‘Against Wings’: New exhibit wonders about the power of restraint

While you’re on campus visiting “An Invitation to Awe” at the Middlebury Museum of Art, take a walk across the beautiful grounds to the new gallery space in the Johnson Memorial Building’s atrium (it’s on Chateau Road). There you’ll find “Against Wings” — a provocative mix of new paintings by Rebecca Kinkead and poems by Ben Humphries.

CORNWALL — Cornwall resident Rebecca Kinkead had imagined a solitary artistic career. It was going to be her, her art supplies, a beautiful setting and hours to toil away amid the sounds of chirping birds and the wind caressing the bushes in the meadow fr … (read more)