CX Silver Gallery presents Gordon Jones’ landscapes in a show entitled ‘Souvenirs’ (http://cxsilvergallery.com/gordon-jones) opening Sunday September 21 and running until next March together with a catalog available at the Gallery and online (magcloud.com/browse/issue/803321, gray preview button located just under book cover image).
All welcome to the exhibition opening reception, Sunday September 21, 1-4pm at 814 Western Avenue. Gallery hours, otherwise, are by appointment, (802) 257-7898 ext. 2 or (802) 579-9088.
“I paint mainly landscapes, and these are often landscapes of the mind — what Corot called ‘souvenirs.’ He meant freewheeling remembrances, not snapshots to take home from a vacation. Many of my remembrances have, indeed, settings perhaps best forgotten — times of grim weather, of cloggy mud and wet feet, of ruined and rutted roads. The early spring melt is the season I love best. I love the brave way last year’s yellow-orange grass smirks through the first streaks in the melt. — and I love too the later stage which Tennyson knew so well: “Now fades the last long streak of snow.” Then again, I love water, liquid or frozen — oceans and puddles, ponds and lakes — and the reflections we find in the depths of its surface. They are often our own reflections, of course, and I don’t mean of the kind favored by Narcissus. I mean rather the capacity of the settled or turbid surface of water to bring us to our own depths.” – Gordon Jones
updated link to the catalog
The correct link to the catalog, Souvenirs: Landscapes by Gordon Jones, is:
http://magcloud.com/browse/issue/803321. Instead of clicking the hyperlink, above, in the story, try copying the link and pasting it into your address bar. Otherwise, Chris or Lise, could you relink using http://magcloud.com/browse/issue/803321 instead of what’s currently in there. Thank you!
Sunday afternoon’s reception is a chance to meet the artist and view these luminous works up close.
Cheers, Adam Silver