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SHOW CLOSING - Saturday, June 28
MARCUS RATLIFF: RECENT COLLAGE
Marcus Ratliff, The Birds, 2013, collage
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Our curator, Varujan Boghosian, has been a significant artistic influence on emerging artists for quite some time. He is a master collagist, insightful curator, knowledgeable collector, and a keen observer of the artistic environment. For several years Boghosian has been attentively following the development of Peter Thomashow's extensive collection of early 20th century wooden toys and games. This collection has been amassed over the last ten years and is the palette for which his collage and constructions are based.
"What does it take to be a great collector? It takes imagination. It takes a keen eye. And it takes the obsessive pursuit of the object, whatever the cost. Peter Thomashow has all of these qualities. His collecting skills rival those such as the Hirschorns, the Mellons, and the Hearsts. He is also a great maker, this is what distinguishes him." Varujan Boghosian Peter Thomashow is a physician, collector, artist and musician living in Vermont, and is currently on the faculty at the Dartmouth College and UVM Schools of Medicine where he teaches Psychiatry. He says: "I am fascinated by invisible forces. My first collection was at age seven. It was magnets. I later (age ten) became intrigued by fluorescent and phosphorescent minerals (rocks that glow under ultraviolet light). I collected insects as a teenager and then studied the evolution of color in butterflies at Hampshire College also becoming interested in insect metamorphosis. I assembled a collection of Nineteenth Century Electro-magnetic Philosophical Instruments which is now housed in a private museum. My latest interest is a re-visit: colour and toys". For over five years he has been designing dioramas and collage from the toys, games and scientific objects within the collection. Thomashow says of his most recent project, "The Wolfson Memorial Laboratory of Colour," "it is a wonder cabinet of objects founded in the power of play and treasure hunting. Elements such as memory and time; the uncanny, the subconscious and the invisible are important to me." Collectors Show II is the second in a series of exhibitions on collecting. This is the first introduction of a major show of work by Peter Thomashow. Please join us in celebrating the artist Saturday, July 5th at 5pm. |
Join us for a SPECIAL EVENT with The New England Review Sunday, July 6 5:30pm BigTown Gallery and NER Vermont Reading Series are pleased to team up for a special event featuring poets Terri Ford and Jamaal May. This summer gathering at the gallery will celebrate live readings and the people who value them most, creating a link between two of Vermont's most lively reading series and from one side of the Green Mountains to the other. This reading is followed by a special catered reception in the garden. Please RSVP to BigTown Gallery at info@bigtowngallery.com. Seating is limited. NER is arranging for transportation from Middlebury over the mountain to Rochester - if you'd like a ride, please email nereview@middlebury.edu. |
Terri Ford is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She's been a fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a summer resident of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown through the Ohio Arts Council, and the recipient of several grants. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Conduit, Forklift Ohio, and many other journals. She is the author of Why the Ships Are She and Hams Beneath the Firmament.
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Jamaal May was born in Detroit, Michigan. His first book, Hum, received the Beatrice Hawley Award, the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, and an NAACP Image Award nomination. He has been awarded a Rose O'Neill Literary House Cave Canem Residency, the Kenyon Review Fellowship, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy, among other awards and fellowships. His poems appear in such periodicals as New England Review, NYTimes.com, The New Republic, The Believer, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry 2014. He co-edits the poetry section of Solstice, teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program, and co-directs the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook and Video Series with Tarfia Faizullah.
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BigTown Gallery
99 North Main Street
Rochester, VT 05767
Gallery Hours
Wed-Fri 10-5 Sat 12-5 Sun-Tues by appointment 
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