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Landscape Re-Imagined: a group show in collaboration with Second Street Gallery’s Lady Painters exhibition
6 June, 2019 - 11 August, 2019
Isabelle Abbot, Spring Fling, 2019. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30”
John Beerman, Mountain, New Moon, 2014. Oil on linen, 22 x 26”
Karen Blair, Behind the Chateau, 2019. Mixed Media on Canvas, 48 x 36″
Elizabeth Bradford, Cumberland Island Palm, 2017. Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 30”
Janet Bruce, Night Untamed, 2019. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36
Anne Chesnut, Crozet to White Hall, 2017. Print on rag paper with hand stitching; image 18 x 18″, sheet, 24 x 24”
Jessie Coles, Open Door (After Bonnard), 2019. Mixed media drawing and collage on yupo paper, 22 x 20”
Richard Crozier, Monticello Dairy Demolition, 2019. Oil on board, triptych, 12 x 48″
Gray Dodson, Soybean Field, 2016. Oil on Canvas, 20 x 24”
William Dunlap, Walker Hound, Blue Ridge II, 2018. Oil, polymer, and dry pigment on rag paper
Mary Page Evans, Purple Mountain, 2013. Oil & charcoal on canvas, 42 x 36”
Michelle Gagliano, Scraped Landscape, 2019. Oil and mixed media on wood panel, 24 x 48”
Ellen Hathaway, Taste and See, Mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36”
David Hawkins, Bicycle Built for Fools, 2019. Monotype, 22 x 30”
Molly Herman, Since Feeling Is First, 2013. Oil and collage on linen, diptych, 20 x 32”
Gwyn Kohr, Contemplation, 2018. Acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 24”
Kathy Kuhlmann, Flowers, 2019. Recycled trash bags and plastic grocery bags, acrylic spray paint on recycled cardboard on canvas, 30 x 20′
Ana Marie Liddell, Blue Ridge Sonnet #29, 2018. Graphite on paper, image 16 x 22”, sheet 22 x 28”
Ann Lyne, The Smiths, Lexington, VA, 2017. Oil on linen, 36 x 24”
Elizabeth Peak, Cloud Shadow II, 2014. Three plate color etching, 16 x 20″
Tori Purcell, Sunflower Field, 2018. Color photograph, 1/5, 14 x 21”
Ana Rendich, Grassland, Home and the Blue Mountains, 2019. Resin, 8 x 8” each
Dorothy Robinson, Full House. Oil on canvas, 48 x 64”
Krista Townsend, Into the Woods, 2018. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36”
Priscilla Long Whitlock, Reflections, Mirrored Marks, 2019. Oil, mixed media on canvas
Laura Wooten, Spring Patio, 2019. Oil on panel, 24 x 18″
Cate West Zahl, Flightscape, Fecund Earth Below, 2019. Oil on board
Les Yeux du Monde’s summer show, Landscape Reimagined will feature 27 painters and 10 sculptors who take landscape as their subject or use their art to literally inhabit and intersect with nature. The show was inspired by the concurrent exhibition, Lady Painters at Second Street Gallery which examines the influence of Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell on contemporary artists Isabelle Abbot, Karen Blair, Janet Bruce, Molly Herman and Priscilla Whitlock. Landscape Reimagined will include work by those artists as well as others who paint in the expressionist mode such as Michelle Gagliano, Ellen Hathaway and Gwyn Kohr, along with veteran Ann Lyne and Dorothy Robinson. It will also include Mary Page Evans, a direct link to Mitchell, who knew Mitchell in the South of France in her later years. Mitchell admired Evans so much that she gave her a painting and hung one of Evans’ in her own bedroom. On the other end of the spectrum in terms of style, the show will feature some who paint landscape more precisely or realisticailly such as Elizabeth Bradford, Laura Wooten, and Richard Crozier. Crozier’s paintings often bear witness to the slow destruction of landscape for development. Several artists use landscape as inspiration for explorations in other media, as Kathy Kuhlmann does in her plastic bag paintings and Ana Rendich does in resin. Two newcomers to LYDM but not to the national or international art scene—John Beerman and William Dunlap—will present the theme in their more surreal and conceptual modes.
The show will also feature sculpture inserted literally into the landscape around the grounds of Les Yeux du Monde by ten sculptors who work in central Virginia, New Mexico, Oregon and New York. These works, in media ranging from steel to concrete, stone, styrofoam, wood and more, along with the art inside the gallery will encourage us to honor and celebrate this living earth we all call home in a time of increasing peril to its natural resources. It is hoped that our meditations on the landscape will lead us to see our important role as stewards of our environment instead of reckless exploiters of it.
