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Pulp painting by Claire Can Vliet
The “book arts” sit squarely at the intersection of content and form, and the Northeast Kingdom’s Van Vliet is widely recognized as one of the discipline’s early innovative champions. She founded the celebrated Janus Press in San Diego in 1955, and received the first-ever MacArthur Foundation grant for bookmaking in 1989. Now on view in Montpelier in the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery, “Sky and Earth” brings together a series of the artist’s dreamy, subdued pulp paintings, mottled landscapes rendered in the muted tones of plant fibers.
