Sponsored by Marty Gardner, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Janet Lewis and Brad Johnson, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, Barbara and Guy Stanley and What's Your Sign.
Hardy and Ray have been living and working together for more than 25 years. They are inspired by found objects, patterns and designs discovered in nature. Through their intimate, creative and artistic bond they have created a diverse body of work full of rich textures and layered patterns.
Hardy says that art has always been an important part of her life. From an early age, she drew, painted and made things. She studied art education at Appalachian State University and painting and metal at Eastern Carolina University. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the Southeast and is part of many private collections.
Ray works in a variety of media from drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to performance works. His aesthetic borrows heavily from the Dada and Fluxus movements, with a strong combination of word, gesture and image. Since 1990 he has been active in international correspondence art activities and projects in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Japan, United States, Bolivia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland and Latvia. He is a 2015 recipient of the North Carolina Arts Fellowship.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Marty Gardner, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Janet Lewis and Brad Johnson, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, Barbara and Guy Stanley and What's Your Sign.
American photographer, teacher and author Russell Hart uses his medium to explore the ways in which humans occupy and alter their environments and the landscape, but his photographs aren’t meant to be documentary or even realistic. “My work is based on observation,” Hart explains. “It doesn’t express a world view or share an intimate experience in the manner of so much contemporary art. It’s intended to show familiar things in a new way.”
In recent years, however, Hart’s work has ventured into more personal territory in the form of a project called “As I Found It: My Mother’s House,” newly released as a large-format coffee-table monograph by German art book publisher Kehrer Verlag. The project tells the story of his mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s and dementia, but not with the customary images of the disease’s sufferers and their caregivers; instead, it features photographs he made as he emptied out his mother’s house of forty years when she could no longer live there.
The images in “As I Found It: My Mother’s House” include not only the home’s increasingly empty interiors but also delicate still lifes taken from the massive yet ordered, deeply idiosyncratic collection of sentimental and practical objects and materials his mother left behind. For Hart, making these photographs was a way of mitigating his grief and extracting something positive from the experience. On the one hand the book is a meditation on memory and the pathos of objects. With the context provided by its introduction, texts, and captions, however, it is also a representation of how history and identity are lost to dementia. Signed copies of the book are available in the Piedmont Arts gift shop.
Both bodies of work will be featured among the thirty-five prints of “In a Different Light, ” Hart previously exhibited his environmental photographs at Piedmont Arts in 2017, and his work has been shown at galleries and museums including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Hudson River Museum, the DeCordova Museum, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which has awarded him three traveling fellowships. He has taught photography at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He currently teaches in the master’s in digital photography program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. Hart was for many years Executive Editor of American Photo magazine, and received the Griffin Museum’s Susan Sontag Scribe Award for best writing about photography. His writing on photographic subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Men's Journal, and La Repubblica del Donne, among other publications. Hart grew up in Charlottesville, Va. and now lives in Lexington, Va.
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Sponsored by Marty Gardner, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Janet Lewis and Brad Johnson, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, Barbara and Guy Stanley and What's Your Sign.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features wildlife photography by Artemisia Blankenship.
Blankenship became passionate about photography while pursuing a career in fashion. Wildlife became one of her favorite subjects. She greatly enjoys photographing the animals she sees while taking long walks and views the images with a race of excitement, becoming truly lost in time discovering the magical beauty of every different species. She feels that the most meaningful way to capture the divine spirit and essence of wildlife and honor its existence on our planet is by sharing her images with others. Her favorite places to shoot are in the Florida Everglades, the coastal regions of North and South Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
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.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, King's Grant, Sovah Health and What's Your Sign.
This annual open-entry exhibition presented by Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts features work by artists from Southern Virginia and the surrounding regions. The exhibit was judged by Gretchen Carr, gallery manager at Tamarack Marketplace in Beckley, West Virginia.
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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Sponsored by Olivia & Pres Garrett, Janet Lewis, Beverly & George Lyle, Lynwood Artists, Anne & Eric Smith and Sovah Health.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features intricate drawings on scratchboard by Lee Farley. His work is produced by removing pigment from scratchboard using razor-sharp instruments. He then overlays acrylics and 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.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Olivia & Pres Garrett, Janet Lewis, Beverly & George Lyle, Lynwood Artists, Anne & Eric Smith and Sovah Health.
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."
Admission Free
Sponsored by Olivia & Pres Garrett, Janet Lewis, Beverly & George Lyle, Lynwood Artists, Anne & Eric Smith and Sovah Health.
With a keen eye for detail Pieter Bain transforms raw wood into captivating sculptures. Each piece is a dialogue between the artist and the natural world and an exploration of the wood's inherent character and the vision it inspires. Bain describes his process as both meditative and transformative. He seeks to honor the tree's journey by breathing new life into its form.
Bain is the creative force behind Wild Tribe Woodworks in Floyd, Va. His piece, "The Way She Moves" won Best in Show in Lynwood Artists' and Piedmont Arts' annual open-entry art show "Expressions" in 2023.
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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 on paper 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.
Accompanying the exhibit is a display of work by Indigenous comic book artists, writers and illustrators titled "Untold History." In this exhibit, Jason Garcia positions primary actors in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 as superheroes seeking truth and justice. Arigon Starr offers compelling stories of Navajo Code Talkers delivering classified information during World War II. Jeffrey Veregge weaves Salish formline designs into his revival of Marvel’s first Native American superhero, Red Wolf. Ceramic artist Les Namingha decorates a traditional Hopi jar with Pokemon.
This exhibit was organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Dr. Johanna Minich, former Assistant Curator of Native American Art.
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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.
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, this exhibit 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.
This exhibit was organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Dr. Sarah Kennel, Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center.
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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.
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Sponsored by Brenda Ayers, Bunco Babes, Chix with Stix, Martha Drane, Floyd Quilt Guild, Inc. Marty Gardner, Suzanne Hutchens, Lynwood Artists, Anne & Gene Madonia, Nancy Philpott, Betty Lou & Ron Pigg, Stitch Party Studio, Julie Thomas, Virginia Consortium of Quilters, Virginia Foothills Quilters Guild and Lynn & Noel Ward
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features work by Virginia Foothills Quilters Guild. This biennial group exhibition includes everything from wearables to wall hangings to good, old-fashioned bed coverings.
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.
Sponsored by Brenda Ayers, Bunco Babes, Chix with Stix, Martha Drane, Floyd Quilt Guild, Inc. Marty Gardner, Suzanne Hutchens, Lynwood Artists, Anne & Gene Madonia, Nancy Philpott, Betty Lou & Ron Pigg, Stitch Party Studio, Julie Thomas, Virginia Consortium of Quilters, Virginia Foothills Quilters Guild and Lynn & Noel Ward
More than 60 artists from across the Southeast participate in this biennial exhibition of quilted works curated by master quilter Linda M. Fiedler and quilter Betty Blessin.
The theme for this year’s exhibit is “Experiment.” The participating artists approached the challenge with an open mind. Many experimented with an entirely new approach to their own art, while others experimented by learning new and interesting skills and techniques. These artists approach quilt making much as a painter approaches a canvas — by combining idea, color, material, composition, form, texture, and spontaneity to express their vision.
Enter to win a quilt created by members of Virginia Foothills Quilters Guild. Quilt donated by Karen Despot. $5 per entry. Winner announced Friday, Jan. 10.
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Sponsored by Page & Ben Beeler, Cindy & Steve Edgerton, Andrew Harder, Lynn & John Korff, Lynwood Artists, Nancy & Henry Moore and Susan & David Morris
Patricia Bellan-Gillen mixes personal narratives and fairytales to create works shrouded in a veil of nostalgia that blurs fact and fiction. Her mixed-media collages combine iconic characters from children's stories, recent news picked from the internet, sagas from the era of black-and-white television, and characters that appear with no explanation to suggest a narrative and engage the viewer's associative response.
Bellan-Gillen lives and works in the Washington County, Pa., near the West Virginia border. She has been active in the Pittsburgh art scene as an exhibitor, educator, and mentor sine 1977. She retired from Carnegie Mellon University as the Dorothy L. Stubnitz Endowed Chair of the School of the Arts after teaching at the university for 29 years.
Sponsored by Page & Ben Beeler, Cindy & Steve Edgerton, Andrew Harder, Lynn & John Korff, Lynwood Artists, Nancy & Henry Moore and Susan & David Morris
Jessica Bloch-Schulman creates ceramic figures with abstracted forms and dreamlike components. Her works are created in contemplation of the lasting impact of profound life experiences, such as her mother’s dementia and the isolation of a global pandemic. These pieces are psychological self-portraits rooted in themes familiar to almost everyone, including grief, anxiety, and self-doubt.
She is interested in how human memories are stored, and the neural pathways and chemical interactions that write the invisible maps of our emotional lives. The symbols and markings on her figures form a kind of legend, alluding to milestones or meaningful events that would otherwise remain concealed. These pieces invite the viewer to linger, to feel something familiar, and to consider the shapes of the stories that persist in our minds
Bloch-Schulman lives and works in Greensboro, N.C. She holds a BFA in design from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She worked in digital media for more than 20 years before discovering clay in 2021.
Sponsored by Page & Ben Beeler, Cindy & Steve Edgerton, Andrew Harder, Lynn & John Korff, Lynwood Artists, Nancy & Henry Moore and Susan & David Morris
Paula Melton captures the beautiful vistas and colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains in her watercolor and acrylic paintings. Known for garden flora, wild plant life, and scenes of old-time mountain life, she is drawn to the basic beauty of the natural blue shades of the mountain ridges. The Blue Ridge Parkway is the inspiration for most of her ridge scenes and its unspoiled views allow her to capture the essence of the scenic route.
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.
Reception sponsored by King's Grant • Best in Show sponsored by Virginia Glass & Mirror
Expressions is an annual exhibition of work by artists from southern Virginia and the surrounding regions. This showcase of regional talent features an eclectic mix of work from hundreds of 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.
Admission Free
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features work by Meritha Alderman, a multi-media artist known for her signature "paintings" created using dryer lint.
Alderman has a BFA in studio art and an MA in art education. She is originally from Roanoke, Virginia, and now lives in Martinsville where she is an art teacher at Laurel Park Middle School.
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.
Featuring 44 etchings that the Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí created in Paris in 1934, as well as a portrait of the artist by Carl Van Vechten from the same year, this exhibition presents the unique proof set for the complete series of etchings that make up the first edition of Les Chants de Maldoror – the infamous 1869 prose poem by Isidore Ducasse. Curated by Dr. Michael R. Taylor, chief curator and deputy director for art and education, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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A compilation of mostly World War II illustrations created by Ken Smith for the Advanced Squad Leader board game, originally reproduced on game boxes, magazines and folders. The exhibit contains 15 paintings spanning the era of 1939 (Kollaa Holds) to 1950 (Frozen).
Smith is an associate professor of graphic design at Radford University. He is a current or former member of the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Publication Designers, the AIGA, the Salmagundi Club and the Coast Guard Art Program, where he has won the prestigious George Grey Award of Artistic Excellence on three separate occasions. His paintings and illustrations are featured at both the East Tennessee Historical Society and the McClung Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee, as well as at Fort Loudoun State Historic Area museum in Vonore, Tennessee.
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Sponsored by Betty Blessin, Imogene & Isadore Draper, Ben Gravely, Mallory & Richard Joyce, Debra Poirier & George Mehaffey, Jennifer Reis & Pete Mannen, Joan & Monty Montgomery, Madie & Jim Rountree, Gail Vogler, Brenda & Joe Williams and Lynwood Artists
Jonathan Lee is an artist and librarian living and working in Richmond, Virginia. His studio practice explores ephemeral memory, secret histories and social constructions; often through abstracting activated materials. His social practice utilizes multi-modal approaches to engage individuals, small groups, and communities with ideas through discussion, art making and display.
Lee's work is made predominantly from used, discarded or repurposed materials. Charged by exchanges and interactions of often unknown consequence, these materials have the power to reveal things about our past, present and future, not just because of what they are, but who we are. By altering their original form and function, Lee investigates how information is created, interpreted and renewed through individuals, communities and systems. By engaging in both art making and the research process, he solves problems of his own design while reflecting on problems in the world.
In the studio, Lee is engaged in at least two conversations. One is with himself (What am I feeling and thinking?) The other is with the materials (What are they doing and saying?) Where these dialogs overlap is where the work takes shape; a product of following small details to unexpected places.
Lee's work responds to both the materials and the maker, a collection of personal and communal experiences where patterns and connections are both made and broken. These abstractions offer an alternative apparatus for taking in and questioning information. An opportunity to consider things differently.
Please note that the museum will be open on Saturday, March 9.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Betty Blessin, Imogene & Isadore Draper, Ben Gravely, Mallory & Richard Joyce, Debra Poirier & George Mehaffey, Jennifer Reis & Pete Mannen, Joan & Monty Montgomery, Madie & Jim Rountree, Gail Vogler, Brenda & Joe Williams and Lynwood Artists
Known for its bold, improvisational designs and the use of recycled fabrics, Gee’s Bend’s patchwork quilting tradition began in the 19th century and continues today.
These quilts constitute a crucial chapter in the history of American art. The residents of Gee’s Bend, Alabama (also known as Boykin) are direct descendants of the enslaved people who worked the cotton plantation established there in 1816 by Joseph Gee.
After the Civil War, the ancestors of Gee’s Bend’s residents remained on the plantation working as sharecroppers. When cotton prices fell during the Great Depression, the community faced ruin until the Federal Government purchased 10,000 acres of the former plantation and provided loans enabling residents to acquire and farm the land. Unlike the residents of other tenant communities, who could be forced by economic circumstances to move — or who were sometimes evicted in retaliation for their efforts to achieve civil rights — the people of Gee’s Bend could retain their land and homes. Cultural traditions like quilt making were nourished by these continuities.
Today, the non-profit organization Sew Gee's Bend Heritage Builders works to promote the quilters of Gee’s Bend and has fostered collaborations with major fashion houses like Greg Lauren, Chloe and Marfa Stance and exhibitions at major museums around the world inculding the Whitney Museum of American Art. Learn more about Sew Gee's Bend Heritage Builders here.
Please note that the museum will be open on Saturday, March 9.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Betty Blessin, Imogene & Isadore Draper, Ben Gravely, Mallory & Richard Joyce, Debra Poirier & George Mehaffey, Jennifer Reis & Pete Mannen, Joan & Monty Montgomery, Madie & Jim Rountree, Gail Vogler, Brenda & Joe Williams and Lynwood Artists
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features work by Karen Despot. What makes Despot unusual is her multi-disciplinary expertise. She is equally skilled as a seamstress, a portrait painter, mural designer and painter, furniture design painter, jewelry designer and maker, wedding planner (including designing and creating the gowns of the bride and wedding party), graphic designer and art instructor.
Her interest in the arts has been life-long and varied, she has produced and taught, and opened the first gallery in the area to showcase and promote local artists as well as her own school of 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.
Please note that the museum will be open on Saturday, March 9.
Sponsored by Olivia and Pres Garrett, Charlie Knighton, Blanche and Tom Mahoney, Kim and Jason Spratley, Kerry Y. Tillery and Lynwood Artists
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features work by Dianne L. Greene, a portrait artist originally from Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. Greene says that painting makes her happy and she has pursued her art as part of her lifelong journey to use her gifts and talents.
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.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Olivia and Pres Garrett, Charlie Knighton, Blanche and Tom Mahoney, Kim and Jason Spratley, Kerry Y. Tillery and Lynwood Artists
Featuring work by award-winning Roanoke-based artist Annie Waldrop, this collection is an outcome of her decades-long quest to use bookmaking, painting, assemblage, collage and other mediums to explore femininity through themes like spirituality, Buddhism, motherhood and creativity. Waldrop's work represents the culmination of a process she likens to tending a garden or raising a child — a labor of love which has its own organic course to follow, including unpredicted detours and clearly defined destinations.
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Sponsored by Olivia and Pres Garrett, Charlie Knighton, Blanche and Tom Mahoney, Kim and Jason Spratley, Kerry Y. Tillery and Lynwood Artists
Z.L. Feng finds inspiration for his ethereal watercolor landscapes on his travels and in the verdant countryside of the New River Valley where he lives.
“I find that the trees, rivers, and nature itself are beautiful and have good Feng Shui,” he said. “This means that wind and water are so important to our life and that is why these things are often the centerpieces of my works.”
Feng grew up in Shanghai, China, where he began painting at age seven. Before coming to the U.S. in 1986, he received his BFA from Shanghai Teacher’s University. He completed an MFA at Radford University in 1989 and went on to teach there for more than 30 years.
Feng's watercolors and illustrations have been exhibited in juried shows around the world. An artist-signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Pastel Society of America, Feng has won more than 200 national and international awards and has been recognized at numerous watercolor exhibitions.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Liz and Doug Goldstein, Annette and Paul Huckfeldt, Susan and David Morris, Anne and Eric Smith, Barbara and Guy Stanley and Lynwood Artists
In response to a culture saturated with devices that distance, digitize and disembody, the artists in Compulsory Measuresembrace repetition and ritual as mindful strategies to ascertain meaning.
Bordering on the obsessive, Jorge Benitez, Kristy Deetz, Al Denyer, Joan Elliott, Reni Gower, Steven Pearson, Jennifer Printz and Tanja Softic provide lifelines for “making sense” out of the chaos entrenched in contemporary culture. By utilizing complex systems, intricate patterning, repetitive marking or minute detail, Compulsory Measures offers revelatory and celebratory works slowly crafted by hand.
With social media fictions and rampant consumerism triggering excessive anxiety across most demographics, the artists in Compulsory Measures offer a contemplative slowing down even as they urge acknowledgement of some of the most pressing issues (environmental crisis to global marginalization) facing civilization today. Enticed by touch, the artists counter visual skimming and encourage quiet reflection. As such, the exhibition is a perfect conduit for diffusing unease while generating conversations that embrace cultural awareness through mindfulness.
Admission Free
Sponsored by Liz and Doug Goldstein, Annette and Paul Huckfeldt, Susan and David Morris, Anne and Eric Smith, Barbara and Guy Stanley and Lynwood Artists
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features work by Rick Dawson. Dawson's photography articulates the magic of the mundane and has the power to turn a glance into a lingering, thoughtful gaze. From the iridescent wings of butterflies basking in the sunshine to the glow of a full moon on a tranquil night, Dawson ensures every hue and shade is shown and appreciated to the fullest. Dawson has been painting pictures with his camera lens, capturing the world's beauty and unveiling layers of beauty that often go unnoticed for more than four decades. He is from Bassett, Virginia.
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.
Admission Free
Reception sponsored by King's Grant • Best in Show sponsored by Virginia Glass & Mirror
Expressions is an annual exhibition of work by artists from southern Virginia and the surrounding regions. This showcase of regional talent features an eclectic mix of work from hundreds of 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.
Admission Free
Healing Arts is an annual exhibit focusing on mental health awareness and the healing power of art. This exhibit features work created by participants in Horizons, an organization of Piedmont Community Services.
Reception for Exhibiting Artists
Friday, July 28, 2023
10 am – 2 pm
Piedmont Arts
Sponsored by Cindy and Steve Edgerton, Paige and Jay Frith, Tracie Heavner and Jim Frith, Pete Mannen and Jennifer Reis, Barbara and Guy Stanley and Lynwood Artists
Susan Lenz works in partnership with her materials to articulate the accumulated memory inherent in discarded things. By using multiples of seemingly mundane items, she puts into perspective the abundance of life and the capacity to keep things as if for a "rainy day." Paper clips, keys, bottle caps, buttons, nails, plastic spoons and old clock parts are combined with dominoes, film reels, old toys and holiday decorations. These and so many other, often vintage, items are repetitively hand-stitched into meditative patterns on sections of old quilts, bringing an extraordinary new life to otherwise everyday things.
Other altered works address marriage, systemic racism, genealogy, reliance on mechanical appliances and common adages. In each piece, Lenz uses a familiar object in an unexpected way to voice current ideas and social concern.
Lenz's work has appeared in national publications, numerous juried and invitational exhibitions and at fine craft shows including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Craft Shows. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Textile Museum in Washington, DC and the McKissick Museum in South Carolina. Susan has been awarded fully funded fellowships to several art residencies including Great Basin National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, The Anderson Center, PLAYA, Hot Springs National Park, the Studios of Key West, and Homestead National Monument. She has been featured on art quilting television programs, Columbia Museum of Art’s educational videos, and South Carolina Etv. Her solo shows and installations have been mounted all over the world, including at Mesa Contemporary Museum of Art and as far away as the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England.
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