Art Exhibits
Friday Opening Reception,
May 3, 2013, 5:30-7:30pm
A FREE evening of art and wine
WriterHouse is proud to present the collages, oil paintings, and drawings of Nym Pedersen for the month of May.
Pedersen draws inspiration from the great jazz masters of the past. Using this approach and working in both paint and multimedia, he transforms an introspective journey into abstract works that are ethereal yet honest visual expressions. His art is both original and universal, touching all who experience it.
He states, "Making paintings and sculpture is a great joy, and in our twisted times feels like a privilege too. I keep in mind the approach of many great jazz musicians when applied to visual art: paint what you feel. And keep it free. And my best instructions these days come from my boys, who are my greatest joy: Paint like a child."
The First Friday opening reception is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments are courtesy of DuCard Vineyards. The exhibit will remain on display through June 1st.
Friday Opening Reception,
April 5, 2013,
5:30-7:30pm
A FREE evening of art and wine
For the month of April, WriterHouse is proud to present the work of artist and educator, Jane Skafte. In Skafte's work, familiar architectural details are abstracted to become intriguing patterns of complex intersections. Forms of geologic land faults, plate tectonics, volcanoes and weather diagrams all converge within her work.
The transformations of the landscape can be read as metaphors for emotional states. In a geological fault illustration, for example, sections of the Earth's mantel are sliced out of the landscape in order to examine what lies beneath the surface. This dislocation symbolizes fissures or fractures in human interactions and relationships. Skafte's art investigates the nuances of the landscape and human psychology.
The Friday opening reception is FREE and open to the public. Come enjoy a night of art and wine supplied by DuCard Vineyards. The exhibit will remain on display through April 27th.
Friday Opening Reception,
March 1, 2013,
5:30-7:30pm
A FREE evening of art and wine
WriterHouse is proud to present the pen and ink drawings of Chris Butler and the encaustic paintings of Jeannine Regan for the month of March.
Using an almost calligraphic approach, Butler creates drawings that explore the human psyche finding inspiration from his subconscious dreams. Regan similarly through her encaustic paintings strives to capture the essence of or the evocative feeling of a place long before the image form begins to emerge and describe it. Both artists explore the ambiguous line between the imagined and the real.
The First Friday opening reception is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments are courtesy of Ox-Eye Vineyards. The exhibit will remain on display through March 30th.
Friday Opening Reception,
February 1, 2013,
5:30-7:30pm
A FREE evening of art and wine
Wooten's landscapes are reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh, but are reinterpreted for a contemporary viewer. These impressionistic views depict environments using bright splashes of primary color. She adds text to many of her paintings to remind the viewer in short, pithy directives to "begin" and "let go". Her paintings have a plein air atmosphere to them, but they are depicted in an imaginative way with quick, acrylic brushstrokes.
"Each painting explores different parts of the same journey, navigating between solitude and community, surrender and ambition, safety and risk. The continuous movement of the waves beats out a rhythm of life, giving and taking away: a meditation on the struggle to maintain momentum inside and outside the studio, and the joy that unexpectedly reveals itself along the way," Wooten wrote.
The Friday opening reception is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments are courtesy of Ox-Eye Vineyards. The exhibit will remain on display through February 24th.
Friday Opening Reception,
January 11, 2013,
5:30-7:30pm
A FREE evening of art and wine
WriterHouse is proud to present the work of photo-realistic oil painter, Sandy Wilcox and the acrylic, mixed-media works of Stephen Balut. Willcox utilizes a unique visual motif, rubber band balls. She depicts them centrally focused with soft shadows and a pastel palette showing that something ordinary can be extremely beautiful. As a response, Balut literally takes these different colored strings and stretches them around his painted canvases offering the viewer hundreds of symmetrical, intersecting, and fractured lines to juxtapose with Willcox's order.
The Friday opening reception is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments are courtesy of Ox-Eye Vineyards. The exhibit will remain on display through January 27.
Friday reception,
December 7, 2012,
5:30-7:30pm
A FREE evening of art and wine
WriterHouse is proud to present the work of local poet and writing instructor, Judy Longley. Her art is an extension of her life as a poet with visual images and metaphors playing out upon her canvases. An abstract expressionist by nature, Longley finds inspiration from her interior mind, her imagination rather than what can be seen outdoors. On her canvases, little surprises always await interpretation.
The Friday opening reception is FREE and open to the public. Come enjoy a night of art and wine. Refreshments are courtesy of Ox Eye Vineyards. The exhibit will remain on display through December 29.
This project was conceived by Roberto Kamide who took beautiful photographs of streams and rivers and then had George(his son) compose haiku to accompany and complement each photograph. There is also an interesting series of photographs taken in infrared. The reception is free and open to the public.
Friday reception, October 5, 2012 5:30-7:30pm
WriterHouse is proud to present the vivid paintings of local artist Carrie Miller Payne throughout the month of October. Payne contrasts multiple layers of bright acrylic with soft geometric shapes and often inserts the human form cut, overlapping, compressed and abstracted. Her works confront the viewer head on with faces attempting to break through the layers of paint to the outside world.
Read more: Art Exhibit: “Focus Found: The Art of Carrie Miller Payne”
Sunday reception, November 4, 2012, 2:00-4:00pm
A FREE afternoon of art and tea
WriterHouse is proud to present the work of printmaker and UVa professor of art Akemi Ohira. Ohira is a storyteller. She creates imaginative scenarios that draw on personal experiences. These scenarios are often daily occurrences which she infuses with fairytale-like elements. Her work is surreal, often lacking contextual information, leaving viewers to insert their own interpretations. Things float in and out of Ohira's reality.
First Fridays Art Opening and Reception
On Friday December 2, 2011, 6:00pm-8:00pm at WriterHouse, come celebrate member and volunteer Polly Lazaron's exhibit "Wind Dances Fire: Energy Drawings 2000-2010." The art will be on display until January 14, 2012. See the flyer for complete information.
WriterHouse is proud to host a First Fridays Art Opening on Friday, June 1, 2012, 6-8 PM. The art exhibit is titled "The Narrative Image" and features photography, painting, and prints by UVA fourth-year students
- Elisabeth Hogeman
- Olivia Kiers
- Martie Kuzzy
- Cara Linnekohl
- Margaret Montague
Please join us! This event is free and open to the public.
Don't despair if you cannot make Friday's event - the show runs May 12 through June 15.
