THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 23, 1997 TAG: 9702220041
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E8 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY TERESA ANNAS, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 54 lines
ARTISTS REACT in different ways to the prospect of working small. Some tighten up, literally. Others think in terms of details - as in concocting a detail from a larger work they might have made. Or, they could try something entirely new.
All of these approaches found their way into the Tidewater Artists Association's 1997 Annual Juried Miniature Exhibition, on view at The Hermitage Foundation Museum in Norfolk. The juror was William D. Barnes, an art professor at the College of William and Mary.
Best-in-show winner Peyton Campbell, however, won for a mixed media construction, the sort of evocative assemblage often compared to Joseph Cornell. Her tiny hinged box, ``Observatorium,'' holds a tiny lens, a star map and other allusions to ordered, rational systems of viewing our universe.
A palm-sized pencil drawing by Dan Smith won an award of excellence. Called ``Portion,'' the surrealistic imagery has an obsessive, almost hallucinogenic quality.
Jenny Windsor also earned an award of excellence for a more conservative work, an oil painting of a twosome seated and talking. She has a talent for conveying a particular atmosphere and light.
James Warwick Jones contributed two very fresh environmental paintings of Norfolk scenes that anyone might easily overlook. One of these, ``Near Granby Mall,'' landed a merit award for its compelling rendering of a dilapidated storefront.
The other award of merit went to Dana Adams for a witty example of book art titled ``Open.'' This book with a punch line sits upright on a pedestal, its accordian ``pages'' stretched open to show the series of intaglio etchings of what may be X-rays of eyeballs.
Ruth Scarlott was given an honorable mention for ``October Poems,'' one of her perennially beautiful handmade paper collages with a ritual and Asian feel. The second honorable mention went to David Morris for his enigmatic ``Jacob Ascending.'' ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Jenny Windsor earned an award of excellence for this oil painting.
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WANT TO GO?
What: Tidewater Artists Association's 1997 Annual Juried
Miniature Exhibition
Where: The Hermitage Foundation Museum, 7637 N. Shore Rd.,
Norfolk
When: Through March 9
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Sunday
How much: free
Call: 423-2052