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Super Group Show 10th Anniversary
the Front June 2025 6 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT The Front gallery celebrates 10 years in existence this June with a "SUPER Group Show," including work by many former and all current gallery members. This event, the 67th group exhibit presented by the gallery, expresses the members' gratitude and joy in making it through 10 interesting years in Montpelier. Pictured: "Mindstream: Resolution" |
Worcester Arts Festival
June 8, 2024
Worcester, VT
June 8, 2024
Worcester, VT
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December Montpelier Art Walk
Friday, December 6
4:00 - 8:00 pm
Magpie and Tiger
15 State Street, Montpelier, VT (enter through the main lobby)
https://www.magpieandtigervt.com/
Paintings will be shown through the middle of January 2025
4:00 - 8:00 pm
Magpie and Tiger
15 State Street, Montpelier, VT (enter through the main lobby)
https://www.magpieandtigervt.com/
Paintings will be shown through the middle of January 2025
Montpelier Art Walk (main page for those without Facebook) happens on the first Friday of every two months throughout the city. My offerings at Montpelier's newest shop, Magpie and Tiger, will feature ensō paintings from the last few years as well as three paintings from the Mindstream series that haven't been shown. Stop by, check out the art, and say hello!
T.W. Wood Gallery 10x10" Members' Holiday Show
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Opening reception:
Montpelier Art Walk Friday, December 6, 4:00 - 8:00 pm T.W. Museum 6 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT (enter through the main lobby) https://www.twwoodgallery.org Art will be hung until January 26, 2025 |
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Annual Holiday Show For Member Artists
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Studio Place Arts
6 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT (enter through the main lobby) https://www.studioplacearts.com November 6 - December 28, 2024 |
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...moment to moment...
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the Front
July 2022 Montpelier, Vermont Solo Show Opening Reception: July 1, 4:00 - 8:00 pm Show Dates: July 1 - 31 The gallery is open Fridays 4-7, and Saturdays and Sundays 11 - 5. If those times don't work email Monica to set up a time for a private showing. Location: The Front, 6 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT Poetry Reading and Closing Reception: July 29 Monica will read a selection of sutra excerpts and from her favorite poets. In person and online via Zoom. |
"Perfect in the Imperfection EnsÅ"
Ink and mica pigment on watercolor paper, 22" x 15"
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Monica's solo show …moment to moment… was on view through the month of July and featured Zen circles, or ensō, paintings inspired by her Zen art practice, a year in recovery from post-concussion syndrome, meditations on consciousness, interconnection, impermanence, intimacy, resilience of the human spirit, and her many years as a yoga practitioner. Starting in 2019, painting an ensō became a way for Monica to return to equilibrium and continued through the pandemic to come to terms with isolation, great loss, and a traumatic brain injury. Ancient Buddhist text says that a moment of perception takes seventeen seconds. Each single-brushstroke painting takes about the same amount of time to paint and yet contains everything leading up to the act of creation.
With over sixty paintings hung together, the show asks the viewer for deeper intimacy in order to consider their own relationship to time, intention, and personal experience. Each piece is poetically titled with phrases from Zen teachings, scripture, and poetry. Viewers are invited to experience the show with or without awareness of titles and dates that place the images on a timeline in relationship to the pandemic. In the ten years that Monica has been a yoga teacher, she often reads poetry and sutra excerpts in her classes much of which has inspired the artwork. All are welcome.