Images courtesy of the artists
From November 3-22, New City Arts, supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts, will present an exhibition of prints by 5th Year UVA Aunspaugh Fellows, Maddie Butkovich + Claire Szeptycki.
This partnership exhibition provides a UVA Studio Art student with an opportunity to present their work and further their professional practice in the Charlottesville community. Selected students or Fellows are provided with support for an exhibition and connection with a local artist mentor.
New City Arts' Welcome Gallery
114 3rd St. NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
First Fridays
November 3 from 5-7:30PM; Artist talk at 6PM.
Free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday from 10AM-5PM
Exhibition Events
Co-Working at Welcome Gallery: November 15 | 9AM-5PM
New City Arts & Crafts: November 17 | 10-11AM
Card Making and Coffee Q&A with Maddie and Claire: November 19 | 12-2PM
Visitor Guide
Stepping into the gallery, visitors encounter wood framed prints hung on the walls. Featuring the work of two artists, Claire Szeptycki and Maddie Butkovich, this exhibition includes lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts on paper. Each artist emphasizes process-based techniques of printmaking while exploring their own personal histories, communities, and relationships. Their prints interact in the space: Claire’s prints feature lithographs of scanned and layered farm tools, as well as one piece containing personal text, while Maddie’s prints are crayon-drawn lithographs printed on handmade paper.
All ages are welcome to engage with this exhibition. Some images contain abstracted bodies alluding to nudity.
Sponsors
This exhibition is supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts
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Exhibition Statement (courtesy of the artists)
Too Many Dinner Parties is a visual exploration of the artists’ inner lives and experiences. Emphasizing the process-based techniques of printmaking, this exhibition explores the individual’s relationship to the environment, others, and itself. Selfhood is ever-changing, and the boundaries between the self and the other are permeable. This work makes visible the daily intimacies of existing alongside others, and considers how environments, communities, and relationships form one’s sense of identity. Maddie’s work revolves largely around drawing and line, consisting of lithographs that approach relational aesthetics and humor without necessarily depicting concrete physical forms, but rather an abstracted visual vocabulary. In turn, Claire’s work uses scans and impressions of collected objects, including farm tools and personal keepsakes, to create a material archive of her memory. Through repetition, she hopes to give these objects a life of their own.
About the Artists
Maddie Butkovich (she/her) is a printmaker and painter from Virginia Beach, VA currently living and working in Charlottesville, VA. She is interested in visually approaching relationships, humor, and vulnerability without depicting a concrete physical form. Some of the recurring themes in her work include a search for solace, escapism, relational aesthetics, the environment in the anthropocene, personal archives, and communities. Maddie earned her BSED in Kinesiology with high distinction in Studio Art from the University of Virginia in May of 2023, and is currently an Aunspaugh Fellow at the University.
Claire Szeptycki (she/her) is a printmaker and multimedia artist from Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her B.A. in Studio Art and English from the University of Virginia in 2023, and is currently an Aunspaugh Fellow at UVA. Working from personal and familial archives of images and objects, she creates layered works that speak to her own experiences of place, memory, intimacy, and alienation. Her artistic practice centers intuition and experimentation with material.
Located at 114 3rd St. NE on Charlottesville’s downtown pedestrian mall, New City Arts’ Welcome Gallery supports artists who live in the Charlottesville area. Welcome Gallery exhibitions and programs are made possible by generous sponsors, donors, and grants. Interested in sponsoring an exhibition? Connect with us!
