One of the University of Virginia’s most iconic landmarks is getting ready for its Halloween-style closeup with the return of the “Great Rotumpkin.” The “spooktacular” Halloween event, which debuted last Fall, will feature a variety of original Halloween projections shown on the Rotunda, including dancing skeletons, bubbling cauldrons, and a haunted house, sure to get the community in the holiday spirit.
During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people, hundreds of Black Virginians from Charlottesville, Albemarle County and Nelson County commissioned distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.
Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Mummers, a solo exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures by Charlottesville-based artist (and UVA Professor) Megan Marlatt, to be held in the Main Gallery from October 7 - November 18, 2022.
One hundred spectacular photographs in the new exhibition of the Holsinger Studio Portrait Project in the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library tell the story of Black citizens in Charlottesville.
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire makes history this fall when it debuts 'Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala', the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States. On view from Sept. 3 through Dec. 4, 2022, Madayin presents an unbroken tradition representing a unique contribution to global contemporary art emanating from a remote corner of Australia from the perspective of those who shaped it.
Joseph Cornell’s creations are visible in several major cities across the U.S., especially New York, but right here in Charlottesville, visitors can view the six Cornell boxes donated to The Fralin’s permanent collection – including four donated from the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation – in a special exhibition, “Enclosing Infinity.”
Four panels of the toppled Berlin Wall – a unique piece of Cold War history – are likely standing on Grounds at the University of Virginia for their final year.
In her new paintings, Abbot explores those places where differing topographies come together: where mountains meet piedmont and cultivated land disappears into the wilderness. Per Abbot, “The tension these convergences create intrigues me both visually and emotionally. They reveal the shape of the land, they open our awareness of where we fall in our environment. Capturing where one space shifts into another highlights the truths of both.” Her representations of the convergent space where physical changes take place also serve as meditations on the transformations occurring within the interior landscape of the psyche.
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), one of America’s most important and enigmatic artists, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has organized an exhibition of his work. Joseph Cornell: Enclosing Infinity, on view June 26, 2022-Feb. 12, 2023, is curated by Matthew McLendon, the Museum’s J. Sanford Miller Family director. The intimate, focused exhibition will feature six boxes from The Fralin’s collection, inviting visitors to enter Cornell’s world of fantasy.
Emerging from a series of weekly thesis presentations by fifteen artists from the Studio Art program, the exhibition considers the color pink unbounded by the sticky connotations and associations of constructed contexts. Beyond its power to signify such disparate notions as queens and communists, innocence and excess, fleshiness and futurism, does pink have a material presence of its own? If so, what might a liberated pink make possible?
July 1, 2022 | by Jeffrey Roedel, Photos by Romero & Romero. With one bare foot steering the large silver press wheel, and two hands secure around the climbing boy’s bottom, his rainboots dangling over her ash-colored shop apron, this tangle of limbs and kinetic energy somehow stands in perfect poise, producing striking prints even so. With fresh ink sinking into paper, and cotton and linen, and then resting there to stir up stories of quiet afternoons, or wild encounters, or even legends.
A $250,000 grant given to the Fralin Museum by the Henry Luce Foundation will help those of who live in the Roanoke Valley a better understanding of our pre-colonial history.
