1) Posing Beauty in African American Culture at the Taubman Museum of Art
June 11 –August 22, 2010
Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet. Throughout the Western history of art and image-making, the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture.
2) James Grashow: The Corrugated Fountain at the Taubman Museum of Art
June 11 – September 5, 2010
James Grashow creates works in a variety of media that address themes of man, nature and mortality. The scale of his work ranges from large environmental installations, through which the viewer traverses, to the delicate and contained world of his houseplants – where tiny fabricated homes and buildings replace flowers and buds in intricately constructed bouquets. He is also a well-known woodcut artist. His prints have appeared regularly in the New York Times and in virtually every well known periodical and publication through out the country.
For the past two and a half years, Grashow has been working on a large scale three-dimensional version of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous 17th century Fountain of Four Rivers in Rome, complete with a bearded Poseidon holding his trident at the center, blaring trumpets, horses rearing forcefully, sea nymphs, rocks, waves, and an assortment of dolphins. Grashow calls this his most ambitious work to date and its premiere is here at the Taubman.
3) Primitivo Suarez at the Taubman Museum of Art
June 11 – August 29, 2010
Recurring, a new site-specific sculpture, will consist of four identical rooms arranged into a unified form, in a sense, under one roof. The rooms are the basis of the formal and conceptual strategy that underpins a sensation of spatial recurrence. Each room is in a different orientation to the others and can be viewed by walking around the entire sculpture. I’m interested in an architectural reorganization to create relational associations (between the rooms) that expand upon the psychological implications of displacement and disorientation. Through the introduction of repetitive pre-existing spatial structures and conditions, the resulting work explores the nature of (unresolved, compulsive, repetitive) memory.
This LA based artist/architect will be creating a new work especially for the Taubman Museum that reflects his interest in re-envisioning house-like forms. Made on site, this structure reveals four versions of the same room, each offering a slightly different version of itself, all under the same roof. In one sense, this work expands on the psychological implications of displacement and disorientation. The work also intertwines metaphors of permanence and impermanence, interior and exterior within the various components of this sculptural form.
Downtown Roanoke
4) Sidewalk Art Show 2010 at the Taubman Museum
June 5 – 6, 2010
Every year, since 1958, the Taubman Museum of Art (formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia) has held a Sidewalk Art Show to celebrate and support the creation of original fine art as well as provide funds for the Art Museum’s education and outreach programs.
There are 120 artist represented during this art show ranging from Florida to Canada. This is a wonderful opportunity to chat one-on-one with artist, develop your art collection, visit the museum – all while strolling through Roanoke’s historic downtown area nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains, just minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Downtown Roanoke
5) Alchemy at Art Pannonia
June 2 – August 3, 2010
Alchemy exhibits abstract paintings and metal designs by Erika Nicholson and Pris Sears. A Meet the Artists reception will be held on Friday, June 4, 5 – 7pm in the Art Pannonia gallery.
114 N Main Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060
(540)552-0336
www.artpannonia.org
6) Jesi Pace-Berkley Exhibit at Gallery 108
June 1 – June 30, 2010
Blacksburg artist and teacher, Jesi Pace-Berkley is the June’s featured artist at Gallery 108. The artist is known for large-scale figurative work in watermedia. Pace-Berkley is a 2010 Graduate Fellowship winner from VA Museum of Fine Arts. Meet the artist Sat. afternoon June 5th.
108 Market St.
Downtown Roanoke.
www.gallery108.biz
7) Visions of Smith Mountain Lake at the Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake
June 5 – 30, 2010
The Little Gallery will present a reception Saturday, June 5, from 1 – 3pm. This exhibition features Connie Logan, Connie Winters, Darren Young, Lois Babb, Greg Cartmell, Bob Ransley, Ed Gowen, Brenda B. Stanley and Arlene Daniels.
Bridgewater Plaza, Lower Level
Moneta, VA 24121
(540) 721-1596
John Hamill Exhibit at Signature 9 Gallery
John Hamill is a photographer who does panoramic shots. There will be an opening reception on June 3 from 5-9 p.m. during Art By Night.
301 South Jefferson St
Roanoke, VA
www.signature9gallery.com
9) Figurative Sculpture and Painting by Hannah Doss at Dialog Gallery
Private viewing, invitation only Friday June 18, 2010
6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Public viewing, open to everyone Saturday June 19, 2010 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
This event is intended to help defray expenses of studying abroad 2010. Hannah will study abroad in London this fall, where she will be taking art classes at London Metropolitan University and participating in an internship at a foundry called The Bronze Age.
Dialog Gallery
208 Fourth Street SW
Roanoke VA 24016
