From Cathy Cone’s show “Portals and Portraits,’’ at the Brattleboro (Vt.) Museum and Art Center, through June 11. She’s based in East Topsham, Vt.
The museum says:
“Each of Cathy Cone’s painted tintype portraits begins with a photograph or scan of a tintype from her personal collection, which she has been amassing since the late 1970s. Cone modifies the images using gouache, watercolor, collaging, stamping, drawing and digital drawing; sometimes she works directly on the tintype itself. The resulting images are ghostly yet tender and elicit curiosity about the lives of the subjects we see looking back at us. By incorporating tintypes from the late-19th Century, Cone offers a visual sense of connection with the past and calls on memory and nostalgia.’’
