About me
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My newest books are She Speaks in Tongues (Anhinga Press,) a collection of poems and asemic writings, and Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings (Shanti Arts.)
I am also the author of From the Book of Remembrance and The River From My Mouth, collections of poetry and paintings, published by Shanti Arts, and a poem length chapbook, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit, published by Folded Word. I am the winner of the Bacopa Literary Review’s Visual Poetry Award, an Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist, a Forward Prize, a three-time Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net, nominee. My poems have appeared in Acumen, Poet Lore, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine and others. My asemics have been published in WAAVe Global Gallery: Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets 2021, Women Asemic Writers, UTSANGA.IT, Still Point Art Quarterly, Indelible Literary and Arts Journal, Harpy Hybrid Review, and Harbor Review. As well, I am a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, and founder of Van Vliet Gallery, and administrator of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. - Karla Van Vliet |
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Artist Statement:
In the space between silence and the word there is asemic writing, which for me bridges the distance. As both an artist and poet I am intrigued with this transitory realm. The act of making the gesture of writing, generating marks on the page, be it letter or character, dendritic form or simple line and shape, keeps me engaged in the practice of expression and in conversation with what is emerging from my unconscious to be communicated.
I am also anIntegrative Dreamwork analyst; this study of the unconscious and close attention to the experiential knowledge that come from dreams has a deep influence on my work. It was a dream of asemic writing that first prompted me to start experimenting with this form directly.
My works in acrylic on canvas are created with thin layers of color which create dynamic fields that I write over. When working with ink on paper my works are often the size of a book page, so when seen, it is as if they were an ancient text, discovered and waiting to be translated by the viewer. I hope to create a sense of stillness where feeling can open and be experienced.
Artist Bio:
Visual artist and poet, Karla Van Vliet, blends genres in her asemic writings. Van Vliet engages in asemic writing as a radical act, that of not being silenced in this time where she is often at a loss for words. Using the gesture of writing she explores the transitory realm between the internal experience and expression. Her works in acrylic on canvas and ink on paper, are influenced by landscape, ancient tests, and the liminal knowing of dreams.
Van Vliet’s paintings have been featured in Still Point Art Quarterly, Stone Voices Magazine, Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, and Gate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project.Her books, From the Book of Remembrance (Shanti Arts, 2015) andThe River From My Mouth (Shanti Arts, 2016,) are collections of poems and paintings. A collection of her asemic writing is forthcoming from Shanti Arts in 2020.
Her art has been shown in such galleries as Helen Day Art Center, Still Point Art Gallery,Women in the Arts at the Chaffee Art Center co-sponsored with the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, which toured the north-east, amongothers. She studied Painting and sculpture at Bennington College. She holds a BA from Goddard College and an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Karla is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal. She lives in Vermont. www.vanvlietarts.com
In the space between silence and the word there is asemic writing, which for me bridges the distance. As both an artist and poet I am intrigued with this transitory realm. The act of making the gesture of writing, generating marks on the page, be it letter or character, dendritic form or simple line and shape, keeps me engaged in the practice of expression and in conversation with what is emerging from my unconscious to be communicated.
I am also anIntegrative Dreamwork analyst; this study of the unconscious and close attention to the experiential knowledge that come from dreams has a deep influence on my work. It was a dream of asemic writing that first prompted me to start experimenting with this form directly.
My works in acrylic on canvas are created with thin layers of color which create dynamic fields that I write over. When working with ink on paper my works are often the size of a book page, so when seen, it is as if they were an ancient text, discovered and waiting to be translated by the viewer. I hope to create a sense of stillness where feeling can open and be experienced.
Artist Bio:
Visual artist and poet, Karla Van Vliet, blends genres in her asemic writings. Van Vliet engages in asemic writing as a radical act, that of not being silenced in this time where she is often at a loss for words. Using the gesture of writing she explores the transitory realm between the internal experience and expression. Her works in acrylic on canvas and ink on paper, are influenced by landscape, ancient tests, and the liminal knowing of dreams.
Van Vliet’s paintings have been featured in Still Point Art Quarterly, Stone Voices Magazine, Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, and Gate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project.Her books, From the Book of Remembrance (Shanti Arts, 2015) andThe River From My Mouth (Shanti Arts, 2016,) are collections of poems and paintings. A collection of her asemic writing is forthcoming from Shanti Arts in 2020.
Her art has been shown in such galleries as Helen Day Art Center, Still Point Art Gallery,Women in the Arts at the Chaffee Art Center co-sponsored with the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, which toured the north-east, amongothers. She studied Painting and sculpture at Bennington College. She holds a BA from Goddard College and an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Karla is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal. She lives in Vermont. www.vanvlietarts.com
Education
M.F. A. Vermont College of Find Arts, 1995
B. A. Goddard College, 1991
Study in Painting and Sculpture, Bennington College 1985-1988
Poetry / Art Publications
Art In Print
2018 Gate Posts with No Gate – Peter Waldor, (a collection of poems and art) Shanti Arts
2016 Featured Artist (Devotion's Sign - portfolio) Still Point Arts
Quarterly, Fall, Shanti Arts, Brunswick, ME
2016 Rectangles, Triangles, Circles: The Shape of Life, Best Painting
for Jewel Tree, Still Point Art Quarterly, Fall, Shanti Arts,
Brunswick, ME
2014 Featured Artist (God’s Voice Through Dreams: The Scored
Night,) Stone Voices, Spring, Shanti Arts, Brunswick, ME
2009 Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, Catalogue – Willowell
Foundation, Bristol, VT
2005 A Brush with the East – Seven Days, Burlington, VT
Journals/Reviews: (poems published within)
Readings/Presentations: (recent notables)
Solo or Small Group Exhibitions
2019 Solo Show – Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2018 Birds, Bees and Butterflies- Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2018 Realized Poems, Solo Exhibit, Vermont Tech Hartness Library, East Gallery,
Randolph, VT
2017 Passages and Moorings, Karla Van Vliet, Lily Hinrichsen, and Susan Wilson,
The Castleton University Bank Gallery, Rutland, VT
2017 Discovered Lines: by score and by word, Solo Exhibit, Vermont Tech Hartness
Library, West Gallery, Randolph, VT
2016 Out of Darkness Into Light (with Lily Hinrichsen)- Flynndog
Gallery, Burlington, VT
2016 From the Book of Remembrance, All Souls Interfaith
Gathering, Shelburne, VT
2015 Dream Risen - Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
2014 Winter Nights - ZoneThree, Middlebury, VT
2014 Discovered Poems: Solo Show - Living Room: Center of
Positivity, Essex Junction, VT
2014 Altered/Altared States - Our Personal Journey Through
Dreams, (with Lily Hinrichsen) - Flynndog Gallery
2014 Discovered Poems - Zone Three, Middlebury, VT
2012, 2011, 2010 Featured Artist – Falling Water School of Tai Chi
Chuan, Middlebury, VT
2011 Conspire – Adornment Studio and Gallery, Brandon, VT
2006 Hardscrabble Artists – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2006 Featured Artist – In House, Grand Isle, VT
2005 Merging: Ink and Word –
Human Hand Gallery, Ferrisburg, VT
Great Falls Arts Center, Middlebury, VT
Juried Competitions and Exhibitions
2016 Disclosures Coming out of Obscurity - Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2015 Making Sacred Connections - Vermont Festival of the Arts,
United Church of Christ, Waitsfield, VT
2015 Dream Risen - Solo Show, Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
2015 Rectangles, Triangles, Circles: The Shape of Life, Still Point
Art Gallery, Online - Awarded Best Painting for Jewel Tree
2015 A Love of Art - Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT
2014 Original Works by Local Artists - Jackson Gallery,
Middlebury, VT
2014 State of Beings - Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
2014 Likeness: Portraits - New City Galeries, Burlington, VT
2013 Winter Splendor - Still Point Art Gallery, Online
2013 Projekt30 October - Projekt30, Online gallery
2013 Still Point V – Still Point Art Gallery, Online
2012 Women in the Arts – Chaffee Art Center co-sponsored with
the National Museum of Women in the Arts., Rutland, VT
2010 Far East Near East – The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH
2009 Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered –
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT,
National Arts Club, New York City, NY
Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, MA
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT
2006 Helen Day Art Center’s For Art’s Sake – Stowe, VT
2006 A Brush with the East – Gallery at the VAULT, Springfield, VT
Other Exhibitions
2016 New Work, area artists - WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2015 Art Center Gala - Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2015 Vibrant Colors - Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
2014 Small Pieces - WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2014 Members Art Show - Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2014 Autumn All Members' Show, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT
2014 Fundraising Gala - Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2013 Connections – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2013 presence // creativity // dreams – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2012 Night Visions – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2010 North of Eden – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2006 Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery, Stowe, VT
Grants
2009 Bristol Friends of the Arts, Bristol, VT
2004 VT Community Foundation Artist’s Grant, Middlebury, VT
M.F. A. Vermont College of Find Arts, 1995
B. A. Goddard College, 1991
Study in Painting and Sculpture, Bennington College 1985-1988
Poetry / Art Publications
- Co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, a literary and arts journal, 2015 – present
- Forthcoming - Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings, (Shanti Arts, 2020)
- Fragments: From the most Book of the Bird Spirit, (FoldedWord, 2018)
- From the Book of Remembrance, a collection of poems and paintings, (Shanti Arts, 2015)
- The River From My Mouth (North of Eden Press, 2010) reissued (Shanti Arts. 2016)
Art In Print
2018 Gate Posts with No Gate – Peter Waldor, (a collection of poems and art) Shanti Arts
2016 Featured Artist (Devotion's Sign - portfolio) Still Point Arts
Quarterly, Fall, Shanti Arts, Brunswick, ME
2016 Rectangles, Triangles, Circles: The Shape of Life, Best Painting
for Jewel Tree, Still Point Art Quarterly, Fall, Shanti Arts,
Brunswick, ME
2014 Featured Artist (God’s Voice Through Dreams: The Scored
Night,) Stone Voices, Spring, Shanti Arts, Brunswick, ME
2009 Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, Catalogue – Willowell
Foundation, Bristol, VT
2005 A Brush with the East – Seven Days, Burlington, VT
Journals/Reviews: (poems published within)
- Acumen, Shiela-na-gig, Crannog, Poet Lore, Blue Heron Review, Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Off the Coast, Found Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Dry Creek Review, Many Mountains Moving, Heartwood Literary Magazine, Atlas Poetica, The Eleventh Muse, Plainsongs, Ship of Fools and Avocet.
- Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2017 - Tishman Review for If My Body Were a Country Meadow Edged by a Shadowed Wood
- Finalist for Tishman Review's Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, 2016
- Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2015 - Blue Heron Review for Unstitched
- Featured author on Blue Heron Speaks page at Blue Heron Review.
Readings/Presentations: (recent notables)
- Massachusetts Poetry Fest, 2016, 2017, 2018
- New Hampshire Poetry Fest, 2015, 2016, 2017
- New England Young Writers; Conference, 2014
- Vermont Technical College, Hartness Library, 2018
Solo or Small Group Exhibitions
2019 Solo Show – Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2018 Birds, Bees and Butterflies- Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2018 Realized Poems, Solo Exhibit, Vermont Tech Hartness Library, East Gallery,
Randolph, VT
2017 Passages and Moorings, Karla Van Vliet, Lily Hinrichsen, and Susan Wilson,
The Castleton University Bank Gallery, Rutland, VT
2017 Discovered Lines: by score and by word, Solo Exhibit, Vermont Tech Hartness
Library, West Gallery, Randolph, VT
2016 Out of Darkness Into Light (with Lily Hinrichsen)- Flynndog
Gallery, Burlington, VT
2016 From the Book of Remembrance, All Souls Interfaith
Gathering, Shelburne, VT
2015 Dream Risen - Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
2014 Winter Nights - ZoneThree, Middlebury, VT
2014 Discovered Poems: Solo Show - Living Room: Center of
Positivity, Essex Junction, VT
2014 Altered/Altared States - Our Personal Journey Through
Dreams, (with Lily Hinrichsen) - Flynndog Gallery
2014 Discovered Poems - Zone Three, Middlebury, VT
2012, 2011, 2010 Featured Artist – Falling Water School of Tai Chi
Chuan, Middlebury, VT
2011 Conspire – Adornment Studio and Gallery, Brandon, VT
2006 Hardscrabble Artists – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2006 Featured Artist – In House, Grand Isle, VT
2005 Merging: Ink and Word –
Human Hand Gallery, Ferrisburg, VT
Great Falls Arts Center, Middlebury, VT
Juried Competitions and Exhibitions
2016 Disclosures Coming out of Obscurity - Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2015 Making Sacred Connections - Vermont Festival of the Arts,
United Church of Christ, Waitsfield, VT
2015 Dream Risen - Solo Show, Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
2015 Rectangles, Triangles, Circles: The Shape of Life, Still Point
Art Gallery, Online - Awarded Best Painting for Jewel Tree
2015 A Love of Art - Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT
2014 Original Works by Local Artists - Jackson Gallery,
Middlebury, VT
2014 State of Beings - Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
2014 Likeness: Portraits - New City Galeries, Burlington, VT
2013 Winter Splendor - Still Point Art Gallery, Online
2013 Projekt30 October - Projekt30, Online gallery
2013 Still Point V – Still Point Art Gallery, Online
2012 Women in the Arts – Chaffee Art Center co-sponsored with
the National Museum of Women in the Arts., Rutland, VT
2010 Far East Near East – The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH
2009 Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered –
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT,
National Arts Club, New York City, NY
Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, MA
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT
2006 Helen Day Art Center’s For Art’s Sake – Stowe, VT
2006 A Brush with the East – Gallery at the VAULT, Springfield, VT
Other Exhibitions
2016 New Work, area artists - WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2015 Art Center Gala - Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2015 Vibrant Colors - Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
2014 Small Pieces - WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2014 Members Art Show - Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2014 Autumn All Members' Show, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT
2014 Fundraising Gala - Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2013 Connections – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2013 presence // creativity // dreams – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2012 Night Visions – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2010 North of Eden – WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2006 Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery, Stowe, VT
Grants
2009 Bristol Friends of the Arts, Bristol, VT
2004 VT Community Foundation Artist’s Grant, Middlebury, VT