New Work in Wood

October 5 - December 16, 2001
East Gallery

Nancy Sansom Reynolds, Yellow Furl, 2000, laminated plywood and aniline dye.

Thomas Beale, Honey Space, 2001, found wood.

The Fleming Museum is pleased to present New Work in Wood in our main changing exhibition gallery this fall. The exhibition features recent sculpture by eight artists from Vermont, New York, North Carolina, Maryland, and California.

While wood has been most closely associated with the craft tradition in recent years, this exhibition features artists who push the medium to create sculptural forms and images with a contemporary sensibility. New Work in Wood highlights artistic imagination and skill, and makes evident the phenomenal range of expression that can be achieved within one medium.

The artists included in the exhibition are Joanne Carson (New York and Vermont), Fabiane Garcia (California), Nancy Sansom Reynolds (Maryland), Bob Trotman (North Carolina); and Vermont artists Thomas Beale (Burlington), James Florschutz (Newfane), Stephan Fowlkes (N. Bennington), and Peter Harris (Montpelier). Some of the artists have created sculpture in wood for many years, while others have come to it recently from other mediums and genres, such as painting, and furniture making.

New Work in Wood is the most recent in a series of exhibitions presented at the Fleming Museum over the past decade which feature work by Vermont artists together with work by artists from throughout the U.S. curated around a common theme, sensibility, or medium. This series presents Vermont artists within a national context while offering Museum visitors the opportunity to see exciting new facets of contemporary art.