Sexy, sexy, sexy.

The art of pin-up girls made popular during the middle 20^th century is the source of inspiration for Pretty Girls, a cutting-edge exhibit on display at Lorrie Saunders’ Art Gallery through August 21. The exhibition features the work of Norfolk graphic artist Jason Levesque and New York City-based painter/photographer Erik Jones.

By Betsy DiJulio

What I expected to see in this exhibition, based on having seen only one promotional image—a sensitive and layered figurative drawing-- was not what awaited.  It was better.

By Betsy DiJulio

By its very nature, a fiber exhibition would seem to promise rich color, tactility and a strong attention to craftsmanship.  Fiber shows of the current era would also likely hearken back to traditional roots while embracing what is new, including technological advancements.  In these regards, “Four Women Working in Fiber” delivers. 

By Betsy DiJulio

Former native son Will Corr has done it again: despite his enduring formal and conceptual concerns, he has advanced his work to the next level using the visual vocabulary for which he has become so well known.  The familiar iconography is all here—deceptively simple rowboats, popcorn clouds, lollipop trees, birds and diamond patterned ocean swells—as are the “edges,” that is, the geometric structure of overlapping and gently colliding planes of space.  But all of it is freshly conceived.  He has even shifted his signature color palette of neutralized aquas, terracottas, buttery yellows and warm and cool khakis plus black and white accents to correspond to his new directions.