The Subject of Being: Mixed Media Works by Megan Van Deusen & Gabriel Shaffer
Megan van Deusen’s subtle, almost monochromatic figures evocatively emerge from the creases and folds of the material she works on. Her figures are suggestive of academic life-drawing, but the process […]
Cohabitants: New Works by Heide Trepanier & David Mazure
Heide Trepanier and David Mazure go beyond reflecting their immediate external world by drawing from some inaccessible and otherworldly place. Trepanier paints with gestural and unpredictable splatters atop a seemingly […]
An Educated Woman
Art is interlaced in the history of women’s education. Academies used it to refine girls into ladies, and colleges instructed women in it for beautifying their future homes. An Educated […]
Matisse, Picasso and Modern Art in Paris
In 1947, T. Catesby Jones bequeathed to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts his collection of modern painting and sculpture, focused on the School of Paris and represented by major […]
From These Hills 2009: Contemporary Art from the Southern Appalachian Highlands
From These Hills is a biennial exhibition showcasing new works by regional artists. The 2009 exhibit, featuring 83 pieces by 37 artists, is guest-curated by Ray Kass, a painter and […]
J.C. Leyendecker: America’s ‘Other’ Illustrator
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) may not be as well known as his fellow American illustrator Norman Rockwell, but during his long career his work was some of the most popular […]
Buying Time: Clocks Along the Great Road, 1790 – 1870
In the early nineteenth century, Northeastern clock manufacturers engaged in fierce competition to develop numerous innovations: new methods of assembly, new types of relatively inexpensive clock movements, and new ways […]
Pillars of Bohemia: Mullins, Houser, and Crookshank
It is no secret that the bohemian counterculture remains prevalent, if not completely dominating, in contemporary American art. Our local art scene is certainly not immune and this exhibition serves […]
John Kingerlee: A Painter’s Passage
John Kingerlee is a 70-year-old British-born artist who currently resides in rural Ireland. Kingerlee’s expressive paintings are a combination of gestural brushstrokes and collage defining images that float between representational […]
Wide-Eyed Garden: Paintings by Leila Cartier
Wide-Eyed Garden is an exhibit of works by Leila Cartier. Cartier is an Abingdon native who studied art and art history at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia […]