaves onto the plate. This is where the fun begins, as well as the spontaneity, unpredictability and humility.  The artist finds that sometimes an idea doesn’t work, but the happy accident will gift her with a new direction to explore, and through repetition of the process she will learn to use those effects to create art that can’t be created any other way. Boucher feels when she creates that “Self” or “Artist” does not exist. The editor is out of the room, the critic belongs to the future. Time passes as the artwork takes shape, each mark knitting itself into the rest to make a kind of sense.