by Jeff Maisey | Aug 19, 2018 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Make no mistake: Aggie Zed’s animal-based drawings and sculpture are not about animals. That’s right. Her menagerie of horses, donkeys, dogs, rabbits, and more are about people. It’s the circus parade of the human condition, but not in any...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 7, 2018 | Art, Art News
By Pam Catindig The annual Virginia Beach Neptune Festival Art and Craft Show isn’t only the best-loved art show among locals, it ranks 3rd in the nation! The highly acclaimed show, one of the highlights of the Virginia Beach Neptune Festival Boardwalk weekend, ranked...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 25, 2018 | Art, Art News
By Betsy DiJulio Debi Gray began her tenure as executive director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)—then the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia—with three of her small staff on maternity leave in the midst of the 2009 recession. Furloughs and lay-offs...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 1, 2018 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jerome Langston “The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.” ― Vik Muniz There is quite a...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | Art, Art News
By Michael Curry That phrase has been and continues to be the lifelong mantra or reason for being for Gloria Coker who is one of Coastal Virginia’s most renowned artists and visionaries who gleefully states “I can’t not paint”. Let me introduce...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2018 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio If contemporary Sci-Fi had a twisted tryst with 17th Century Italian Baroque, Alison Stinely’s paintings would be their disturbing love child. She borrowed the title of her show, “Gilded Splinters,” from Dr. John’s song, “I Walk on Gilded Splinters,”...
