Art On View | Waterfront | May 2009
SPOTLIGHT
Champ Sculpture outside of Union Station
*21. Union Station
Main Street Landing
One Main Street
(802) 864-7999
Main Street Landing
One Main Street
(802) 864-7999
Union Station at One Main Street has three floors of art. Just outside the Main Street entrance to Union Station, you can see Christopher Curtis’ sculpture Venus and, looking up, Steve Larrabee’s Winged Monkeys. The floor off the Main Street entrance is the home of Katharine Montstream’s studio, as well as the Art’s Alive Gallery. Each month, Art’s Alive presents the work of Vermont artists. The train level floor includes part of the Art’s Alive Gallery, as well as Lars-Erik Fisk’s Train Ball and a mural of Waterfront images by Nancy Barnett of Fresco Studio. On display on the third floor (use elevator to access) are ten photographs from Peter Miller’s “Vermont Farm Women” series as well as work by Sue Miller which hangs outside her studio.
*22. CornerStone Building
Main Street Landing
3 Main Street
(802) 864-7999
The CornerStone Building at Three Main Street is just to the south of Union Station and offers three floors of mostly Vermont art. Enter the CornerStone Building from Main Street and look up to see Jack Chase’s 11-piece sculpture, Mobile, which depicts scenes of life along Lake Champlain. Immediately inside the double doors is a large work by Sally Linder. Wander the corridors and see work by Sean Dye, Carol MacDonald, Jennifer Koch, and Reed Prescott, among others.
*23. Artpath Gallery
Wing Building on the Waterfront
1 Steele Street
(802) 563-2273
Exiting Union Station from the train level and turning left, you’ll see Kate Hodges’ locomotion mural and the entrance to the Wing Building, home of the Artpath Gallery.
The Artpath Gallery’s new exhibit opens with an artist’s reception on First Friday, May 1st, 6-8PM. Collections by four Vermont artists: “Landscapes as Metaphor” by Randy Allen; “Stimulus in Paint” by Maggie Neale; “Contemporary Native Work” by Jack Sabon; and “Night Drawings” by Axel Stohlberg. The Artpath, which runs adjacent to the waterfront bike path, is located in the Wing Building near the King Street Ferry Dock. This exhibit shows through July, Monday Friday 7AM-8PM (weekends by chance). Special thanks to Main Street Landing Company.
*24. Lake & College
Main Street Landing
corner of Lake & College Streets
(802) 864-7999
Each of the three floors of Lake & College has art for your enjoyment. Main Street Landing commissioned two murals by local airbrush artist Ron Hernandez. On the First Floor (turning right after you enter) is Hernandez’s 2008 Endangered Species mural. His other mural, Pan of the Season, Lake Champlain, is on the third floor in the Lake Lobby. A unique historical display is worth a trip to the second floor corridor at the south end of Lake & College. Richard Moulton presents 59 reproductions of photographs and artwork detailing the history of Burlington’s Waterfront, from the time of Champlain to now. Other Vermont artists whose work is on display at Lake & College include Katharine Monstream, Livy Hitchcock, Anneline Beukenkamp, Alistair McCallum, Caleb Clark and Ginny O’Reilly.
*25. Skinny Pancake
60 Lake Street
(802) 540-0188
Through May: Annie Jenkins recently returned from a four-month journey through South America, Africa, and Asia and then continued her journey on Vermont’s back roads. Her photographs of these journeys are “potent freeze frames of culture, vividly capturing both the raw and warm moments of existence.”
*26. Battery Park Extension
Winged Monkeys & Sculpture in the Community
Walk up the hill on College Street and turn left on Battery Street. Study the roof of Lake & College and you will see that more of Steve Larrabee’s Winged Monkeys have arrived on the Waterfront. Continue walking along Battery Street and you will come across a five groupings of marble sculptures that are intentionally placed as a way to view the sunset through the crevices carved in the stones. The work was created in 1974 by Paul Aschenbach and in collaboration with Bill Ford, Terry Dinan, John Watenberg, and Bob Vesely.
27. Cathedral Church of Saint Paul
2 Cherry Street
(802) 864-0471
Through May 31: The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts-Vermont, in conjunction with Earth Care Ministry, presents “Water as Sacrament: A Finite Gift from God”. All media, including stories/poetry, speaks to our enlarging awareness of God’s precious gift to all Creation. Hours: Monday, 10AM-5PM; Tuesday-Thursday, 9AM-5PM; and Friday, 9AM-4PM.
