September 19, 2008 – February 1, 2009
The United Company Regional Art Gallery
Image: Mars and Venus, oil on canvas, 2008, 42″ x 42″
About the Exhibition
Rebis includes 17 paintings by Virginia Derryberry, an Asheville, NC artist and Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her large compositions fuse realism and portraiture with mythic content and alchemical symbolism. Her classically composed paintings include symbolic objects, colors, and narratives associated with alchemy but are not easily recognized to the unknowing eye. In this way, Derryberry’s paintings are as much about realistic painting and classical themes as they are about alchemical subjects. Funded in part by A Likely Yarn
Related Events
Public Reception, Friday, Sept. 19, 6-8 pm.
Gallery Talk with Virginia Derryberry, Thursday, Oct. 16, 5:30 pm
Lecture by Dr. Virginia Spivey, Sunday, Jan. 11, 3 pm. Spivey is an art historian specializing in late 20th/21st century art and contemporary theory.
