posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Please join us for the opening reception of new paintings by Johnson, Vermont based artist Joseph Salerno. FOREST RECOLLECTION, a group of fifty paintings created over the past three years, allow a viewer to behold a subtle yet profound rumination on landscape and how the act of looking and creation weave and bob over time. Haunting, resonant Vermont forests, drenched in mist or glowing with ethereal light, wind an elegant trail through the gallery. Each piece adds a soft, unique voice to the observation of natural landscape, allowing a viewer to pull close to intricate details in an individual work while also regarding the series from a wider lens, absorbing landscape as a growing collection of facets and subtleties.
FOREST RECOLLECTION is an exhibition that wanders into memory with paint used as both a cloak and a window. Moving through these works calls to painting's ability to live on the edges of abstraction and representation, like watching a film set to slow motion or paused for a moment in soft focus. The resounding feeling is one of landscape as a place that relates to the outside world yet also exists in the depths of our most essential thoughts. Landscape painting becomes recalled space, a bridge between its place in the world and the place it lives in our minds. A reception for FOREST RECOLLECTION will be held Saturday, September 15 from 3pm-6pm with an artist talk at 4pm. The exhibition will be on view through October 28.
Ben Finer
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Director
Aidron Duckworth Art Museum
21 Bean Rd.
Meriden, NH
603.469.3444posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Woods Edge 2.3.18 has been selected by juror John Yau for inclusion in the 2018 Summer Juried Exhibition at
Blue Mountain Gallery
530 West 25th Street, New York, NYJuly 10 - 28, 2018
Reception: Thursday, July 12, 5:00 - 8:00pm
posted on Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Upcoming Exhibition:
Woods Edge 11.18.16 has been selected by juror Betty Cunningham for inclusion in the
2018 Juried Exhibition at
Blue Mountain Gallery
530 West 25th St
New York, NYJanuary 2 - 27, 2018
Reception: Thursday January 4, 5 - 8pmposted on Sunday, December 3, 2017
Current Exhibition:Woods Edge 11.18.15 has been selected by juror John Stromberg, director of the Hood Museum of Art, for inclusion in
ArtsConnect at Catamount Arts
Catamount Arts Center
St Johnsbury, VTDecember 2, 2017 - February 16, 2018
posted on Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Recent Exhibition:
Connection: The Art of Coming Together
Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, VTposted on Thursday, April 20th, 2017
posted on Monday, May 29th, 2017
Woods Edge 10.13.16 has been selected by juror Kyle Staver for exhibition in the 2017 Bowery Gallery National Competition.
August 1-19, 2017
Reception 5-8pm, Thursday August 3Bowery Gallery
530 West 25th St, 4th Floor,
New York, NY 10001posted on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Woods Edge 9.15.16.2 has been selected by juror Stuart Shils for inclusion in the Ninth National Juried Exhibition at
Prince Street Gallery
530 West 25th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10001The Opening Reception will be Saturday, July 15, 2017 from 3 - 6pm. The exhibition runs from Tuesday, July 11 through July 29. On Friday, July 14 at 6 pm, Stuart Shils will be giving a gallery talk.
Recent Exhibition
Woods EdgeFurchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
86 Falls Road, Shelburne, Vermont
April 14 - May 23, 2017There will be an Artist Talk and Reception on Thursday, May 11 at 4:30pm.
Recent Exhibition
Woods Edge
Vermont Studio Center Red Mill Gallery
80 Pearl Street
Johnson, VermontFebruary 26 - March 19, 2017
Opening Reception: Wednesday March 1, 5 - 7:30pmRecent Exhibition:
Being Present
Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
Shelburne, VT
July 15 – September 13, 2016posted on Wednesday, January 6th
Recent Exhibition
Dark Woods
Vermont Studio Center Gallery II
80 Pearl Street
Johnson, VT
January 16 -February 6, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, Jan 21, 4-8pmReview: SevenDays
Recent Exhibiton:
Woods Edge 11.5.14 has been selected as part of:
Strange Paradise
2015 National Juried Exhibition
juried and curated by Steven Harvey
First Street Gallery
526 W 26th Street, New York, NY
June 25 - July 18, 2015
Opening reception: June 27, 3-5pmRECENT EXHIBITION:
Back to Nature
(with Karen Henderson, Jill Madden and Gowri Savoor)
Vermont Metro Gallery
at the BCA Center
135 Church Street
Burlington, VT
April 10 - June 21, 2015Celebrate the beauty of the Vermont landscape through a collection of work that reinterprets our connection with place over time. By using a particular place as inspiration each artist is unveiling nature's ever changing beauty through the focused and repetitive study. Through this exploration we can witness the changing landscape and the artist’s changing point of view. Featuring work by Karen Henderson, Jill Madden, Joe Salerno, and Gowri Savoor.
Review: Seven DaysRECENT EXHIBITIONS:
Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
Shelburne, VT
November 22, 2014 - January 30, 2015Julie Heller East
465 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
August 1 - 14, 2014
Opening reception: Friday, August 1, 7 - 9pmHawthorne 2.16.12 was selected for inclusion in:
2014 National Juried Exhibition
Jed Perl, juror
First Street Gallery
526 W 26th Street, New York, NY
June 26 - July 19, 2014
Opening reception: June 28, 3-5pmSummer Selections
Ober Gallery
Kent, CT
Stormy Weather
The S.P.A.C.E Gallery
Burlington, VT
March 1-30, 2013
Reception: Friday, March 1, 5-9pm
First Friday Art WalkRIDGELINE
new paintings by Joseph SalernoJulian Scott Memorial Gallery
Dibden Center for the Arts
Johnson State College
Johnson, VTReview: ArtseenVT
January 16 - February 16, 2013
Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, January 31 at 3pm“When Things Fall Apart, the book by spiritual teacher Pema Chodron reflects the moment when a turning point, crisis, or challenge opens a person to a new way of thinking. A moment when we stop seeing things for what we think they are and starts seeing them slower, as they unfold in the present moment without judgment as they are.
Joseph Salerno’s new work investigates the landscape in brief moments as they unfold one panel at a time. These paintings are about getting to the point and stopping when it’s done. The moment of stopping emerges when the paint seems to lift into planes and layers of color. Each multi-panel painting becomes many things at once: a personal experience, a gesture, a moment, a landscape. And while everything changes in the course of observing the land day after day, hour after hour, moment after moment, one element endures: ridgeline. The title of this new body of work, “Ridgeline” becomes the heartbeat of these paintings pulling them together thematically just at the point where the sky meets the land.”
Leila Bandar
Director, Julian Scott Memorial Gallery
25th Annual Art at the Coach Barn
Shelburne Farms, VT
Oct 18 - November 4, 2012In Our Nature
Erickson Fine Art at Comfort Farm
Stowe, VT
September 14 - October 14, 2012Outside Art: Plein Air+
Oxbow Gallery
Northampton, MA
August 2 - September 2, 2012