Art Notes

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: May 1, 2008

May day, May day!
It’s time to check out new shows

l Second Street Gallery:
“Painting, Performance, Machines,” a multi-media installation of works from 1999 to the present by UVa alumna Rosemarie Fiore, is being shown in conjunction with Les Yeux du Monde.
Fiore, who lives in New York, received her BFA from the University of Virginia. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 tonight with an artist talk at 6:30 p.m.

l Les Yeux du Monde:
“View from Clear Creek” by Rosemarie Fiore will be on view through May 31. Also on view are prints by Calder, Gottlieb, Motherwell and others to benefit the International Rescue Committee. There also are limited-edition stools by Irwin Berman. The First Friday opening will be from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight. For more information, call 973-5566.

l Migration: A Gallery
“Earth Openings,” featuring the paintings of Connecticut artist and former art professor Suzanne Howes-Stevens, will be on display through June 27. There will be a reception with the artist from 5:30 to 8 tonight. The gallery will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales at the opening to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. For more details, call 293-2200.

l McGuffey Art Center:
Gresham Sykes will be showing recent paintings on paper and canvas in the main gallery. Joan Soderlund is showing “Euphoric Memory” in the downstairs hall galleries along with Scott Supraner’s “New Work: Stoneware Vessels and Sculptural Reliefs.” Janice Breeden has taken over both of the upstairs hall galleries with her thesis exhibition for her master of interdisciplinary studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. The reception is from 5:30-7:30 tonight. For details, call 295-7973.

l V. Earl Dickinson Building
Graduates of Piedmont Virginia Community College’s graphic design program will show their final projects at a reception in their honor from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the Maxwell Theatre at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
Students designed logos, advertising campaigns and other marketing materials for the Blue Ridge Swim Club, American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, Albemarle Ballet Theatre and local singer Kathryn Caine. For information, call 961-6551.

l Piedmont Virginia Community College:
The 2007-08 Art Gallery season wraps up with “The Other.” Twenty works by 20 artists and 20 other works by the same artists will run through Aug. 21. The exhibit was curated by local artist and PVCC assistant professor of art Robert Tarbell.
An opening reception is planned from 5 to 7 tonight.
Among the artists are Chris Norris, Chuck Scalin and Chris Humes, Fiona Ross, Brad Birchett, Alyssa Salomon, Allison Andrews, Cindy Neuschwander, Gordon Stettinius, Robert Walz, Matt Lively, Chuck Scalin, Daniel Calder, David Bromley, Jake Urbanski, Mim Scalin, Pam Fox, Rosemary Jesinowski, Justin Lincoln, Gareth Morris Jones, Andrew Hanvenhand and Tommy White. For more information, call 961-5362.

l The Paramount Theater:
Local artist Marci Markwell-Rasbury opens her first showing in Charlottesville with a reception from 5 to 7 tonight. A theatrical artisan by trade, she has served as a director, costume designer and manager. Her show uses multiple media, including acrylic, oil, pastel, and pencil on various surfaces.
For details, call 979-1333.

l The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
An exhibition of new photographic works from six members of University of Virginia’s graduating class will be presented in two parts. The first group this month will include photos by Jamie McCelland, Vincent Mendiola and Uyen-Vi Tran. The opening reception is from 6 to 9 tonight. Call, 984-5669.

l Enoteca
“Reclaiming the frame,” an eclectic collection by Tammi Reynolds Citron, will be on display through May. There will be a reception for the local artists from 6 to 9 tonight in the wine bar reserve room. For more information, call 974-9463.

l The Virginia Shop
The shop at Barracks Road Shopping Center is collaborating with the Artisans Center of Virginia to provide gallery space featuring work by craftspeople juried into the Waynesboro gallery of handmade fine craft. Works by Jan Crowther will be on display. An opening reception for “I Go to Nature” is from 6 to 8 tonight. For more details, call 977-0080.

l New Dominion:
“Happy Mother’s Daze/Angels and Altars,” a mixed- media/found objects assemblage of art stories by S. Harb, will be on display this month. The former newspaper editor and writer is a member of Nelson Gallery in Lexington.
The will be an artist’s reception from 5 to 7 tonight. For more details, call 295-2552.

l Fellini’s No. 9
Ambha Lessard’s photography series “Cville in Black and White” will be on display. It is the artist’s first show at the downtown venue. An opening reception will from from 5 to 7 tonight. For more information, call 979-4279.

l C’ville Arts
Original collages by Diane Goodbar, “Creations from my Head and Heart,” will be on display through May. An opening reception will run from 6 to 9 tonight. Call 972-9500.

l Angelo:
“The Conference of the Birds,” new paintings by Cynthia Burke, will remain on view through June. A reception for the artists will be from 5:30 till 7:30 tonight. Call 971-9256.

l La Galeria:
Digital painter Carolyn McPherson will show “The Bead-Seller’s Stall: We Remember New Orleans” through June 4. The opening reception runs 5 to 8 tonight. Call 293-7003.

l Sage Moon Gallery
Kathy Buist will be showing her landscapes, “Meditation of Land and Sea,” throughout May. Meet the artist at a reception from 5:30 until 8 tonight. For more details, call 977-9997.

l Bozart Gallery:
“Unsere Bunte Welt,” translated as “Our Colorful World,” will be the featured show this month. Ucky Light will donate 20 percent of all proceeds to Mental Health America from her abstracts in acrylic and oil show in honor of Mental Health Month. A reception will be on from 5 to 9 tonight. Call 295-2342.

From staff reports