In The Quiet Hours

A solo exhibition featuring Kathleen Kolb

December 5th – January 31st, 2027
Opening Reception: Saturday December 5th, 3:00PM – 5:00PM

Edgewater Gallery on the Green – 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury

There is a world unfolding just beyond our own, in places we pass, buildings we encounter, and lives we can only glimpse. We find ourselves wondering about the people who inhabit these places, the histories they hold, and the moments that make up a life. There is a quiet curiosity in this act of looking, an awareness that every place contains a story, much of which will remain beyond our knowing.

The quiet hours are those moments when the noise of the day recedes, leaving room for reflection and a heightened awareness of the world around us. We become more attentive to the lives unfolding beyond our own, and perhaps more attuned to our own inner lives. We might pass a farmhouse, a village store, or a house on a country road and briefly consider the lives held within. Who gathers in that place? What has happened within those walls? What continues, largely unnoticed, from one day to the next?

There is a tenderness in this curiosity, a recognition of ourselves in lives we can only imagine. Though we remain at a distance, we feel drawn toward the warmth and quiet presence of these places. They suggest the comfort of home, the company of others, and the private moments in which we find ourselves most at ease. There is both solitude and connection in this experience.

Kathleen Kolb draws our attention to these intersections of place and human experience, carefully curating what is revealed within the frame. Through her attentive rendering of light, atmosphere, and architectural detail, her paintings evoke the presence of lives unfolding, histories accumulating, and connections that extend beyond what we can see. Even in the absence of human figures, her scenes hold a palpable sense of human presence.

In the Quiet Hours speaks to those moments of pause. It is an invitation to linger with the things we cannot fully know, to find comfort in solitude, and to recognize the quiet connections that bind our separate lives together.

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