BRATTLEBORO — Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main Street, presents “David Rohn: As I See It,” an exhibition of watercolors and oil paintings, opening with an artist reception Saturday, May 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. The show continues through June 9, and all are invited to an artist talk scheduled for Saturday, June 17, at 5 p.m.
Rohn was the anchor and chairman of the Windham College art department. Upon the college's closing, he taught in New Jersey and New York, but maintained his studio in Putney. He has shown in the United States and abroad, and has been a longtime exhibitor at Mitchell-Giddings.
Whether in Rohn's still-life watercolors or oils, states a news release, “a singular vision is suggested within the balance of broadly painted open passages of color and casually placed household objects, a shared compositional structure.” The artist says he feels the harmony is already present; it's his gift and insight which transform the informal, personal observation into a rich and collectively shared experience.
“The marvelous paradox is that in painting the small and ordinary objects of his everyday life, Rohn endows them with an extraordinary vitality, making them larger than they really are,” wrote Richard Muhlberger in David Rohn's Watercolors: 1969–1984. “We are grateful to him for having found an imaginative and richly contradictory truth inherent in these objects - the rare wonder of their everyday existence, the great and enduring qualities of their fleeting forms.”
The gallery is open Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call 802-251-8290, email info@mitchellgiddingsfinearts.com, or visit mitchellgiddingsfinearts.com.