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.
Admission Free
Presented by Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts. Sponsored by Sovah Health and King's Grant.
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.
Artwork Entry
Artists living within a 100-mile radius of Martinsville, Va. are invited to enter work in "Expressions 2025" from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, May 17 at Piedmont Arts. Follow the link below to learn more.
Artwork Entry
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