 
PAST EXHIBITIONS
April 22 - June 5, 2004
Tanja Softic: Several Inquiries into Origins/
Sue Papa: Protology
(Emerson Gallery)
Two Natures: Sharon Fishel & Jeff Smith
(Atrium and Ramp Galleries)
curator's statement
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Tanja Softic
Elements:Water
Sharon Fishel
Untitled (fern) |
March 9-20 & March 25 - April 9, 2004
Elements & Transitions
The Elementary and High School Art Exhibitions
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January 29 - February 28, 2004
Millicent Young: Between Within
(Emerson Gallery)
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Articulating the Intangible
curated by Kurt Godwin
(Atrium and Ramp Galleries)
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Millicent Young
Untitled
Tom Green
From the Night Window Series, 2004
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December 4-20, 2003
January 5- 17, 2004
Plastic Memory: Greg Carbo/
Susan Crowder/Betsy Packard/
Craig Pleasants/Lynn Schmidt/
Jeff Spaulding/M.Jordan Tierney/
Rex Weil
(Emerson Gallery)
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Marie Ringwald: Holding Places
(Atrium Gallery)
MPA/Corcoran Student Show
(Ramp Gallery)
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Rex Weil
Sweepers' Monument (for V. Tatlin)
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October 16 - November 22, 2003
(take down and reinstallation - November 7,8,9)
Reception - October 16 7-9
Connie Fleres: A Search for Balance
(Emerson Gallery)
Connie Fleres' aluminum and mica compositions consider balance in its various manifestations, Lurching over too far to believably support their own weight, playing on spinal symmetry, responding unpredictably to air currents, and seeking truth from faceted surfaces, these works take every opportunity to interpret the complex order of the physical world. Balance is, in Fleres' work, not simply a matter of equilibrium, but an analogy to the unpredictability of harmony and measure. Her sculpture is designed to take that message outside as well, to react to the elements of nature in garden settings.
Shahla Arbabi: Aero Gradations
Atrium Gallery
Known for her visionary paintings of psychological space, Shahla Arbabi has recently ventured into 3-dimensional form. These playful constructions demonstrate her love and masterful handling of color, form and value. Using artists' materials, such as stretcher keys and Neilsen frame clips, she invents fantastical little winged energy machines.
The Odyssey: Watercolors by Karen Shea
Ramp Gallery
A Virginia Museum traveling exhibition of works on handmade paper that relate Ezra Pound's "Cantos" to Homer's "The Odyssey", using the deep cobalt blue of the sea and the sky that so influence and guide the mythical hero's journey.
November 12-22
McLean Art Club Juried Show
(Ramp Gallery)
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 Connie Fleres
Installation View
Shahla Arbabi
Zero Gradations Series (#19)
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September 4 - October 4, 2003
Reception - Sept. 4
Elsabe Dixon: Reading Silk
(Emerson Gallery)
Elsabe Dixon grew up in rural South Africa. Raising silkworms was an integral aspect of culture on her African farm. Dixon now works with silkworms here in Virginia, redirecting their natural tendencies to spin cocoons into other suspended forms, Her installation in the Emerson Gallery will present these gossamer fabrications, part nature and part sculptural intervention accompanied by documentation of the silkworm's life processes in surprising ways.
Leslie Meier: Murmer
(Atrium Gallery)
Leslie Meier paints ephemeral planes of color on silk. Often a visual response to music, these introspective, luminous works consider the relative nature of Meier's materials to the transcendent movement of shape and hue through stained realms, not unlike cathedral windows.
Jiha Moon: Moonscapes
(Ramp Gallery)
Imaginary landscapes of saturated color, Jiha Moon's paintings demonstrate the exuberance of a young artist who is merging Asian and American aesthetics. Backdrop vistas bubble colorfully like lava lamps, while fly-trap fauna seek a good meal in the foreground in these oddly tranquil and sophisticated cartoon-like vistas.
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Elise Dixon
Reading Silk
Jiha Moon
Dangerous Water |
June 5 – July 19, 2003
Strictly Painting IV
(Emerson and Atrium Galleries)
Exhibit Catalog • Juror Essay
An ongoing tradition at MPA, this biennial juried exhibition surveys painting in the mid-Atlantic region. The works selected will present a broad array of issues in contemporary painting and explore the styles of the region's painters. Juried this year by Sarah Finlay of Fusebox and Deborah McLeod, MPA’s Director of Exhibitions.
Joanne Bauer
Jonathan Bucci
David Carlson
Paloma Crousillat
Janet DeCover
Suzanna Fields
Kurt Godwin
Pat Goslee
Reni Gower
Brece Honeycutt
Shahrzad Jalinous
David Jung
Rebecca Kamen
Joanne Kent
Kathryn McDonnell
Susan Main
Tammy Maloney
Isabel Manalo
Matthew Mann
Kathleen Markowitz
Maggie Michael
James Miller
Taek Lee
Susan Patrick
Lynn Putney
Marise Riddell
Jose Ruiz
Claire Starr
Heide Trepanier
Watie White
Ian Whitmore
Judy Wood
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Madeira School Exhibition
(Ramp Gallery)
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August - closed for gallery renovations |
Ian Whitmore
Glinting
Brece Honeycutt
Fill Again
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April 10 – May 24, 2003
A Language of Patterns
(Emerson and Atrium Galleries)
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This exhibition is being curated to accompany and enhance scholastic programming being organized by the Virginia Museum's Outreach Department. The show will explore the cultural traditions and influences of early Mali culture on contemporary artists. Fousienny Kelly, a Mali-born painter now living in Boston; Baba Wague Diakite, a ceramist from Portland; Janet Goldner, a sculptor from NYC; and James Phillips of Howard University are among the artists whose art is being presented.
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Nelda LaTeef:
The Hunter and the Ebony Tree
(Ramp Gallery)
This vibrant group of collages comprise a book illustrated and authored by area artist Nelda LaTeef. The narrative is based on a folk tale about finding the right love. It was passed along to LaTeef in French, a translation of an old Zarma griot or storyteller from the Republic of Niger in West Africa.
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James Phillips
Nummo (detail)
Seydou Coulibaly
Donkela (Night Dancers)
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(Emerson Gallery)
February 22 - March 8, 2003
Part 1
Elements: Art by Elementary School Students
March 15 - March 29, 2003
Part 2
Transitions: Middle and High School Art Exhibition
The 22nd Annual Youth Art Shows
(Emerson, Atrium and Ramp Galleries)
March is Youth Art Month at MPA. This annual youth art show features works by students from 12 area public elementary, middle and high schools. The exhibition will be divided in 2 parts for 2003. During the first two weeks, the elementary schools will present works in all media by students from Chesterbrook, Churchill Road, Franklin Sherman, Haycock, Kent Gardens, Lemon Road, Spring Hill and Westgate schools. The following two weeks will be dedicated to works by students from Cooper and Longfellow Middle Schools and Langley and McLean High Schools.
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The Hive Project
Contemporary Art Quilts
(Emerson Gallery)
The Hive Project is a collaborative installation by twelve artists working in the quilt medium. Conceived by Patricia Autenrieth, it is intended to exploit and expand New Image group's previous experience with collaboration. It is also meant to gain a wider interest than the current art quilt audience can provide. Its title alludes to quilting's history of bees because it is an ageless association regarding quilters, refering to the nature of cooperation New Image nonetheless shares with traditional quilters.
Each artist made 64 separately hung 12" squares, with her choice of subject, to be hung in a grouping that allows its outer columns to intermix with those of other groupings. The complete installation comprises 768 squares, measuring 8 feet high by 98 feet wide. The installation's separate squares allows it to fold into or wrap around corners in a variety of spaces, and the component groupings can be rearranged in any order. The artists in the exhibition include: Patricia Autenrieth, Jeanne Benson, Ardyth Davis, Michele Duell, Amanda Ford, Lesly-Claire Greenberg, Dorothy Holden, Cathy Kleeman, Dominie Nash, Sue Pierce, Linda Tilton, and Michele Vernon.
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 Patricia Autenrieth
Dominie Nash/Jeanne Benson
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Atrium Gallery:
Dorothy Dibner New Paintings in the Round
McLean artist Dorothy Dibner presents a series of whimsical hubcaps painted with images of birds, lush flora, and stylized figures. She derives their brightly colored appearance from ethnic decorative and folk art traditions. Dibner has a background as an abstract painter. This recent body of work is a playful new direction for the artist.
Ramp Gallery:
McLean Art Club Juried Exhibition
Featuring two-dimensional works by members of the McLean Art Club, this exhibition is juried by area painter and painting instructor, Rick Weaver.
The McLean Art Club was founded in 1955 by a small group of artists to encourage and facilitate their desire to create visual art. Today, club members include working artists, beginners, crafters, and other individuals who simply have an interest in art and wish to participate in club activities.
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Emerson Gallery:
Surface Tension:
Paintings and Installation by Charlotte Robinson
September 19 - November 2, 2002
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Virginia Artist Charlotte Robinson’s paintings, inspired by the waterways and wetlands of the East Coast, consider the science and sensation of water. Observing the activity of water and abstracting the patterns that light scatters across its surface, Robinson animates her canvases, contrasting the responses in diptychs and triptychs. |
Charlotte Robinson
"Van Gogh on the Potomac"
oil on canvas, 44"x 46" |
TWELVE KEYS AND THE GLASS HOUSE
Paintings by Kurt Godwin
Kurt Godwin's sets of radiant, jewel-hued paintings presented in TWELVE KEYS AND THE GLASS HOUSE investigate the layered process of knowledge gathering and transformation. Godwin integrates alchemical notations and secret visual signifiers, color formulas, and symbolic architectural motifs in centrifugal arrangements, conveying the everlasting human effort to reenact creation and turn the mundane into the precious. |
Kurt Godwin
"Water Wheel House"
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