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
603.469.3444

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, NY

July 10 - 28, 2018

Reception: Thursday, July 12, 5:00 - 8:00pm

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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, NY

January 2 - 27, 2018
Reception: Thursday January 4, 5 - 8pm

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, VT

December 2, 2017 - February 16, 2018

Recent Exhibition:

Connection: The Art of Coming Together
Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, VT

Joseph Salerno is the 2017 Avigdor Arikha Memorial International Residency Scholarship recipient at JSS in Civita Castellana, Italy

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 3

Bowery Gallery
530 West 25th St, 4th Floor,
New York, NY 10001

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 10001

The 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.

Woods Edge

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
86 Falls Road, Shelburne, Vermont
April 14 - May 23, 2017

There will be an Artist Talk and Reception on Thursday, May 11 at 4:30pm.

Woods Edge
Vermont Studio Center Red Mill Gallery
80 Pearl Street
Johnson, Vermont

February 26 - March 19, 2017
Opening Reception: Wednesday March 1, 5 - 7:30pm

Recent Exhibition:

Being Present
Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
Shelburne, VT
July 15 – September 13, 2016

Recent Exhibition

Dark Woods
Vermont Studio Center Gallery II
80 Pearl Street
Johnson, VT
January 16 -February 6, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, Jan 21, 4-8pm

Review: 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, 3-5pm

RECENT 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, 2015

Celebrate 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 Days

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
Shelburne, VT
November 22, 2014 - January 30, 2015

Julie Heller East
465 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
August 1 - 14, 2014
Opening reception: Friday, August 1, 7 - 9pm

Hawthorne 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, 3-5pm

Summer 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 Walk

RIDGELINE
new paintings by Joseph Salerno

Julian Scott Memorial Gallery
Dibden Center for the Arts
Johnson State College
Johnson, VT

Review: 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, 2012

In Our Nature
Erickson Fine Art at Comfort Farm
Stowe, VT
September 14 - October 14, 2012

Outside Art: Plein Air+
Oxbow Gallery
Northampton, MA
August 2 - September 2, 2012