Two young artists at the Vermont studio residencies have
taken me a bit by surprise.
Over looking the waters, my sun starved eyes slowly focused
on a new addition to the rock pools. It has been raining a lot here, with
intermittent spots of sunshine, but these bits of color were not here before.
They are the work of Lauren Eve Skelly, a ceramic artist. Skelly
uses clay to emulate nature and has situated her pieces around the residency in
ways to make your eyes open. She just received her masters degree from RISDI in
May and recently served as a moderator on a panel, “MFA: is it worth all this”
at NCECA.
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| clay and mixed media by Skelly |
Devin Balara, a visual artist (and see card), plays with
nature with a decorative and fairly absurd approach, as if committing a domestic remedy or
home improvement on it. Balara does “neighborhood greening”, (temporarily covering
parking lots and outdoor areas with green bath rugs), and upholstery bombing,
adding ruffled seat cushions to tree stumps. From Tampa Florida, Devin is exactly half my age and she is
a bad ass.
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| Upholstery bombing by Balara |
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