SOUTH ROYALTON, Vermont (October 31, 2024) — Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) is pleased to announce the installment of a new exhibition by artist Elizabeth Billings.
The exhibition, on display in the Dean Shirley A. Jefferson Gallery at VLGS through December 31, features large-scale cyanotypes of trees. Each piece was created on watercolor paper treated with cyanotype then exposed to the sun, rinsed in water to stop the exposure, dried, cut into strips and then woven back together.
“It’s kind of the long way around the barn, you might say. The tree silhouettes go from apple on the library end of the gallery to maple at the other end,” said Billings. “The maple saplings to echo the hanging sculpture across the hallway. The tree ring pieces are drawings on vellum which are then used like contact prints on the cyanotype paper.”
The exhibition joins other permanent sculptures installed throughout campus.
Billings is the first artist-in-residence of The Nature Conservancy in Vermont. Learn more about her work at www.instagram.com/elizabethbillingsstudio.
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