2020 Open Juried Exhibition
VCP is pleased to announce our annual Open Juried Exhibition, which will be on display in VCP’s main gallery from March 6 through April 26, 2020. This show is truly the crown jewel of our yearly exhibition schedule and is traditionally one of our most highly attended exhibitions of the year. We’re honored to welcome guest juror Andrea Rosen – Curator at the Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington, VT. Our juror has selected seven artists to be represented in the 2-month long exhibition.
Exhibition Dates: March 6 – August 30, 2020 (**These reflect extended dates due to COVID-19**)
Opening Reception: March 6, 2020, 5:40 to 8:30pm
Exhibiting Artists:
Peter Crabtree
Isabella Dellolio
Bill Gore
Bruce Hooke
Bernie Kubiak
Kelsey Sucena
Evelyn Swett
Jurors Statement:
When I jury a show, I go in without a preconceived rubric or criteria, because one tends to develop as I go. There were so many beautiful and interesting photographs to choose from, and so for this show, my criteria became:
In addition to (or instead of) capturing something interesting or beautiful, is the artist using photography to comment on or experiment with the medium of photography, and/or to make a profound and nuanced comment on something else?
Is this something I haven’t seen before? Is the quality consistent among the images submitted?
Rather than sharing a common theme, the finalists are superlative examples of diverse approaches or genres of photography, which sound like dichotomies but are really spectrums: documentary, staged, manipulated, straight, painterly, detailed, experimenting with the latest photographic technologies, using traditional technologies, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, abstracts, color, black and white, socio-political, formal/aesthetic.
Finally, the most powerful criteria that came to me as I worked through submissions:
Do the images stick in my memory, long after I looked at them? This is distinctly true of every one of the selected artists. Congratulations to them for having achieved the photographer’s elusive goal: the use of photographic images to make meaning and powerfully communicate it.
Juror
Andrea Rosen has been curator of the Fleming Museum since July 2015. Previously, she was curatorial assistant and manager of student programs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Rosen holds a masters in art history and museum studies from Tufts University and a bachelors in studio art from Smith College. She has curated and co-curated a wide range of exhibitions, including shows on historical and contemporary miniatures, Victorian fashion, cartoonist Alison Bechdel, Afro-Atlantic sacred art, Asian art, and Surrealist photography. She is the founder of the Vermont Curators Group, a venue for collaboration among the state’s curators.