The widely admired hand-painted bowls of Peggy Potter are alive and well in our craft section of the gallery.  Lea Tyler (now residing in Colorado) learned the craft and designs as the business transitioned into Tyler’s capable hands. These gorgeous bowls are useful, enduring, and stylistically unique. They offer themselves as an excellent gift; wedding season is upon us in Vermont!  

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Words Unspoken“, an exhibit exploring mark-making as a form of language or pre-language. From invented calligraphy and pattern sequencing, to the use of traditional writing formats to display fabricated words, this exhibit suggests we take a more open, intuitive,  and playful approach to what we call language.  Participating artists are Sara Abalan, Miriam Adams, Janet Fredericks, Linda E. Jones, Ria Lap, Sally Linder, and Nancy Weis. The exhibit opens with a public reception with the artists on Thursday, June 4, and runs through July 14, 2015. All are welcome to the reception, as well as gallery browsing during regular hours.

April 17th through May 26th, 2015 “Interpreting the Surface” will exhibit a variety of work by participating artists: Jackie Abrams, Rosalind Daniels, Elizabeth Fram, Marilyn Gillis, Catherine Hall, Karen Henderson, Karen Kamenetzky, and Dianne Shullenberger. The exhibit opens with a public reception with the artists on Friday, April 17th, 5:30-7:30 p.m. All are welcome to the reception, as well as gallery browsing during regular hours. The 1970s in the United States and abroad heralded a renewed interest in craft techniques and materials for personal expression and aesthetic awareness. In textiles, this resurgence of interest sparked the creation of fiber programs in colleges and universities.The emphasis on weaving and other forms of fiber construction, however, overlooked the attention being paid to…

It is always a pleasure to welcome new work to our gallery. Here’s a glimpse of H.M. Saffer’s work. As always, we suggest that you visit the gallery in person to enjoy the fullness of the paintings!   Artist’s Biography: Born July 18, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, H.M. Saffer II launched his career by exhibiting his art at a public art show at the tender age of six. Upon graduation from Temple University in 1965, he traveled to Paris, France to enroll in graduate economics courses. Concurrently, HM’s path took a different twist, as he soon leveraged his musical talent performing with notable French stars Hugues Aufray, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, and many others. He was later hired by Barclay…

We’d like to share some of the steps that went into the framing of this beautifully beaded, Native American, wedding dress. This dress was made during the 1st world war. The groom to be was killed in the war, so the dress was never worn. The bead work is just amazing. The 100 year old leather is really tough, we broke a few needles sewing this one onto the backing! The moulding is locally milled and hand finished by us. It is always an honor to work on precious artifacts and artwork for our appreciative customers.

November 22, 2014 – January 31, 2015 Our current group show features the work of Robert Klein 1924-2002 along with 18 other artists. Robert Klein painted in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in the 1980’s and 90’s, capturing the architecture of light on common buildings, old cars, factories, and storefronts. “Although there is a lot of breathtaking natural beauty in the Northeast Kingdom, I am not interested in painting pastoral scenes. There is too much of this idyllic stuff. Life in the Northeast Kingdom is a difficult life. I want to paint things the way they are.” The exhibit also includes the work of Bonnie Acker, Elizabeth Allen, Frysch Dutson & Edsën Lüters, Carolyn Enz Hack, Janet Fredericks, Josie Furchgott Sourdiffe, Steven…

This is a shadowbox frame we built for a collection of antique stirrups, a holster and pistol. The customer wanted to be able to remove the pistol and stirrups. We made the frame with a door and made hangers so the items could easily be removed. A faux suede fabric and olive veneer moulding with silver accent extend the style of the antiques and create an excellent display.

September 19 – October 28, 2014 Opening reception Friday, September 19th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Elizabeth Allen received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1972 where she spent her last year in Rome studying the Italian masters. She continued studying with American Master painters at the Art Students League of New York where she gained a classical foundation in painting the figure, portraiture and still life. Her move to Vermont in 1989 opened a whole new world of landscape painting, as only Vermont can. Her award winning paintings have been published in 2 books by International Artist “How to Paint Landscapes” and “How to Paint Still Life and Flowers”. Her painting was also included in Verve…

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Summer Horizons: New Vermont Paintings by Bonnie Acker” The exhibit opens with a public reception with the artist on Friday, August 8th, 5:30-7:30 p.m., and will run through September 16th. All are welcome to the reception, as well as gallery browsing during regular hours. Acker’s work is joyously rendered, and reflects her multifaceted approach to life: “I wear many hats, all of them colorful and connected to the communities around me! When I glean time for creating landscapes … I am painting at the kitchen table – or pastelling outside in warmer weather …I am alone, focused, looking inward, bringing up the courage to make my mark. The rest of…

Please join us at our reception on Saturday June 28th, 5 – 7 pm, to celebrate the beginning of our bountiful Vermont summer! re·nas·cence  noun: the revival of something that has been dormant  

The conservation and restoration of this state seal was entrusted to our skilled conservators, Brad Sourdiffe and Randy Smith. Here is a glimpse of the process of  stabilizing, cleaning, and restoring this unique, historical piece.

Our upcoming exhibit opens with a reception with the artists on Friday, May 16, 6-8 p.m., and will run through June 24. Originally developed in the 17th century, monotypes are unique prints, sometimes created by running a zinc plate through a press multiple times, each time inked with different colors and shapes to achieve a layered quality. Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals. Also known as the most painterly method among the printmaking techniques, a monoprint is essentially a printed painting.The beauty of this medium is also in its spontaneity and its combination of printmaking, painting and drawing media.The difference between…

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Preserving the Past: Artfully Framed Antique Prints and Botanicals” which will run April 12-May 13, 2014. The decorative art of framing antique prints draws on many traditional and handcrafted techniques that have become as rare as the prints themselves.The prints range from a hand-colored Curtis engraving of a dandelion dating from 1795 to a German chromolithograph of butterflies, bees, and insects from 1894. Other images include rare fruits and birds, bugs, poultry and early Vt. settlers at work. Exquisite and labor intensive french mats with hand-drawn ink lines, marbelized papers, gold leaf and painted panels showcase these hand-colored engravings and early lithographs superbly. These techniques, which draw on a framer’s…

We are pleased to announce the opening of “Differences in Moments:  Recent Paintings by David Smith,” which will run September 27 to November 9, 2013. An opening reception will take place Friday, September 27th from 6-8 pm.  The exhibit features Peacham, VT based artist David Smith’s compelling landscape works in oil, in which he explores the possibilities of a scene through his imagination, and invites the viewer to do the same. “I’m not a storyteller, but I sometimes consider myself a fiction painter.  I use fictional visual images from memory.  Different imagined scenes incorporated into paintings to portray a truth.  Oil paint covers well.  The new day and a new session might make yesterday’s painting entirely different.  What happened?  Did I…

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Double Vision: Paintings by Steven P. Goodman and Cameron Schmitz, which will run August 23 to September 24, 2013 . An opening reception with the artists will take place Friday August 30th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.  The exhibit features two regional artists’ response to the landscape that inspires them. Bernardston, MA based artist Cameron Schmitz’s work, which includes painting, drawing, printmaking and photography, has been featured at Fitchburg Art Museum’s biannual exhibition, New England/New Talent, Green Mountain College, Kyoto Seika University, Emory University, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, and Rogue Space in Chelsea, New York.   Schmitz finds much of her inspiration in the landscape. “Whether walking through the forest,…

June 28 – August 13 Our 22nd annual Summer group show features a great selection of artists! Reception:  June 28, 6-­8 p.m. We are excited to partner with award winning Lincoln Peak Vineyard to offer a special chance for you to try their newly released 2012 wines while surrounded by great art!  Wine tastings, wine by the glass, and by the bottle available. This year’s show features Hudson Valley based photographer Jeri Lynn Eisenberg, whose work focuses on the natural beauty of ordinary scenes near her home.  “It is, rather, the common wooded landscape of my day to day life that captures my attention.”  Of her method, she says, “The very soft­focused, painterly images are printed digitally on Japanese Kozo paper, with the barest hint of…

Artists Dick and Nancy Weis of Castleton, VT each have their own inspiration, style and medium, but this upcoming show puts their work side by side and invites viewers to make connections.  The couple formed Otherweis Limited in 1974 as an umbrella for their various art activities, including their studio work in painting, drawing, printmaking, fibers, handmade paper and installation, as well as their work as artist-educators. With graduate training at American University and George Washington University as a foundation, they have exhibited and taught in many locations throughout the United States and abroad. Richard Weis has an affinity for the land that is rooted in his Northern Minnesota origins where the family’s hunting, logging, and seasonal work was a…

John Douglas studied a little art and architecture briefly at Harvard, served in the U.S. Army, and moved to Vermont in the early 1960′s. He worked as a documentary filmmaker both independently and with the Newsreel media collective. After 10 years in NYC he came back to VT in the mid-80′s and began to work exclusively in computer graphic imaging (CGI): 3D modeling, animation and digital prints. His critically regarded and academically respected film work of the 1960′s pursued the political conflicts of the era, reaching from Civil Rights in Mississippi to the War in North Vietnam. His early 1970′s prize-winning epic narrative “Milestones”, a collaboration with the late Robert Kramer, examined what had become of the hopes, dreams and passion of the…

a beautiful cherry wood, chairside table crafted by Dick Walters of Shelburne

Here is a glimpse of a few steps in this frame’s conservation and restoration process. Click the first image to enlarge and to progress through the restoration.

October 26-November 27, 2012 Brian Sweetland lives and works in Pawlet, Vermont. He travels the state painting outdoors year round in the company of his beloved dogs. “Brian Sweetland’s oil paintings of rural Vermont…have the immediacy of the Impressionist tradition, and there’s an underlying compositional architecture that is careful and deliberate and enduring. His subjects are the threatened landscape, that which is bound to disappear, and he is adept at capturing both its substance and its essence. Pastoral Vermont is depicted lovingly, but not sentimentally…”. Brian Sweetland was born in Wheaton, Minnesota in 1952 and was raised in Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1977, his sketches caught the attention of Dean Fausett, a prominent portrait, landscape and mural painter,…

Exhibition Dates: September 21–- October 23, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, September 21, 6-8 p.m. Dianne Shullenberger works in two distinctive mediums that both uniquely convey the intricate details found in natural objects and the outside world. Her detailed colored pencil drawings on black paper capture the luminosity that a photograph cannot easily convey. The fabric collages, composed of infinitely shifting shades of silk and other fabrics, transport one into the dimensionality and depth of nature, yet they have a playful surface quality that engages the viewer in a more abstract manner. Shullenberger says of her work: “The places I go, the outdoor activities I do are major influences in my fiber and colored pencil work. I have always wanted my…

Abbey Meaker and Amanda Zackem create works that remain mysterious, even as they confront the viewer with a striking immediacy. Both artists’ works suggest narratives, yet refuse a single storyline. Instead, they drift on a dark current; like chapters unbound from the novel’s arc, these images hover, loosed from the imperative to resolve in a denoument. They retain the intensity of a plotline without succumbing to its linear progression, instead unfurling in a liminal space between storytelling and secret-keeping. Curated by Amy Rahn as part of Furchgott Sourdiffe’s Guest Curator program. Join us for the opening reception August 17!

Coming up July13th-August 14th, we will be showing “BIRD”, with work by Don Hanson, Valerie Hird, Beth Robinson, and Adelaide Tyrol. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, July 13th, 6-8 p.m. Adelaide Tyrol is the curator for this exhibit which explores the bird kingdom through reality, myth, fantasy, and intuition. Here is how she describes the show: “All four artists in this exhibition look well beyond the avian bird form and  deep into an exploration of how birds are part of our collective psyche. Since the beginning of time – through art, science, mythology, childhood memories, and daily life,-birds have populated our explanations of the world. The desire to imbue birds with supernatural powers is a universal one…

Here are some of the pieces represented in this vibrant group show that includes work by 16 artists, some new and some already familiar to our gallery audience. An updated list of artists represented includes Bonnie Acker, Mary Alcantara, Annelein Beukenkamp, Clark Derbes, Kevin Fahey, Betsy Fram, Kerry Furlani, Steven P. Goodman, Kathleen Kolb, Virginia McNeice, Kevin Ruell, Gail Salzman, David Smith, Brian Sweetland, Arleen Targan, Dick Weis, Frank Woods, and Ann Young. The exhibit will be up through July 10, 2012.

Here’s a link to Janet Frederick’s amazing journal to be published with donations to Kickstarter:

    At Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery May 4 – June 5, 2012 reception on Friday May 4, 6-8 p.m. At Select Design, (208 Flynn Ave # 1A Burlington, 802- 864-9075) May 4 – June 30 reception on Friday May 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m.