Word and Image Gallery “Bucolia: Poetry + Place” Exhibit Opening – Vicki Wicker

Opening Reception; August 1 from 3 – 5 PM

Vicki Whicker (Burlington Flats, NY), a poet and photographer, is a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective as well as a member of the Bright Hill Press Poets. She has been published in literary magazines such as Mo+th, 12 Los Angeles Poets, Big City Mantra, Literary Mama, as well as others. Her iPhoneography has been the focus of shows on both coasts, she exhibited solo at Cherry Branch Gallery, Bank Gallery, Lovely Gallery and  in addition to group shows at The Smithy, Cherry Branch Gallery, Art Garage, CAA, Broad Street, The Empty Spaces Project and others. Whicker’s work celebrates upstate NY and its four seasons. Her art captures the flora and fauna, the old barns, the rolling hills, the frolicking dogs and cats, and all the characters living life in this gorgeous slice of Americana. She titles her show “Bucolia: Poetry + Place,” an homage to her absolute love of beauty and the rustic life. This is her vision of our upstate. Her musings of camera and word blossom between what is and what was.