Gallery Exhibitions

The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center provides exhibition opportunities for sculpture in a variety of venues. The spacious CSSC Gallery in the Gordon Marshall Coping Shop welcomes visitors with one to two person and group exhibitions.

Our Gallery showcases contemporary artwork in a historic setting. The Gordon Marshall Coping Shop was originally used by the Vermont Marble Company for fabrication of stone architectural elements. Since acquiring the building in 2009, the Carving Studio has restored and renovated it to provide creative and display space.

Our annual Members Show Exhibition, is displayed in the Gallery, featuring work by CSSC members in a variety of media.

Light and Stone - Darrell Petit and Sean Kernan

Opened 9/19/2025

Darrell Petit is a renowned sculptor with over thirty-five years of experience working in quarries worldwide. His creative process blends the physical excavation of stone with the exploration of ideas, resulting in large-scale granite sculptures known for their intricate balance and dynamic forms. Petit studied internationally, including at Brown University, Hochschule der Kunste Berlin, and Kyoto City University of the Arts. For this exhibition, he presents smaller, hand-worked pieces from his Heads series, crafted from natural stone and enhanced with a variety of materials, challenging concepts of permanence and transformation. (For more information about the artist: https://darrellpetit.com)

Sean Kernan began his career in theater and is now a celebrated photographer, writer, filmmaker, and teacher. His work focuses on creativity, leading to the publication of "Looking Into the Light"
and other notable books. Kernan’s photography has been exhibited internationally, and his films have won awards. He has collaborated with artists across disciplines, served major clients, and taught at leading institutions including Yale and Parsons. (for more information about the artist: https://www.seankernan.com)

MENETEKEL by Rainer Maria Wehner

8/22/2025 - 9/25/2025

From the start of Rainer Maria Wehner's professional practice, he combined text and X-rays of human bodies in three-dimensional steel constructions. He has used cutouts, distortion, and exaggeration of scale to visualize and eternalize the structure of the written word as a basis of form and meaning, rather than have a conventional system of signs or structures taken for granted. That is why he works with the widely illegible old German cursive handwriting Sütterlin. The same way he use structures of human bodies like X-rays or outdated Scintigrams in combination.

Both X-rays and whole-body scans from airports demonstrate human intimacy in a technical and growing virtual world. The fragmented unreadable text from the Old Testament prophecy combined with luminous images is a metaphor for intertwining human spirit and archetypes.(for more information about the artist: https://rainermariawehner.com)