SOPHIA GIBSON

Sophie Gibson graduates from St. Anne’s Belfield this month and has been accepted into the dual Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design program for Fall 2012.  She is one of only 15 people accepted for this dual program and will receive degrees from both!

CORY GIBSON

For over 40 years, Charlottesville stone mason, Cory Gibson, has been making art. From stone walls and walkways to landscaped gardens, from clay and cement sculpture to children’s twig furniture and playhouses, this self-taught printmaker now explores the medium of paint on paper, creating colorful, “feel good” abstract art. Cory’s work, Irrepressible Prints, is hanging in various Charlottesville venues

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Chris attended V.C.U. where he focused more on Art History and Sculpture. He has been showing work since 1998 and has won several awards. Four of Chris’ paintings were recently published in a book entitled Psychescapes, an exploration of contemporary work that explores the human psyche. It was published by a New York gallery owned by Liz Afif.
Chris’ work comes from dreams, questions, and the unknown. Chris feels that his work is best summed up by this title of a Paul Gauguin painting, “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”

Chris Butlers work is an exploration of the questions and answers that come from dreams and the unknown. Chris Butler currently lives in Charlottesville Va

www.paintingsbychrisbutler.com

Stop by and enjoy artwork by Karen Mozee during March.

For over 40 years, Charlottesville stone mason, Cory Gibson, has been making art. From stone walls and walkways to landscaped gardens, from clay and cement sculpture to children’s twig

furniture and playhouses, this self-taught printmaker now explores the medium of paint on paper, creating colorful, “feel good” abstract art. Cory’s work, Irrepressible Prints, is hanging in various Charlottesville venues including the Hunt Country Store on Garth Road, the Pigeon Hole Restaurant on the Corner, and Cafe Cubano on the Downtown Mall. His current showing at Cafe Cubano opened on Feb. 3, with 20% of the art selling on opening day!

All of the pieces presently on display are done in pastel.

Betsy Villegas
434-409-5535
Email:  martimontano@gmail.com

Plein air paintings by Cindy Ferreira are on display this month.

The Marsh

The Swamp

During the 50’s and 60’s Marla spent most of her childhood in the art museums and galleries of Chicago, Detroit, and New York. The Art Institute of Chicago was the most frequented, as her parents were students, and her father worked as a guard there. The art professors and fellow students, at the Art Institute, were a big part of Marla’s life. Some were artists who had fled from Eastern Europe to escape persecution or death. These people, and their stories, had a profound influence on Marla’s life.

Although her parents are primarily abstract artists, Marla was awed by the works of the High Renaissance Artists, Impressionist, and Surrealists, and spent her time visiting their paintings in the museums.

In Detroit, Marla received her first art award at the age of 11. In 1964 her father became an art professor at West Virginia State College where she started taking art classes at the age of 15. At 16, she began studying figure drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and when she was 18, she won a scholarship to the Provincetown Art Workshop in Massachusetts. Marla studied at Concord College, and Morris Harvey College in West Virginia, earning a BA in fine arts in 1973. She later studied illustration and other graphic arts at Northern Virginia Community College. She now lives in Charlottesville Virginia and is currently offering portraits by commission.

“I take pictures, make video, and chew gum and I am all out of gum.”

www.billyhunt.com