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From Caravaggio to Monet to Ansel Adams, artists use their talents and tools to capture the detail and many subtleties of play between light and shadow. Where there’s light, there must be shadow. Whether an artist knows it or not, light and its contrast are essential to their craft in all mediums. Pieces that play with this dynamic are eligible for the 4th annual Light and Shadow exhibition. Works selected by the juror will be on display in MFA’s online gallery, Curve Gallery, from December 15, 2021 – January 31, 2022. Show Chairs: Richard Niewerth and Wil Scott.
Assistant Curator of American Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia
Summer at Quiet Waters No.7 - An Infrared Impression
Steve Ember
Infrared Black and White Film Photograph framed with Conservation Glass
15"x12"
websiteAndo's American Pastoral, Williamstown, MA
Julie O'Connor
Digital Archival Photograph Sublimated to Aluminum
12"x12"
websiteMottainai 36
Jeanne Heifetz
ink on indigo Cave paper
21"x29"
Nancy Series/Tusk
Michael Gouker
Technical Pen in Circle Technique
13"x10"
Vatican Roof Lines
David P Richards
archival print on watercolor sheet
13"x13"
Storm on the Nightingales
Ronald Jeffrey Saunders
Archival Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt, 100% Alpha-Cellulose Gloss Baryta
25"x19"
websiteGerlach and Granit Peak
Ronald Jeffrey Saunders
Archival Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt, 100% Alpha-Cellulose Gloss Baryta
25"x19"
websiteStepping Stones
Michael Kotarba
Watercolor
20"x14"
Doorway and Shadow
Andrew Wohl
Digital photograph printed on archival picture rag photo paper.
11"x16"
websiteConcrete Pipes
Andrew Wohl
Digital photograph printed on archival picture rag photo paper.
11"x16"
websiteKeep Out
Carol Elaine Ward
photograph print and framed
20"x24"
“Yuzhang Academy, 2020â€
Yuet Tung Fung
Pen and ink
22"x30"
Shadows in the Sand
George S Gati
digital photography
20"x16"
umbrellas
barry dunn
photography
16"x20"
Enormity
Paul M. Murray
Color photographic print on archival paper, signed, numbered, limited edition, matted and framed under protective glass
22"x29"
websiteSmall Storm at Sea
Jennifer E Kish
oil on canvas
20"x16"
Bike Rack
Lee Hassig
Photography
17"x11"
Mashed It
Kristine Miller-Siple
Oil
21"x17"x1"
Light Dawns
Candace Greenberg Thompson
graphite on paper
16"x20"
Sleep Study 1
Hannah Jane Cole Dahar
Oil on Panel
12"x12"
The Come Home (Between coltan and malachite)
Kikesa Kimbwala DeRobles
Acrylic and Pastel on Canvas
30"x24"x2"
websiteDr. Christopher C. Oliver is the Bev Perdue Jennings Assistant Curator of American Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Oliver joined VMFA as an assistant curator in 2013. His particular interests in American art encompass painting, sculpture, and prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has published and presented widely on topics ranging from European modernism, vernacular art and architecture in colonial America, to the popular vogue for panorama paintings in the mid-nineteenth century. At VMFA, Oliver curated The Likeness of Labor (2015) and co-curated Remnants and Revivals: Architectural Etchings by Charles Meryon and John Taylor Arms (2016), as well as participated in the installation and publication of Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris (2010) and The James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Collection of American Art (2015). Among Oliver’s current projects are an exhibition and catalog considering the Natural Bridge of Virginia as an important site of artistic inspiration and myth-making in the nineteenth century. He received his Ph.D. and MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Virginia, and his BA in art history from the University of Richmond. Before joining VMFA, Oliver held fellowship positions at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winterthur Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.