SAXTONS RIVER, Vt. — Local painter Matt Peake and poet Gordon Korstange are collaborating in a show at Main Street Arts for the month of June.
With the title and theme of “Give and Take,” the show will have an opening reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 31 and be on display through June 29.
Peake was a family physician practicing in Bellows Falls until eight years ago when he decided “the call from my artistic voice could no longer be ignored,” and he gave up his practice to devote himself to art, he said in a press release. He first experienced working collaboratively with other artists four years ago and uses that experience to approach problem-solving in his painting.
His previous exhibit at MSA featured his Pastel Overlook series of figures as viewed from above, arranged by gesture on a geometric background.
In this show, Peake’s artist’s eye combines with Korstange’s poetic voice to create collages of images and words.
Korstange came to poetry in his 20s while on one of his many stays India. After returning to the United States, he studied creative writing and south Indian music at Wesleyan University, where he learned to write iambic pentameter and published “The Road Behind Whitens in the Sun,” a book of poems about India. During years of teaching middle and high school students, he kept at it, and has recently put together another collection, “Selected Poems.”
“Poetry, for me, needs to be musical language with surprising discoveries in words and meaning,” he said.
For more information about the show and Main Street Arts, visit www.mainstreetarts.org, or contact MSA at [email protected], at (802) 869-2960, or on Facebook.
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