Andrea P. Rosen Writing

Vanessa Compton: A Night at the Garden
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
May 2024 – April 2025

In the exhibition Vanessa Compton: A Night at the Garden at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, the artist’s collages have been flattened into giant reproductions, and yet given a new sense of dimension with their incorporation into the museum’s facade….

Compton’s work strikes a rare balance, and one we are all struggling with now. She confronts, with honesty, with little fear, the extreme inequalities rooted in our past that are being constantly perpetuated, and yet she holds onto hope for a future as bright as a Vermont summer sky.

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