This July, Aleshire Gallery is pleased to present Scriptive, an exhibition of calligraphic illuminations and works on paper and parchment by artists Candace Jensen (S. Vermont) and Sarah La Puerta (Hudson River Valley, NY). Both artists use calligraphy, letterforms and scriptive marginalia in their visual art to explore and metabolize a broad range of themes and subjects, including: music of the spheres, deep ecology, circular time, cyclical, spiraling & circular geometrices, astrologies, old ballads, chthonic poetry, systems of magic, mythic verse, the inherent meaning of material, mundane horrors, news cycles, miracles, and interspecies translation.

In Scriptive, the two artists will show selections of their work from the last decade, alongside new, never-before-seen illuminations, decorated texts and drawings made with traditional calligraphic materials, such as hand-made inks and watercolors from locally gathered materials, gouache, tempera, ink, gold leaf, paper and parchments processed by hand.

Candace Jensen is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, calligrapher, curator and organizer. Jensen’s work is grounded in aspirational animism, deep ecology, and building creative community. Cofounder and Creative Director of the arts residency and eco-cultural catalyst, In Situ Polyculture Commons, she also serves as occasional Letterpress & Book Arts Director at Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT and Art Editor for their poetry & art quarterly, Iterant Magazine.

Candace lives and works on unceded Abenaki land in Southern Vermont, Turtle Island. She loves canid and ophidian creatures most of all, including her rescue-dog, Skyebear, and the milksnake that lives in her walls (Amelia)

www.candacejensen.com / www.insitupolyculture.org /iterant.org / @artist.cjensen on IG

Sarah La Puerta, née Sarah Gautier, is a musician, calligrapher and writer working in different dimensions. Her recent artworks focus on comparing theoretical concepts, past and present, of cosmic musical order. Her favorite tree is the weeping willow and her favorite flowers are water lilies.

She lives in rural upstate New York, in a 200-year old dairy barn converted into a music studio.

https://www.sarahlapuerta.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/sarahlapuerta/