Dangerous garden

…"there is a rumble as the garden folds, rolls, shreds, devours…itself’’ (digital print on archival watercolor paper with hand-cut and torn elements, construction paper, plastic, feathers mounted on artist designed wallpaper), by Ebony G. Patterson, in the show “In the Garden,’’ at The Current Gallery, Stowe, Vt., through April 11.

— Image courtesy of the artist, Monique Meloche Gallery and Hales Gallery.

The Trapp Family Lodge, in Stowe. The Sound of Music made the singing family famous. The Vermont landscape reminded them of their native Austria, which they left to get away from the Nazis.

—Photo by Royalbroil

But bring a map anyway

"...the wailing...ushers us home...and there is a bellying on the land...’’ (mixed media on jacquard woven photo tapestry and custom vinyl wallpaper), by Ebony G. Patterson, in the show “Women Reframe American Landscape,’’ at the New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art, through March 31.

Image courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery

The museum says the show “features the work of nineteenth-century American artist Susie M. Barstow juxtaposed against the work of 13 internationally acclaimed, contemporary female artists. Many of the 13 artists made site-specific installations for this show that, much like the exhibition's title suggests, reframes the concept of land and the ‘landscape’ in artwork.’’

“Kaaterskill Creek” in New York, circa 1870, by Susie M. Barstow