Events

The Dark Site
Oct
26

The Dark Site

I’ve heard Art described concisely as “…purpose finding form in material through technique”
This view tells me that the purpose or function of an artwork is best serviced by the optimum choice of material and the method of execution. When I work in color it is usually small scale, formalistic and abstract. My purpose - to create something of formal compositional beauty.

The Black work in the show was made at different times over the past 25 years in direct response to specific (negative) events or dark periods in my personal life as well as in our shared national and global interests, threats and fears.


I choose black ink or paint as my medium because to me black is the no-color of truth, the written word, newspapers. Color alone can “speak” or convey feelings and emotions. Black speaks no other language than line, shape, value and contrast. The India Ink on the smooth non-absorbent surface of Yupo paper allows me to be rough, emotionally expressive and physical on a large scale. I expect the busy kinetic energy of the liquid ink marks and drips will enhance the unease I feel and need to express in such times of woe. Like NOW!

                                                                                                                            -Leonard Ragouzeos

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Nye Ffarrabas: Truth IS a Verb!
Mar
22
to Jul 3

Nye Ffarrabas: Truth IS a Verb!

  • Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (map)
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At 92, Nye Ffarrabas, formerly Bici Forbes Hendricks, occupies a significant place not only in the postmodern art world but also in our global cultural zeitgeist. During the early and mid-1960s, she (as Bici) was part of New York City’s Fluxus community, an experimental and creative laboratory that viewed life and art as inseparable and, in some respects, one and the same. 

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Artist Talk: Melissa Rubin & Amy Beecher in Conversation
Mar
15

Artist Talk: Melissa Rubin & Amy Beecher in Conversation

Join us for an Artist Talk featuring Melissa Rubin and Amy Beecher in conversation on Saturday, March 15th, from 1-3pm. This event coincides with the solo exhibition Field Notes: Recent Work by Melissa Rubin, currently on view at the gallery through May 25th, 2025. During the talk, Beecher and Rubin will explore the themes, visual elements, and psychological layers of this compelling exhibition, delving into the process, imagery and inspiration behind the works on display. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the artist through a Q&A session, where questions and discussions will be encouraged.

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FLUX by John R. Killacky | Opening reception and forum
Mar
11
Performance, Artist Talk

FLUX by John R. Killacky | Opening reception and forum

Killacky’s videos have been screened in festivals, galleries, museums, hospitals, and universities world-wide and are in the collections of numerous libraries and universities.  His work has been televised locally in Minneapolis, Houston, and Vermont and nationally on Free Speech TV and PBS, and Cultura24 in Holland.

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Charles Ramsburg Artist Talk
Dec
3
Artist Talk

Charles Ramsburg Artist Talk

  • 814 Western Avenue Brattleboro, VT, 05301 (map)
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Charles Ramsburg’s work is a visual journal, most often drifting toward abstract imagery, occasionally being explicitly narrative. His art mines the worlds of nature, psychology, theology, and philosophy. He works in a multitude of mediums: charcoal and eraser on paper, acrylics, wood, metal, leather, papier-mâché and twine. Each of his series, although in different mediums, follows the pull of what Kandinsky called “inner necessity” – meaning the communication between form and the human soul. And, there is another reality that Ramsburg wrestles with – being essentially blind in one eye.

“I have no idea,” he said, “how other people see the world. I’ve had to fabricate my own version of the complexities of dimension.”

Over his fifty-plus years of working, Ramsburg has attempted to unpack various belief systems, but found them wanting. Hence, for instance, his Text Series and Pathing Sticks are etched with a writing system of his own. And because of his love of nature, his language, his “inner necessity”, is drawn, etched, carved, even welded into his work.

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