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At Hexum Gallery, Artists Erickson Díaz-Cortés and Fiona McTeigue Convey...
At Montpelier's Hexum Gallery, a pair of solo exhibits illustrate how artists can be very different yet have much in common. It's tempting to draw a timely societal lesson here, but we'll stick to the...
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At BigTown Gallery, Peter Moriarty Offers Photographic Visions of a Vermont...
This summer, BigTown Gallery in Rochester reopened after a long, pandemic-induced hiatus. During that time, gallerist Anni Mackay and her husband, Doon Hinderyckx, were not exactly idle: The couple...
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Remnants of the Past Coalesce With Contemporary Work in ‘Art at the Kent’
Planning and executing the monthlong "Art at the Kent" exhibition in Calais has become a year-round project for cocurators Allyson Evans and Nel Emlen. Often with Vermont state curator David Schutz,...
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UVM’s Fleming Museum Presents a First-Ever Art Faculty Show
The University of Vermont launched its studio art program in 1924 and opened the Fleming Museum of Art on campus in 1931. Yet the museum has never hosted a show by the faculty, who teach nearby in...
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A Dual Exhibition of the Lyman Orton Collection Showcases Vermont
When Lyman Orton named his art exhibition "For the Love of Vermont," it wasn't a shallow sentiment. He declares his devotion freely and frequently, even in a phone interview. Perhaps that's no...
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At Champlain College, John Killacky Revisits an Art Movement With FluxFest
John Killacky's 14-minute video "Flux" (2022) offers a good introduction to the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s and '70s. In it, the artist performs a number of unrelated actions in silence while...
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Montréal Museum of Fine Art Revisits the Work of Midcentury Art Star Marisol
There's a party going on in Montréal where celebrities, hipsters and regular folks are brushing elbows with stuffed dolls, giant babies and menacing sea creatures. No, it's not a Halloween parade....
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Christina Watka’s Installations at Soapbox Arts Dazzle the Eye and Mind
Soapbox Arts is twinkling, and not with an early display of holiday lights. Rather, the Burlington gallery's current exhibition, titled "Listening to the World," features suspended, kinetic sculptures...
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In a Retrospective at the Front, Delia Robinson Reconnects With Her Past
Girls and women fly, bears ride in a convertible, wild animals visit a museum, old folks straddle leaping tigers in a "geezer circus": These are not scenes from a children's book, although they could...
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The Top 10 Vermont Art Exhibitions of 2023
Compiling annual top-10 lists is a treat, because it allows us to recall the myriad art shows we enjoyed throughout the year. On the other hand, it's achingly difficult to whittle the options to 10....
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Sculptor Clark Derbes Gives New Life to Fallen Wood
Clark Derbes is not a mathematician, but geometry might be his muse. The Louisiana-born artist began to make a literal mark on Burlington some 20 years ago when his bold, blocky designs appeared on...
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In “Warp & Weft” at the Phoenix, Seven Artists Reveal Process, Pattern and...
The title of a new group show at the Phoenix in Waterbury is slightly misleading: "Warp & Weft" seems to suggest a display of fiber arts. In fact, it is that and much more. Along with woven works,...
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Pievy Polyte's Vivid Paintings Whisk Vermont Viewers to Haiti
What Vermonter would not like to take a winter break in the Caribbean? Imagine sunshine, ocean breezes, balmy temps... But if you don't have the time or resources to head south right now, the artwork...
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'Home Bodies' at BMAC Presents Dynamic Expressions of Ceramic and Fabric by...
The works of New York City-based artists Fawn Krieger and David B. Smith both contrast with and complement each other in a canny dance of texture, pattern and color. This is evident in their current...
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For Artist John Anderson, Variations on and With Paper Are Infinite
An exhibition of works on paper might sound limited, but John Anderson's solo show at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield is anything but. In fact, "What's the Big Idea?" reveals an imagination that...
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In ‘Every Which Way,’ Jessica Scriver’s Paintings Reflect on Directions
The paintings in "Every Which Way," Jessica Scriver's current solo exhibition at Studio Place Arts in Barre, suggest spinning out of place. The titles are clues: "I Think I've Been Here Before,""I...
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Artists at Hexum Gallery Put It Down in Black and White
In "Righty Tighty, Black & Whitey," an exhibition at Hexum Gallery in Montpelier, "black" is the most pertinent word in that amusing title. The half dozen artists wield only graphite or charcoal...
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Montréal’s McCord Stewart Museum Features a Groundbreaking Exhibit of...
When four Huron-Wendat leaders from the Québec City area traveled to England in 1824 to assert their land rights to British monarch King George IV, they carried with them a souvenir of past alliances...
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At VTSU-Johnson, Michael Mahnke’s Solo Exhibit Addresses Memory, Mortality...
Michael Mahnke grew up in Nebraska surrounded by fields, then traded rural life for the taller pastures of New York City. A quarter century later, he relocated to Johnson with his wife, Kyle Nuse, and...
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At the Current, “In the Garden” Turns Over the Fertile Soil of Artistic...
Visitors might expect an exhibit titled "In the Garden" to be a visual harbinger of spring, filled with lush flora. The works on view at the Current in Stowe do feature flowers, greenery and...
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