The Current in Stowe, VT stages 35th annual free, outdoor, sculpture exhibition

The Current, a center for contemporary art with a mission to inspire civic engagement and broaden our understanding of the world through contemporary art, presents the 35th edition of Exposed, its annual free outdoor sculpture exhibition on view June 20–October 17, 2026 in Stowe, Vermont. This year’s edition honors Vermont sculptors Christopher Curtis and the late John Matusz, both of whom played a pivotal role in shaping the exhibition’s early history. As former curators, they expanded the exhibition beyond The Current’s grounds into public spaces throughout the village of Stowe and helped establish the exhibition under its now long-running title, Exposed.

Four invited artists anchor this year’s exhibition: Christopher Curtis, Miles Greenberg, Tomokazu Matsuyama, and John Matusz. The exhibition also features artists selected through an open call, including M. Julian Isaacson, Scott Boyd, Marcel Regueiro, Eva Tellier, Christopher Yockey, and Duy Hoàng. Sculptures are installed across public and private land throughout the village and at The Current, and are free to the public.

“Each year we are thrilled to present this annual public outdoor exhibition that enlivens our town through the lens of large-scale contemporary sculpture in conversation with our beloved historic architecture,” says The Current Executive Director and Director of Exhibitions, Rachel Moore. “The sculptures invite viewers to engage with the landscape, be mindful of the present moment, and take inspiration with them long after they view the work.”

The exhibition opens with a free public festival on Saturday, June 20, from 4–7 p.m., honoring sculptors and early exhibition curators John Matusz and Christopher Curtis. The evening’s celebrations include a conversation between artist Miles Greenberg and curator Rachel Moore, a guided walking tour through town featuring artist talks in front of the Exposed sculptures, and a festive gathering on the lawn of The Current with live music, food, and beverages, all complimentary.

MILES GREENBERG

Miles Greenberg (b. 1997, Montreal, Canada) contributes Orpheus I (2021) to Exposed, alongside his eponymous solo exhibition at The Current this summer.

The work, a sculpture cast from 3D scans of his performance of Late October at Gallerie Continua in Le Moulins in 2020, represents the artist’s first experiments into formally sculptural work. To produce it, Greenberg deliberately disabled the self-corrective capabilities of a 3D scanner, introducing glitches and distortions that render the resulting form simultaneously abstract and unmistakably human.

Titled after the figure in Greek mythology forbidden to look back, Orpheus I evokes the tragedy of longing, loss, and the impossibility of return; the work is at once an archival record of live performance and a freestanding inquiry into art history, entropy, and the persistence of the body. One of a series of sculptures named for cautionary figures from Greek mythology, the work draws on the romanticism of classical sculpture, the rigor of modern architecture, and a nuanced understanding of how energy moves through a body.

OMOKAZU MATSUYAMA

Tomokazu Matsuyama (b. 1976, Takayama, Japan) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation. For Exposed, he presents two mirror-polished stainless steel sculptures, Double Jeopardy! and Wheels of Fortune (2020). Known for blending and reinterpreting visual languages drawn from different eras and cultures — ancient and modern, figurative and abstract, Eastern and Western — Matsuyama’s work reflects the evolving complexities of identity and visual perception in an information-driven, globally networked world.

His stainless steel sculptures, though appearing to lack color, function as mirrors, absorbing and reflecting the hues of their surroundings and extending his painted practice into three dimensions. Wheels of Fortune merges deer antlers with an intricate wheel form, referencing the Shinto belief that deer are messengers to the gods while placing nature and machine in charged coexistence; Double Jeopardy! continues this collision of traditions, probing the tension between spiritual and material desire. One figure holds a blooming sunflower while the other carries a flower beginning to wither — a duality that echoes the artist’s studio practice, where Ikebana-inspired arrangements and a sense of balance inform the work’s quiet Zen orientation.

The circular wheel amplifies this, symbolizing the ongoing circulation between flourishing and fading as inseparable parts of the same continuum. Together, the two works bring Matsuyama’s inquiry into identity, globalization, and cultural hybridity into dialogue with the Vermont landscape.

CHRISTOPHER CURTIS

Christopher Curtis (b. Vermont, USA) is a sculptor whose work in stone and metal draws on more than fifty years of practice rooted in the natural world. Guided by a lifelong fascination with geology and astronomy, Curtis works between the ancient and the industrial, often fusing stone and large-scale stainless and Corten steel to explore the tension between natural materials and contemporary fabrication.

A longtime exhibitor and early curator of the Exposed exhibition, Curtis has helped shape the show since its founding years in Stowe.

JOHN MATUSZ

John Matusz (b. 1947–d. 2026, Mohawk River Valley, New York, USA) was a sculptor whose work grew from a childhood immersion in drawing and early encounters with art at Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. His practice evolved from drawing to painting and a sustained investigation of space and structure on canvas, before finding its fullest expression in sculpture.

After receiving formal welding training in 1969, Matusz embraced metal fabrication as his primary medium, and three-dimensional work remained the central focus of his artistic life. Alongside his role as an exhibiting sculptor, he was an early curator of the Exposed exhibition, helping to shape the foundation of what the show has become.

Matusz lived and worked in northern Vermont until his death in May 2026.