Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Terry Wendelken

Text from historical texts, old baseball cards and even torn pieces of paint-splattered Seven Days show up in the found-object assemblages on display at Montpelier City Hall through November. Bits of screen in varying sizes of mesh are layered over the two-dimensional ephemera, obscuring, he suggests, “forgotten heroes and lost information.” Wendelken, a recent transplant to Montpelier from Philadelphia, says the 17 works in the exhibit represent his artistic explorations before and since moving here — including the 10-by-14-inch “Red Skull II” pictured here. “I’m trying to break conventional ideas,” he says.