August 29, 2003 – January 4, 2004
The United Company Contemporary Regional Gallery
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 11, 3:30 p.m.
Image Credit: Shirley Wray, Portrait, oil on canvas, 13″h x 14 1/2″w
About the Exhibition
Paintings, drawings and prints by 19 faculty and student artists working in the Beverley Street Studio School .
Located in Staunton, Virginia, the Beverley Street Studio School is not in the high school sense; the term “school” here does not apply to a physical structure. Nor is it a school in the art school senses, where students enroll into a course of study and proceed after graduation into their careers. The Beverley Street Studio School is a complex environment and it calls out for a description beyond that of an art school or an artists’ co-op. This is a school in the big philosophical sense, i.e. East Coast, West Coast, or School of Athens. More specifically and meaningfully, it is a “body of persons that are…united by a general similarity of principles and methods.” The term also “denotes in the first place those whose training was obtained in the same locality; but in the main this local association is understood to imply more or less community of doctrines or style.”
