Winslow Colwell has installed a lot of kites in Middlebury’s Jackson Gallery. It’s a no-fly zone, of course, but that’s OK: These kites are perfectly content just to hang around.
Colwell titled his exhibition “#Skylights,” in the manner of a hashtag, but that simple weave pattern long preceded the social media signifier. Here, the crossbar shape is the basis for the Ripton artist’s two- and three-dimensional constructions, singly or in combination. That is, he cuts and overlaps equal-size strips of Epson watercolor paper printed with photos of treetops, sunsets or clouds, then attaches them to a featherweight infrastructure of bamboo, or “bones.”
A quartet of the simplest structures is hung together but titled separately: “Dappled Clouds,” “Sky Blue…
