Browngrotta arts’ Fall 2023 Art in the Barn will feature a unique format -- three exhibitions in one space. Vignettes: one venue, three exhibitions will combine celebrations of the noted wood sculptor, Dorothy Gill Barnes and famed weaver and surface designer, Glen Kaufman with An Abundance of Objects, featuring baskets, ceramics, and sculptures by more than three dozen international artists.

Vignette 1:
Dorothy Gill Barnes: A Way with Wood
Dorothy Gill Barnes: a Way With Wood will celebrate the work of the renowned sculptor, known for weaving bark, transforming natural materials, and for her collaborations with glass artists, resulting in objects that mix glass and bark and branches in intriguing ways. Among Barnes’ innovations were dendroglyphs, markings she’d make on live tree bark, which she allowed to develop into “scars” for months or years before harvesting and using the resulting bark “drawings” in her works.

Vignette 2:
Glen Kaufman: Elegant Eloquence
Glen Kaufman: Elegant Eloquence highlights the work of this master weaver who created photo collages, using a Japanese technique to apply gold and silver leaf atop intricately woven damask fabric, often in a grid pattern, to reflect disappearing Japanese architecture. Also included are examples of Kaufman’s early work, which included both textural weaving and macramé-knotted and interlooped, hanging sculptural forms.

Vignette 3: An Abundance of Objects
The third exhibition, An Abundance of Objects, will combine baskets, sculptures, and ceramics by more than three dozen artists from the US and abroad. Included will be work by Kajiwara Aya (JP), Dail Behennah (UK), Lizzie Farey (UK), Joe Feddersen (US), Paul Furneaux (UK), Gertrud Hals (NO), Norie Hatakeyama (JP), Lissa Hunter (US), Stéphanie Jacques (BE), Tim Johnson (UK), Christine Joy (US), Kyomi Iwata (US), Tamiko Kawata (US), Lewis Knauss (US), Kosuge Kogetsu (JP), Naomi Kobayashi (JP), Markku Kosonen (FI), Kyoko Kumai (JP), Gyöngy Laky (US), Lawrence LaBianca (US), Jeannet Leenderste (US), Dona Look (US), John McQueen (US), Mary Merkel Hess (US), Norma Minkowitz (US), Judy Mulford (US), Keiji Nio (JP), Eduardo and Mariá Eugenia Dávila Portillo (VE), Neil and Fran Prince (US), Simone Pheulpin (FR), Willa Rogers (NZ), Toshiko Takeazu (US), Noriko Takimaya (JP), Gary Trentham (US), Hisako Sekijima (JP), Karyl Sisson (US), Jin-Sook So (KO), Polly Sutton (US), Katherine Westphal (US), Dawn Walden (US), Gizella Warburton (UK) and Jiro Yonezawa (JP) (list in progress)

Each segment of the exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalog.

Gallery Dates/Hours:
Saturday, Oct 7th: 11AM to 6PM [Opening & Artist Reception]
Sunday, Oct 8th: 11AM to 5PM (40 visitors/ hour)
Monday, Oct 9th - Saturday, Oct 14th: 10AM to 5PM (40 visitors/ hour)
Sunday, Oct 15th: 11AM to 5PM [Final Day] (40 visitors/ hour)

Venue:
Browngrotta Arts
276 Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06897

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vignettes-one-venue-three-exhibitions-tickets-679582067257

Safety protocols: Eventbrite reservations strongly encouraged • No narrow heels please (barn floors)

For more details https://browngrotta.com/exhibitions/vignettes.