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The Feminine Spirit: American Works from Sue Ott Rowlands' Private Collection

Fri, May 2, 2025 5:00 PM 17:00 Thu, Aug 7, 2025 4:00 PM 16:00
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The Feminine Spirit: American Works from Sue Ott Rowlands' Private Collection

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Riverviews Artspace presents The Feminine Spirit: American Works from Sue Ott Rowlands' Private Collection opening Friday, May 2, 2025 in the Main Gallery.

The Feminine Spirit is a captivating exploration of the human form and the feminine spirit. This exhibition showcases an extensive and carefully curated collection of artworks, primarily focusing on women and figure painting. The collection is a celebration of the grace, strength, and diverse expressions of femininity, captured through the eyes of talented American artists from various backgrounds and periods.

We invite you to immerse yourself in this celebration of the feminine spirit and the art of figure painting, photography, and sculpture. As you explore the exhibition, we hope you will be inspired by the creativity, skill, and vision of the American artists represented in this collection, and that you will leave with a renewed appreciation for the beauty and complexity of the human form.

OPENING NIGHT

Join us for the exhibition opening on Friday, May 2, 5:00-8:00 PM. This special First Friday event will feature artist studio tours, live music performances, and a special Collectors Talk by Sue Ott Rowlands at 6:30 PM. Gallery Bar available.

EXHIBITION DATES

The exhibition will be on view May 2,2025 through August 7, 2025.

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First Friday March 1st

Friday, March 1, 2024

5:00 PM 8:00 PM 17:00 20:00

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Siobhán Byrns, Professor of Art at the University of Lynchburg and teacher in both the Art Department and the Westover Honors College. Her current research stems from sustainable darkroom practices and alternative process techniques that focus on current social and political pressures on women and the environment.

Siobhán received her MFA in photography from the Art Institute of Chicago and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, focusing both on traditional and time-based new media and photography. While a graduate student, she was formally trained as a fine art restorationist and conservator in some of the country’s most prominent museums. In 2004, while working in the Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago, she assisted in the digital restoration of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

Her exhibition, Signaling Theory, is invaluable in its lessons, using chlorophyll prints suspended in resin that explore the recent experiences of a post pandemic landscape, alongside an awareness of our entanglements to place and nature, and our perception of time/immortality.

Signaling Theory will be on view from March 1st through April 18th, 2024. She will give an artist talk at 6:30 p.m. on opening night, March 1st, 2024.

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