As a photographer and visual artist, Blewer explores a variety of photographic media that derive from silver-print black and white and hand-colored images of agricultural structures. Represented in this exhibition are many photographs enhanced by oil paint to produce “a hand-tinted time-captured image,” according to the announcement.
Blewer employs such traditional photographic processes using Kodak’s 35mm infrared film to create particular visual effects.
In Blewer’s words: “I’m not the sort to live my life based on a bumper sticker, but one stuck with me as I realized that technology was forcing me to re-imagine everything I have done or may do next as an artist: ‘Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.’ And isn’t growth what every artist strives for? I remain confident that I’ll be able to create new and different work as long as the fates allow. The material matters. But so does the vision.”
Born in New York City, Blewer is a graduate of Smith College. She continued her studies, refining her art at The New School in New York City, the International Center of Photography, the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, and at the University of Vermont. She moved to Vermont in the late 1980s.
Blewer’s work has been shown and published widely and she has won many national and regional awards. She lives in Weybridge with her husband, author Chris Bohjalian.
The exhibition runs through June 28. Gallery hours are weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., (closed noon-1 p.m.).
An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 5, from 4 to 7 p.m.
More information: curator.vermont.gov/vermont-supreme-court-gallery.
