by Jeff Maisey | Dec 15, 2021 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
(Cedric Baker’s Aunt Lou won Best of Show for the Made in VA exhibition.) By Betsy DiJulio A trio of new winter exhibitions is arguably Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art’s most captivating in years. Here’s my take on each. Shaping Memories: Expressions in Clay...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 15, 2021 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
CARA ROMERO, American (Chemehuevi, born 1977), “Water Memory,” 2015, Archival pigment print on Legacy Platine paper, Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors, Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment By Jeff Maisey If you think you know Native American art,...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 15, 2021 | Art, Art News
By Betsy DiJulio A sparkling new gem has taken its rightful place on the jewel box campus of Christopher Newport University (CNU). With its cadences of colonnades, pristine pediments, balustraded balconies, and dynamic domes, the campus is a love song to the...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 13, 2021 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
(Luke Jerram, Museum of the Moon, photo by Carl Milner, Leeds, UK, Light Needs Light, October 2017) By Betsy DiJulio A muse of poets, politicians, artists, athletes, and academics, the moon has infiltrated virtually every aspect of world culture since ancient times. ...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 3, 2021 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
(Kent Knowles, Untitled) By Jeff Maisey The Linda Matney Gallery has unveiled an ambitiously engaging new exhibition thematically centered around the human psychological condition associated with emerging from a global pandemic and similar transformative experiences. ...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 19, 2021 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
(Trumpeting: “I created this painting at my studio in downtown Washington, D.C. after a stay in Norfolk and learning about the history of the Attucks Theatre.” — Matt Sesow) By Betsy DiJulio Everyone, it seems, has heard of Matt Sesow even if they don’t own a...