Artist Tara Donovan, ‘99 Sculpture + Extended Media MFA, is exhibiting her work through April 27, 2008 in the Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also featured in the November issue of Vogue Magazine.

Tara takes everyday objects, such as Styrofoam cups and paper plates, and “figures out what it is that the material really wants to do.” Donovan is a very patient artist who has taken, for example, 1.2 million toothpicks to make a 36-inch cube held together by gravity and friction.

For the exhibition at the Met, Donovan covered a 1,600 square foot gallery in small loops of Mylar tape; the walls seem to glitter with thousands of water beads.

Her work can also be seen in Ace Gallery in New York.

VCU Music welcomes guest artist Kevin Lawrence for a recital on December 2, 8-9 pm at the Singleton Center.

PROGRAM:
Schubert: Rondo Brillante in B minor, Opus 70
Poulenc: Sonata in D minor (1943)
Prokofiev: Sonata in D Major, Op. 94a

Praised for his “vibrant intensity,” (The Times, London) and playing supremely convincing in its vitality,” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) violinist Kevin Lawrence has consistently elicited superlative responses for his performances throughout the United States and Europe. His assertive style and strong musical personality have thrilled audiences at Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall and and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and in Houston, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam, where the Dutch press (Het Vaderland) described him as “simply miraculous.” In the fall of 2003 he made an extensive recital tour of Europe, including concert appearances in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy, supported by one of the first sabbatical grants awarded to NCSA faculty. His release of the complete violin works of the American composer Arthur Foote on the New World label was “highly recommended” as “beautifully played” by the Washington Post, and heard on the Ken Burns series `Not for Ourselves Alone,´ broadcast on PBS; his second CD of American violin sonatas, recently released by New World, was hailed as `vital playing´ and `a labor of love´ by Classics Today.com.

Kevin Lawrence received his musical education at The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. While at Juilliard he also studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and continued his chamber music study with Josef Gingold at the Meadowmount School in Westport, NY. Lawrence is currently the chair of the string department at the North Carolina School of the Arts, from which he received the Music School`s Excellence in Teaching Award last spring. He is the artistic director of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, which he founded in the summer of 2005. During previous summers he taught at the Meadowmount School as well as the Texas Music Festival, and for eight years he was Artistic Director of the Killington Music Festival. He has given master classes throughout the US, in Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Venezuela.

Singleton Center for the Performing Arts - Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall Monroe Park Campus, 922 Park Avenue.

Contact Information    Ms. Tiffanie S Chan
(804) 828-1169
Special Needs    Mr. Curt Blankenship
 804.828.4019

The work of Gabriel Barlow, a second-year Photography and Film MFA candidate, will be exhibited in the Anderson Gallery from Nov. 30 - Dec. 9. Opening Nov. 30 5-7pm.

VCUarts Anderson Gallery, 907 1/2 W. Franklin Street, Richmond

Introducing the artwork of 1st year Department of Photography and Film students in the exhibition, It’s Got Layers
Opening November 30, 5-7pm, Anderson Gallery, 3rd floor. Exhibition runs through December 9th.

Students featured:

Nia Burks
Jennida Chase
John Hendershot
Hassan Pitts
Therese Ryan
Naoko Wowsugi

December 7, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Opening Reception December 7, 6-8pm
True F. Luck Gallery Inaugural Exhibition features work of Sculpture professor Elizabeth King.

Organized in association with the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, the exhibition will offer audiences an unprecedented opportunity to explore the artistic evolution and singular innovations of one of the region’s most outstanding and influential artists. King’s work has not been seen in any depth in the Richmond area for nearly two decades, which makes this show an even more eagerly anticipated event. The project will be documented in a fully illustrated catalogue.

King often combines her meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space. Intimate in scale and distinguished by a level of craft that solicits close viewing, this work reflects her interests in early clockwork automata, the history of the mannequin and the puppet, and literature’s host of legends in which the inanimate or artificial figure comes to life.

The exhibition will present approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installation pieces, drawings and photographs produced since the late 1970s, on loan from private and several public collections and from the artist herself. It will feature such seminal works as Pupil, lent by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., as well as her latest pieces, including Bartlett’s Hand, a carved wooden sculpture with movable joints that hypnotically comes to life in an accompanying animated film. Supplementing these works will be other objects from King’s studio – her glass-eye collection, wax studies of facial expressions, plaster life casts and optical devices, for example – that illuminate process and intent.

Visual Arts Center of Richmond,  (804) 353-0094, 1812 West Main Street, Richmond

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Sitting Or Not, an exhibition of the advanced and intermediate Painting and Drawing class, will be held Friday, November 30 from 6:30-9:00pm at Plant Zero, 0 E. Fourth St.

TRANSMISSION Gallery, owned and directed by VCU Sculpture + Extended Media student Bret Payne, presents:
An Unfinished Story
Paintings by Amanda Marie

Show opens Friday, December 7, 7-9pm Show runs December 7-29
Gallery hours: Wed, Fri: 11-6, Sat: 12-5 or call for appointment: 804.200.9985

TRANSMISSION
321 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23220
www.transmissionrva.blogspot.com
 804.200.9985

Amanda Marie’s vintage sewing patterns and children’s book characters are vivid and graphic bringing the audience a nostalgic warmth, drawing them into the hidden metaphors and relationships while hybridizing spray pain,t stencil, graffiti and neo-neo expressionism with acrylic paint. Amanda Marie has been living and painting in Colorado since 2001. After two years at Rocky Mountain Collage of Art and Design she was represented at Andenken Gallery where she shows her paintings several times a year. Amanda lived in Denver for three years and now lives in the Fort Collins area. She has illustrated magazines (Juxtapoz, The Onion, Syntax Magazine), newspaper covers, and children’s books. Recently she painted large interior and exterior murals on local Denver businesses.

Beth Gilfilen, 2001 Painting & Printmaking MFA, is exhibiting The Big Hunch, presented by Jersey City Museum and The Majestic Theatre Condominiums.

Reception: Friday, November 30 6–8pm

The Majestic Theatre Condominiums
222 Montgomery Street
Jersey City, NJ  07302
 201.435.8000

www.MajesticJerseyCity.com
 www.jerseycitymuseum.org

Exhibition on view in the lobby November 30, 2007–March 2, 2008

www.bethgilfilen.com

Deva Eveland, a 2001 BFA, is participating in Rough Trade, a Boston/ Chicago Artist Exchange featuring timed based media.

In Boston:
Saturday December 1st,
8pm @ Midway Studios
15 Channel Center Street, Boston, MA

In Chicago:
Saturday December 8th,
8pm @ 1324½ N.Milwaukee Ave,
2nd Floor, Chicago, IL

ROUGH TRADE will feature the performance art of:

(From Chicago)
Joseph Ravens
Deva Eveland
Benjamin Bellas
Justin Cooper
Noelle Mason

(From Boston)
Sandrine Schaefer
Philip Fryer
Rebecca Scheckman
Mari Novotny-Jones
Alice Vogler

Art 180 presents Art Karma, an art auction fund raiser and party. Proceeds benefit Art 180, which provides art-related programs for young people living in challenging circumstances, encouraging personal and community change through self-expression

Thursday November 29, 7–10pm

0 E. 4th St
Studio 56
Richmond, VA 23224