At the Bennington Museum: Sally Gil, “Indigenous Mass.” 2012-2014; collage, acrylic, casein, and house paint on paper (42 in. x 48 in.) Courtesy of the artist.
Bennington Center for the Arts
44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington
10a to 5p, Tue-Sun (Closed Mon)
http://www.thebennington.org, 802 442-7158
Currently: Women. The beauty of women has long been the subject of the painter’s brush. This exhibit not only displays the beauty of the female form but also features the different roles and aspects of women in their everyday lives. Currently: Impressions of New England From the Laumeister Collection. For the first time, we’ve created an Impressions of New England exhibit with artwork entirely from the Laumeister Collection. This exhibit features people, landscapes, and wildlife representing the beauty of New England. Currently: The Hunters, an exhibit hand-picked by our curator, Elizabeth Small, from the extensive permanent collection of The Bennington. The theme of this show is hunters — such as wolves, lions, tigers, eagles, hawks, and even a secretary bird. Currently: The Hunted. To complement The Hunters, we created an exhibition of prey: water fowl, deer, bison, and even the great rhinoceros are animals that often fall victim to the hunt. Currently: Birds. Birds of all different shapes and sizes arranged into a colorful, unique flock. Ongoing: Permanent collection of wildlife; Native American artwork.
Bennington Museum
75 Main St., Route 9, Bennington
10a to 5p (Closed Wed)
www.benningtonmuseum.org, 802 477-1571
Thru June 15: 3-D Digital: Here and Now. In the span of a little more than a decade, the Bennington area has become a hub for advanced 3-D design and manufacturing. Artists such as Jon Isherwood, Willard Boepple, and Karolina Kawiaka have been exploiting the potential of new technologies to push material practice, while commercial design and manufacturing firms such National Hanger Co., Plasan NA, Kaman Composites, and JBM have been making products ranging from clothes hangers to body panels. Thru July 10: Out of This World, an exhibition of new and recent work by visual artist Sally Gil. Ongoing: Regional artists’ exhibits. Every 12 weeks throughout the year, different regional artists showcase their work in the museum’s Regional Artists Gallery.
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
10 Vernon St., Brattleboro
11a to 5p (Closed Tues)
www.brattleboromuseum.org, 802 257-0124
Thru June 13: Wishing for the Moon. Scratchboard drawings by Karen Gaudette that metaphorically reflect a middle-aged woman’s journey to find true love. Thru June 13: Visions from the Edge: An Exploration of Outsider Art. Artwork by individuals whose creative impulses emerge from their personal experiences with autism and other developmental disorders. Thru June 13: Are You Here? Jonathan Gitelson’s Are You Here? is essentially a mindfulness practice with a sense of humor. The billboards depicted in Gitelson’s photographs ask travelers barreling down roads both to locate themselves in time and place and to consider, however fleetingly, the implications of being present. Consider it meditation without a yoga mat or a pew. Thru June 13: flow-MOTION: Michael Sacca. Deftly balancing the clarity of great documentary photography with distinctive artistic expression, Sacca crafts images possessing their own internal, pictorial logic and materiality. Thru June 13: Contemporary Artists vs. The Masters: Homage, Battle, Reclamation. The artists in this exhibit confront acknowledged masterpieces and translate them anew. May 10: Hidden in the Hills: David Walter Studio. June 10: An Evening of Surrealist Games, 7:30p.
The Clark Art Institute
225 South St., Williamstown, Mass
10a to 5p Tuesday thru Sunday
www.clarkart.edu, 413 458-2303
Opening June 14: Thomas Schütte: Crystal. Contemporary artist Thomas Schütte (German, b. 1954) is best known for his large-scale public sculptures of figures that re-imagine the role of statuary and monuments. The artist’s fascination with architecture as a kind of public sculpture that is both symbolic and practical complements his figurative practice and its exploration of the human form. Since the 1980s, Schütte has created a series of architectural models that conjure spaces ranging from a tiny efficient home to a temple. Opening July 4: Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill. Globalization, virtualization, migration. Place is disappearing. As the ground beneath our feet shifts, worlds change in unexpected ways. Sensing Place provides the occasion to reflect on the enduring value of place by exploring Stone Hill, a prominent geological formation at the heart of the Clark’s campus. Opening June 11: Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado. The Clark Art Institute is the exclusive venue for this exhibit, featuring 28 Old Master paintings from the Museo Nacional del Prado that celebrate the role of the nude in Western painting.
Hall Art Foundation
551 VT Route 106, Reading
www.hallartfoundation.org, 802 952 1056
May 14-Nov 27: Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime. In the fall of 2012, the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont opened its doors to the public — welcoming visitors to view its program of rotating, temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Exhibitions are held seasonally, from May through November, and are open to the public by appointment. Free.
Shelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road, Shelburne
www.shelburnemuseum.org, 802 985-3346
Thru Oct 31: Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum. Painting a Nation is a major re-installation of Shelburne Museum’s American paintings collection. The exhibition forms the core of a renewed emphasis and focus on American art and highlights themes of the collection’s strengths, particularly the New England landscape, genre painting, and portraiture. Thru June 19: Birds of a Feather, Shelburne Museum’s Decoy Collection. Explore the illusory and deadly beauty of American wildfowl decoys. On view in the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education. Ongoing: 32 Degrees: The Art of Winter.
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Yester House Gallery & Wilson Museum
West Road, Manchester
10a to 5p Tues-Sat; noon to 5p Sun
www.svac.org, 802 362-2522, 362-1405
May 21-July 12: Modern Alchemy: The Art of Glass features the variety of techniques used to produce works of art in glass, including the hot technique (blown glass), warm (kiln-formed), lamp (torch-worked) and cold (stained glass). Related: The Vermont Glass Guild invites the public to access its studio/gallery map to locate glass studios that are dotted all over the state. May 28-July 3: Instructor show. July 9-Aug 28: Summer Solo Show, Wilson Museum. July 23-Sept 11: Creation Exhibition.
Tasha Tudor Museum
Western Avenue, Brattleboro
www.tashatudormuseum.org
May 6-Oct 29: Seasons of Beauty: Tasha’s Love of Gardening. In 2014, Seth Tudor rebuilt Tasha’s dollhouse for your enjoyment. All tours will be able to see the return of Tasha’s dollhouse to her home after 20 years of being displayed at Colonial Williamsburg. You will be delighted to see it in her home as she had it set up in the alcove near her bedroom.
