Southeast Virginia Artists

Art Works

Posted on August 10, 2011 by admin

http://www.artworksrichmond.com/

We opened Art Works in 2003 to serve the artists of Richmond by providing a place to make, exhibit and sell artwork. Our vision has been realized , grown and is always renewing itself as we’ve become an integral part of the community. We have ties with Easter Seals UCP, the Richmond SPCA, Earth Day Richmond Festival, Richmond high school arts programs and more.

How did this happen? When someone gets an idea for a special project, we’re ready to hear about it and give it a try. And if it sounds like fun, well that makes it even better.

Paula Demmert- Art Works, Inc. Co-owner

“I have always enjoyed working with people. Being here at Art Works gives me the chance to get to know so many wonderful artists, from the person who has never shown their work before, to the talented jurors who select the work for the All Media Shows. A photographer by trade, I have come to appreciate and enjoy all types of art.”

Glenda Kotchish – Art Works, Inc. Co-owner

“I am a painter and ceramic artist. But I’m also a business lady and love being part of the community, solving problems with creative solutions. I’ve programmed computers and been an analyst as well as a banker, so all these skills I use at Art Works. I love a party, so 4^th Friday receptions at Art Works is perfect for me – a party every month… except December that is. ”

Jessica Boyland – Assistant Gallery Director

“I started with Art Works in 2004 while earning my BFA from VCU in Painting and Printmaking. I make charcoal drawings, portraits, color field paintings, and various crafts. In addition to helping run Art Works, I lead figure drawing sessions in the gallery twice a month, and teach children’s art classes.”

Bill Kotchish

Manages the accounting and taxes for Art Works and is has literally moved every piece of furniture in Art Works multiple times for which the ladies are greatly appreciative. He is a staunch supporter of Art Works in every way from helping with 4th Friday after show clean up to whipping the computer systems into shape. He has written the software to manage Call for Entries, Sales Reconciliation and Artists’ Payments and is caretaker of the computer services, network and hardware. You will find Art Works’ computer parts, video cameras, cables and wires crowding his studio number 115 where he meets clients and operates TAX SHACK. He is called the “Tax Whisperer” as he unravels the IRS tax code for artists, small businesses and individuals preparing tax returns.

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Featured Artist – Gloria Coker

Posted on August 9, 2011 by admin

http://www.gloriacokerfineart.com/

worth another look check out the earlier blog for more pictures

Gloria Coker was an illustrator for the Newport News, Virginia Daily Press (a Chicago Tribune newspaper) newsroom for twelve years before pursuing her career as a professional fine artist. Her work there included illustrating newsroom and feature stories as well as courtroom art, which appeared in the newspaper and on TV.

Her loose and vivid acrylics and oils capture her feelings about people of all ages as they engage in their passions and everyday activities. She displays her personal art including musicians and dancers in galleries in Virginia, North Carolina , California and Montreal Canada. Her collectors are worldwide. She has taught classes in watercolor at local colleges and art centers and well as lecturing on her art. Her awards are numerous. She was nominated for an ALLI award (Hampton Roads Cultural Alliance) in 2008.

She has exhibited her series on conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Symphony and jazz series featuring Arturo Sandoval at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk and also at the Ella Fitzgerald Concert series at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Her work has also been featured at the Buffalo Philharmonic. An article about her work has appeared in American Artist Watercolor edition and was selected three years for the Hampton Bay Days poster. In 2001 her work was chosen for the Norfolk Harborfest poster and the brochure cover for the 2001 season of the Virginia Symphony and for the 2002 Buffalo Philharmonic series. Two large acrylics hang in the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk and a painting of the launching of the sub Newport News is in the Harbor Bank collection. Sony selected a jazz painting for the CD cover “Modern Jazz Classics” and her art was featured on a CD cover for JoAnn Falletta . In 2004, she received First prize at the October Studio 107 Norfolk, Virginia Splash of Color Show. Her painting of JoAnn Falletta was feactured on the WNYC (NEW YORK) website on June 4, 2004. Gloria shows her delightful art locally at Chasen’s Gallery in Richmond, Tyler White Gallery, Greensboro, NC and Beach Gallery, Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is also represented by Gibson Gallery in Carmel Ca, Shayne Gallery in Montreal, Canada, 2010 Gallery in Kansas City Mo. She recently has shown at Terra Wine Bar in Williamsburg, Va

Ms. Coker’s art is in many collections including Byrd and Baldwin Restaurant inNorfolk, Ernie Els, JoAnn Falletta, Tom Clancy, Marcel deSaulniers, Fuzzie Zoeller, and the Daily Press.

Although her academic background includes a BA in psychology and a Masters in Counseling and Guidance from William and Mary, Gloria now devotes full time to her art. She has two grown children and lives in Newport News with her husband

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Lucian Freud

Posted on July 22, 2011 by admin

From – http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/lucian-freud-adept-portraiture-artist-dies-at-88.html

Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88.

Stephan Agostini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid/Bridgeman Art Library

”Reflection with Two Children (Self Portrait), ” 1965 by Lucian Freud. Readers’ Comments

He died following a brief illness, said William Acquavella of Acquavella Galleries, Mr. Freud’s dealer.

Mr. Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud and a brother of the British television personality Clement Freud, was already an important figure in the small London art world when, in the immediate postwar years, he embarked on a series of portraits that established him as a potent new voice in figurative art.

In paintings like “Girl With Roses” (1947-48) and “Girl With a White Dog” (1951-52), he put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter’s social facade. Ordinary people — many of them his friends — stared wide-eyed from the canvas, vulnerable to the artist’s ruthless inspection.

From the late 1950s, when he began using a stiffer brush and moving paint in great swaths around the canvas, Mr. Freud’s nudes took on a new fleshiness and mass. His subjects, pushed to the limit in exhausting extended sessions, day after day, dropped their defenses and opened up. The faces showed fatigue, distress, torpor.

The flesh was mottled, lumpy and, in the case of his 1990s portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery and the phenomenally obese civil servant Sue Tilley, shockingly abundant.

The relationship between sitter and painter, in his work, overturned traditional portraiture. It was “nearer to the classic relationship of the 20th century: that between interrogator and interrogated,” the art critic John Russell wrote in “Private View,” his survey of the London art scene in the 1960s.

William Feaver, a British critic who organized a Freud retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002, said: “Freud has generated a life’s worth of genuinely new painting that sits obstinately across the path of those lesser painters who get by on less. He always pressed to extremes, carrying on further than one would think necessary and rarely letting anything go before it became disconcerting.”

Lucian Michael Freud was born in Berlin on Dec. 8, 1922, and grew up in a wealthy neighborhood near the Tiergarten. His father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect who was Sigmund Freud’s youngest son, married Lucie Brasch, the heiress to a timber fortune, and the family enjoyed summers on the North Sea and visits to a family estate near Cottbus, in Germany.

In 1933, after Hitler came to power, the Freuds moved to London, where Lucian attended progressive schools but showed little academic promise. He was more interested in horses than in his studies, and entertained thoughts of becoming a jockey.

In 1938, he was expelled from Bryanston, in Dorset, after dropping his trousers on a dare on a street in Bournemouth. But his sandstone sculpture of a horse earned him entry into the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. He left there after a year to enroll in the East Anglian School of Drawing and Painting in Dedham, where he studied with the painter Cedric Morris. While it is true that the school burned to the ground while he was there, the often repeated story that Mr. Freud accidentally started the fire with a discarded cigarette seems unlikely.

In 1941, hoping to make his way to New York, Mr. Freud enlisted in the Merchant Navy, where he served on a convoy ship crossing the Atlantic. He got no nearer to New York than Halifax, Nova Scotia, and after returning to Liverpool developed tonsillitis and was given a medical discharge from the service.

Mr. Freud was a bohemian of the old school. He set up his studios in squalid neighborhoods, developed a Byronic reputation as a rake and gambled recklessly (“Debt stimulates me,” he once said). In 1948, he married Kitty Garman, the daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, whom he depicted in several portraits, notably “Girl With Roses,” “Girl With a Kitten” (1947) and “Girl With a White Dog” (1950-51). That marriage ended in divorce, as did his second marriage, to Lady Caroline Blackwood. He is survived by many children from his first marriage and from a series of romantic relationships.

His early work, often with an implied narrative, was strongly influenced by the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) painters like Georg Grosz and Otto Dix, although his influences reached back to Albrecht Dürer and the Flemish masters like Hans Memling.

On occasion he ventured into Surrealist territory. In “The Painter’s Room” (1943), a zebra with red and yellow stripes pokes its head through the window of a studio furnished with a palm tree and sofa. A top hat sits on the floor.

Mr. Freud later rejected Surrealism with something like contempt. “I could never put anything into a picture that wasn’t actually there in front of me,” he told the art critic Robert Hughes. “That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.”

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C H A R L O T T E P O T T E R

Posted on July 21, 2011 by admin

http://www.chrysler.org/about-the-museum/glass-studio/

Charlotte Potter, a conceptual artists and designer from Vermont, has joined the Chrysler Museum of Art as the Glass Studio manager. She will oversee operations and programming of the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio that opens to the public on November 2.

The Chrysler Museum Glass Studio is a 7,000-square-foot facility that will complement the Museum’s world-class glass collection across the street. The state-of-the-art Glass Studio will accommodate aspiring and master artists working in a variety of glassmaking processes: blown glass, casting, fusing, flameworking and cold work. The studio will also offer free daily demonstrations, classes, artist-in-residence program, workshops and Glass Studio rental for professional artists.

www.charlottepotterdesigns.com

http://www.charlottepotter.com/

From The Artist own website

My work explores the space between my self and others, both tangibly and metaphysically. In my current studio practice I struggle with duality, therefore it is fitting that glass, a prominent material within my work, has binary qualities cloaked with competing characteristics: liquid and solid, elastic and brittle, captivating and humbling. The desire to bridge the unfathomable distance between each other is at the heart of my investigation. I am curious about the ways in which humans relate to one another and through my work; I court the allure and illusion of fusion.

E d u c a t i o n
~MFA Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design, 2010
~BFA, NYSCAD at Alfred University, 2003

F e l l o w s h i p s a n d A w a r d s
~Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship, 2008-10
~Anne Hauberg Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School, 2007
~Alfred University Art Award, Fine Arts Divisional Honors, 2003
~Marcia Rhodes Art Award, 1999

S e l e c t e d E x h i b i t i o n s
~Young & Loving, S12 Galleri og Verksted, Bergen, Norway, 2010
~The Post-glass Video Festival 2010, Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
~Performance Glass Video Festival, Louisville, KY, 2010
~An Accumulation of Opaque Experiments, Rhode Island Convention Center, RI, 2010
~Carnival, Gelman Gallery, Chace Center, RISD Museum of Art, RI, 2009
~Cirque de Verre, performances at: Toledo Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, and Goggleworks Art Center, 2009

~From Beginning to End, Gelman Gallery, Chace Center, Providence, RI, 2009
~This is a Show About Rock and Roll, Gelman Gallery, Chace Center, Providence, RI, 2009
~The Tourist Trap, Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary, Jackson Hole, WY, 2009
~Adventures in the Land of Smoke and Mirrors, Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
~Fragile Present, Hillel Gallery, exchange between K-arts in Korea and RISD Glass, Providence, RI, 2009
~Reflections, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, 2008
~The Architecture of Display, Teton Art Lab, Jackson, WY, 2008
~The Cirque de Verre, performances at: Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY and Creative Glass Center of America, NJ, 2008
~The Genius Waitress, Solo Exhibition, SRB Gallery, Jackson, WY, 2007
~Conversations in Glass, Solo Exhibition, Koshu, Jackson, WY, 2007
~Six feet under, Show of artists from New Orleans, Art Dimensions, St. Louis, MO, 2006
~Work It, The Gallery at High Street Design, Millville, NJ, 2005

~Vermont’s Emerging Artists, Stowe, VT, 2005
~Filters of Thought, Gallery 201, Alfred, NY, 2003
~Light Show, The Museum of Luminous Phenomena, Alfred, NY, 2002

C o l l e c t i o n s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s
~The Henry J. Neils House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
~American Museum of Glass, Millville NJ, 2008

P r o f e s s i o n a l E x p e r i e n c e
~Chrysler Museum of Art, Glass Studio Manager, Norfolk, VA 2011- present.

~Rhode Island School of Design, Glassblowing instructor, Providence, RI, 2010

~Salem Community College, Visiting Artist Lecture and Glass Demonstration, NJ, 2010
~Pilchuck Glass School, Artist Assistant for Heather Dew Oaksen, Stanwood WA, 2009
~The Art Making Machine Studios, residency & exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

~Creative Glass Center of America, residency and fellowship, Millville, NJ, 2008
~Goggle Works Art Center, Guest Artist and Glass Blowing Demonstrator, Reading, PA, 2008
~Art Association, Glass Instructor, Jackson Hole, WY, 2006-2008
~Gaffer, Glass Blowing Assistant, Hot Glass Caster, Cold Worker and Studio Technician at Various Studios Including: Laurie Thal Glass, Jackson, WY, Heron Glass, Driggs ID, Studio Inferno, New Orleans, LA, Vella Vetro Glass Studio, New Orleans, LA, Studio K, Austin, TX, Flo Perkins Glass, Santa Fe, NM, Michael Egan Glass, Granville, VT, and the Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ. 2002-2008

P u b l i s h e d R e v i e w s & T e l e v i s i o n

~Superposition, Exhibition Catalogue, Strange Att/Inter Actions, Essay by Anjali Srinivasan, June 201
~ RISD XYZ, Alumni Magazine, Alumni Reports, Exhibition and collaboration announcement, Spring 2011
~The Providence Phoenix, Celebration of Sensation, Exhibition Review, Greg Cook, 2010
~New Glass Review, # 31, Selected Featured Artist, 2010
~American Style Magazine, Spring, Featured Article; The Potter’s Place, 2010
~Glass Quarterly Magazine, Judith Schachter, Exhibition Review, 2009
~Glass Quarterly Magazine, Spring, Rebecca Park, Performance Art, the next wave; Cirque de Verre, 2009
~Vermont Public Television, The Late Night Show with Tim Kavenaugh, The Potter Family, 2009
~NJN Public Television, State of the Arts Series, New Glass at Wheaton, winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award, 2008

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Robin Cage Pottery

Posted on July 20, 2011 by admin

http://43rdstgallery.com/

Robin Cage, who runs the gallery, is usually up to her elbows in clay in the back. Making high-fired stoneware pottery has been her calling for over 25 years now. Feel free to ask about classes. Take a tour of the studio and kiln room as you browse and shop. A full line of functional pottery is available in shades of either cobalt blue and white, rust and green, or black and gold. If you do not see what you need, often we can make it for you. Special order place settings are available upon request.

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Lynn Trott

Posted on July 19, 2011 by admin

lynntrottpottery@verizon.net

145 Skillman Drive, Toano, VA 23168

My pottery is based on observations of the flow and contrast of natural line and form in plants, flame and stone. Primary artistic influences have been medieval book illuminations, Celtic knot designs, Old Japanese Tamba pottery, and the designs of the Art Nouveau and Modernist periods. I keep returning to the clay sculptures of Ruth Duckworth, the bronzes of Alphonse Mucha, the stone sculptures o…f Jean Arp , the paintings of Paul Klee, and the pottery of George Ohr.

Methods:
In the studio I usually decide what form I want, then figure out how to achieve it, taking advantage of the amazing way clay changes its character with each stage of dryness. For pendants, the clay is rolled out to the desired thickness and freeform shapes cut by hand. After some drying, the edges are rounded and the entire piece is smoothed between my palms to make sure it feels just right. After an initial bisque firing to cone 05, pieces are dipped in glaze and kiln fired again to cone 6. All my glazes are mixed in my studio from published recipes featuring ingredients which make them change character and color depending on thickness and clay body. I enjoy experimenting with different layering and application techniques to achieve expressive, often swirling surfaces.

Silver and copper are the metals I most like to work with. Some of my favorite tools I filed and polished from antique hammers and wrenches. For the pendants, heavy sterling silver wire is shaped to compliment the ceramic piece, then hammered into flowing widening and narrowing lines on different sized punches held in a vise. Critical points are soldered for stability, and the entire piece is cleaned and polished.

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D’art Center – Norfolk, Va

Posted on July 15, 2011 by admin

http://www.d-artcenter.org/

The d'ART Center is an environment where working artists are a part of an interactive arts community that engages the public through the experience of art and the creative process.

d’ART’s MISSION: The d’ART Center is an environment where working artists are a part of an interactive arts community that engages the public through the experience of art and the creative process. All activities at the Center are aimed at bringing artistic experiences and education to the public.

Molded by the astute vision of founding president Bill Ambrose, then President of First Virginia Bank of Tidewater, crafted by the fire and enthusiasm of Betsy Trundle, Port Folio’s first publisher, shaped by the clear insight of Bill Lindley, the Executive Director of the Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau and patterned after the enormously successful Torpedo Factory in Alexandria,Virginia and supported by the City and NRHA, the d’ART Center sprang to life in July of 1986 with 27 bold and daring enterprising visual artists. At the grand opening the newly renovated building flooded in a dramatic and expressive summer storm, setting the stage for the colorful adventures ahead.

The Center was established as a result of a partnership of public and community support. Renovations were funded, to a large extent, by Urban Development monies through Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority. The balance was provided through the support of the corporate and business community and private individuals. Unlike many arts organizations the d’ART Center was structured at its inception to be self-sufficient. Administrative costs are realized mainly through revenues studio rents and revenue producing arts programs. Expenses are kept in check in order to keep rents at an affordable level.

In 1986 when the Center opened there was little activity on College Place other than resident pigeons flying in and around empty buildings. Soon La Galleria opened, inspired by the Center’s atrium gallery, then the Dumbwaiter Bistro appeared, the Heritage Apartments were built and the Freemason neighborhood flourished. By the late 1990’s the College Place corridor became a thriving community of commercial, retail and residential developments. And d’ART Center property became quite visible and valuable.

In 2002, the City requested that the d’ART Center move in order to make way for development of an urban market and condos at its College Place location, so in spring of 2005 the d’ART Center with 43 artists moved into the newly renovated location at the Selden Arcade in the heart of downtown Norfolk. The new facility was funded by allocations from the City of Norfolk and fund raising efforts of the d’ART Center. The mission of the Center and all programs remained in tact.

The Center’s new home at the Selden with its light, airiness and sophisticated architectural elements has endless opportunities to provide the excitement of art to downtown businesses, visitors, cruise ship passengers and residents. The Center is bustling with renewed activity, inspired enthusiasm and commitment to bringing excellence in contemporary art to the region. The year-round art show continues and welcomes you to connect with the visual arts.

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Kevin H. Adams

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

email kevin@gaystreetinn.com

Kevin H. Adams was trained at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at the American Institute in Southern France. Kevin was recognized for his ability as an artist and assigned as a combat artist while serving as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He continued using that talent during his tenure at the Washington Opera where he worked as a set painter and props coordinator. In 1992 and 1994, he was awarded two large commissions with the Department of the Interior painting the backcountry and remote areas of the Grand Canyon N.P., and Glacier N.P. for their prospective 75th and 85th anniversaries. Kevin is actively participating in “The Arts for Embassies Program” by having several of his painting travel throughout the world being displayed in various U.S. Embassies. Just recently Kevin began a new chapter in his life when he and his partner opened a bed and breakfast in Washington, Virginia. The new surroundings in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains away from the hustle and bustle of the city life afford Kevin more time to paint as well as endless visuals to create those paintings.

“I have always enjoyed painting and drawing…and have always loved the outdoors. The combination of being out in nature, and painting is a gift to my soul. The challenge is to capture the feeling and changing light and put them into an interesting and beautiful composition. Most of my paintings are landscapes or cityscapes but ultimately they are studies of shape, texture, and a balance within a composition of tonal values and color. I try to work on location as often as possible…the feeling of being there, the sounds and smells and the connection with a particular place makes plein-air painting very special to me. From a tree stump caught in a particular light; a forest raven moist with a morning dew; or a shadow cast across a busy city street…my interest is to capture what I see and share that on canvas. My goal is to suggest or capture the vibration of color as the sun and shadows shift; and how distance grays the colors and softens its edges. I love trying to capture the richness of a shadow and how its color and texture bend that changing light.” – Kevin H. Adams

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Magda Danysz Gallery – Paris

Posted on July 12, 2011 by admin

http://www.magda-gallery.com/

Promote, support emerging artists and favour a larger access to contemporary art on an international level are Magda Danysz gallery’s goals. To achieve it the gallery actively works to offer an always original program, mixing visual art, digital art, urban art… The artists supported by the gallery, for some for a few years now, have now became familiar names, as Miss Van or Obey, in street art, or Ultralab, in digital art, or the leaders of pop surrealism like Ray Caesar and Eric White.Supporting artists from all horizons, Magda Danysz has always placed herself in constant search of multidisciplinarity. Persuaded that the world of art is in constant change, she is thus committed to democratize contemporary art by making her gallery a friendly place of discoveries.

Conscious that promotion of the emerging scene is necessary, Magda Danysz took part in many fairs such as for example Art Brussels, Arte Fiera in Bologna, Artissima in Torino, Fiac in Paris or Pulse in New York, and is one of the four galleries at the origin of the Show Off Paris art fair.

The gallery also works a lot on curatorial projects and collaborations with foreign galleries as for instance in Los Angeles and New York. In addition, Magda Danysz is also member of the board of the Cube, the main French digital art cultural center.

Views from the gallery space, floors 1, 2 and 3:

Galerie Magda Danysz

78 rue Amelot

Paris, , 75011France

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SAYAKA SUZUKI

Posted on July 11, 2011 by admin

www.sayaka-suzuki.com

Everywhere I look, I see decomposition- of abandoned lots, flightless birds, rusted train tracks, forgotten hoops, and tarnished walls of old Richmond. But they are all beautiful- they whisper their existence- ephemeral, serene, and often historicized mementos that resonates potentiality.

I attempt to capture these curiosities in my work- beauty of our recent past and of our unique presence.

My work is a theatrical space, an experience that is created for personal discoveries. At times my work is commemorative, at other times it reflects urgency, and often times it provides a reflective moment. But all of which hopefully transforms a space or an object into a moment of discovery. All reflect the world of possibilities. Through using materials that reflect the sensibility and sensitivity of human hands, such as hand worked glass, fabric, and recycled items, I work to give concrete proof of our existence.

Alongside these notions of decay lies my hopefulness- by reincarnating the forms and challenging the way people see the forms. I investigate the possibilities as I rediscover forgotten histories and lives. My work captures my process of remembering and celebrating while simultaneously imagining our capacity to function as philanthropists.

Like the silent movies of the past, I hope to create experiences that resonate, experiences that remain personal to the viewers.

suzukis@vcu.edu/ sayaka.bean@gmail.com

Education:

2003 – 2005Masters of Fine Arts: Crafts and Material Studies

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

1996 – 2000Bachelors of Fine Arts: Glass Sculpture, (Secondary Major in Political Science)

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

1993 – 1996The American School in London, London, England

Areas of Specialization: Glass Casting and Fusing, Glass Blowing, Sculpture, and Installation Art.

University Teaching Experiences:

Fall 2005-Present:

Adjunct Faculty: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Department of Craft and Material Studies (Sophomores through Graduate Students)

Independent Studies: Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Advanced Kiln-Working (Glass Casting/ Mold Making)

Introduction Kiln-Working (Glass Casting/ Mold Making)

Workshop: Slumping and Fusing Glass

Art Foundation (Freshmen)

Space Research/ 3-D Design Methods

Foundation Studio (2-D and 3-D)

Summer 2009-11:

MFA Program for Art Educators: Virginia Commonwealth University, VAWorkshop: Kilnworking

Summer 2005: Introduction to Glass blowing

Fall 2003:Teacher’s Assistant: VCU Department of Craft and material Studies. Introduction to Glass blowing

1998-00 Teacher’s Assistant: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Awards/Grants/ Fellowships:

2007:Third Place “Radius 250” Artspace, Richmond, VA

2003-05VCUarts Graduate School Scholarship/ Departmental Scholarship: Department of Crafts and Material Studies. Virginia Commonwealth University

2004Full Scholarship: Pilchuck School of Glass, WA

Full Scholarship: The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY

2003 John Roos Memorial Scholarship (VCU)

2000-02 Partial Scholarship: Penland School of Crafts, NC

2000‘Best in Show’ Pensacola Museum of Art, FL

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011“Food For Thought” MCV: Medical College of Virginia Hospitals & Physicians

2010“Shut Up and Cook!” Vault Space, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009 “Support Your Right to Arm Bears” Gallery Locker 50B, Richmond VA

2008“Parallel Existence,” Worn Galley at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

“Parallel Existence” Worn Gallery, Richmond, VA

2005 “907” MFA Thesis Exhibition, Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

2002 “Reconstructing the Hoop” Pensacola Museum of Art, FL

2000“Trickling Effect” Martin LaBorde Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Juried and Invitational Exhibitions

2011“Achtung”, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA

“Tacit “ Visual Art Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA

2010“HeART Throb” Suffolk Center for the Cultural Arts, Suffolk, VA

Pilchuck Gallery, Stanwood, WA

Pilchuck Glass School 32nd Annual Auction, Seattle, WA

2009“Animal Nation” Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA

“The Art of Communication” Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA

“Art and Artifice” Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

“Save Planet Art” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

“Garden of Earthly Delights” at the Linden Row Inn, VA

2008“Remediation” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

“Holiday in a Box” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

“Small Wonders” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD

“30th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition” Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2007 “OPTIONS 2007: Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran” Edison Place Gallery, Washington DC

“The Green Show” The Show Room, Spartanburg, SC

“Radius 250” Artspace, Richmond, VA

“Pleasant Under Glass” Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

“Silent Night III” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2006“The Provincial” Grand Forks Art Gallery, BC, Canada

“That Moment and This Moment: Works by Marya Roland and Sayaka Suzuki”

William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA

“Dispersal Tactics” Artspace, Richmond, VA

2005“3 Cities Against the Wall” Montreal, QC, Canada

“Chance Encounters” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

“Activist Art Show” University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

“Fluff My Pillow” Inns of Virginia, Richmond, VA

“EnvironMent” Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

2004“Top Shelf” The Barrel Factory, Richmond, VA

“PYT” Flat International, Richmond, VA

“Graduate Sculpture Exhibition” FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA

“HoDge PoDGe” FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA

“Candid” Plant Zero, Richmond, VA

“Kasserole” Art Works, Richmond, VA

2003“Wo(a)nder” FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA

“Made in Virginia” Longwood University, Farmville, VA

2002“Paperwork” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Juried Exhibition Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival, Alexandria, LA

2001“No Dead Artists” Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2000 “100-Mile Radius: New Orleans” Pensacola Museum of Art, FL

“Retrograde” Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Publications:

2011:New Glass Review 33 International Glass Competition

2009:1000 Ideas For Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson, Rockport Publishers/Quarry Books.

Belle Magazine: October 2009

2008:Art Papers: January/February 2008

2005:Sustainable Eating Volume 2: “Food Activism”

Style Magazine Richmond, VA

2003:Kansas City Review Vol. 5. No 6: “Unnatural Materials”

2000:Cover Art: “Bad Girl” Magazine

Conferences:

2009: Presenter/ Translator, GAS Conference (Glass Art Society) Conference, Corning, NY.

Lec-Mo: Kimiake and Shin-Ichi Higuchi

2008: Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) Biennial Conference, Herron School of Art and Design/IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 15-18, 2008. Panel Discussion Presenter,

“Material as Alphabets; Encouraging a Flexible Grammar”

Visiting Artist Workshops:

2011:Suffolk Museum of the Arts, Suffolk, VA

2010:Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA

Blacksburg Regional Arts Association, VA

Hampden Sydney College, Farmville, VA

2009:Suffolk Art Center, Suffolk, VA

Erskine Glass Studio, Paxton, MA

Fox Elementary School, Richmond, VA

Visual Art Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA

Soverow Glass Studio, Birmingham, AL

Summer Workshop for Art Teachers (K-12): Virginia Commonwealth University, VA

2010, 08: The Studio: The Corning Museum of Glass, NY

2002-08:Teaching Assistant: Kimiake and Shin-Ichi Higuchi

The Studio: Corning Museum of Glass, NY

2003: Teaching Assistant: Kimiake Higuchi and Shin-Ichi Higuchi

Centro Studio Vetro, Venice, Italy

Artist Residency:

2007Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, NE

2005The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY

Professional Service/ Visiting Artist Lectures:

2011Xu Bing: Artist Assistant, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

2009Curatorial Director, “Coefficiency of Expansion” VCU Glass Student Exhibition

Petersburg Area Art League, Petersburg, VA

2008-07Board Member: 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (Education & Outreach Committee)

2008, 10Artist Lecture: The Studio of Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

2008Translator: Artist Presentation for Kimiake and Shin-Ichi Higuchi. Corning Museum of Glass, NY

2007Visiting Artist Presentation: Department of Sculpture/Kinetic Imaging

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Visiting Artist Presentation: Toyama Glass School, Japan

2006 Visiting Artist/ Lecturer: Art Foundation Program (VCU)

2003Artist Presentation, Centro Studio Vetro, Venice, Italy

Technical Workshops Participated:

2004Hot Glass with Boyd Sugiki: Pilchuck Glass School, WA

Hot Glass with William Gudenrath: The Studio of Corning Museum of Glass, NY

2002Hot Glass with Einar de la Torre and Jamex de la Torre: Penland School of Crafts, NC

2001Flameworking with Janis Miltenberger: Penland School of Crafts, NC

2000Hot Glass with Laura Donefer: Penland School of Crafts, NC

1999Hot Glass with Mamoru Uchida and Hiroshi Kaito: Glass House Studio, Tokyo, Japan

Gallery Representation:

2007- Present: Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

Collection:

The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass, NY

Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

Foreign Language Spoken:

Japanese

Employment history:

2005- present:Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond, VA

Adjunct Faculty: Department of Craft and Material Studies

Adjunct Faculty: Art Foundation

2009-present:Virginia Museum of Fine Art: Statewide Workshop, Richmond, VA

2009-10Visiting Artist Program: Fox Elementary School, Richmond, VA

2000-02Glass Artist: Gaffer and Assistant, Rosetree Glass Studio and Gallery, New Orleans, LA

(Includes Public Demonstration)

1999-00Gallery Assistant, Martin LaBorde Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1997Volunteer: Tutor for General Education Degree (GED), Women’s Prison, New Orleans, LA

1997Volunteer: Teaching Assistant, McDonough Elementary School, New Orleans, LA

1996Internship: The Saatchi Gallery, London, England

1996Internship: King’s College Art Library, London, England

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