Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Julie Y Baker Albright

Over the last eight months, Albright was engaged in a kind of Frog Hollow meta-project: She borrowed bowls, vases and other items from the Burlington craft center and used them as still-life subjects for her oil paintings. Both the paintings and the objects are now displayed side by side in a show called “Painted Holidays” at Frog Hollow. A former potter, Albright evidently has a soft spot for pottery, though these days she paints exclusively. “While the objects I choose to paint are often common,” she writes in an artist statement, “they manifest an uncommon beauty when the cool, north light caresses them, and the warmth of the shadows engulf them.” Through December 31. Pictured: “Nathaniel Hawthorne.”