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May 20

Tanja Softic

By All Together

Memory Entropy 4, 2020
Intaglio, photogravure, inkjet collage on Oguni Shikishi paper
7.5 x 7.5 inches

Memory Entropy 9, 2020
Intaglio, photogravure, inkjet collage on Oguni Shikishi paper
7.5 x 7.5 inches

Hybrid Being 1, 2020
Intaglio, photogravure, inkjet collage on Oguni Shikishi paper
7.5 x 7.5 inches

Memory Entropy 7, 2020
Intaglio, photogravure, inkjet collage on Oguni Shikishi paper
7.5 x 7.5 inches

Tanja Softić explores questions of communication, migration, and cultural identity in her paintings and mixed media work on paper. She was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and later moved to America, spurring an investigation of personal and global belonging within her work. Her abstracted scenes simultaneously partition and overlap each other in a frenzy of web-like lines, creating a visually delicate and emotionally jarring atmosphere.

Softić lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, where she is a Professor of Art at the University of Richmond. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Sarajevo and earned her MFA in Printmaking from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia (1988, 1992). Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Austria; the Ino-Cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.

May 18

Ray Kass

By All Together

Over a period of more than fifty years, my out-of-doors water-media paintings  of the natural world have developed in favorite locations in North Carolina, California, New England, and Virginia. Although abstract, my recent  paintings are carefully derived from drawings and life-studies from nature, and attempt to represent the processes of nature at work rather than pictorial description. 

Although I feel that my painting directly responds to the environments that I work in, I usually do not paint from the landscape with the objective of achieving representational or “realistic” images. In fact, I have often made representational depictions of specific places after I have made many non-pictorial works in the same locale. This particular development reverses the usual assumption that “abstraction” develops from the confirmed experience of the study of “realism”.

My appreciation of the natural world is for the great variety of texture, light, form and eventful psychology that finds its maximum expression in its manifestations.

Sea Weave – 02-13-2020, 2020
Watercolor, mica on toned rag paper, under shaved beeswax
33 x 60 inches
Framed

Ray Kass lives and works in Christiansburg, Virginia and is a Professor Emeritus of Art at Virginia Tech. He earned his MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later founded and directs the Mountain Lake Workshop, a collaborative art project drawing on the customs and environmental resources of the New River Valley and Appalachian region. His work is in the collections of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; Phizer Corporation, all, New York, NY; and Medical College of Virginia, SunTrust, and Ethyl Corporation all, Richmond, Virginia. He recently published The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale with writer Howard Risatti.

May 17

Amie Oliver

By All Together

News of the world streams through our psyches. How does this steady barrage affect me? Insomnia is usually a nuisance when I work or travel elsewhere- but is now ever-present. Quarantine Dreams emerged while painting into the earliest morning hours and references imagery begun while working on “The Moving Cultures Project” in Tibet.  The steps one must climb to get where they are going have become a running motif for me, particularly personal and relevant during times of loss, anxiety and adaptation.

Quarantine Dream #7, 2020
Ink, gouache, watercolor, wax on rag paper
12 x 9 inches
Framed

Quarantine Dream #14, 2020
Ink, gouache, watercolor, wax on rag paper
16 x 12 inches
Framed

Applying layers of ink washes on glossy and sometimes translucent paper, Amie Oliver creates compositions conveying movement, time and earthly elements. She allows her marks to be affected by the humidity and looseness of her hand on water-resistant paper, where ink can flow or disappear.

Amie Oliver received her BA from Mississippi State University and MFA from Bowling Green State University. She completed post grad course work at Tyler School of Art of Temple University and at the Visual Studies Workshop through the State University of New York, where she studied with acclaimed Book Artist Keith Smith. Oliver previously taught in VCUarts’ MIS Degree and Studio Arts Foundation Program and served as Associate Professor at Longwood College and Mississippi State University. She is currently a teacher at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and serves on the Board of Directors of 1708 Gallery. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Try-Me Collection, Capital One, the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, all, Richmond, VA; the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Washington, D.C.; and the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, to name a few.

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