Trepanier received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from VCUarts, where she has held adjunct professor positions. She has received multiple accolades, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2011), VMFA Professional Fellowships (2009 and 2002), and The Theresa Pollak Fine Art Award (2004). Currently, the artist lives and works in Richmond, VA.

Having recently returned to Richmond after several years living in New York, Sue Heatley combines printmaking and painting techniques to express abstraction routed in mark making. Over her thirty year studio practice, she has created collage-like compositions through applications of myriad materials, including acrylic paint, quick-drying pigments and ink, on varied backgrounds like textured linen and thick rag paper. In her linen paintings, Heatley works layer by layer; swooping brushwork, often in pale tones, obscure glimpses of contrasting tones beneath, adding an element of mystery to each painting. In recent works on paper, like Fool’s Forecast, her compositions evoke biomorphic forms through ethereal marks balanced on a muted ground.

Heatley received her BA in Art History from Hiram College in Ohio and later studied printmaking at the Richmond Printmaking Workshop in Virginia. She has exhibited at The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY; Site Brooklyn, NY; the International Print Center and Turn Gallery, both, New York, NY; 1708 Gallery, Quirk Gallery and The Visual Arts Center, all, Richmond, Virginia. Her work is represented in numerous public and corporate collections, including the United States Department of State, Washington, DC; Esteé Lauder Companies, New York, NY; Special Collections and Archives of Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Hunton & Williams and Owens & Minor, all, Richmond, VA.

I’ve been exploring poetry as subject matter for my work.  When I read a beautiful poem, I feel that I have received a sacred gift, as though the poet is giving me a flower, directly from their heart to mine.  In creating a visual artwork from that poem, I wish to give a flower too…to you, my viewer.

This work was created using Emily Dickinson’s poem #1338, where the text itself (which is about a meadow) becomes organic growth.  First, I used the poem’s words to create a drawing on paper, which I then painted onto handwoven cloth.  In a process used in a lot of my work, the painted cloth is unwoven, causing the image to dissolve into dashes of paint on warp and weft thread.  When those threads are rewoven (separate from each other), they create two altered drawings, which imperfectly mirror each other.

Andrea Donnelly was born in 1982 in Wilmington, Delaware and currently lives in Richmond. She received her BA in Art and Design and a BS Psychology from North Carolina State University and her MFA in Fibers from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work was included in the 2018 inaugural exhibition of Richmond’s Institute of Contemporary Art and she held a solo exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2017. Her pieces are held in the collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Federal Reserve and Capital One, both in Richmond, VA.

Barry Purcell creates altered perspectives in his deeply saturated photocollages. Capturing images directly from his travels, he communicates concepts deeply rooted in the moments each photograph was taken, recording the exact longitude and latitude and time, down to the second. Back in the studio, Purcell divides and rearranges a single image into various gridded patterns to reveal the latent visual patterns we often miss in nature. He states, “the fragmented images of my surroundings call attention to the beauty within the simple elements of nature: the subtle gradation of a sunset or the soft transition between the sky and sea. Although geometric and seemingly balanced by the human mind, each composition exists skewed, camouflaged by personal perspective, much like the debilitating effect we inflict on our reality.”

Purcell is a fourth-generation painter and photographer born in Virginia Beach, VA in 1973. He received his Bachelor of Science from James Madison University in 1996, Juris Doctorate and Master of Business from the University of Richmond in 2000. His work is included in the collections of Altus Realty, Washington, D.C., and Capital One in Richmond, VA. He currently resides in Richmond and Virginia Beach.