The “BigBike Show” at BigTown Gallery lives up to its name, with 21 artists exhibiting bike-related works, bike-themed events filling the calendar, an impressive collection of bicycles by a dozen makers on view and four bike-related films screening in the gallery. In its scope and organization, the exhibition aims to present artwork featuring the two-wheeled machines, to highlight the artistry in bicycles themselves and to honor the cycling culture that has played a formative role in Rochester’s development.... Read more

Philip Hagopian creates paintings that seem like glimpses of a beautiful, vanished world. His lavish works currently on view at Salaam on Burlington’s Church Street are painted in bold, unctuous oils, their settings festooned with woven rugs and patterned draperies that cascade around exotic women. Hagopian evokes an atmosphere of mystery and sensuality so palpable that you can almost smell perfume wafting from censers and hear the rustle of silk.... Read more

Just through the WalkOver Gallery’s screen door on Bristol’s Main Street, a row of colorful collaged works greets visitors. The series of small cut-paper and print works jostles the eye with bright hues and geometric patterns, inviting viewers to linger over their lively surfaces. Their creator, Carolyn Shattuck, is a Rutland-based artist with nearly 30 years’ experience working in diverse media. Her exhibition at the WalkOver encompasses works in printmaking, book arts and collage.... Read more

On a breezy summer morning, the doors of the BigTown Gallery in Rochester stand open, welcoming curious visitors to explore the treasures within. “Hey Joe: An Homage to Joseph Cornell” is an ambitious exhibition neatly packed into the small space of the gallery. Curated by State University of New York at Plattsburgh art professor W. David Powell, the exhibition features pieces by 10 artists, including Powell, who have been influenced by assemblage artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972).... Read more

Just outside the BCA Center’s Church Street entrance, a hulking steel sculpture 12 feet wide transforms the street into an art site — a place where the speed of passersby intersects with the slower time of elemental materials and artistic process. The sculpture, “Facetted Rock” by David Stromeyer, is based on a small stone the artist found on his Enosburg Falls property and admired for “its geometry and outward surface, but also its being — its spirit,” he explains.... Read more

Tucked in the picturesque landscape of Waterbury Center, the old Green Mountain Seminary building perches magisterially on a hill. A set of neat steps festooned with flowers marks the entry to the building’s first floor, where the Seminary Art Center occupies a sunny, high-ceilinged space. In the front, a small gallery stocked with ceramic wares shows the skill of the artists who work here. Tiny pots and broad bowls mingle on the wooden shelves, inviting visitors’ curious perusal or acquisition.... Read more

Walking into Joe John’s exhibition at the SEABA Center on Burlington’s Pine Street is an Alice-in-Wonderland-like experience. Large, wall-mounted “books” of the artist’s drawings beckon you to turn their pages with wood handles. Guests can sign a book visible through a clear plastic bubble on a pedestal — but only by placing their hands into long, inverted gloves attached to the bubble and scrawling clumsily with the fountain pen provided within.... Read more

On a sunny day in June, Carol MacDonald stands beside a glass countertop awash with gem-colored swaths of colorful ink. At 59, she is tall and slim, with piercing, sea-green eyes and cropped, silvery hair. As she talks, MacDonald wipes two bright blots of cobalt-blue ink from her arm with a laugh. In the lofty confines of her studio, hundreds of her artworks cover the walls almost edge to edge, evidence of her years of dedicated work, consummate skill and singular vision at the printing press.... Read more

Last weekend, a house in Burlington’s New North End was transformed into an art installation. Mary Zompetti, the artist behind the “House/Home Project,” had been working on a series of photographs of her home when a colleague suggested hanging the photos on her walls to get a new perspective on them.... Read more

Two of Burlington’s most celebrated arts institutions, Burlington City Arts and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, turn 30 this year. Fittingly, they’re celebrating three decades of culture together with a visual-art project that draws on a stellar lineup of more than 30 Vermont artists. Their works are currently on view at the Flynn’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery.... Read more