A painter’s painter and one of the most dazzling artists of the 20thcentury, Joan Mitchell is referred to as a “second generation” abstract expressionist. The term doesn’t do justice to her remarkable achievements.Sui generis, Mitchell created a visual language all her own and infiltrated the male-dominated art world, demonstrating with substance and style that she could paint with the best of them. Landscape was Mitchell’s primary influence. She embraced abstraction because it allowed her to paint her emotional reaction to what she saw, rendering it with an extraordinary eye for color, and a physicality expressed through impassioned gesture.  Mitchell referred …

Don’t miss this important exhibition, “Signs of Change” at The Bridge, spearheaded by the Fralin Museum through January 27, 2019. Anne Chesnut’s powerful and informative print “Struggle and Triumph” was juried into the show. A Must See.

Les Yeux du Monde will be closed from January 1 through the 26th. We re-open on Saturday, January 26 with an Opening Reception with sculptor Ed Haddaway and Russ Warren for Surrealities: The Art of Ed Haddaway and Russ Warren

Read more about Ed Haddaway in Vasari21

 Great review by Sarah Sargent of Annie Harris Massie show in C-ville Weekly.

Great piece by Erin O’Hare of C-ville about John Borden Evans. 

 “Life in This Dark Time: Work by Trisha Orr” at Mary Baldwin College’s Hunt Gallery through October 26, 2018. Excellent catalogue with essay by Dinah Ryan.  https://issuu.com/mbccompa/docs/mbu_trishaorrhuntgallerycatalog_fin

https://news.virginia.edu/content/four-decades-professor-william-bennett-sculpting-more-just-clay

http://www.c-ville.com/les-yeux-du-monde-steers-away-traditional-media/#.Wz3zdraZOgw

https://www.artline.com/artists/dealers_artists/chesnut-anne.php#essaymonograph

LYDM is excited to welcome Abby Kasonik to the stable. She will be showing her work at the Welcome Gallery, 114 3rd Street NE  in Charlottesville in June opening on the First Friday, June 1 from  5 – 7:30.

Congratulations to gallery artist Ana Rendich for being curated into this important show at the Virginia Museum for Contemporary Art. MOCA, New Waves 2018 March 17th-19th http://www.virginiamoca.org/new-waves-2018-2

http://www.c-ville.com/review-les-yeux-du-monde-shows-brilliance-black-white/

Judy McLeod will give a talk at McGuffey Art Center on Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m. about her Retrospective exhibitions which are on view now at Piedmont Virginia Community College, McGuffey Art Center and Les Yeux du Monde. She will also talk at LYDM at 4 p.m. on Sunday about her Recent Work. 

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