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Indepth Arts News:
"Virginia Wright-Frierson: 2000, A Year in Paintings"
2000-11-02 until 2001-02-11
St. John's Museum of Art
Wilmington, NC,
USA United States of America
This exhibition explores a year in an artist's life, filled with
creative impulses, masterful renderings and meditations
on the commemoration of tragedy.Included in the exhibition are more than 100 small
watercolors, oil sketches and large-scale paintings
produced by the artist within the last year.
Through this selection of recent works,
including those inspired by her trip to
Cortona, Italy, the exhibition presents
an in-depth investigation of the artistic
process.
Another undertaking being explored
includes Wright-Frierson’s design and
creation of 19 large-scale panels comprising the
Columbine High School Mural. Unveiled with the
re-opening of that school on August 14, 2000 the mural is
housed permanently in the school’s new
two-story
atrium and cafeteria. The mural’s center panel,
measuring 20 by 24 feet, expresses the image of Aspen
and tall evergreens radiating upward to meet the warm
Colorado sun.
The story of Wright-Frierson’s collaboration with the
architects and community associated with the renovation of
Columbine High School will be told in this exhibition
through the artist’s working cartoons, architectural models,
image projections, and an ongoing documentary video
describing the process.
Virginia Wright-Frierson studied at the New York Art
Students’ League and in 1971 received a B.F.A. in painting
at UNC Greensboro. She has illustrated nine children’s.
Three others, which she wrote and illustrated, each have
won the John Burroughs Award for children’s nature books
from the American Museum of Natural History, including A
North American Rain Forest Scrapbook.
IMAGE:
The artist standing on
the central image
(20'
x 24/) of the
Columbine mural,
before installation.
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