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“De Natura Libris” will be on display through January 10, 2025

Main Gallery

Álvaro Alejandro López’s photographic series “De Natura Libris” portrays the interactions we have with books; both physical and abstract.

The corporeity of a book is recorded through its structures, textures, forms, and signs of use.

Experiences are ultimately individual, evoked by any number of attributes: the content of a book, its textures and smells, the memories it awakens, or simply the aesthetic beauty of its parts.

By reading and using books, people create ties. As each journey through a book is personal, so is the interpretation of these photographs.

The photographs have been paired with pieces of writing that have been inspired by López’s work. The artist credits the following writers as collaborators to his collection, among others:

Salman Rushdie, Anne Carson, Orhan Pamuk, Joanna Kavenna, George Szirtes, Ruth Padel, Lawrence Norfolk, John Banville, Philip Gross, Forrest Gander, Yann Martel, Alberto Manguel, Joan Leedom Ackerman, Sven Birkerts, Ana Blandiana, Roger Chartier, Jacqueline Woodson, Paul Auster, Georgi Gospodinov, Damon Galgut, Lidia Jorge, Enrique Vila Matas, and Yan Lianke.

Photography is a form of relationship with the poiesis of every day. It is a way to conjugate our time with the rhythm of the cloud reader. –Álvaro Alejandro López

Álvaro Alejandro López is from Mexico City, Mexico and worked in the publishing industry. Recently, he began to exhibit his personal photographic projects. Some have been presented in Mexico, the United States of America, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Iceland, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. He has been selected as one of the winners of the Arte en la Red Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, and received honorable mention at the ND Awards.

Youth Gallery

The Youth Gallery exhibit featuring Long Trail School student artists will be on display from November 9th through December 7th, 2024. 

Upcoming Exhibits

Main Gallery

Jackie Evans’ mixed media exhibition will be on display from January 17th through March 16th, 2025. More information TBA.

Youth Gallery

After spending some time drawing the landscape and gardens around our school, 1st and 2nd graders created their own imaginary gardens using drawing and painting materials. For inspiration we read and analyzed the artwork in these children’s books: 

Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wahl 

My Garden by Kevin Henkes 

The Night Gardener by the Terry & Eric Fan

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner & Christopher Silas Neal. 

Lastly, students focused on bringing back little details in their artwork that might have been lost a bit from the watercolor paint. Materials used include pencil, watercolor pencils, crayons, markers, and watercolor paint.

Maple Street School’s “Imaginary Gardens” will be on display in the MCL Youth Gallery from December 13th through February 1st, 2025.

Contact

To get information about The Gallery or pitch an exhibition, contact Paige Vignola at pvignola@mclvt.org or (802) 549-4574.