Fertile and fearsome

“After the Rain” (pastel on paper), by Marilyn Ruseckas, in her joint show “Terra Chroma,’’ with Kileh Friedman, at Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington, through July 28

— Image courtesy Marilyn Ruseckas

The gallery says:

Ruseckas works in a “modern realism" style and through her work, captures “intensely personal interpretations" of the Vermont landscape. Friedman, a ceramic artist, creates organic patterns and builds an “intimate connection to the land itself. "

“At the heart of this exhibition lies a profound connection to the earth itself. Marilyn Ruseckas’s luminous pastels, pigments born from the earth, share a malleable material kinship with Kileh Friedman’s ceramics, crafted from the very clay beneath our feet.’’