OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE PORTRAIT: HISTORIES, MYTHS, AND ALLEGORIES
OPENING RECEPTION FOR HISTORIES, MYTHS, AND ALLEGORIES
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY APRIL 20, 5 PM- 7:30 PM, NOW ACCEPTING RSVPS VIA EVITE/ WALK-INS WELCOME
Planting Traces, the title of Grayson Chandler’s 2024 Spring solo, alludes to the manner of abstraction that permeates his artwork. Embedded in his process is the idea of allowing subliminal matters the space and time to grow into something more observable, so that something more illuminating may take root. This preoccupation with observation stems from a belief that meaning emerges out of mindful cooperation with one’s surroundings, and that as one becomes more mindful of their environment, a sense of destination is nurtured.
Planting Traces suggests a connotation of passage and growth, imbibing the artwork with an undercurrent of cause and effect. Yet, despite these cyclical overtones, Chandler’s work remains uninhabited by chronological order. Instead, his work echoes outside of history, arousing a place that seems suspended in its own time. What ultimately germinates between Chandler’s artwork and those it attracts, is a place where viewers are given room to grow mindful regarding the nature of their own perception.
Artist Statement
Fascinated by the intrinsic order and beauty of nature, My work attempts to capture and abstract its character in a manner that is uncanny, yet familiar. Deeply curious about the forces that govern human reason and faith, my work probes the amphibious network linking logic, intuition, consciousness, and emotion. Through this perspective, we are encouraged to draw upon our own experience as a means of shaping the border between real and imaginary. Moreover, we are encouraged to explore how the shape of our experience shapes how we see, and how what we see is largely colored by what we can recognize. Within this aesthetic, the spectator is invited to enter a space that meditates on the means through which we conceive and distill meaning and sensation from space and form.
Biography
Born in Houston, Texas 1994, Grayson Chandler’s exposure to the visual arts began from a young age. Since graduating with a BFA from the University of North Texas in 2018, Chandler has been selling and exhibiting his paintings in Texas, and abroad. His early success can be demonstrated through numerous solo and group shows, garnering his artwork a rapidly growing admiration from significant collectors and Houston institutions alike. His 2022 solo IN VIA, at Deborah Colton Gallery, saw his work acquired into the MFAH’s permanent collection. Other notable shows include a 2021 Solo at Pearl Fincher Museum in Spring, Texas, as well as his upcoming solo at the Jung Center in 2024. In addition to his own professional practice, Chandler also serves on the board of the Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) — an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization seeking to provide educational and career opportunities for serious practitioners of the visual arts within the Houston community.
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Exhibit runs April 10 – May 9, 2024
WILLIAM & MARY STUDIO ART SENIOR CAPSTONE EXHIBITION
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You are cordially invited to attend: The Opening Reception for Leigh Anne Chambers: Shape Shifters and Spirit Guides with Christi Harris: Lachrymose
Leigh Anne Chambers Statement: My studio practice is largely driven by materials. I am drawn to the immediacy of supplies from the hardware store like liquid rubber and spray paint. These work in tandem with imagery created from composite drawings of comics and coloring books. While these pieces do not have an explicit narrative, they develop a language informed by contemporary culture.
Christi Harris Statement for Lachrymose : This work explores the intersection of grieving and “emotional labor” made tangible in embroidered phrases from condolence letters from a late 19th-century Virginia family. Harris discovered the letters at a flea market, and during the pandemic she spent time painstakingly embroidering words or phrases from the letters onto handkerchiefs in the style of the writer’s handwriting. Hundreds of these embroidered receptacles for grief and tears will be suspended around the viewer in the Microgallery
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Under Her Wing features work by Rebecca Shkeyrov spanning several years and mediums. Guided by an intangible force, the artist builds her own world through determined exploration of color and form, symbol and metaphor. Engaging multiple layers of consciousness across space and time through the enigmatic process of artmaking, Shkeyrov slowly uncovers what it means to be and where home truly lies.
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Williamsburg , VA
Sandra-Lee Phipps, Jennifer Hartley, Agnes, Grochulska, Brian Kreydatus, Chris Corson, Laura Frazure, Mark Miltz, Devon Lawrence, Julia Rogers, Carl Jones, M. Dierking, Brian Freer, Janice Hathaway,
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Pictured: Azaria'h Alexander '23, "#4 (Andrews Hall)", Cyanotype, 2021
A Glimpse Into the Future”,curated by John Lee Matney, emphasizes forward movement. As seen in this preview, movement takes many forms. With the passage of time, art evolves, but evolution is also possible through past reflection. This show brings new and old pieces of art into dialogue with one another in order to highlight the gallery’s growth, as well as its newest phase. Lenticulars, traditional and transformative painting, photography, and sculpture are all on display.
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 5- 7:30 PM
BODILY RHETORIC
After many years of studying and teaching anatomy, Laura Frazure has developed a distinctive approach to figurative sculpture, specifically concentrating on the female body. Rejecting direct observation and the use of live models, Frazure employs a more structural approach to form-making and invented proportional relations. This process emphasizes “direct modeling”, highlighting form and form development with no subsequent mediatory processes. Using translucent waxes coated with a thin glaze of oil paint and varnish, air dry clay and a modeling compound, the figures are constructed on a steel reinforced aluminum wire armature.
The inspiration or generative material for Frazure’s work comes from a number of sources, including literature, popular culture, politics, the media and art history; all directed toward the uses, commodification and modes of presentation of women. These source contents combine with the study of anatomy, “bodily rhetoric,” and the expressive qualities of materials to inform the work. Narrative fiction has proven to be especially influential from early on in Frazure’s practice, having a profound effect on her development as a figurative artist.
The title of the exhibition reflects Frazure’s interest in the conventions of “bodily rhetoric”, described as denaturalized figural attitudes or poses, invented to express ideas intrinsic to a particular medium. The Greek Kouros figures serve as notable examples of a derived pose specific to the medium of sculpture. A number of Frazure’s sculptures reference the idiosyncratic, media generated poses of contemporary fashion photography, with the presentation of the body, as in the Kouros figures, lying outside the realm of normal posture and colloquial gesture.
A more recent group of works directly reference the poses, gestures and facial expressions of social justice protestors. Individual figures are extracted from groups of protestors, mostly in Philadelphia, using documentary photography from print and digital media sources. These along with a companion series of poses of physical labor are composed “verbatim” in a more direct, naturalistic manner and together offer visual metaphors for the contemporary human condition in late capitalist America.
BIO
Laura Frazure is a sculptor and an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sculpture within the Fine Arts Department at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has also been a Professor of Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art and most recently was a visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, where she led an “International Anatomy Intensive” for Professors from the eight, top art schools in China. She received her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Laura’s professional creative activity has included theater and film production and set design, most notably the independent feature film, Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith. Her sculptural works have been exhibited in New York, Shanghai and Beijing, as well as throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. She has twice been a Discipline Award winner for the PEW Fellowship in the Arts and the Robert Engman Award for sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. Laura’s work has twice been featured in Sculpture Review Magazine and most recently has been included in the book, Women in Art, Volume 1, Author: Reinhard Fuchs, 520 Masterpieces of Visual Art, The Great Female Artists: From The Middle Ages to The Modern Era.
$200 Cash prize for best costume
$100 for Second Place
$50 Honorable Mention
By A Thread is a selection of recent and collaborative work by Kristin Skees and Ryan Lytle.
Through photography and sculpture, this show takes a playful look at how the fabric of our self identity is woven from experiences, environments, and relationships, shaped into an expression of who we are and how we impact the world around us.
Skees’ photographs investigate identity through the spaces we create (both personal and collective), and the uneasy relationship between the subject and artist, and artist and viewer.
Lytle’s sculptures explore memory, storytelling, and folklore as the underlying force shaping our search for self identity.
Working as colleagues for years, Skees and Lytle have taken this exhibition opportunity to develop a new body of collaborative work. Their shared love of fiber, bold color and exploration of identity forms a foundation for new playful and experimental self-portraits.
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Meet the artist and enjoy wine and light hors d'oeuvres
Natural Causes is a collection of images taken over the past 2 years. Shot mostly during the pandemic, the collection consists of swampy landscapes, mountain vistas and the small details within them, captured to evoke our primal psyche. The selected pieces represent a period of intense spiritual change for the artist, and a pivotal internalization of the impermanence and precious quality of life.
Pictured: Beech Bark with Shadows, College Woods, Williamsburg, 2020, Archival pigment print, VIEW ON ARTSY
Natural Causes is a collection of images taken over the past 2 years. Shot mostly during the pandemic, the collection consists of swampy landscapes, mountain vistas and the small details within them, captured to evoke our primal psyche. The selected pieces represent a period of intense spiritual change for the artist, and a pivotal internalization of the impermanence and precious quality of life.
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
5:00 PM 7:00 PM
We're excited to be partnering with Curator John Lee Matney of Linda Matney Gallery to offer an exclusive opportunity for art collectors & enthusiasts. The gallery's exhibition, HABITATION is closing out with this event on Wednesday, June 1st from 5-7pm, where we invite you to explore & shop the collection from prominent artists. These are investment pieces for art collectors and those looking to support great artists. Click here to visit the gallery’s website.
5435 Richmond Rd, Williamsburg, Virginia, 23188, (757) 675-6627
ENJOY SPECIAL REFRESHMENTS AND MEET PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AND PATRONS
FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE SHAUNA PECK, ASA JACKSON, ELIOT DUDIK, ELIZABETH MEAD, NICOLE SANTIAGO, LUTHER GERLACH, JOHN R. G. ROTH, RYAN LYTLE, KRISTIN SKEES, NOREEN DEAN DRESSER, GLENN H. SHEPARD, SIDNEY ROUSE, IRIS WU, MARK EDWARD ATKINSON, DIANE COVERT, TEDDY JOHNSON AND OTHERS.
Pictured: Shauna Peck, Glimpse II, 2021, Mixed media, 5 1/2 × 24 in, 14 × 61 cm
Join us for the opening reception. Meet artist Shauna Peck and our sponsor Laney Morewitz.
Habitation explores the challenges and joys humans face in inhabiting and thriving in our world, from celebrating the sublime, the beauty of nature, and experiences of living to facing issues like pollution, natural disasters, war, politics, mental health, and economic factors. Featured artists include Shauna Peck, Noreen Dean Dresser, Ryan Lytle, Kristin Skees, Luther Gerlach, Asa Jackson, and others.
CLOSING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 4- 7:30 PM. VISIT VIEWING ROOM
FEBRUARY 21, 2022 - MARCH 25, 2022. CONTACT US FOR AN APPOINTMENT OR VISIT DURING OUR HOURS
Sponsored by David Herring and Glenn H. Shepard JR
OPENING RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 20, 2021, 5:30- 8 PM
ARTIST TALK: 6 PM
Closing Reception for The Task That Is The Toil and Introducing Victoria Erisman
5:30-8pm on November 12, 2021 at Linda Matney Gallery 5435 Richmond Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23188
I'm very excited to be a part of the Linda Matney Gallery and to celebrate the closing of The Task That Is The Toil. This exhibition was really my first introduction to the work that the gallery does and I think it was such a great entry-point for me to work here because of how eclectic the works are while still very much so speaking to the theme that Lee has chosen. I really admire how this exhibition uses the pandemic as a framework without becoming trapped in the monotony and limitations of a literal approach. Talking with Lee about the art has made me a better art historian and working here for even just three months has already given me more opportunities than I could have ever imagined. Victoria Erisman
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. A RESCHEDULED DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON
CLOSING EVENT AND ARTIST PRESENTATION SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
EXHIBITION CATALOGS WILL BE AVAILABLE
Janice Hathaway’s transmorgraphs are living moments as imagery situations. Her exhibition, transmorgraphy, at the Linda Matney Gallery from February 7 through March 14, 2020, features her new process of artistic composition, which she invented and has developed over the past several decades. Her transmorgraphs suggest a strong interplay between plausible and implausible, teasing the viewer to suspend disbelief in the presence of her “surreality” merging dreams and fantasy, the conscious and unconscious. Janice lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and teaches Graphic and Media Design at Thomas Nelson Community College.
February 7 - March 14, 2020
Janice Hathaway’s transmorgraphs are living moments as imagery situations. Her exhibition, transmorgraphy, at the Linda Matney Gallery from February 7 through March 14, 2020, features her new process of artistic composition, which she invented and has developed over the past several decades. Her transmorgraphs suggest a strong interplay between plausible and implausible, teasing the viewer to suspend disbelief in the presence of her “surreality” merging dreams and fantasy, the conscious and unconscious. Janice lives in Williamsburg Virginia and teaches Graphic and Media Design at Thomas Nelson Community College.
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Thomas Lowell Edwards, Red Ridge, 2019, Wheel thrown high-fired porcelain altered post firing, embedded in concrete and polished, 28 × 11 1/2 × 5 in
During an artist residency in Jingdezhen, China, he became fascinated with the idea that porcelain pottery can be industrial waste. Seeing retaining walls, walkways, and other architectural elements employing these “unusable” remnants became a catalyst for a body of work.
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Ryan Lytle (1987) is a sculptor born and raised in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. He earned a B.A. in Studio Art from Christopher Newport University and his MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He currently is interested in the process of needle-felting and how the medium has the ability to provide a nostalgic comfort reminiscent of his extensive childhood stuffed animal collection. The medium allows him to create works within a surreal space that is both disarming and inviting. He draws inspirations for his work from mythologies, existing animal archetypes, as well as nature documentaries and observation.
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ENJOY REFRESHMENTS AND MEET THE ARTISTS
Sponsored by: The Health Journal , Ballston Dental Care, Casa Architecture, Fillmore Found, and the Matney Family
ENJOY REFRESHMENTS AND MEET THE ARTIST
Martha T. Jones is a full-time artist based in Williamsburg and Barhamsville, VA. Her new show at the Linda Matney Gallery in November 2019 features a series of large abstract paintings from 2017-2019. The work tests the ability of the abstract form to treat political and emotional concerns. Overlapping lines in superimposed layers of grid and network patterns inform the work. The color palette has developed from 2017 to 2019 to include work in which a brown ground contrasts with white and more colorful overpainting and the most recent work in which a yellow net pattern outlined in green is the primary visual element.
Sponsored by: The Health Journal , Fillmore Found, and the Matney Family
New Abstract Paintings at Linda Matney Gallery. View on Artsy
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