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The exhibition "Open Spectrum," currently at the T.W. Wood Gallery of Vermont College, is supposed to be all about color. Ways of using color can be as diverse as the thousands of hues we humans discern, so it's reasonable to expect from this show an artistic pageant of luxurious hues. Instead, the Wood's all-media exhibit is more like a modest coat of many colors. Among the 58 pieces by 41 artists there are some solid works, but the weaker ones have been given equal billing.
A quartet of photographs by Linda Stillman documents the seasonal transitions of a garden, as seen from above. The garden is divided into 35 squares and surrounded by a white fence. "August Garden in July" has items from a colorful harvest piled into each square, while "August Garden in September" is a portrait of decadence in browns and grays.The strongest figurative paintings are oils by Amanda Hanlon. Her two pieces, "The Bedroom" and "The Bedroom cont...," portray a bespectacled female figure folding clothes on a bed. The walls of the room have pale turquoise shadows, while the rest of the two scenes are described in translucent earth tones. The spaces have a skewed right edge, as if being painted from a mirror.See the full content of this document
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The exhibition "Open Spectrum," currently at the T.W. Wood Gallery of Vermont College, is supposed to be all about color. Ways of using color can be as diverse as the thousands of hues we humans disce...
See the full content of this document
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