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Jul 06

Richard Crozier

By ilnickiap Additional Works

Capturing scenes of Charlottesville, Virginia through the passenger seat window of his car, Richard Crozier embraces the impermanence of landscapes through painting. Rendering stray houses, construction sites, and quiet highways with loose, thick strokes, he imparts a contemplative, passionate nature within quotidian scenes. His casual approach lends to an abstract perspective, imparting an emotive quality heightened by color and light. The Hawaii native received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Washington in Seattle, and later his Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Davis alongside artists Wayne Thiebaud and William T Wiley (1974). His work has been exhibited widely at Tatistcheff & Co., New York; College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; The Virginia Historical Society, Richmond; Long Beach Art Museum, California; and Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia. Several public collections hold his work, including Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Davis Art Center, Davis, California; the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond; School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and the Sturgis-Young Art Center, Sturgis, MI. He currently lives in Charlottesville, where he retired as a professor at University of Virginia in 2011, having taught there for 37 years.

Curriculum Vitae

Past Exhibitions
VIEWPOINT
Virginia Landscapes

Hyacinth, 2009, oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches

Site, 2009, oil on canvas, 30 x 72 inches

Untitled 7-31-06, 2006, oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches

Garden Tools, 2012, oil on panel, 16 x 12 inches

Untitled 9-3-06, 2006, oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches

Jul 05

Nell Blaine

By ilnickiap Artists

Blaine was foremost an abstract painter, first a student of Theresa Pollak at the Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU), and later moving to New York in the 1940s to learn under Hans Hofmann. She immersed herself in the post-World War II New York art scene, which embraced color and gesture through Abstract Expressionism. The acute sense of hue, shape, and line apparent in her oil paintings originate in part from her early stages of art making, characteristically unabashed and intuitive. Instinct carried Blaine through her work; in 1959 at the age of 37, she contracted bulbar-spinal polio which paralyzed her from the waist down, forcing her to relearn how to paint. She began painting in oils with her left hand, adding a genuine looseness and determination. This persistence seeped into each scene as Blaine transitioned to a representative style, her hand capturing parks and rivers outside her Gloucester, Massachusetts home, her Upper West Side apartment in New York, and floral studies neatly arranged in her kitchen. Poetic, lyrical, and charmingly clever, Blaine’s oil and ink compositions lure in viewers as their luminous quality carries through to present day.

Blaine was born in 1922 in Richmond, VA. In her lifetime, she exhibited at major galleries including Tibor de Nagy, Jane Street Gallery, and Fischbach, all, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Art Institute of Chicago, IL, among others. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Blaine passed away in 1996 at the age of 74.

Curriculum Vitae

Past Exhibitions
Nell Blaine, 2017
VIEWPOINT

October Bouquet, 1977, oil on canvas, 20 x 18 inches

Round Table Sunset by Window, 1994, watercolor and pastel, 14 x 20 inches

Garden By Valley, 1965, Watercolor on paper, 14.5 x 20 inches

Riverside, Summer, 1962, Watercolor on paper, 13.75 x 19.75 inches

Shell and Wine Bottle, 1967, Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches

May 13

Richard Crozier and Frank Hobbs

By ilnickiap Exhibitions

VIRGINIA LANDSCAPES
Summer 2006

Apr 14

Julien Binford

By ilnickiap Additional Works

Julien Binford was born in Powhatan County, Virginia in 1908, and later travelled to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and schools in Paris and Spain in the 1930s. He returned to the United States where he was commissioned to paint murals in southern post offices and public buildings as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs. Further, during World War II he was commissioned by Life Magazine to depict the wartime happenings in the New York Harbor. Over his lengthy career, he mastered both representative and abstract portrayals of everyday scenes and objects. Exploring several mediums including oil, ink, pastel, and gouache, his sense of material evokes a tactile nature within the work. Pastels smudge into faces and forms, and egg tempura washes over geometric abstractions, conveying transparency through soft yet intentional strokes.

He was a professor of painting at Mary Washington College for 25 years, and many of his works are in the Mary Washington University Galleries’ permanent collection. His work has also been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Binford passed away in 1997.

Past Exhibitions
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Summer Solstice