Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Leslie Parke

In the past, Leslie Parke has painted piles of gold-rimmed china and heaps of plastic bottles compacted for recycling. In her new show, “Chrysalis,” at Green Mountain College’s Feick Fine Arts Center, however, the upstate New York painter turns her focus to Adam and Eve. Her sensual paintings evoke feelings of shame, expulsion, interdependence and transformation, as well as iconic images of the Edenic couple by painters past. “My early work was all about appropriation, working with images from Matisse, Ingres and Giotto,” writes Parke. “Now art-historical references are just the filter through which I see the world.” Through November 11. Pictured: “Androgyn.”