Wes Disney: A Retrospective at the Firehouse Gallery

July 27–September 8, 2007

Wes Disney came of age artistically during a fertile period in American photography. His approach in the early 1970s was characterized by an exploratory impulse in which the camera was seen as a divining tool for self-discovery as well as a way to explore meaning in the external world. Disney relocated to Vermont from New York City in the early 1970s. His photographic work, inspired by Vermont’s landscape, often incorporated collage and painting on the photographic surface. This retrospective exhibition will include Disney’s black and white photographs, watercolor and ink drawings made later in his life, and documentation of his important public artwork A Wall.

This exhibition is sponsored by Seven Days Newspaper, with additional support from Light-Works, Inc & Frames for You and Mona Lisa Too.

Want to know more? Read about the exhibition in this feature story and column in the July 31 issue of Seven Days.

Check out a recent magazine devoted to the artist: www.05401.com

Current hours:Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 12–5pm,
Thursday–Saturday, 12–8pm, Closed Monday

Location: Firehouse Gallery

135 Church Street, next to City Hall

Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Ground Floor

Burlington, VT, 05401

Phone: 802-865-7165

Contact: Amanda Sanfilippo

asanfilippo@ci.burlington.vt.us

Directions: The Firehouse Gallery is located on the street level of the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts in downtown Burlington next to City Hall on the Church Street Marketplace.

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