Sponsored by Olivia & Pres Garrett, Ben Gravely, Shana & Japhet LeGrant, Lynwood Artists and Barbara & Guy Stanley. This exhibit was organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
This exhibit is comprised of 14 framed photographs by Norwegian artist Bjørn Sterri. From 2001 to 2023, Sterri photographed his wife Alejandra and their sons Jens Linus and Pablo to create an achingly beautiful chronicle of connection, change, and growth. Drawn from the first fifteen years of this work, Bjørn Sterri: Family Photographs conveys the emotional complexity of the passage from childhood to adulthood, the challenges and joys of partnership and parenthood, and the tension between individual identity and family structure.
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Sponsored by Olivia & Pres Garrett, Ben Gravely, Shana & Japhet LeGrant, Lynwood Artists and Barbara & Guy Stanley. This exhibit was organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Featuring works by contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition underscores the richness and diversity of the contemporary Indigenous experience told through the medium of printmaking.
The works are linked by the belief that words have immeasurable power, particularly when reckoning with how written language has been weaponized against Indigenous people throughout the history of the Americas.
The exhibit introduces several contemporary Native American artists who have worked in the medium of printmaking, including Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Demian Diné Yazhi (Diné/Navajo), Marie Watt (Seneca), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), and others. All artists represented in the exhibition have chosen to incorporate text into their images, using the language of the colonizers of their land to tell their own stories. In this way, words play a powerful role in reclaiming a lost history and adding to the incomplete American narrative. In doing so, they also offer messages of hope, humor, and resilience.
Words Matter is curated by Dr. Johanna Minich, former Assistant Curator of Native American Art.
Sponsored by Olivia & Pres Garrett, Ben Gravely, Shana & Japhet LeGrant, Lynwood Artists and Barbara & Guy Stanley.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features stained and fused glass by Steve Eanes. This retrospective spans his career, including work created over the last 20 years. Eanes uses his art to create memories for friends and family and enjoys sharing his craft by teaching others to create stained glass art.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery is curated by Lynwood Artists, an organization for practicing artists in the Martinsville-Henry County area. Its members share a desire to stimulate understanding and enjoyment of fine art and the artistic process, while providing area artists with opportunities to exhibit and further develop their talents.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features intricate drawings on scratchboard by Lee Farley. His work is produced not by adding pigment to paper, but by removing pigment with razor-sharp instruments. He then overlays acrylics and scratchboard inks applied with airbrush to create surreal effects. His work focuses on relaxing, serene imagery that offers an escape from everyday life.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery is curated by Lynwood Artists, an organization for practicing artists in the Martinsville-Henry County area. Its members share a desire to stimulate understanding and enjoyment of fine art and the artistic process, while providing area artists with opportunities to exhibit and further develop their talents.
This exhibition includes works from the series Holidays Unfolding and Through the Veil by Kristy Deetz.
Within these bodies of work, Deetz explores new possibilities between a complex interface of painting, textiles, and digital technology while producing an end product that maintains the richness of slow work wrought by hand. Working in fiber and investigating the historical use of decorative drapery and still life, Deetz examines the contradictory feelings often accompanying loss or nostalgia, and, as a result, her work becomes meditations on life's transience.
The imagery is stretched or manipulated through Photoshop to create a sense of instability, heightened emotion, or a digital sifting. However, the paintings good-humoredly deconstruct imagery from pop, outsider, and high culture to create new "spaces" of meaning through the use of dark humor, visual puns, symbols and metaphors, moments of silence, art historical allusions, cultural collisions, and spiritual conundrums to play with style and pictorial/formal construction.
Along with writer/scholar Edward Risden, whose pen name is Edward Louis, Deetz has published the books The Singular Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy and Holidays Unfolding: The Continuing Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy.
This annual exhibition of work by artists from Southern Virginia and the surrounding regions showcases an eclectic mix of work from artists working in watercolor, oil and acrylic, mixed media, drawing, photography, and sculpture.
Visit the museum to vote for the People's Choice Award. Winner will be announced after the close of the exhibit.
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