Event Detail
Artspace Artists Association Biennial 3 Person Exhibition
Location: Artspace
Date: Saturday November 17, 2007 - Saturday January 12, 2008
Time: Tues-Sat (10 am-6 pm), First Friday of each month (10 am-10 pm)
Artspace Artists Association Biennial Three Person Exhibition Featuring the work of Ashlynn Browning, Alice Levinson, and Anthony Ulinski Curated by Leah Stoddard, Director, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Exhibition
Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, December 7, 6-10pm (Visual Art)
Location: Artspace, Gallery 1
Every two years, Artspace presents an exhibition of works by three Artspace member artists whose work has been selected by a prominent juror through a competitive jury process. This year’s curator is Leah Stoddard, Director of Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA. Stoddard reviewed slide submissions and scheduled studio visits before selecting three artists to participate in the exhibition. The exhibition in Artspace’s Gallery 1 will feature the work of Ashlynn Browning, Alice Levinson, and Anthony Ulinski. Each artist has been pursuing new work to unveil specifically for this exhibition, opening with the Artspace Collectors Gala on November 17. Ashlynn Browning recently completed a three-week residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Browning’s work began to be influenced by the rural environment of the VCCA. The green of the countryside crept into her paintings, along with abstracted forms from nature. Over the last few months, now working in her studio in Raleigh, Browning has continued to allow these influences to play out in her work. In the series of work presented in her Artspace exhibition, the grid form acts as a jumping off point for compositions that reference the landscape. Browning utilizes loose brushwork and an unexpected palette, thus redefining the inherent structure of the grid in a more organic and emotional way. Browning enjoys determining her own balance between order and chaos, emotion and restraint, and the inner and outer life. Alice Levinson’s work is constructed using pieces of torn or cut fabric which are then layered and stitched into a dynamic composition. Color, line, and layering are used to produce a visual sense of movement and organic process. Levinson notes that there is great pleasure for her in finding coherence among disparate elements. The process of construction may vary to reflect the conceptual intent of the work. Most often, Levinson chooses to leave the edges of her work raw and unbound. The works in this exhibition reflect a range of creative stimuli ranging from a response to aggression and conflict, to the interpersonal realm of familial relationships to personal explorations of memory. Anthony Unlinski, similarly to Ashlynn Browning, began his new series of still life paintings during a spring residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. The works in this exhibition are spare compositions, created using available light and a muted palette. In some scenes there is a window in the background, but the focus is always on the interior - simple objects - teapot, cup, book, vase - on a tabletop represented by a large white plane. In each scene, there is an implied but absent figure, as if the viewer had interrupted some private ritual - some moment of quiet contemplation.
Cost: Free
Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, December 7, 6-10pm (Visual Art)
Location: Artspace, Gallery 1
Every two years, Artspace presents an exhibition of works by three Artspace member artists whose work has been selected by a prominent juror through a competitive jury process. This year’s curator is Leah Stoddard, Director of Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA. Stoddard reviewed slide submissions and scheduled studio visits before selecting three artists to participate in the exhibition. The exhibition in Artspace’s Gallery 1 will feature the work of Ashlynn Browning, Alice Levinson, and Anthony Ulinski. Each artist has been pursuing new work to unveil specifically for this exhibition, opening with the Artspace Collectors Gala on November 17. Ashlynn Browning recently completed a three-week residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Browning’s work began to be influenced by the rural environment of the VCCA. The green of the countryside crept into her paintings, along with abstracted forms from nature. Over the last few months, now working in her studio in Raleigh, Browning has continued to allow these influences to play out in her work. In the series of work presented in her Artspace exhibition, the grid form acts as a jumping off point for compositions that reference the landscape. Browning utilizes loose brushwork and an unexpected palette, thus redefining the inherent structure of the grid in a more organic and emotional way. Browning enjoys determining her own balance between order and chaos, emotion and restraint, and the inner and outer life. Alice Levinson’s work is constructed using pieces of torn or cut fabric which are then layered and stitched into a dynamic composition. Color, line, and layering are used to produce a visual sense of movement and organic process. Levinson notes that there is great pleasure for her in finding coherence among disparate elements. The process of construction may vary to reflect the conceptual intent of the work. Most often, Levinson chooses to leave the edges of her work raw and unbound. The works in this exhibition reflect a range of creative stimuli ranging from a response to aggression and conflict, to the interpersonal realm of familial relationships to personal explorations of memory. Anthony Unlinski, similarly to Ashlynn Browning, began his new series of still life paintings during a spring residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. The works in this exhibition are spare compositions, created using available light and a muted palette. In some scenes there is a window in the background, but the focus is always on the interior - simple objects - teapot, cup, book, vase - on a tabletop represented by a large white plane. In each scene, there is an implied but absent figure, as if the viewer had interrupted some private ritual - some moment of quiet contemplation.
Cost: Free
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