'What Is Love?'

Poets and philosophers have contemplated the question since at least the Paleolithic. Definitions are broad, from Plato’s insistence that “love is a serious mental disease,” to the Dali Lama’s belief that “love is the absence of judgement.” The five artists in this juried exhibition at the Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland, present their personal interpretations of the ageless question in sculpture, paint and felt. The works of Mary Alcantara, Sue Carey, Don Haynes, Melissa Kristiansen and Liliana Paradiso will be on view until April 9. Pictured: "Afternoon Break," by Liliana Paradiso.