Rutland Herald |Vermont artists’ ‘Lineages’: Insight into influences and inspirational forces
Marcie Scudder’s spectacular “Coquelicots” makes a dramatic opening to the exhibition. A red gown of cut, folded and sewn photographs of poppies from her mother’s garden, flows down the gallery’s central staircase.
Scudder’s family history — her mother, Raisel was a Holocaust survivor — is central to her work, as is her mother’s perennial garden, a metaphor to Scudder for human resilience. Scudder photographs the blooms, then cuts, folds and sews flower-like shapes into garment-shaped compositions. Scudder notes influences including Japanese origami and installation artists Chiarhu Shiota and Jacob Hashimoto.
“Marcie Scudder’s spectacular “Coquelicots” makes a dramatic opening to the exhibition. A red gown of cut, folded and sewn photographs of poppies from her mother’s garden, flows down the gallery’s central staircase.
Scudder’s family history — her mother, Raisel was a Holocaust survivor — is central to her work, as is her mother’s perennial garden, a metaphor to Scudder for human resilience. Scudder photographs the blooms, then cuts, folds and sews flower-like shapes into garment-shaped compositions. Scudder notes influences including Japanese origami and installation artists Chiarhu Shiota and Jacob Hashimoto.”
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Invitational Group Exhibit
Where: Southern Vermont Arts Center
860 SVAC Drive; Manchester, VT 05254
When: 5 Oct. 2024 - 23 Feb. 2025
Touch/Don’t Touch - Form + Texture at AVA Gallery
Juried Group Exhibit.
Where: AVA Gallery
11 Bank Street; Lebanon, NH
When: Mar. 1 - Mar. 30, 2024
Where: AVA Gallery
11 Bank Street; Lebanon, NH
Write-up and review by Susan B. Apel.
Stowe Magazine | Winter/Spring 2023-2024
Changing Direction. Marcie Scudder masters art of reinvention.
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Marcie Scudder masters art of reinvention.
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New England Home Magazine | Jan. 2024
New England Home - Artistry.
Exploring new dimensions. Marcie Scudder is on an artistic journey of self discovery. Read more here…
New England Home Magazine’s ‘Artistry’ section.
“Exploring new dimensions. Marcie Scudder is on an artistic journey of self discovery.”
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Arts Review: Seven Days Vermont - 20 Sept. 2023
Seven Days Arts review of Coquelicots as a part of the annual invitational group exhibit: TRACES at the Kent Museum; Art at the Kent. Calais, VT
‘Coquelicots’ - Stowe artist Marcie Scudder’s extravagant dress made from circular cutouts of photos of her mother’s poppies sewn together, is hung in a dramatic swirl in the Kent’s ballroom.
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TRACES | ART at the KENT
Vermont artists explore the elemental.
Details in wax, wood, paint, clay, fabric, metal, and photographs stitch together remnants of experiences, connections, observations, dreams, and discoveries.
Included in this year’s exhibit:
Coquelicots. My Mothers Garden. Mon Hiver. and other photographic works.
Exhibit News: Stowe Reporter - 22 June 2023
Stowe Reporter announcement of The Workroom’s Annual Summer Exhibit
“As the group began making work for its annual summer exhibit, the mantra became “process not perfection,” Scudder said. “Each and every one of us has taken a step outside our comfort zone, embracing experimentation, exploration and play. What the viewer will experience is a multi-media presentation of a year’s artistic work.”
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Arts Review: Seven Days Vermont - 24 May 2023
Seven Days Arts review of My Mother’s Garden as a part of the group exhibit One + One is Greater than Two at Studio Place Arts in Barre, VT.
'“Marcie Scudder’s creation My Mother’s Garden is draped gracefully in the gallery’s front window. It consists of a multitude of circular shapes cut from paper, these printed with images of flowers, and strung together like sculptural kudzu.”
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Arts Review: Times Argus - 20 May 2023
TImes Argust Review of My Mother’s Garden as a part of the group exhibit One + One is Greater than Two at Studio Place Arts in Barre, VT.
Tiny blue forget-me-nots, golden black-eyed Susans, bright white daisies - a profusion of flowers festoon the front of Studio Place Arts’ Main Gallery. The flowers, hundreds of photographed blooms, drape down from the ceiling in gentle curves.
The blooms of Marcie Scudder’s My Mother’s Garden are two-sided photographs, cut into triangular and semicircular pieces, folded and stitched together in hexagonal patterns - somewhat like a quilt. Just as in the garden, up close the individual blossoms are exquisite. Together and abstracted by their rearrangement in Scudder’s work, they’re a summer experience.
My Mother’s Garden is among the artworks of 27 artists in the exhibition: One + One is Greater than Two at Barre’s Studio Place Arts through June 24.
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One + One is More Than Two
Juried Group Exhibit.
Where: Studio Place Arts
201 North Main Street; Barre, VT
When: May 10 - June 24, 2023
Reception/Art Social: Saturday, May 13; 4:30 - 6 pm
My Mother’s Garden was chosen in and among a call for multiple artworks by a single artist that relate to one another as a group. Thematic repetition of pattern, form, shape and color demonstrating a sameness and subtle difference within the work.
Unconditional - An Exhibition About Dogs and Other Beloved Pets
Juried Group Exhibit.
Where: AVA Gallery
11 Bank Street; Lebanon, NH
When: Jan 13 - Feb. 11, 2023
Where: AVA Gallery
11 Bank Street; Lebanon, NH
Sonny & Cher was chosen as a part of an exhibit of the happy and adorable faces of the ones we love so dearly.
Write-up and review by Susan B. Apel.