Past Exhibits

Female(s) Form(s)

Female(s) Form(s) is not intended to be a traditional collective exhibition, but seven individual exhibitions using gender as a connective element. This exhibition includes works by Mary Tartaro (Blacksburg, VA); Val Lyle (Bristol, TN); Jennifer Cox (Lexington, VA); Suzanne Stryk (Bristol, VA); Mary Barton Nees (Johnson City, TN); Jennifer Collins (...

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Rebis: New Paintings by Virginia Derryberry

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 ...

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A Century of Furniture: The Rose Cabinet Shops

A Century of Furniture will feature approximately 25 pieces of furniture made by the Rose Family, in addition to the family’s history, genealogy, and importance to the region and American decorative arts throughout the 19th century. John Erhart Rose (ca. 1767-1860) apprenticed in Philadelphia, owned a shop in Abingdon, and also worked ...

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George

A display of works by the late regional artist George Chavatel. This exhibition will include highlights from the many styles, media, and subjects with which Chavatel proved so masterful and prolific. It will serve as a regional celebration of the life and influence of a true art icon and mentor within our community.

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Surface, Identity, and Time: The Self-Portraits of Vaughn Garland

Vaughn Garland is a self-portraitist. True, the appearances of his paintings cannot instantly be recognized as being characteristic of traditional self-portraiture, but this is because Garland introduces elements of autobiography during the painting process. The finished piece is not intended to represent anything objective other than a two-dimensional plane holding various layers and colors of paint. ...

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Shaping the Earth: Iron Mountain Stoneware of Laurel Bloomery, TN

Iron Mountain Stoneware operated from 1965 to 1992 in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee. Workers formed the stoneware by hand, applying the glazes and decorations created by owner Nancy Patterson Lamb. In addition to a series of patterns Iron Mountain Stoneware produced, Sally Patterson painted one-of-a-kind pieces and Jim Kaneko created unique sculptural forms.

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Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay

Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay celebrates the intricate relationship between this ceramic artist’s life and work – his humanity, his teaching, mentoring and support of artists, and his commitment to his family and community. This exhibition features a selected group of works spanning a career of more than 40 years. See a ...

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Beyond • Aesthetics

This exhibition will shed light on art as a persistent religious inflection and also prompt us to literally view religion from an objective and artistic perspective. The emphasis of the exhibition is that level of tradition shared by each that binds them throughout history, in any media, in any culture, in any faith. The works in ...

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Points of Viewing: The Paintings of Sam Morrow and John Sauers

Points of Viewing will showcase approximately 30 works by two of the region’s most quintessential painters: John Sauers (Darlington, MD) and Sam Morrow (Bristol, VA). The exhibition will focus on each of the artist’s individual perceptions of various regional rural scenes and how they employ their very different yet ...

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Animals in Bronze

Animals in Bronze: The Michael and Mary Erlanger Collection of Animalier Bronzes From prehistoric Near Eastern art, to Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, and the undercurrents of the Renaissance, there has been fluctuating interest in animals as artistic subjects. The prominence of art depicting domestic and wild beasts re-emerged in the 19...

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