Nancy Calicchio Shows Vermont Landscapes Through April
During March and April, Westminster West painter Nancy Calicchio is showing “Landscape Trilogy” in the foyer and other gallery spaces at All Souls Church in West Brattleboro. This exhibition features groups of three paintings of the same subject, each canvas a further interpretation of the landscape. In the larger (36”x36”) works, Nancy explores the balance between earth and sky. She invites the viewer to feel the long view of overlapping hills and the mysterious ambiguity of the far horizon as she searches to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface. Additional paintings round out her study of the earth-sky relationship.
A graduate of Brown University (B.A.) and Dartmouth College, where she earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Nancy moved to Vermont in 1961. Upon retirement from her career as an independent school educator in 2007, she devoted her time to learning to paint, and especially to painting the Vermont landscape. Primarily self-taught, she has also benefited from participation in a number of painting workshops and from a Vermont Week residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2009.
“I value each season and every day,” shares Nancy in her artist’s statement for this exhibit. “They are never the same. Light plays over the surface of rocks and trees and rivers in a way that is constantly changing, beguiling to the artist, and challenging to express. I am especially pleased to paint outside, to be under the open sky, to hear the sounds and feels the air around me. . . . I remember the moment two years ago when I thought I could reasonably represent the scene I was observing. It was merely a milestone, but it felt like a grand achievement.”
Nancy’s work has been featured in the annual Fall National show at Southern Vermont Arts Center since 2011 as well as in recent “Farm Art” shows sponsored by Strolling of the Heifers, People’s United Bank branches in Putney and Bellows Falls, library galleries in Newfane and Putney, and Works Bakery Cafés in Keene and Brattleboro. She is currently exhibiting at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and The River Garden in Brattleboro, the Saxtons River Inn in Saxtons River, and the Gallery at Investmark in Stratford, Connecticut.
For a preview of Nancy’s work, visit her website at nancycalicchioart.com.
All Souls Church, located in the West Village Meeting House at 29 South St., is a little over a mile west of Exit 2 off I-91. Take a left at the fire station and village green to head up the church driveway. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9 to 1, otherwise during Sunday services and other public events in the building. For further information, call the office at (802) 254-9377.
