Category: Visual Arts

  • In Dark Corners and Bright Spaces, Beth Schindler Captures Queer Joy & Community

    Anywhere (photo by Beth Schindler) Pride flags at the rodeo. Dykes and dive bars. Oil and water. For queers in Texas, there’s something magical – sacred, even – in marrying things that the straight world deems incompatible. Multimedia visual artist/space-maker extraordinaire Beth Schindler takes joy in merging these supposed opposites, paying tribute to the dirtbag…

  • Breakout Visual Artist: Emiko Venlet fuses the realistic and the

    The Breakouts are presented in partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Emiko Venlet has always been an avid collector: of antiques, of beautiful things, of images that caught her attention in magazines. That magpie nature is reflected in her still life paintings: eclectic collections of objects, texture, and shape that she configures into whimsical works of visual storytelling.…

  • Arts Listings: Week of 2/1/2024

    Some classes, exhibits and events are available exclusively online. All events are subject to change and cancellation; always verify with venue and/or organizer. OPENING THEATER J FOR J STAGED READING | Feb. 3-4. Jeff Kober, Eric Lange and Nancy Travis star in this staged reading and benefit for the Rubicon Theatre Company. A woman discovers…

  • Landscape Disturbed

    Step into downtown Eugene’s White Lotus gallery most any time this month, and your first impression might be that you’re looking at an exhibit of classic black and white landscape photography from long before the days of digital cameras and inkjet printers. At a glance, the large framed pieces hanging on the wall have the…

  • Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy review — a triumphant and surprising showcase of black art

    The mad feast begins the minute you step into the Royal Academy’s courtyard: 13 wildly gesticulating figures in black patinated bronze and gold leaf entice you to their table in Tavares Strachan’s fizzing new sculpture “The First Supper (Galaxy Black)”. Across shining goblets and heaped platters, each expresses a life story. Poet Derek Walcott declaims.…

  • MU School of Art and Design presents annual juried exhibition

    MU School of Art and Design presents annual juried exhibition Published 12:00 am Thursday, February 1, 2024 Marshall University’s School of Art & Design is presenting its 13th Annual National Juried Exhibition, which will be on display until Feb. 2. (Submitted photo) Exhibition runs until Feb. 2 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall University’s School of Art & Design is…

  • Shadowland Stage’s Mural Makeover

    Shadowland Stage’s Mural Makeover

    <a href="https://media1.chronogram.com/chronogram/imager/u/original/19958514/amy_park_01_shadowland_murals_main_stage_facade.jpg" rel="contentImg_gal-19923222" title="Amy Park’s mural design for Shadowland Stages in Ellenville was inspired by theatrical lighting." data-caption="Amy Park’s mural design for Shadowland Stages in Ellenville was inspired by theatrical lighting.   ” class=”uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle”> click to enlarge Amy Park’s mural design for Shadowland Stages in Ellenville was inspired by theatrical lighting. Shadowland Stages has…

  • Lily Morris: A Modern Renaissance Painter

    <a href="https://media2.chronogram.com/chronogram/imager/u/original/19958531/art_–_guide_–_lily_morris_white_male_peacocks_2020_oil_on_linen_6.jpg" rel="contentImg_gal-19956587" title="White male peacocks battling, Lily Morris, 67×48”, Oil on linen" data-caption="White male peacocks battling, Lily Morris, 67×48”, Oil on linen   ” class=”uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle”> click to enlarge White male peacocks battling, Lily Morris, 67×48”, Oil on linen In creating Descent, Chatham-based painter Lily Morris, 36, was inspired by François Lemoyne’s The Apotheosis…

  • “Iridescence” at the HoloCenter in Kingston

    How often is a new art form created? Sometimes centuries go by between such breakthroughs. Born around the same time as the Beatles, the hologram is one of the most recent artistic mediums to be developed. (The one before that? Motion pictures, invented in 1895.) And HoloCenter, the only holographic art gallery in the world,…

  • Ogden Museum celebrates NOCCA’s 50th Anniversary in New Show

    Ogden Museum celebrates NOCCA’s 50th Anniversary in New Show

    NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Ogden Museum of Southern Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) with NOCCA PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE: Five Decades of Training Tomorrow’s Artists. This exhibition of work by the arts conservatory’s acclaimed alumni and faculty will be on view in the Museum’s Passageway Gallery from March 9 through April…