Sarah Sargent

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Artist Trisha Orr paints herself out of a corner

Trisha Orr’s complex, tour de forces of fabric, objects, and flowers have earned high critical praise for many years....

Joseph Cornell plays in the shadows of the Surrealist...

A rich and deeply satisfying show, “Joseph Cornell and Surrealism” at the Fralin Museum explores Cornell’s work in...

Jasper Johns’ print works bring order to chaos

Now in his eighties, America’s greatest living artist, Jasper Johns, is still recognized as the vanguard who ignored...

Artist Lisa Beane meditates on loss and honor in “Chapters”

“These paintings are so raw; they’re so far from anything I’ve ever done before,” said Lisa Beane about her show...

Dean Dass’ works evoke a beautiful loneliness on earth...

The “Dean Dass: New Paintings and Works on Paper” exhibition on view at Les Yeux du Monde offers the double pleasure...

Millicent Young seeks a new mythology through primordial...

I was completely captivated by Millicent Young’s radiant show at Chroma Projects. Composed of horsehair and found...

Installation artist Patrick Dougherty twists twigs and...

If you’ve been in the vicinity of the Ruth Caplin Theatre and the Arts Commons at UVA, you’ve no doubt noticed some...

Émilie Charmy defied convention with her masculine style

Born in 1878 in the town of Saint-Étienne near Lyon, France, Émilie Charmy was groomed for the proper profession of...

Review

Ansel Adams’ photography is one of those things that’s easy to dismiss because we’ve seen so much of it reproduced in...

Field recordings

Chroma Projects’ current featured artist, Dymph de Wild, works in a variety of media (drawing, printmaking,...