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Indepth Arts News:
"Totemic Magic: Suzanna Biro and Frederick Chiriboga."
2004-10-01 until 0000-00-00
ART6 Gallery
Richmond, VA,
USA United States of America
art6 gallery in Richmond, Virginia presents the exhibition
“Totemic Magic” from October 1st to 31st, 2004,
featuring sculpture by Suzanna Biro of
Marshall, N.C. and sculpture and painting
by Richmond artist, Frederick Chiriboga.
The theme explores the many facets of
totemic imagery with its dynamic emphasis
on magic.
Suzanna Biro studied and traveled in
Colombia, S.A. for more than three years
learning weaving, pottery and painting
from artists in villages throughout the
country. She also studied sculpture and
drawing in New York City. Her mixed media
sculptures with added skulls and animal
bones (found in the N.C. mountains) have
been her main focus for the past 4 years.
She says: “My work is meant to honor all
living things in this world of plants, rocks,
water, air, animals and man.”
Frederick Chiriboga has shown many times
in Richmond and nationally, and for several
years ran with his wife Birthe, the Aquiles
Adler Gallery on Broad Street. He studied
at Wayne State University in Detroit and
spent every summer of his childhood
visiting his grandfather’s farm in the
Andean Mountains of Ecuador. Chiriboga
spent time with the local carpenters and
farmers, who tilled the land with oxen and
harvested wheat by hand. He also spent
time at the forge and at cobbler’s shops
where he acquired a love for leather work.
He enjoys the art of the early Surrealists,
Goya, Velasquez, Duchamp --and often (he
says) his own.
To expand on the themes of this exhibition,
art6 will present a lecture on Friday,
October 22 at 8 p.m.by Art Historian, Mia
Reinoso Genoni from NYU. A reception
will follow the lecture, and art6 requests a
$5.00 donation. Ms. Genoni will inaugurate
the “Pinkney Near Memorial Lectures in
Art History”, a new series at art6 featuring
art historians from within and outside the
Richmond area.
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