SCRIPTIVE
July 19 - Sep. 20, 2026
Candace Jensen & Sarah La Puerta
Aleshire Gallery is pleased to present SCRIPTIVE, an exhibition of calligraphic illuminations and works on paper by artists Candace Jensen (S. Vermont) and Sarah La Puerta (Hudson River Valley, NY). Both artists use calligraphy, letterforms and scriptive marginalia in their visual art to explore and metabolize a broad range of themes and subjects, including: music of the spheres, deep ecology, circular time, cyclical, spiraling & circular geometrices, astrologies, old ballads, chthonic poetry, systems of magic, mythic verse, the inherent meaning of material, mundane horrors, news cycles, miracles, utopianism, and interspecies translation.
In SCRIPTIVE, the two artists show selections of their work from the last decade, alongside new, never-before-seen illuminations, decorated texts and drawings made with traditional calligraphic materials, such as; hand-made inks and watercolors from locally gathered materials processed by hand, gouache, tempera, ink, gold leaf, and paper.
Please join us Friday, August 28th from 7-8pm for an artist talk with Candace Jensen and Sarah La Puerta. Hors d’œuvres and refreshments will be available. The event will also be streamed live via Google Meet, by following this link: https://meet.google.com/qyk-yakq-yce.
The gallery is open to the public Thursdays from 11-4pm, and by appointment.
For all sales inquiries and to schedule an appointment, please contact Benjamin Aleshire
802-353-6169 benaleshire@gmail.com
Selected Works
Candace Jensen
“The Song of Wandering Aengus”
Sap green ink, knotweed ink, earth pigment watercolors, 23 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, sumi ink, pencil, colored pencil, inks
60” x 49”
2026
$4999
Limited Edition Art Prints Available (Edition of 12, 13” x 19”)
$151 each
Candace Jensen is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, calligrapher, curator and organizer. Jensen’s work is grounded in aspirational animism, deep ecology, and building creative community. Cofounder and Creative Director of the arts residency and eco-cultural catalyst, In Situ Polyculture Commons, she also serves as occasional Letterpress & Book Arts Director at Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT and Art Editor for their poetry & art quarterly, Iterant Magazine.
Candace lives and works on unceded Abenaki land in Southern Vermont, Turtle Island. She loves canid and ophidian creatures most of all, including her rescue-dog, Skyebear, and the milksnake that lives in her walls (Amelia).
www.candacejensen.com / www.insitupolyculture.org / iterant.org / @artist.cjensen on IG
Sarah La Puerta
“Musical Astrology”
Pen and Ink with collage
22” x 30”
2026
$1237
Limited Edition Art Prints Available (Edition of 25, 13” x 19”)
$151 each
Sarah La Puerta, née Sarah Gautier, is a musician, calligrapher and writer working in different dimensions. Her recent artworks focus on comparing theoretical concepts, past and present, of cosmic musical order. Her favorite tree is the weeping willow and her favorite flowers are water lilies.
She lives in rural upstate New York, in a 200-year old dairy barn converted into a music studio.
https://www.sarahlapuerta.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/sarahlapuerta/