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The Soda Plant Exhibition on View Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm through exterior doors. More info or for appointments send inquiries to spacegalleryvt@gmail.com.
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Located within The Soda Plant @ Kilburn and Pine Streets
in Burlington, Vermont
The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery hosts an annual exhibition featuring artwork from our members! Artists select work that they are proud of, represents their personal style, or is something new they are trying. Showcasing the talents of our creative community, we invite you to explore works of varying mediums, purchase work that you love, and have fun!
Exhibition Duration at The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery: May 5 – June 30, 2023 Exhibition Duration in The Soda Plant Hallways: May 5 – July 28, 2023
Open Hours: The Space Gallery, Fridays and Saturdays from 12-5pm.
Self guided through The Soda Plant: Monday – Saturday 8am – 5pm.
Opening Receptions: First Friday Art Walks May 5, June 2, & July 7 from 5-9pm
Opening Reception, First Friday, April 7 from 5-9pm
‘Clearing Space’ April 7 – 29, 2023
Lost and found treasures await you in this eclectic silent auction to benefit The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. Since opening in 2009, the gallery has acquired a number of artworks both donated or left behind that are now searching for their new owners! The perfect time of year for Spring cleaning, we are dusting the cobwebs and ‘Clearing Space’ for new works. Silent auction begins on First Friday, April 7 and continues through Saturday, April 29. Visit in person Fridays & Saturdays from 12-5pm to leave your bid, or in a comment on instagram at spacegalleryvt.
Find your next treasure (nearly 100 pieces, some starting at $20!) and support our gallery, it’s a win-win!
‘All the Feels’ promo image above features work by Jason Gorcoff, Teresa Celemin, Juli Badics, & Fiona Small.
‘All the Feels’Opening Reception(s):
First Friday, February 3 from 5-9pm
First Friday, March 3 from 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays from 12-5pm
Exhibition Duration: February 3 – March 25, 2023
‘All the Feels’ asked artists to submit work that exudes emotion, and they delivered! “How do you feel during the creation process? Does the content of your work bring joy, angst, humor? What emotions does the viewer go through when experiencing the art?” Creative minds can make art that is both gorgeous and off putting and we invite you to feel ‘all the feels’ with this gritty exhibition of local artists’ work.
Experience artwork by over 80 local artists, with sculpture, assemblage, collage, paintings, prints, and more!
Cold weather is dangerous! For the opening on Friday, February 3 please stay home if you need to travel very far or do not have reliable transportation. Bundle up with face and hand coverings and we will turn up the heat!
Exhibition Duration: November 11 – December 2, 2022
Open Hours: Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm
The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery’s Director, Christy Mitchell, returns with her annual solo show this November with ‘Object Permanence’. The term refers to the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be sensed. During the pandemic, sticking to the indoors, we all assumed that life still existed outside our walls, that there would be a similar world to rejoin when the time came. Through the use of walls, furniture, a portal and even artificial intelligence, Mitchell creates an installation that is part dream and part allegory on our collective experience with covid and the new world that surrounds us.
From: ‘Christy Mitchell’s ‘Object Permanence’ Explores Expectations in a Post-COVID-19 World’ by Pamela Polston
Object permanence, as many will remember from college psychology class, refers to the understanding that things and people continue to exist even when you can’t see or hear them. First documented by child psychologist Jean Piaget, that realization is a necessary milestone in a baby’s brain development, even if it dashes the hilarity of playing peekaboo.
“Object Permanence” is also the title of Christy Mitchell’s current exhibition at Burlington’s S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. She borrows the term to refer to the expectations we had about the world when we were shut-ins during the pandemic and how we experience the world now.
“During COVID, we were confined [at home], but we had this sense that things would still be the same,” she said during a gallery visit. “They’re not, in so many ways.” Read more here.
The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery is honored to host an exhibition many months in the making. The title, ‘The Shape of Things’ feels even more poignant now as we struggle to make sense of our world, how we express ourselves, and how we may work together as a community to lift each other up in the face of oppression and seemingly insurmountable challenges. Gallery Director, Christy Mitchell, approached four artists in the past year to participate in a show simply about shape. These artists create work that plays with geometry and with patterns that literally or figuratively appear to float off the standard 2-D frame.
Kevin Donegan, an artist working just down the street, joins us from a recent residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Donegan states, “The intent of this installation is to create an environment which feels ominous and potentially dangerous, but also beautiful and serene. Touching on themes of climate change, escapism, and the slippery nature of perception, it attempts to engage viewers viscerally and intellectually, and is rooted in the artist’s desire to affect change.”
‘It’s Ok’ sculpture by Kevin Donegan
Will Patlove has been exhibiting with us from time to time for a decade and we thoroughly enjoy his playful interpretation of what the shape of a painted surface can be. Bent and manipulated pieces covered in canvas or carved and cut wood become multi-faceted planes in which Patlove applies his minimalist color palettes.
‘Twist’ acrylic on wood by Will Patlove
Frank Tamasi is a newer artist to The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery and creates meticulous geometric pieces by hand (without tape or straight edges) feeling each line and selecting each color deliberately. Tamasi states that, “Color theory plays a vital role in my work allowing me to express inner-energies that otherwise leave me at a loss of words….The layering of colors immerse you deeper and deeper as you look at it longer. It creates an experience that not only brings light into any room, but ignites an emotion internally through the vibrations.”
‘Immersed’ acrylic on canvas by Frank Tamasi
Haley Fenn expresses herself through form, both with one of a kind jewelry and with sculptures that play with hard geometric edges and softer shapes and palettes. Fenn’s work draws you in, you notice it in any room, as if the work has something to say and it will tell you if you just listen long enough. A first time showing with us, we are thrilled to host a series of her sculptures in this exhibition.
Detail of sculpture by Haley Fenn
‘The Shape of Things’ welcomes viewers to First Friday Art Walk receptions on both July 1 and August 5 from 5-8pm. On display weekly, Fridays and Satrudays from 12-5pm through August 6, 2022. Take time for yourself and to enjoy the work soon.
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