Opening Reception: Thursday, January 13 from 5 to 7pm.
Ms. Shaw-Sweeney is an instructor in the Department of Art at the University of Mary Washington. The exhibit will feature works which are a secular meditation on parable. They are a record of a concentrated effort to understand the misgivings between morality and history, reality in terms of a personal mythology and how one may transcend the other through tragedy or humor.
Opening Reception: 5-7pm, Jan. 13, 2005
Lazzel (1878-1956), a cubist painter who is well-known for her white-lined woodblock print, received a degree from West Virginia University in 1905. She later studied at the Art Students League, as well as in Paris and Provincetown, Mass. As she continued her studies, her work became more and more informed by modernism; however, it was her involvement in Hans Hofmann’s drawing class in 1937 which helped Lazzel return to abstraction.
Opening Reception 5-7pm, Oct. 21, 2004
The paintings, drawings, and photographs in this year’s exhibition were all complete in 2004. The paintings and drawings are abstract, growing from Griffin’s fascination with discarded grade school textbooks. THe processes for making the pinhole camera is a large cardboard box with a tine hole in the side that takes the place of a lens. The photograms were produces without a camera at all by placing objects directly on the film in a process that is similar to x-rays.
Opening Reception: 5-7pm Aug. 23, 2004
This exhibition of items from the Museum’s growing collection considers the material culture and history of slavery in America. Through a wide range of materials and items, the show depicts early African-American culture, the political climate of the 18th and 19th centuries, and records and demographics regarding the slave population in America.
Opening Reception with Awards Presentation 4p.m April 9, 2004 in the duPont Gallery
“Contemporary Masters: Selected Paintings from a Private Collection” is an eclectic collection of superb quality 20th-century paintings, featuring works of such well-known masters as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Joan Miro.Other internationally acclaimed contemporary artists include Iranian-born Hessam Abrishami (b. 1956), Armenian-born Yuroz (b. 1956) and Romanian-born child prodigy Alexandra Nechita (b. 1985). The collection is owned by Fredericksburg residents Robert and Tia Cadow.
