Ceramic invitational

Bosco Bae, Ted Batt, May Carter, Kevin Crowe, Chatham Monk, Joe Monk, Shawn O’Connor, Kenny Tinklenberg & Justin Rice

March 3rd through April 20th, 2023

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Emerging Artist Series

Adara Wright

Lustre

September 2nd through October 20th

ARTIST STATEMENT

Color, light, and buttery brushstrokes fill me with a creative euphoria, but it is the individual’s story, feeling, and purpose that make me come alive. The portrait is the primary focus in my work because there is something powerful and fundamental about connecting to a story or an emotion through the human face. At infancy, we find belonging and safety in seeing our parent’s smile. As adults, we discover a sense of home and acceptance in connecting with a dear friend or a partner’s loving gaze.  

I have also long been fascinated with dance and movement. Emotion, stories, and even just the day-to-day rhythms of our lives are so beautifully expressed and communicated through the figure in motion. 

Within my work, the viewer will find a variety of media used to explore capturing the portrait and the figure in motion. My hope is that this blend of color, value, and technique will draw the viewer into the story and concept to connect to a moment, a brushstroke, a smile, or a tear. As you take in each moment, may you be reminded that no matter where you are, you are never alone.

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Printmaking

Benjamin Munoz & Big Ink

September 2nd through October 20th, 2022

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Benjamin Munoz

Artist Statement

In my work I seek to provide a narrative and document what is happening in the present moment around me, I do this by telling stories using imagery and composition. Told from my perspective, these stories are personal to me however I've found that they’re not unique to me. These are the stories of our society and culture in our time. 

I stack imagery in my work to provide structure to the account. Sometimes the stack of objects is chronological, a linear timeline starting from the base moving to the top. In other cases the imagery could be in order of relevance or importance. The object at the bottom of the piece holds that placement because without it nothing else could stand, it’s what that object represents that is the foundation of the story. 

I recently completed a series of prints titled the Endless Endeavor, the prints documented the story of my family. They start with my grandfather coming to the United States from Mexico City and ended with the birth of my daughters while exploring the generations in between. In that series the stacks symbolized the idea that each generation works hard to elevate the following generation so that they can obtain things that were out of reach for previous generations. This is one example of the ways that I am currently using imagery composition to provide a narrative.

Big Ink

Big Ink is an arts organization that invite artists to submit a large wood cut (at least 24″ x 36″) to be printed on site at one of their workshops. As part of their mission, BIG INK invites the general public to come watch the process for free! Riverviews will house their large scale press in our main gallery. Exact times and selected prints will be announced closer to date of the event. More details to follow!

They will predetermine the selected artists/entries before the event. Those selected will press 3 prints, one of which will be added to the BIG INK portfolio. Artists can be individuals or collaboration of two artists, with or without printmaking experience. Below you can find the participating artists and their websites if provided!

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Sunflowers for Ukraine

Creating sunflowers to support the Ukrainian people

July 1st through August 18th, 2022

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Riverviews Artspace has created a community sunflower installation! The Lynchburg community has shown its support for the people of Ukraine with this one of a kind exhibition. We had oner 150 artists of all ages submit artwork of various mediums to participate in this community effort. All proceeds from works sold go towards Ukrainian relief.

A special thank you to all the artists who participated!

Don’t see your picture? Email pictures of you and your artwork to kate@riverviews.net or ask to get your picture taken with your work at First Friday on Friday, August 5th!

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Emerging Artist Series

Candy Henderson

July 1st through August 18th

ARTIST STATEMENT

Creating, for me, is like an orchestra instructor. I love being able to maneuver colors, highs and lows, intense and transparent. Using multiple mediums allows me to capture the vibrancy of colors in movement. I love making my work move. Switching to black light allows me to do as such. Bring forth the unseen beauty. 

H. Bayne

June 3rd through June 16th, 2022

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Artist Statement

Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Angels, water, flames, entrails, and bugs somehow were the first images that came to mind while analyzing my emotions. Each representative of something, but also representative of nothing. I incorporate many versions of myself in these five self portraits - the versions of myself that I allow emotion to take over reason and thought. Although each painting is a visual representation of my emotions and my body, the viewer can interpret the pieces according to their own experiences - creating an equilibrium of shared emotion between the viewer and the artist.

The process for completing each painting included a period of isolation for five days, in which I had to complete the piece by the end of day five. I did not leave my apartment, I only spoke to my roommate in certain cases, and I controlled what entertainment/media I consumed during this time. I triggered a singular emotion for five days by following a specific routine depending on which emotion was being painted, which included a particular diet, sleep schedule, personal routine, and many other aspects of daily life. I wanted to complete this experiment because I have always been intrigued by the use and interpretation of emotion in the fine arts. I yearned to understand how far I could push my emotions into my work, as well as understand how the viewer can emotionally interact with the piece. This series taught me a lot about myself and how I process my emotions.

I hope to create a space in which one can feel. I want the viewers to experience their emotions - not the emotions that I decided to paint, but their emotions. This series is very personal to me, of course, but I want the viewer to consider this series personal to them as well. Emotions are not scary, they are what makes us human, and sometimes art alone can help a person feel more human.

HAGS & OTHER STARRATIVES

Bunny Goodjohn

May 6th through June 16th

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work looks for edges, those thin lines between the public and the private, between what we are told is the truth of a situation . . . and what we know is its reality. My work springs from those edges and resolves through an exploration of my own experience. 

The past six months have been a creative examination of aging spurred both by observing the increasingly condensed lives of my parents and by my own wrestle with menopause, a fight from which I emerged as both winner and loser. The result is a range of stitched narratives or "starratives" all worked organically and intuitively by hand and using discarded materials.

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Tangible Nothingness: An Unfinished Becoming

Nugent Koscielny

May 6th through June 16th, 2022

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Exhibition Details

Every stimulus we encounter in our environments fuels our perception, our state of being  or process of becoming aware of something by the senses.This exhibition will examine  the intersection of experience and perception. Tangible Nothingness is an opportunity to  consider how our interactions within our world shape us and we then shape our world, how  we affect and are affected by our environment and by our experiences, translated through  psychology, biology/physiology, technology and installation design. 

The multi-media exhibition will be designed with consideration of contemporary ways in  which we move through our world, notice speed and time, and interact with others around  us. The work illustrates and invites the audience to consider how perception and association  are the basis for what may be understood.

Artist Statement

For me, recent times have been an adventure in staying home and being close to my family. Much of my work is drawn directly from my life at hand. During this period, awareness of the spaces we inhabit has been intensified. I have made numerous videos and recordings of my everyday life and thought deeply about the ways in which I experience speed and time, the psychological construct of memories and how these layer together within a consciousness and to what ends. I have often wished I had a camera or device to hand when I did not, to catch the moment, words or actions, as they were expressed before they faded into memory. 

On another layer, the work closely examines how we, as human beings, notice and interact with our environment. Inspired by ancient traditions and contemporary ubiquity; sundials and speedometers, random conversations, shaky cameras, the sounds of footsteps and heartbeats, the droning of engines. All of these aspects mingle together in the work to provoke reflection upon how we exist in these moments and make meaningful associations through captured traces. The goal for my work is to examine human behavior and thought and to offer viewers an opportunity to experience moments of increased awareness of their own perceptions and associations. 

Never finished, always becoming.

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Students of Cindy Wood

May 6th through May 26th, 2022

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Exhibition Details

Cindy Wood  teaches beginning drawing, pen and inks, charcoal, colored pencil, and watercolor painting.  My students consist of Jr. High through High School ages.  They study Upper torso anatomy for Portraiture, and 3D Drawing. Their year consists of drawing studies and two Completed Projects of their studies by the end of the school year.

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