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September 5 - October 19, 2008

Cathy Breslaw is a California based artist whose colorful, woven textiles pieces show throughout the country.  Her work is a fusion of aspects of painting, weaving, craft, fashion and sculpture. Issues of femininity, beauty and cross-cultural boundaries form the basis for these works.

Outlines: recent works by Jill Olm  
March 2 – April 22, 2007
Jill Olm displayed several new paintings and drawings as well as an ephemeral installation created specifically for Riverviews.  Olm’s work is map-like in its imagery.  Olm’s educational and professional background is in fine arts, but also anthropology and her work exhibits an interest in both.   Through her meticulous mark-making, Olm creates pieces that relate to ideas of sociology, geography and anthropology.  She also comments on the theme of tension and balance in compositions that are open and accessible.

Jill Olm received a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology and a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the University of Montana, and a master of fine arts degree in painting from Syracuse University.   She is currently teaching Fine Arts at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

At Hand: art from recycled materials
Bob Cage  Sean Samoheyl julio uchimura
January 5 – February 18, 2007
This exhibition focuses solely on sculpture created from recycled materials.  Each artist featured in the exhibition creates his work by breathing new life into discarded “trash”.  The result is a range of multi-dimensional sculptures from an almost endless variety of materials. 

Though each has had some level of formal training, Bob Cage, Shawn Samoheyl, and julio uchimura each considers himself to be an outsider artist (a label originally created by artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture or art created with non-traditional materials and fabrication techniques).  These three artists are certainly inventive with their choice of materials and the ways in which they choose to assemble their creations.  They have a common ground in both their interest in recycled materials and their command of the medium. 

Surface Tension works by: Sarah Boyts-Yoder, Ed Dolinger, and Jeff Juhlin
Nov 3 – Dec 17, 2006

The artists in the exhibition create dynamic work, while experimenting with texture and surface.  Sarah Boyts-Yoder creates installations form painting scraps. Ed Dolinger finishes his paintings to produce an extremely polished, layered look.  Jeff Juhlin has mastered the art of encaustic, creating vividly colored pieces that retain an interesting surface. Each of the three artists takes a different approach to surface. 

post-conventional generativity
Sept 1 – Oct 22, 2006
Riverviews Artspace, one of the region's youngest arts organizations presents an exhibition to celebrate the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, reaching the ripe, old age of 35.   featuring works by VCCA fellows: Olive Ayhens, Verne Dawson, Sandra Gibson, Andrew Ginzel, Christine Hiebert, Cynthia Lin, Bob Trotman, Sarah Spencer White, Sarah Walker

COOL 
July 2 – August 13, 2006

This exhibition captured the essence of summertime, water, and refreshment with work from three different artists.  Cameron Ayres presented an interactive video installation with summer/water imagery and political undertones.  Ann Savedge exhibited large scale digital photography showing scenes from fountains, waterparks, and pools.  Sharon Shapiro displayed large acrylic paintings featuring women (including herself) and children in watery environments

3 paths to Abstraction Pinkney Herbert, Whitney Leland, Carol Mode
May 5 – June 16, 2006
This show was organized by the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture to celebrate and recognize the centennial anniversary of Abstraction as a movement.  Over the years, Abstraction has become one of the most widely popular styles in art, taking on many forms.  This exhibition provides a broad view of Abstraction by including works by three diverse artists. Each of these painters has demonstrated a life-long commitment to Abstraction.  Individually, the pieces in this exhibition represent several styles of Abstraction and illustrate each artist's approach.  As a whole, these works effectively represent the movement of Abstraction and its continuing evolution.

Jim Muehlemann: Criminals
February 26 – April 21, 2006
Muehlemann is a well-known artist both in the region and New York.  His new series are large scale abstractions depicting faces, It seems that Muehlemman would like to remind us of the potential in each of us.  These faces are inert, potential energy, waiting to be drawn into one path or another

David Johnson: Paintings & Richard Pumphrey Sculpture
January 8 – February 17, 2006
Richard Pumphrey's current carvings of monumental feathers are fashioned from single planks of native Virginia wood.  David Johnson's oil paintings are visionary, often figurative images on shaped and carved wood surfaces.  

Pivot Points
October 23 – December 11, 2005  
A group show by three generations of painters and poets in an exhibition about painting and poetry, teaching and mentoring. Pivot Points is above all, a beautiful show by three talented artists and poets–Victor Kord, Richard Lazzarro, Reni Gower, Sally Bowring, Beth Weisgerber, and Valerie Bogdan (painters) Larry Levis, Dave Smith, Greg Donovan, Elizabeth Morgan, Joshua Poteat and Laura-Gray Street (poets).

Adam Parker Smith
August 27 – October 8, 2005   
A series of sculptural dolls constructed from the simplest of materials—nylon hosiery, cotton and yarn—the exhibition presents powerful figurative works that bring to mind a raft of associations including classical sculpture and beings crafted from inanimate objects that come to life. Smith has exhibited his sculptural dolls in places as far flung as Italy and California.

Steve Bickley & Farida Hughes
June 3 – August 5, 2005 
Both artists explore the nature of expansive abstract space through two and three dimensional works.  Bickley, an art professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute since 1978, received a MFA from the Univ. of GA, has exhibited extensively on the east coast. Numerous solo exhibitions include The Phillips Collection in Wash., DC, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston-Salem, the Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, & Roanoke Fine Arts Center. His work is found in several corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.  Hughes’s work has been in the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville and Wake Forest University.  A recipient of a MFA in painting, Hughes maintains a studio in Chatham, VA

Seven Views 
April 1 – May 22, 2005 
regional landscape exhibition with works by area artists: Bill White, Ed Bordett, Ann Glover, Dick Crozier, Tina McConchie, Pat Harrington, and Annie Massie

Same Thing Twice paintings by  W.H. Rutherfoord.
February 6 – March 20, 2005  
The painter Bill Rutherfoord of Roanoke, Virginia, reconfigures Biblical iconography for postmodern reality. He references pop-culture and the evening news.
 

Art Quilts: Sew What’s New?
December 12 2004 – January 23, 2005  
Work by Studio Art Quilt Associates of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Large-scale painterly takes on traditional idea of the quilt.

Along Lines: 3 dimensional works by Alexi Chisler and Michele Kong 
October 15 – November 21, 2004
Chisler is a graduate of VCU sculpture department and has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Kong, from Baltimore, Maryland, also has an MFA from RISD. She teaches at Corcoran College of Art. Sarah Tanguy wrote the catalog publication accompanying the show.

3Dx3: recent sculpture by Jim Hudson, Emily Reynolds and Jim Respess
August 20 – October 1, 2004 
Hudson (MFA, University of Georgia), originally from DC area, long-time member of tri-state sculptors large showed organic abstractions carved from stone and wood. Reynolds exhibited smaller porcelain and ceramic abstractions. Repess, from Charlottesville, was one of the original members of McGuffey Art Center and has taught extensively in Charlottesville area. His works were large-scale funky realism.

Riverviews 2004: A Survey of the Tenant Artists of Riverviews Artspace
June 11 – August 4, 2004
An eclectic amalgam of artwork drawn from 32 artists associated with Riverviews.

Robert Henry Graham & Stacey Evans
April 16 – May 28, 2004
Graham, a Chicago-based artist, now a faculty member of the art department of Virginia Tech exhibited large figurative abstractions in the Craddock-Terry Gallery and Evans  (Piedmont Community College faculty) showed computer-manipulated photomontages in the Studio Gallery

Off the Wall: 7 Virginia Sculptures at Riverviews, 
November 23, 2003 
The Grand Opening of Riverview Artspace, Joe Seipel, former chair of sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University, William Bennett, chair of sculpture at University of Virginia, and Yuriko Yamaguchi, recipient of the Virginia Prize in Sculpture. Also in the show were works by Susan Crowder, Joe Monk, Ben Pranger and Richard Pumphrey.