Veiled Lineage

Veiled Lineage

December 19—February 14, 2009
Veiled Lineage features two Vermont artists investigating concepts of ancestry, heritage and tradition; using sculpture, painting, and installation. Jerry Geier’s assembly of sculptures, or totems, feature carved faces of wood and clay derived from indigenous and modern societies. The totems are hollowed and act as functional drums. Terry Hauptman’s Songline Scrolls feature colorful multi-cultural processions on wall-sized scrolls of paper. These scrolls are a metaphor for life, representing a continual unfolding revelation of change and celebration. In this 400th anniversary of European arrival in the Champlain Valley, this exhibit highlights our evolving notions of cultural and spiritual identity, and exposes the paradox of searching for meaning in the very same cultures that were supplanted by our own colonialist history.
www.jerrygeier.com
www.terryhauptman.com

Also featured in the Gallery:

Landmarks
Artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, bring a poetic and playful sensibility to the complex questions of post-colonialist politics, artistic activism and indigenous restitution within the disputed landscape of Vieques, a small Island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Emerging from their involvement with the successful civil disobedience campaign ending the US military’s weapons testing and occupation of the island in 2003 their films take the viewer on unconventional journeys through landscapes charged with political meaning. By transforming everyday objects—a moped with a trumpet attached to its exhaust in Returning a Sound, 2004 or a negotiation table transformed into a boat with an outboard motor in Under Discussion, 2005—Allora and Calzadilla explore the role of the artist to question and challenge authority.

See.Think.Do!
January 5-February 13, 2009
As part of this exhibition, BCA’s Gallery Education Program, See.Think.Do! invites youth and adults to the Firehouse Center for an interactive arts experience. Visits last approximately 1–1.5 hours and begin in the gallery with open-ended questioning, discussion and hands-on activities. Visits conclude in the studio classroom where students will create their own original artwork to take home. To schedule a visit, please contact Katie A. Nelson, Gallery Educator at 802.865.7551 or knelson@ci.burlington.vt.us
Location: Firehouse Gallery