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February 24 - August 27, 2006 |
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OUTDOOR SCULPTURE COMPETITION In 2005, applications were sent out to artists to solicit their participation in the first annual juried outdoor sculpture competition at the Courthouse Galleries. Selected sculptures will be on display in the historic courtyard from February through August, 2006. For the first competition, Cameron Kitchin, director at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia made the selections and will also select a juror’s choice award once sculptures are on site. A people’s choice award will also be given, so please help with this selection. Criteria required that artists be 18 years or older, and that all artworks must be suitable for weather conditions in Hampton Roads. Sculptures by five artists from across Virginia were chosen and they include R.L. Croft from Manassas, Barbara Kobylinska from Virginia Beach, John McCarty from Charlottesville, Daniel Tarrant from Chesapeake, and Millicent Young from Ruckersville. Please join the artists for an opening reception on February 24th from 6 – 8 p.m.
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February 24 - September 3, 2006 |
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CALL TO ARTISTS & SCULPTORS: The Courthouse Galleries, housed in the historic 1846 Courthouse building in Olde Towne Portsmouth seeks proposals for an outdoor sculpture exhibit. The sculptures will be on display within our garden courtyard from February 24, 2006 – September 3, 2006. The courtyard is open to the public during museum hours and closed after hours. This year’s juror is Cameron Kitchin, Director of the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. He will select artworks. Artist awards include Juror’s Choice at $1,000 and a People’s Choice at $500. Photos of Courtyard and sites for installation are shown below. Click here for more information, including Application and Jury Action Card in PDF format. Please send proposals including artist’s vitae, list of artworks to be submitted, include dimensions, weight, materials, date of completion, and slides representing work for submission. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope and send to the attention of Sculpture Committee, Courthouse Galleries of the Portsmouth Museums, 420 High Street, Portsmouth, VA 23704-3622. For further information, please call the Courthouse Galleries at 393-8983. Proposals must be received by September 30, 2005.
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February 24 - April 23, 2006 |
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TROMPE L’ OEIL: The Art of Illusion The art of Trompe L’Oeil has fooled the eye for many centuries. The beginnings of this art form date back to the Roman Empire when artists integrated the illusion of food droppings into mosaic floor tiles. During the 19th Century, American Trompe L’Oeil artists William Harnett, John Frederick Peto and John Haberle received critical acclaim. They focused the development in their paintings on commonplace objects that were true to scale. Today’s contemporary artists have chosen to carry on the true tradition of this school of painting that has also embraced the knowledge of abstract forms, thus bringing their art to a new level of appreciation to this time honored tradition. Thirteen of America’s leading Trompe L’Oeil artists are represented here with sixty five artworks. Artists include Lrry Charles, Donald Clapper, Eric L. Conklin, Ken Davies, Gary T. Erbe, Michael Gallarda, Gerald P. Hodge, Michael Molnar, Michael Riddet, Barbara Stadtlander (1928-1987) Gayle B. Tate, Debra Teare and Gregory West.
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May 5 - July 9, 2006 |
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Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection Photorealism developed in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a response to modernism and Pop Art. The original Photorealists shocked the art world with images that were not only based on photographs but were blatantly photographic in the way they were presented. Thirty years later, the subject matter may seem tame and even nostalgic, but the works continue to intrigue us with their revealing look at some of the more mundane aspects of popular culture and the world around us. The leading Photorealist artists, many who continue to explore the possibilities of the form of realism, created the prints, dating from 1972 – 1995. This outstanding collection of fine art prints features the original thirteen Photorealists including such artists as Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Richard Estes and Audrey Flack to name a few.
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July 21 - October 15, 2006 |
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SEA TO SHINING SEA: A Reflection of America The idea for this exhibition grew out of the events that occurred on September 11, 2001. Artists who had participated in a series of “paint outs” were decided to organize a show to celebrate and focus on life in America. The exhibit would feature 100 paintings of landscape, genre and figurative subjects in either a Realist or Impressionist style. Fifty artists representing various ethnic and racial backgrounds and from various regions across the United States were invited to participate. Each artist would select a painting drawn from one of three Plein Aire sessions held at specified locales across the country. The first in August of 2002 was New York’s Hudson River Valley. The second session was on the Monterey Peninsula of California in March 2003; and the third was held in May of 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri. Their second selection would reflect life in the artist’s home community. Sea to Shining Sea is a traveling group exhibition organized by the Haggin Museum of Art in Stockton, California with Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Missouri organizing the exhibit tour.
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November 17, 2006 – December 31, 2006 |
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WINTER WONDERLAND: The Coleman Collection The magical displays that became a tradition for families from across the Hampton Roads region and beyond will go on display at the Courthouse Galleries in Olde Towne Portsmouth this holiday season with an opening Friday, November 17th from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. Since closing of the Coleman Nursery in January 2004, the City of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Museums Foundation joined forces to keep this holiday attraction in Portsmouth for generations to come. Following the purchase of the collection, volunteers and the Portsmouth Museums’ staff set about to renew the displays. The collection, which began in the mid-1960s when owner, A. J. “Junie” Lancaster purchased a single sleeping Santa, had grown over the years to well over 100 animated figures. Featured this season will be elves busying to complete their holiday work in Santa’s toy & candle factories, wrapping gifts and preparing holiday treats in the candy shop and bakery. Carolers will gather while children build snowmen and woodland creatures prepare to hibernate for the season. Also returning this season will be Santa with his sleigh overloaded gifts, snow babies, carolers, penguins, the animated circus with clowns and trapeze acts and many more holiday favorites.
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