The Collectors Show Series presents an annual exhibition that explores the relationship between collectors and their collections, and how their experience drives interplay and interaction among participants in the arts.

The Collectors Show 1

July 15 – August 22, 2010

Artists' Discussion – July 17th, 3 pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, July 17, 5-7 pm

Till that her garmets, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
—Gertrude, Hamlet, 4.7

Till that Her Garmets
Rosamond Purcell
2010, 10 x 17 3/8 inches
archival ink-jet print

The Collectors Show 1
Each of these collections explores new avenues in the definition and understanding of what is fine art; demonstrating that a depth of commitment to one's passions is the key element in establishing that expanding definition, and in extending the influence of the fine arts.

Collectors and Collections included in the show:
Félix de la Concha – Portrait of a Vermont Collector: Margaret Lampe Kannenstine
Marcy Hermansader – One Thousand Subtractions: Security Envelopes and Photographs, Interwoven
HOFF Hoffman – Harmonica Case/Box Collection
John O'Brien – Postcards from Tunbridge: Very Special Deliveries
David Powell – Collected Curiosities: Collage and Assemblage
Rosamond Purcell – Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare
Peter Thomashow – The Wolfson Memorial Laboratory of Colour

The Collectors Show Prints 2010
Special Edition Prints from Rosamond Purcell's Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare– ten photographs from the soon to be published book by the same title, co-authored with Michael Witmore.

The Collectors Show Print Series – for selected exhibitions, offering specially sized unique prints by a featured artist