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In addition to our exhibitions at the BCA Center on Church Street, BCA hosts external exhibitions at partnering locales in and around Burlington. All artwork is available for sale. For more information, to purchase, or to see additional works by these artists, please contact Kate Ashman at (802) 865-7296 or kashman@burlingtoncityarts.org.

 

A sepia toned image of a courtyard in Havana

Airport Gallery

The Patrick Leahy BTV International Airport features Vermont artists in rotating exhibits at the south end of the 2nd-floor Skywalk (before security) and the North Concourse (after security). The current exhibits run through June 2024. 

Greg Nicolai, photographs

Nicolai’s goal is to take something that he photographs and turn it into something that is more interesting. As much as he enjoys the end result, he enjoys the process even more. Forms, shapes and patterns, no matter what the environment, create the initial interest. Black and white photographs seem to emphasize and intensify these details. Color is used only if it helps to further define the subject. He feels finding the best composition is a fun challenge, and discovering that elusive element which animates a photograph is the reward.

 

Jordan Douglas: Images of Havana, silver gelatin lith photographs  (pictured)

The photographs in this exhibition are fragments, extracted from a storied city and its vibrant culture in January of 2015. Douglas was particularly inspired by the dense neighborhoods of Central Havana–with their crumbling layers of history and the boisterous rhythms of people, music, songbirds, and pre-Revolution car engines. He was graciously received by the Cubans he encountered in the sunny streets and mazes of apartments, alleys, and courtyards.

All of the shots were captured on black-and-white film, of varying speeds, and lith-printed in the darkroom in limited batches. Lith printing is an alternative development technique that causes an explosion of the image grain and a shift in color toward warm brown tones. No two prints are the same. The images were printed on Forte Polywarmtone paper, last made in Hungary nearly 20 years ago.

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A Burmese woman weaving

City Hall

The City Hall Gallery is located on the main level of Burlington's City Hall and features Vermont artists from BCA’s external exhibitions program on a rotating basis. This exhibit runs through June 5, 2024.

Vermont Folklife Exhibition

Since 1992, Vermont Folklife’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (VTAAP) has supported nearly 400 apprenticeships in artforms that reflect the shared cultural history, values, and aesthetics of the groups that practice them. VTAAP works to sustain this living cultural heritage by fostering mentorship between community-recognized traditional artists and less-experienced apprentices interested in learning both an artistic form and the social, cultural and historical context in which it emerged and continues to be practiced.

Through this program, Vermont Folklife has supported vital artistic practices of Vermonters from a broad range of cultural communities, including native Abenaki, the descendants of European settlers and early immigrants, and more recent arrivals of individuals with immigrant and refugee backgrounds who have arrived more recently. New American community leaders have embraced this program as an important tool for assuring the transmission of cultural knowledge and practices in the face of dislocation and enormous change.

This exhibit uses photography and the words of the artists to explore ten traditional art forms which have been supported by VTAAP over the last three decades.

VTAAP receives support from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Casey Blanchard

Hilton Garden Inn

BCA was honored to partner with the Hilton Garden Inn to select artwork from 10 local artists to be included in the design and décor of Burlington’s newest boutique hotel. Learn more about Hilton Garden Inn here. This exhibition is ongoing.

Casey Blanchard (pictured)

Primarily a self-taught artist, Casey explores her experiences through the engaging and often unpredictable print medium of monoprinting. She is most interested in the spiritual aspects that emerge in the image, particularly relating to how we live in the world and how the world lives in us. In the beginning, the work may be a search for answers, but in the end it's more about being here without them.

Casey Blanchard was born in Greenwich, CT in 1953. She lives in Shelburne, VT with her husband, Dan Cox, and their daughter, Julia Cox. Her artwork is found on the walls of health care facilities, private residential collections, corporate offices, the hospitality industry, on web designs, and various published materials.

 

Johanne Durocher Yordan    

Johanne is a Burlington based artist who works out of her studio on Pine Street. She was born in Quebec, Canada, but has lived most of her life in Vermont. It was not until 1998 that Johanne began committing herself to her artwork and finding her own voice. She studied at the University of Vermont and has since developed a diverse body of work that is a testament to her ability to succeed as an independent artist. Creating work that fits a variety of audiences, while always building upon her unique self-taught style, is the secret to her success. Johanne has always been the type of person who explores on her own, tapping into the unknown and developing her own fashion and techniques. Many of her paintings include found or collected items which add depth and meaning to combine form and function to her work. Her abstract work captures her emotions and represents her unique style and expression. Johanne has exhibited her work extensively throughout Vermont in both solo and group exhibitions over the past 12 years.

 

Cameron Schmitz

Cameron Schmitz grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and spent idle time in her youth drawing. Encouraged by two artistic parents, including her mother who is also a painter, she learned at a very early age the joy and satisfaction of participating in the visual arts. 
Schmitz holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the University of New Hampshire, in addition to studying Art and Art History at Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy. 

Following a month-long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2006, Schmitz moved to Vermont after discovering Vermont's rugged landscape to be uniquely inspirational. Now located in the Brattleboro area, Schmitz actively exhibits her work regionally and nationally. Her work has been featured at Fitchburg Art Museum's biannual exhibition, Ne England/New Talent, Green Mountain College, Kyoto Seika University in Japan, Emory University, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, and Rogue Space in Chelsea, New York. Her work is represented by The Drawing Room Art Gallery in Cos Cob, CT and Furchgott Sourdiffe in Shelburne, VT, and she is an artist member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston. In addition to her painting practice, Schmitz is also the Gallery Curator of The Drawing Room Art Gallery and teaches painting at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro, VT.

 

Carl Rubino
 
I strive to create unique interpretive, impressionistic and abstract images that relate my personal vision of or reaction to the subject matter before me.   Before I even pull out the camera I try to experience all that my subject reveals, or even what it makes illusive – not just the obvious, like the literal view, the colors, texture and patterns - but the less obvious sensual aspects, the energy and the “feeling” that it conveys. Whether in landscape, abstract, street photography, fine art nude or whatever else captures my interest, I seek to find and interpret life’s visual symphonies, one click at a time. 

I feel that to a large extent my photographs consist of three different points of view: the raw material that is the literal subject matter of the image that my camera captures; what I see, sense, and work to portray when I interpret that subject; and what the viewer sees when looking at the image on the wall.  Those may be three very distinct views of what is essentially rooted in the same thing.   That, to me, is stimulating art.  And that is a great part of what draws me to photography.

 

Jeff Schneiderman 

Jeff Schneiderman works as a wedding, portrait and fine art photographer in Williston, VT.  He has been taking photographs for over 35 years, traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the world and has made Vermont his home for the last 27 years. Patterns are a major theme in Jeff’s work as he is fascinated with the designs in nature how they are reflected in things manmade.  More of Jeff's work can be seen at: www.jeffschneiderman.com."

 

Krista Cheney

Krista Cheney is a native Vermonter, currently living in St. George, Vermont. She studied English Literature and Agricultural Economics at the University of Vermont. She has studied photography since 2003, taking classes and workshops at local venues and the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

 

Carolyn Enz-Hack

Carolyn Enz-Hack's work includes painting, sculpture, and scenery design. While she has spent most of her life on a farm she holds a degree in theatrical design from Rutgers University and has spent years designing for the theatre. Her rural sensibility is informed by themes explored in ancient theatrical and religious literature, and by developments in cross-disciplinary Science. Each piece is an attempt to process the exterior world through an internal lens. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been at the Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland, Vermont, and Creare Inc. and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center both in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Endowment Award, a painting merit award from the Chaffee Center for the Arts, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and her work has been selected for exhibition in regional and nationally competitive shows.

 

Erinn Simon

Erinn Simon is a fiber artist and yarnbomber. She crochets tapestries, toys, baby mobiles, vegetables, baked goods, blankets, scarves for trees, and the occasional bloodthirsty zombie cupcake. Her work has appeared in group shows in Burlington, Seattle, and Australia and she ships her one of a kind creations to customers around the world. She lives in the Old North End of Burlington with her husband and three kids. You can find her on facebook as Callie Callie Jump Jump.

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An abstract painting with blue and yellow swirls overlaid on red and orange.

Maltex Gallery

The Maltex Building, located at 431 Pine St, holds four floors of artwork. This venue features artwork from Vermont artists, rotating bi-annually, and can be visited during regular business hours (Monday - Friday 7 am - 5 pm). This exhibition is on view through August 2024

Julio Desmont   acrylic & oil paintings (pictured)

Born in the countryside of Haiti, Desmont used to see a multicolored long tailed bird that seemed to be extinct as he was growing older. They were called Tako in Haitian Creole. In his search for that Bird he became an observer and lover of birds. Their pose, flying... it has become the symbol of freedom, peace, love, and also their role in our ecosystem. The birds depicted in his paintings are faceless and mostly in movement, surrounded by irregular patterns of shape and colors. Sometimes they seem to be transforming or evolving. The heavy mark making is an emulation of his childhood day and night fears. All these images stored in his memory become his resources. He can look into chaos and find peace. He can see images through blank spaces. When painting he gets to play with the universe. Diving into the dark womb of chaos, pulling out structures and order. He seeks to cultivate exactly the right amount of order, leaving much of the initial unstructured work alone. He is unable to undo all the lines, colors and shapes superimposed on the shadowy background, which calls for an exercise in accepting past actions and seeking how to create balance from the resulting composition. As a result, each of his pieces has embodied a soul... He grows alongside his art and each piece feels alive. His pieces often begin without his knowing what to do. Indeed that is the source of his inspiration, offering infinite trajectories, getting lost, seeking the truth, but ultimately one end that feels right and finally settles in, asking for no more.

 

Gabriel Boray   acrylic paintings

Boray’s work is inspired by the simple yet most meaningful moments created when living in the Green Mountain State— and there is nothing that says Vermont more than cows. While on long drives with his wife and daughters, Boray and his family take in the landscape and feel the rise and fall of the hills and mountains. The Vermont fields, farms, and barns fit perfectly in his compositions, framing the front-and-center subjects we all know and love, to create a humble and colorful vision of the state. 

 

Louise Arnold   oil paintings

Arnold is a landscape painter with a background in Landscape Architecture.  She works both en plein air and from her photographs, painting in New England landscapes with which she has great familiarity.  Her subject matter ranges from mountains and streams to barns, abandoned farm machinery and cars, which are prevalent features in many of the landscapes that she paints.  She is most interested in capturing the character or spirit of specific places, and in exploring how the qualities of those places affect her as an artist working in them. The paintings that result have evolved from this exploration and engagement.

 

Colleen Murphy   mixed media paintings

Murphy works in mixed media—primarily acrylic paint and collage—on both canvas and wood panels. The collage elements may appear as photographic, textural, or patterned images and shapes. She has explored a variety of themes over many years, but the overarching themes are architecture, interiors, and landscapes. They are all environments she is attracted to, both external and internal. Occasionally, there is a narrative she wants to communicate or a feeling she wants to express. Most times she follows her intuition as best she can, rather than overthink her process.

 

Sandra Berbeco   acrylic paintings

As an artist living in Vermont (and painting in Vermont, Cape Cod and Naples, Florida) Berbeco’s palette shifts with the sunlight and vegetation of the area.  All of this keeps her curious and enjoying new challenges. After 40 years of painting, sculpture, printmaking and performance art, she has transitioned from acrylic on canvas to watercolor (gouache). During the pandemic isolation, she painted daily – studying composition. She has focused on a particular still life painting, and many of these paintings on exhibit are the body of this intense study accomplished during that time. Those lessons continue to inform her newest work. 

 

Jeffrey Pascoe   giclee prints

The son of a professional artist, artistic pursuits have been a part of Jeffrey’s life since childhood. Now retired after a career in research psychology, Jeffrey has devoted more of his time to hiking, writing fiction, and taking photographs. Since 2015, Jeffrey has been developing his own techniques for capturing the beauty of frost. Nature does most of the work: Variations in temperature, wind, and humidity produce very different sorts of frost, while backlighting from the sun or clouds often adds color. Just as it is a natural impulse to see familiar shapes in clouds, Jeffrey hopes those who view his frost photos will enjoy whatever images their imagination might conjure.

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A long exposure color photograph of a nebula over a lake

Lorraine B. Good Room

The Lorraine B. Good room is located on the 2nd floor of the BCA Center. The art in this room is available for viewing during our regular open hours, except when the room is being used for programming, meetings, and rental events. This exhibition runs through May 11.

Brian Drourr: Celestial Skies


Celestial Skies features a selection of images by Vermont artist Brian Drourr, who for the past twelve years has been photographing the star trails, Milky Way, and solar eclipses of rural Vermont and New England. These stunning images of the night sky – known also as astrophotography – convey the sense of awe and wonder the artist encounters when outdoors observing the evening stars. Using a combination of digital SLR cameras, tripods, and the ubiquitous camera phone, the artist shares with viewers the exhilaration and sense of being present amidst the starlit heavens. As stargazing has become less accessible to urban residents due to light pollution, astrophotographers such as Drourr must often travel to remote, dark-sky locations so as to create images for others to experience. 

Celestial Skies is scheduled to coincide with the total solar eclipse visible in Burlington, Vermont on April 8, 2024. As a source of mystery and fascination, solar eclipses – whether foreboding omens or inspirations for scientific discovery – have captivated imaginations for millennia. Brian Drourr’s dramatic imagery conveys the excitement and power of this rare event that creates darkness from day, as the artist shares with us the sublime beauty of the night sky that so defines human experience.
 

Presented as part of Obscura BTV, the City of Burlington's official total solar eclipse.

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UVM Medical Center

The University of Vermont Medical Center, located at 111 Colchester Avenue, has been exhibiting and purchasing the work of Vermont artists on the main medical center campus in various locations for many years, thanks to its ongoing partnership with Burlington City Arts. Rotating artwork can be found in the ACC East Pavilion 2 & West Pavilion 3, McClure 4, Breast Care Center, and Cancer Center.  Permanent artwork is also on display throughout the hospital. Current exhibitions are on view through late September 2024.

Katie Runde, oil paintings (Blue Path & Mary Fletcher; pictured)

Runde is a contemporary realist oil painter based in Leicester, VT. Before apprenticing under master realist painter Evan Wilson, she studied saxophone performance, folklore, and religion—interests that continue to influence her work. Her ongoing series of large-scale portraits of musicians both revel in the galvanizing, high-key, even transcendent energy of a live performance and honor the still center that persists in heart of those moments between musician and instrument, self and public. Runde seeks to articulate multiple dimensions within each captured point in time—the core of solitude that lies between the musician and their music, the center from which each voice is found and each life lived. She is grateful to be able to bring this particular selection of paintings to UVMMC, where over the last year and a half she has interned through several units of Clinical Pastoral Education and come to deeply appreciate the patients, families, and hardworking staff who pass these hallways. Katie is currently represented in Vermont by Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. You can also find her work at the Vermont State House, and, in the summer months, as large, anamorphic chalk paintings in various locations throughout the Northeast and beyond.
 

Trystan Bates, mixed media collage (Blue path & Healing Garden)

Bates is constantly looking for and collecting moments, images and sounds that are inspiring enough to be developed into multidisciplinary bodies of work. He enjoys exploring the history and behavior of human beings and often incorporate aspects of storytelling, social behavior, global mythology and ritual in his work. By limiting the elements he employs in his pieces to shapes and gestural marks, the compositions provide just enough information to suggest a narrative but not enough to force a meaning upon the viewer. This creates a situation in which one can gain a clearer understanding of the image and its meaning the longer they spend in meditation, looking and bonding with it. The process of collecting, abstracting and rearranging information into visual symbolic forms is where his process starts. These forms are then utilized to translate aspects of the human experience into poetic compositions that engage with the public in a playful, optimistic way.
 

Judy Hawkins, oil paintings (Blue Path)

Water, with all its varied dimensions, fascinates Hawkins. She is drawn to and inspired by its simplicity and changing nature - from the pond pebbles on the bottom through layers of water, to surface tension, reflection, water splashes and ripples. Minute color relationships and a sense of place have her diving into her oil paints. She feels she is continually learning something new whenever she puts brush and color to canvas, each experience bringing a new perspective and vocabulary to her work. Her paintings are inspired by country drives looking at favorite marshes, fields and ever changing Vermont skies. She expresses her recollections in new paintings, exaggerating key highlights, beginning a painting at the top and working down, quickly establishing mood through color and composition. She allows the paint, drips and accidental color combinations to guide her vision to create the drama of weather, skies and water. Finished paintings often don't resemble their beginnings; they go through a continual process of change.

Liz Buchanan, acrylic & collage on canvas (McClure 4)

Since moving to Vermont in 2021, Buchanan has enjoyed working with acrylic paint and collage abstraction, playing with the whirl and swirl of colors and how it mimics the winds of change in her world. The simple beauty, whimsy and movement of the colors makes her happy! She continues to love creating mixed-media pieces inspired by gardens, landscapes and flowers in Vermont and beyond. Vibrant colors and contrasts are a hallmark of her artistic style.

Colossal Sanders, digital montage illustrations (Shepard Patrick Hub 3)

David Holub (aka Colossal Sanders) lives at the intersection of words and images, humor and heartbreak, reality and make-believe. His quirky illustrations adorn greeting cards, stickers, prints, and handmade toys across North America. After a nomadic career teaching college writing and working in the publishing industry, Colossal Sanders now creates his work full-time in his North Ferrisburgh studio.

Elizabeth Chapek, mixed media mono prints (Breast Care Center)

Over time Chapek’s experience with visual art has been varied and eclectic. Formal training is coupled with experimentation. Process versus product has guided her in her outcome. The natural world has always led her to inspiration, the art of looking has been her vehicle. Elements of design, such as texture, line, form, and color are as important in her work as the subject matter. Currently her work is created from a variety of processes. Some pieces are accomplished by combining mono print with colored pencil and collage. Others are a result of using strictly mono print. While using these varied methods she has been able to adapt design elements as the final work develops. It is a way to free herself from a conventional style.

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A painting of a Vermont landscape beneath a night sky.

Pierson Library

The Pierson Library, located at 5376 Shelburne Road, in Shelburne, features artwork curated by the BCA's External Exhibitions Program on a rotating basis. These exhibitions run through June 2024.

Elizabeth Nelson, acrylic paintings (pictured)

Northern Vermont has been the foundation for fifty years as Nelson explores the colder climate and landscapes of Vermont, Iceland and Norway in her paintings. The paintings are comments on the beauty of these harsh environments and their fragility as our climate changes. Storms, immense peace and sometimes unearthly beauty are expressed in a call to protect the fragile balance of our lives with the changing earth.

Born in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Nelson began painting when she was eight. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and then lived in Guatemala for a year. After receiving a Master’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she lived in Massachusetts and now has lived in northern Vermont for over fifty years where she raised her children. She has been a teacher, dairy farmer, museum curator and always a painter. She has exhibited throughout Vermont and New England as well as in juried shows in Reykjavik, Iceland, Wisconsin, New York, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

Nelson is represented by Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne and currently has additional works on exhibit there. Please pay them a visit if you’d like to see more!

 

Michael Farnsworth, photographs

As a native Vermonter, Farnsworth was raised in nature. Before he could even walk, his father had stuffed him in his backpack & summited Mansfield, Camel's Hump, and many other mountains. In grade school (SCS), this passion for the outdoors manifested in countless drawings of trees, mountains & lakes. Then in high school (CVU) he turned to painting landscapes. Finally, as an adult he pivoted to landscape photography, and for the last 17 years he’s been honing his craft.

In 2019 he took his passion on the road, building out a Mercedes Sprinter Van and heading west. He’s been living nomadically in his van ever since, going where the most beautiful photography is possible, and selling his work at arts festivals. He has spent a lot of time around campfires gazing up at the night sky, staying in very remote places far from city lights & seeing the Milky Way stretched across the vaulted heavens. He finds it so enchanting out there in the dark. Last year he headed north to Alaska. There he finally saw the Aurora Borealis, which took his breathe away and felt like a major check mark on his list of photography desires. He was then fortunate enough to see an annular solar eclipse in Oregon last fall. On April 8th when the Total Solar Eclipse moved slowly across North America, he was in Texas, in the center of the path of totality, camera in hand, for the experience of a lifetime.

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A painting of a yellow and orange sunset over a dark purple mountain range.

Mascoma Bank

Mascoma Bank is located at 431 Pine Street in Burlington and features artwork curated by BCA's External Exhibitions Program on a rotating basis. These exhibitions run through February 2024.

Carol Boucher acrylic paintings

In this series of paintings, Boucher focuses on imagined/remembered landscapes, done in acrylic on canvas. In the warmer months, she paints with oils on location (plein air). Boucher has been painting since childhood, and for over 25 years has sold her artwork at galleries and at juried outdoor art festivals. She thanks you for taking the time to view her work! This exhibition runs through June 2024.

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