Gallery: Wishing for the Moon

These were created in 2015 for the 2016 solo exhibit at BMAC (Brattleboro Museum and Art Center).

Wishing for the Moon is a series of fourteen scratchboard drawings that metaphorically reflect a middle-aged woman’s journey to find true love. The artist, Karen Gaudette, bravely takes cues from her life and turns them into a visual fairy tale. She represents herself through characters such as the mermaid, the heron, and the bather, and portrays male personalities and others as animal/human hybrids in symbolic clothing. Each of Gaudette’s skillfully drawn images can be taken as a story in itself; combined, they create a tableau offer a richer narrative.
— Susan Calabria, Curator