'Toward Form'

‘Toward Form’ BigTown Gallery in Rochester hosts a three-artist exhibition uniting works by Marcy Hermansader, Rick Skogsberg and Laurie Sverdlove in what curator Anni Mackay calls “a vortex of swirling symbols.” Hermansader’s circular, monochromatic drawings appear sometimes as flora-inflected abysses, providing an inverse to Sverdlove’s rich and deeply textured landscape collages. Self-taught artist Skogsberg’s vibrantly painted shoes disrupt these more somber works. Mackay says she’s showing some of these shoes during Miami Art Week and the Satellite Art Show. Of her current exhibit, Mackay explains, “All three Vermont artists share a deep and abiding interest in color and form.”