Les Yeux du Monde’s exhibition of photographer Sam Abell’s project “Amazonia” will give armchair travelers a destination even more hot and humid than a Charlottesville summer. Abell does a nice job of remaining true to stringent documentary photography techniques without stepping into the clichés of “National Geographic photographer travels to the Amazon.” His images are […]
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is one of my favorite places in Charlottesville. I like its serene setting on Pantops, the simplicity of the museum’s purpose, and the way the staff is either unobtrusive or delighted to see me
The University of Virginia Art Museum is getting ready to expand its gallery space in the Bayly Building, with a capital campaign that defies my understanding of current economic conditions. As a preview, perhaps, of all the things they’ll be able to show after expanding, their current exhibition, “Highlights from the Collection” crams a kaleidoscopic […]
After taking in the range of art that fills the new Chroma Projects Art Laboratory on the Downtown Mall,
Les Yeux du Monde gallery owner Lyn Warren participates in the statewide initiative “Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts” by inviting 17 women into this month’s exhibition.
The American Festivals Project at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative documents the 40,000-mile journey of artist-explorers Ross McDermott and Andrew Owen, who investigated 37 “subculture gatherings” in 2008 and 2009. It may not be the most original idea for an exhibition—I have an aunt and uncle who travel to see things like the world’s largest […]
The new batch of McGuffey Art Center members have put together a solid show to introduce themselves, and the artists honor the building’s roots as an elementary school, with, among others, Peter Krebs’ skyscapes presenting views you might see at recess, and Amber Zavada’s earnest earthwork constructions lining the halls. “Aquarian Woman” and “Soul […]
Viewers aren’t given a title or theme for this year’s faculty show at Piedmont Virginia Community College, and with 10 different artists united only by the fact that they all teach there, one wouldn’t expect to find much in common. But this year the works—from Rebekah Wostrel’s monotone porcelain with small moments of ornamentation to […]
The title of Russ Warren’s show at Les Yeux du Monde, “From Magic Mountain,” alludes to the early twentieth century novel by Thomas Mann, wherein a young shipbuilder-to-be heads to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and winds up staying for seven years in a haze of indolent revelation. The experience of viewing Warren’s paintings […]