Art Features


CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Non-linear thought: Dolinger goes below the surface Published on Oct 4th, 2007 0 comments If you've ever visited Amazement Square, Lynchburg's ultra-fun children's museum, you've probably noticed Ed Dolinger's giant bug sculptures scaling the side of the building formerly used to sell...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Distant yet intimate: Peter Krebs' split personality Published on Sep 27th, 2007 0 comments When Migration co-owner Rob Jones told me that artist Peter Krebs had created several of his large charcoal-on-plywood drawings of trees with the intention of displaying them on the ceiling,...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Positively negative: Tim Michel's mostly good space Published on Sep 20th, 2007 0 comments Publicity Photo In my world, there is bad negative space and good negative space. Bad negative space would be my mood last Tuesday, when I felt crushed by deadlines and friendships that seemed...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Scratching the surface: Robert Bricker's mythic visions Published on Sep 13th, 2007 0 comments PUBLICITY PHOTO September's First Friday promised a cure for the August of my discontent. Galleries whose walls went bare for the past few weeks opened their new seasons. But the weather was sweaty...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- </span>Best-laid plans... Huff's industrial dissolution Published on Sep 6th, 2007 0 comments Publicity photo We are now officially in disaster season. Between anniversaries of the catastrophes of Hurricane Katrina and 9-11, the end of summer has laid bare just how un-invincible we actually...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- </span>Retro-spective: Whitehead's groovy reels Published on Aug 30th, 2007 0 comments Peter Whitehead shooting The Fall My father once confessed he worried that I was leading a "zig-zag" life. My career meanderings, however, look like a straight line compared to Liverpool-born Peter...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE-</span>Crafty collective: Waynesboro's stellar stash Published on Aug 23rd, 2007 0 comments Publicity Photo You've probably had this experience. You hear about something intriguing not too from Charlottesville and make a mental note to check it out. Yet months— maybe even years...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Snap-a-palooza: The river city's shutterbug showcase Published on Aug 16th, 2007 0 comments IMAGE COURTESY This week in my ongoing search for interesting art in August, I drive south on a sweltering day to view " Stolen Moments III," the Scottsville Council for the Arts' annual exhibition...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Material world: Williams goes beneath the surface Published on Aug 9th, 2007 0 comments Forget what T.S. Eliot said about April— when it comes to art, August is the cruelest month. Not much new opens, the ongoing exhibitions tend to be a hash of group shows, and quite a few...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Poetic process: Exploring Mann's photographic reveries Published on Jul 26th, 2007 0 comments "Technically, I'm not all that good. My negatives aren't that good because I just never follow the rules"– not exactly words one would expect to hear from Sally Mann, the artist Time...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Imperfect views: Lexingtonians visit the ‘ville Published on Jul 19th, 2007 0 comments "If it was perfect, it wouldn't be art." That sentence– spoken by my Lexington High School art teacher, Barbara Crawford after I'd accidentally put a big black blob in the middle of a pen-...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- If only...: Miller impresses and frustrates Published on Jul 12th, 2007 0 comments Image courtesy of the artist "If only"– two words I resist thinking whenever I view an exhibition. To state the obvious, art is subjective, and the first person to assess an artwork's...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Reel passion: Ford takes it to the Bridge Published on Jul 5th, 2007 0 comments When I met James Ford eight years ago, he was burning with creative energy as a high school student enrolled in Light House Studio's first video workshop. Since then, he's studied film and video...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Living color: Enjoy Allard's illuminating eye! Published on Jun 28th, 2007 0 comments –> –>Have you heard of "supertasters"? These are people whose tongues experience a more intense array of flavors than the rest of us sense. Their world is literally bitterer and sweeter...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- </span>Ix-travaganza: the sequel: Shentai shakes it up Published on Jun 21st, 2007 0 comments Last summer, the "Charlottesville Wunderkammer" jolted the ‘ville out of its heat-induced haze by artfully (and I mean art-fully) transforming the rundown Ix Building into an eye-popping...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Going Dutch: Van Riel and Wilcke's Amsterdam Published on Jun 14th, 2007 0 comments IMAGE COURTESY ANGELO Imagine you're out of town and someone asks you to describe Charlottesville. What images flash to mind? Monticello? The Downtown Mall? Thomas Jefferson? A view of the Blue...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Our lucky day(s): Look3’s wide-angle lens Published on Jun 7th, 2007 0 comments When photographer Mary Motley Kalergis checked into a DC hotel a few years ago, she was shocked to find men laced and strapped into leather corsets, thongs, and boots strolling through the...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Art with attitude: 'Bad Girls' bust up the rules Published on May 31st, 2007 0 comments Tuesday, May 1, was the quintessential Bad Day. An editor e-mailed to inform me an assignment I'd submitted was un-publishable, a message he topped with this cherry of encouragement: "I can't...
CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Edgy in the Valley: Counterculture comes to Staunton Published on May 24th, 2007 0 comments "Outside-In no. 2"IMAGE COURTESY JAMEY GRIMES "If the painting doesn't go with the sofa, get a new ****ing sofa!" Credited to Schopenhauer (no, you literalists, he didn't say it), that's just one...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Industrial strength: Jane South's construction sights Published on May 10th, 2007 0 comments You're probably seen Charles Ebbets' 1932 photograph "Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper." Eleven construction workers sit side by side on a girder high above New York City, feet dangling as they casually...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Uneasy mix: UVA alumni run the gamut Published on May 3rd, 2007 1 comments Inspired and repelled– that was my seemingly schizophrenic response to the exhibition, "Alumni in the Arts: Bazzle / Brown-Epstien / Jones," currently on view at the University of Virginia Art...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Torch songs: Dona Ruff's burnt offerings Published on Apr 26th, 2007 1 comments Looking at Dona Ruff's exhibition, "And on the seventh day..." currently hanging at Piedmont Virginia Community College, I suddenly remembered my college friend Andy's favorite joke. If we ran across...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Lush life: Sam Abell in full bloom Published on Apr 19th, 2007 0 comments In The Digital Journalist, longtime National Geographic photographer Sam Abell recalls the only sentence he learned from Vanuatu's Namba people in 1973 was "I'd like to go to the garden today."...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Who's your daddy? Johnny Fogg's family affair Published on Apr 5th, 2007 0 comments Take a minute to picture your parents. How do you see them? Young? Old? Smiling? Frowning? Doing something specific? Johnny Fogg wants to know. For over a year, Fogg has been cultivating the "...
Culture- ART FEATURE- <b>Shaping a View: Cohen's cultural exposure</b> Published on Mar 29th, 2007 0 comments John Cohen is one of those people. He's so good at everything he touches that you want to hate him– except you can't because he's so dang good at everything he touches. The honest-to-god...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Pulsing palettes: Up close with Indian painting Published on Mar 15th, 2007 0 comments Have you ever wondered what goes into a tube of paint? Even if you haven't, Victoria Finlay's Color: A Natural History of the Palette will open your eyes to startling facts underlying the manufacture...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Reality show: Tim O'Kane eyes the details Published on Mar 8th, 2007 0 comments When photorealist painter Tim O'Kane last showed in Charlottesville in 2005, his sunny-day vistas looking across Italian tiled rooftops were so precise in every detail that viewers could practically...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Flash light: Gibson and Recorder's visual vertigo Published on Mar 1st, 2007 0 comments If you're prone to light-induced seizures, it's probably a good thing you weren't at Vinegar Hill Theater Tuesday, February 20, for film artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recorder's "Perf.Form." The...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Terra nova: Uncommon ground at SSG Published on Mar 1st, 2007 0 comments "Today we seem to be increasingly fixated on things (cell phones, PDAs, televisions, cars, celebrities), and have less and less time to appreciate or even notice our surroundings," writes curator...
Culture- ART FEATURE- Young sprung: High school artists wow McGuffey Published on Mar 1st, 2007 0 comments High school– whether you loved it or loathed it (like me), chances are you recall at least one teacher who sparked your imagination. I suspect for many St. Anne's Belfield students, that person...