Re/Collecting
The Henry Sheldon Museum is excited to feature 29 selected works from Kate Gridley's Witness Marks series, recently exhibited at the Kent, to be displayed alongside items from the Museum’s collection. Paired together, these works offer insight into the connection between material objects and memory, and pose to the viewer how the acts of collecting and recollecting become enmeshed.
Known for her insights into human character, the quality of light in her work, and her painting technique, Kate Gridley maintains a studio in Middlebury, Vermont, where she has lived and painted full time since 1991.
Artist talk and reception:
October 1, 5:00-6:30 at the Henry Sheldon Museum
Curated by Alexandra Weimer in collaboration with Kate Gridley and HSM staff.
Opening Celebration at The Kent
Come meet the artists and enjoy light fare with music by Kraatz Carromato.
See event listing here.
Tools of the Trade at the Pitcher Inn
Thursday March 31st 5:00-8:00 PM “Tools of the Trade”. Painter Kate Gridley will discuss her latest body of work at The Pitcher Inn, 275 Main St.,Warren. The evening includes dinner at the inn following the lecture and slide presentation. Attendees are asked to call the inn at 802-496-6350 to make dinner reservations.
Gridley’s talk will be about her process and some of the stories connected to particular paintings in this latest collection.The artist’s latest body of work focuses on antique tools, specifically a collection of tools on loan from the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. She writes; “While meditating on A.B. Smith’s tools, I have spent months looking into the beauties of form and function, diverse edges and patinas, the interplay of objects and shadows, that beautiful and mysterious realm of objective versus abstraction.
There are stories in the patinas of the tools that I got to know so well during the pandemic. I react to shapes, colors and shadows. I ponder the possibilities that necessitated the fabrication and use of handmade tools: the hands that held them, the bodies and minds that sweated, hammered, plowed, drilled, harvested, hauled, and cut in order to construct lives and alter a world.”
To register for this event, including dinner at the Pitcher Inn, call the gallery at 802-458-0098 or email us at info@edgewatergallery-vt.com.
To make dinner reservations for the evening please call The Pitcher Inn at 802-496-6350.
*Attendees must show proof of vaccination and wear masks.*
Digital Studio Tour and Talk: Reservation Required
Digital Studio Tour and Talk: February 6, 4:00 PM, Reservation required
The Norfolk Library
Informing Memory, Process, Place and Notion
Informing Memory, Process, Place and Notion
January 27 - April 16, 2022
Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy
11 Tan Lane, Exeter, NH 03833