Opening Reception: April Exhibitions

Join us for the opening reception of Linda Lesslie Brown's Circulations in the Main Gallery, Bonnie Sennott's Noise Antidote in the Center Gallery, and Vaughn Sills' Still in the Project Space Gallery.

Light refreshments will be provided along with the chance to talk to Linda, Bonnie, and Vaughn about their exhibitions!

In Circulations, Linda Leslie Brown’s sculptures explore the transformative exchanges between nature, objects, and the viewer’s creative perception. The works are rich with allusions to the body, while simultaneously evoking a new, transgenic nature—one where corporeal and mechanical entities merge and recombine. The sculptures suggest a world that is both fluid and uncertain, where the boundaries between organic and synthetic are porous and ever-shifting. Many of the pieces are intimate in scale, not much larger than a human head and shoulders, inviting a close, personal engagement that is both delightful and unsettling. This new body of work both recapitulates and deepens Brown’s earlier forms and obsessions, reflecting the continuity and evolution of her artistic practice.

Her work deliberately turns away from overt gestures of mastery or polish. Instead, it speaks through a language of bending, breaking, and mending. Discontinuity and disruption are intrinsic to the making process, and these sculptures bear the traces of physical destruction, as if they have endured and withstood the forces that threatened to pull them apart. Yet within this fragility, there is humor: a flickering smile at the collapsed forms, a recognition of their resilience. The sculptures present themselves as entities that persist—clinging, broken, but still thriving.

Bonnie Sennott’s abstract embroidery offers an antidote to the constant noise of social media, news, texts, and emails—coming from screens and devices of all sizes. It also provides a reprieve from the ongoing chatter of our busy minds. The small, meditative works in Noise Antidote invite viewers to slow down, enter a quiet space, and take a break from the noise.

Sennott creates each piece slowly, through a process of improvisation and discovery. The works are embroidered with Valdani pearl cotton thread on linen, which Sennott occasionally dyes with walnuts or oak galls she collects while out in nature. Rather than working from sketches or a fixed plan, she allows each composition to evolve organically. A piece is complete when the accumulation of stitches, shapes, and colors achieves a sense of equilibrium. Equally important to the embroidery are the unworked, negative spaces, which contribute to the feeling of lightness and ease—spaces where the eye can rest and the mind can breathe.

The work in Still is a collection of photographs culled from years of Vaughn Sills' time spent photographing on Prince Edward Island. While Sills has long used her camera to reflect on her mother’s life and her own process of grieving, this subset of images focuses on the land and the rural life that continues to shape it. For the first time, these works are presented at Kingston Gallery.

In Still, Sills explores the stillness both of the photograph itself—the way a moment is suspended in time—and of the land, which holds a quiet, steady beauty. Her photographs reflect a deep reverence for the land and for the rhythms of rural life, implying a connection to the steady work of farming and an enduring respect for the environment.

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