New City Arts presents Between the two of us, works by Adrian Wood and Nina Thomas in November at the WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery, in partnership with UVA Arts.
WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery
216 W. Water Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902
First Fridays
November 4, 5:00–7:00 PM
Free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Gallery Hours
By appointment only, through March 31
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Sponsors
Presented by NPR, WVTF, Radio IQ, UVA Arts and New City Arts, our exhibit opening reception is sponsored by Bold Rock Hard Cider, Timbercreek Market in Charlottesville with cheese provided by Flora Artisanal Cheese.
Exhibition Statement (provided by the artists)
Adrian Wood’s and Nina Thomas's work deals with the interaction of people, personalities, and narratives that emerge through repetitive processes of mark-making. Adrian and Nina work independently, engaging and manipulating processes in traditional media — drawing, painting, printmaking and paper-based collage. The marks in Nina’s images build up around squirming bodies in shimmering cacophony. Figures are joined together in images that depict multiple moments converging. Intimate connections between figures are caricatured by repetitive processes of mark-making and layering so that lines converge into claustrophobic distortions of relationships. In contrast, Adrian's images distill single moments of transition or repose with simple lines to delineate figures in space. Negotiating between obstruction and attachment, the figures engage their surroundings in images that explore relationships between figure and ground, people and place. In both Nina’s and Adrian's work, individual figures push against and into their surrounding spaces. The images are corrected, painted over, drawn on top of and layered with memory. Each piece is a complete part that stands alone and responds to the whole body of work.
About the Artists (provided by the artists)
Adrian Wood is an artist working primarily in drawing, color, printmaking and sound. Adrian has travelled with her work to residencies at the Scuola Grafica in Venice, Italy and Studio South Zero in Charlottesville, VA. Adrian's work has been shown in Williamsburg, Charlottesville, and Richmond, Virginia, as well as abroad in Berlin. Adrian graduated with a BA in Studio Art & Art History with a focus on painting and printmaking from the College of William & Mary in 2014, with a minor in Environmental Science & Policy. Adrian lives and works in Richmond, VA.
Nina Thomas makes drawings, prints, and paintings about the people and places around her, creating surfaces full of repeated lines and shapes. Since graduating from U.Va. in 2015, she has lived in Charlottesville, working with books and art, and making some of her own.
Images courtesy of the artists.
