November 1– December 20, 2024
Aggie Zed: The Close and Holy Darkness
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Aggie Zed grew up in a large family on Sullivan's Island riding ponies and donkeys on the beach. As a child she watched her father repair television sets and played for hours with cheap plastic horses and cowboys which had no moving parts. She could always draw.
Living in Richmond, Virginia, after graduating from The University of South Carolina with a degree in Fine Arts, she supported her painting by designing and building ceramic chess sets. Her work in clay evolved to become a widely-collected series of human-animal hybrid figures with which she has made a living.
She divides her working life between sculpture and drawing and painting.
Aggie Zed's sculpture ranges from intimately-scaled ceramic figures of people and human-animal hybrids to copper wire and ceramic horses to ceramic and mixed-metals contrivances she calls "scrap floats". Her scrap floats are intended as entries in a parade of the future.
Her drawings and painting are informed by a lifelong celebration of the beauty and strangeness of dreams posed against the absurdity and poignancy of supposedly rational human activity. Her mediums are dry pastel and various inks with water on paper.
She currently lives with her husband in Gordonsville, Virginia where she keeps animals in her life, especially chickens, which defy anthropomorphism.
Opening Reception 5–8 PM
Friday, November 1
January 3– January 31, 2025
Sally Bowring: Still Life with Uncertainty
Opening Reception 5–8 PM
Friday, January 3
Built on a 50-year studio practice, my current paintings culminate lifelong investigations in abstraction that include the structure of gardens, the complexity of pattern and the brilliance of color. This new work refers back to earlier work that explored the visual possibilities of domesticity while blatantly referencing the artists I have loved for a lifetime, Matisse, Bonnard and Morandi. Crafted formally and intuitively, my works incorporates opaque and transparent forms, color and patterns, and a quiet order. The rooms are empty – although the table is set, the shelves are filled with containers, so that the viewer can enjoy the hospitality.
January 3 – March 25, 2025
Ted Hardin: Kinship
Opening Reception 5–8 PM
Friday, January 3
Ted Hardin (1938 - 2007) was born in Washington DC and spent his professional career as a photographer in New York City. Starting out in fashion, his photos appeared in Glamour, Essence and numerous other publications. In the 80s and 90s he transitioned to more editorial
work and shot over 30 covers for New York Magazine. He was a master at lighting and making his subjects feel at ease in front of the lens.
His daughter, Haley Hardin, recently began the process of digitizing his extensive archive, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, digitizing photos taken at The March on Washington in 1963 and selling prints as part of a fundraiser. The archiving continued with images that she felt connected to that helped her feel connected to her father in a new way. As questions about the photos arose, Hardin contacted colleagues of her dad and used Instagram as a way of identifying individuals in the images.
Kinship is an exhibition that serves to remind us that there is more to link us than divide us. In images spanning decades and subject matter, it is a glimpse into the world of a photographer who used his ability to connect with his subjects - whether people or the city he loved - to make
the viewer feel deeply. The exhibit will include photos from The March on Washington, stylized portraits and images from New York City in the 80s and 90s.
February 7– February 28, 2025
Kelly Lonergan: Hothouse
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Opening Reception 5–8 PM
Friday, February 7
Kelly Lonergan was born in Charlottesville, VA in 1954, and grew up in the nearby town of Orange. He attended Randolph-Macon College where he earned a BA in English in 1976, then continued his studies at the University of Virginia, earning an MA in English in 1978.
In the early 1980s, he became interested in art history and the visual arts; he began to paint seriously in the mid-1980s, while also working in the studio of jewelry designer Linda van der Linde in Charlottesville, hand painting the sculpted porcelain pieces used in her necklace and earring designs.
From 1989 through 1991, Lonergan attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, where he earned an MFA in Painting and Printmaking. In the early 1990s, he worked out of a studio in the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, VA and exhibited his work throughout the state of Virginia.
He began to teach art history and design classes at Germanna Community College and Piedmont Virginia Community College in 1994. The next year, Lonergan became an instructor at Woodberry Forest School, an all-boys boarding school near Orange, VA. He taught art history and studio art at the school and served as the chair of the art department until his retirement in June of 2019. He continues to schedule and install exhibitions in the Baker Gallery of the Walker Fine Arts Center at the school. He currently lives with his wife Liz in Charlottesville, VA.