Join Burlington City Arts for the opening of our Spring 2025 exhibitions at the BCA Center on Friday, February 14 with an opening reception at 5 pm.

On the first floor, Bunny Harvey: Worlds Within Worlds features the landscape paintings of Vermont-based artist Bunny Harvey. Focusing on large-scale oil paintings and more intimately scaled works on paper, the exhibition debuts several new paintings created by the artist over the last year.

Harvey’s semi-abstract paintings are inspired by the rural landscape of central Vermont and the urban environs of New York or Rome. She is intensely engaged with the natural world, creating imagery that combines visual and sensory observations. Working intuitively and from memory, the artist captures unseen elements of the landscape – the sound of birds, scent of mown hay, or noise of the city – through the rhythm and gesture of her expressive brushwork. Evocative and seductive, Harvey’s landscapes exists as distinct places and as extensions of an inner world.

In the Roth Gallery on the second floor, artist Stéphanie Morissette explores the conflicting relationship between humans, nature, and technology in Speculative Future. Using insightful observation and dark humor, the artist imagines a future where biological specimens and mechanical technology have merged to create a new, hybrid species of birds and flying creatures. Morissette’s speculative future is not as fantastic as it may appears.

Through a selection of works on paper from her Birds of Prey series and mixed-media bird-drone sculptures, the artist questions the troubling realities and murky ethics underlying scientific research in synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and weapons of war.

Bunny Harvey: Worlds within Worlds and Stéphanie Morissette: Speculative Future is supported in part by the Maslow Family Foundation. Burlington City Arts is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts.