ETERNAL HARVEST
October 5 - November 30, 2024
"Eternal Harvest" is an exhibition that honors the evolving landscape and its cycles of change. Featuring works by New England-based artists Neil Berger, Clark Derbes, and Lydia Jenkins Musco, the show reflects on the powerful forces that shape our surroundings—both natural and man-made. From the steady rhythm of the seasons to the impact of human intervention, the exhibition explores how time and nature transform the landscape in visible and invisible ways.
Neil Berger’s work captures the quiet intensity of nature through his oil paintings and prints, created with profound awe and reverence for the natural world. Inspired by his walks and wanderings, Berger’s pieces convey a mood that is "quiet but alert," drawing viewers to experience nature’s raw beauty. Influenced by poets like Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot, Berger’s work embodies a love for the landscape that is both passionate and introspective.
Clark Derbes, known primarily for his dynamic, polychrome wooden sculptures, offers a fresh perspective with a selection of new oil on wood landscape paintings. His vibrant colors and bold forms bring a playful yet meditative energy to the exhibition, bridging the gap between traditional landscape painting and contemporary art.
Lydia Jenkins Musco’s concrete sculptures provide a powerful commentary on the accumulation of time, growth, and memory. Her work, constructed from layers of integrally pigmented hand-cast concrete, create moveable, stackable forms, mirroring the process of moving through time and the slow transformation of the landscape. Musco’s sculptures are both grounded and dynamic, reflecting her deep engagement with the material and her quest to understand the world through making.
"Eternal Harvest" invites viewers to reflect on the beauty of change and the cycles of life and death that are inherent in both the natural world and our own lives. It is a love letter to the landscape; a celebration of the ephemeral and the eternal, and the profound connection we have to the land that surrounds us.
Neil Berger
March Cemetery, 2007
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 44”
Neil Berger
Summer Road, 2006
Oil on canvas
30 x 24”
Neil Berger
LaPlatte River (October), 2023
Oil on canvas
24 x 30”
Neil Berger
Dam Building (LaPlatte River), 2023
Oil on canvas
18.5 x 24”
Neil Berger
Lake Champlain Cliffs, 2017
Oil on canvas
22 x 28”
Neil Berger
Along the Lamoille, 2010
Oil on canvas
28 x 34”
Clark Derbes
Covered Bridge, 2024
Oil on panel
21.5 x 31”
Clark Derbes
Bubblegum Clouds, 2024
Oil on panel
21 x 34.75”
Clark Derbes
Lake Dunmore, 2024
Oil on panel
22.5 x 28.5”
Clark Derbes
Lavender Cloud Party, 2024
16 x 16”
Oil on panel
Clark Derbes
Blue Heron, 2024
Oil on panel
20 x 48”
Clark Derbes
Bartlett’s, 2024
Oil on maple ply
22.5 x 31.5”
Clark Derbes
Shelburne Vineyard,2024
Oil on panel
21.5 x 21.5”
Clark Derbes
Monkton Ash Tree, 2024
Oil on panel
21.5 x 21.5”
Clark Derbes
Black Column, 2024
Carved driftwood
59” H, (8.75”W base)
Clark Derbes
Time Traveler (Portrait in Blue), 2023
Carved polychromed maple
11 x 20 x 3”
Lydia Jenkins Musco
Log and Timber, 2024
Hand cast concrete and hemlock timber
13.5 x 13 x 10”
Lydia Jenkins Musco
Log and Timber, 2024
Hand cast concrete and hemlock timber
13.5 x 13 x 10”
Lydia Jenkins Musco
Log and Timber, 2024
Hand cast concrete and hemlock timber
13.5 x 13 x 10”
Lydia Jenkins Musco
Sight 15- 02 2024
Integrally pigmented hand cast concrete
30.5 x 8.5 x 4”
Lydia Jenkins Musco
Sight 15- 02 2024 (detail)
Integrally pigmented hand cast concrete
30.5 x 8.5 x 4”
Lydia Jenkins Musco
Third Unconformity, 2020
Integrally pigmented hand cast concrete
67 x 20 x 10” (pictured on indoor wood base)
Lydia Jenkins Musco
09-02-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5 x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
10-14-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5" x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
11-18-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5" x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
10-03-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5" x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
09-08-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5" x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
11-01-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5" x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
10-19-2022
Concrete pigment on Yupo paper
5" x 5"
Lydia Jenkins Musco
11-30-2022
5" x 5"