Vengeful angels, decadently grand architecture, masks and skulls are well ensconced in the iconography of Mexican painter Rafael Cauduro. In what is clearly a coup for Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center, the exhibition “Sin Fronteras (No Borders)” has brought work by a major international artist to northern Vermont. Cauduro’s unique vision encompasses both universal themes and Mexican cultural issues in the tradition of the great “Mexican Renaissance” muralists Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.... Read more

An amazing example of Earth Art blossomed in 2001 along a mile of Route 4 west of Rutland, and the piece was brilliant in both senses of the word. Montpelier artist Alisa Dworsky directed the placement of 1000 blue and green reflectors in geometric patterns beside the highway; they shimmered in the headlights of passing cars after nightfall. The ingenious piece was entitled “Luminous Fields, Longitude in Time.”... Read more

The “New York Graffiti Field Identification Guide” located at Gridskipper.com lists Faro among the city’s “most recognizable artists.” The site explains: “Though much of his work is featured around SoHo and Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he has yet to make commercial inroads. That may not be his goal.” On the other hand, maybe it is.... Read more

Intricate rhythms with a world beat define the 21 assemblages of M. Castano’s “Persistence of Pattern: An Intimate Story of Cultures” at Brandon’s Gallery in-the-Field. Castano, an accomplished mixed-media artist, displays an ecumenical approach to art making that draws on both traditional crafts and modern technology. “My formal training has spanned three continents: North America, Europe and Asia,” she wrote in an online artist’s statement. “The influence of living, working and studying in international centers of art is seen in architectural forms and materials.”... Read more

One of the Burlington area’s most unusual visual art venues is its airport. Curated by Burlington City Arts, three parts of the facility provide moments of aesthetic respite for travelers bustling to and from gates, baggage-claim conveyer belts and the cavernous parking garage.... Read more

The 78-year-old Northern Vermont Artists Association proclaims in its mission statement that the guild strives “to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standard, and advance the cause of creative art.” Among its founders and early members were many notable New England artists, including Ruth Mould, Elizabeth and Francis Colburn, Emile Gruppe, Georgia Balch and even, for a time, Maxfield Parrish.... Read more

Four mini-exhibitions span the walls of the Artpath Gallery in Burlington’s Wing Building this summer. The shows represent solid bodies of work by a quartet of Vermont painters: Deborah Hillman and Sarah Milton seem dedicated to Abstract Expressionism; Linda Durkee produces mixed-media collages; and Isaac Graham is a traditional realist who takes on a range of subjects, from figures to animals.... Read more

Two abstractionists with very different sensibilities currently share an exhibit at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Painter and sculptor Joan Curtis employs biomorphic forms and narrative details in her imagery, while paintings by Richard Weis, an art professor at Green Mountain College, are primarily nonobjective. Though their styles are distinct, both artists employ vibrant colors and intricate rhythms.... Read more

Aunique suite of charcoal drawings by Anthony D. Sini is hanging in the Second Floor Gallery of the Firehouse this month. The drawings, most of them 32 by 40 inches, evolved from images the Burlington artist first captured in sketchbooks over the last two decades. He focuses on just a few haunts: Burlington, Block Island and Gloucester, Massachusetts.... Read more

The medium of encaustic is both old and new. Some of the earliest paintings of Western civilization are encaustic funereal portraits from Hellenistic Egypt. But the technique — involving beeswax, resin and pigment — was so demanding and cumbersome that it eventually became a “lost art.” In the 20th century, however, thanks to improved technologies and commercially available mixtures, encaustic underwent a revival. Now, its popularity seems to grow each year.... Read more