Fiber transformed at First Friday exhibit
By Susan Pugh on Jun. 05, 2008
From staff reports
Need a little fiber in your (art) diet? The Academy of Fine Arts has some.
It’s FT: Fiber Transformed, the show that opens as part of First Friday exhibitions at the Academy this Friday. The FT works hanging in the Academy Gallery come from artists Mary Beth Bellah, Martha Bruin Degen, Pam Grammer, Cynthia Harrison, Jill Jensen and Judy Loope.
Meanwhile, the Academy’s Up Front Gallery shows the drawings of courtroom artist Claudia van Koba. The quick-sketch artist’s work includes drawings from some of Central Virginia’s most widely publicized trials, such as the 1980s slander showdown between Hustler magazine publisher, Larry Flynt, and Liberty University’s chancellor and Thomas Road Baptist Church founder, the late Jerry Falwell. (See an online slideshow of her work, and listen to her talk about it, at http://www.newsadvance.com, keyword: sketch.)
The Academy also will feature the pottery of Katherine Antis.
The Academy’s reception is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. with music by John White.
The shows will remain up until June 27.
The Academy’s satellite galleries are currently featuring the photographs of Andrea Ferguson at UBS and Kathy Cudlin at Magnolia Foods.
Over at Riverviews Artspace, the sounds of jazz and tap dancing will fill the Craddock-Terry Gallery. The jazz trio Quintana will play and tap dancers from the Dance Theatre of Lynchburg will perform.
On the walls will be “Inventions/Interruptions,” a show of large-scale photographs and installation drawings that utilize unconventional materials. The works by artists Ula Enstein and Lori Hepner will hang until June 22.
In the Reading Room, photographs celebrating Earth Day, taken by Areva employees, will be on display. The Coop Gallery will be in summer mode with the show, “Life’s a Beach.”
The second floor artists and Luis Lozano will have their studios open.
The upstairs gallery at 921 Main Street Fine Art will feature pastoral landscapes of North Carolina and the St. Lawrence area of New York by Robert Pearson Lawrence. 921’s street level space will show portraits by Helen McGehee and Julia Mahood, along with a faux Rembrandt, all of which will be mixed in with 19th and 20th century paintings.
921’s reception is set for 5 to 8 p.m.
At Beeswax Candle Co., Michael Twery’s show, “Four Directions,” features four unique bodies of work: paintings, small abstracts, life-size cutouts (including shoes from the Craddock-Terry Hotel) and landscapes.
The reception at the 109 13th St. gallery is set for 6 to 9 p.m.
Down at the Lynchburg Community Market, a show called “Tobacco in Lynchburg” will be up at the Heritage Crafters’ Gallery.
Artists Bonnie Kinnaird, and Frances and Norman Ogden pay homage to the cash crop that, during the 1800s, made Lynchburg one of the wealthiest cities in the nation.
That gallery is open from 2 to 7 p.m.
The market’s other art space, the Studio Gallery, will have a life drawing event with refreshments. It’s an opportunity for visitors to try a quick sketch or to stay through the reception, which runs from 5 to 7 p.m., and create. Music and paper will be provided; visitors can also bring their own records to play on the gallery’s vintage Columbia picnic player.
As always, First Fridays visitors can get around via the GLTC’s Art Trolley. It stops at galleries and restaurants during its run from 5 to 8 p.m.
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