1708 Gallery

Jill Zevenbergen: “My work reflects everyday, banal experience while simultaneously creating a new natural, reality. Photographs taken during road trips or walks capture usually unnoticed moments. The landscape is pared down to its essential forms and flattened to create geometric shapes and patterns The photographic images combined with the geometric residue, give both an intellectual and emotional analysis of the American landscape. These interventions create a surprise that forces a reprocessing of the information and help make sense of created and inhabited spaces.

Jill Zevenbergen is an MFA candidate at VCU’s Department of Painting and Printmaking. She was nominated by her department to participate in the Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum at 1708 Gallery.

SEE THE REVIEW IN BRICK MAGAZINE BY BIRD COX!!!

EXHIBITION DATES: January 9 – February 14, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION TO THE PUBLIC: January 9, 2009, 7-10 pm

1708 Gallery starts the New Year with an exhibition of paintings and prints by Christopher Quirk and Nichole Maury.

Christopher Quirk’s paintings are about the viewer’s experience. “Discordant components and qualities in each painting pose questions for the viewer, suspending resolution, and provide a
space for the viewer’s own meditations. The idea is to give, not tell, and for the painting to provide an experience that unfolds over time.”

Christopher Quirk lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His paintings have been exhibited since 1990, in galleries both in the United States and abroad. He holds an M.F.A. in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in Rome and Philadelphia, and an M.A. in Liberal Education from the Graduate Institute of St. John’s College in Santa Fe. http://christopherquirk.net/index.html

Nichole Maury explores the now fine line between printmaking and drawing. She uses her own printed imagery as well as found printed materials in her work. She creates a new truth by
juxtaposing printed and drawn marks in order to serve her own need to establish order. “The result is a network of self-imposed, visual systems that live in fear of chaos, but are nonetheless
infiltrated by the attraction to disorder.”

Nichole Maury lives and works in Kalamazoo, MI where she is an Assistant Professor of Art and Coordinator of the Printmaking Area at Western Michigan University. She received her M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. http://www.nicholemaury.com/

Refreshments at the Opening provided by Chipotle.

Nichole Maury

Christopher Quirk

Call 804.643.1708 for more information ….

Rob Tarbell

Horse Halt

Starting Bid: $350

Cindy Neuschwander

Tethered Emotions

Starting Bid: $500

David Freed

My Friend Jerry Here and There

Starting Bid: $200

Curtis Gutierrez

41 Days

Starting Bid: $125

Fiona Ross

Static Equilibrium

Starting Bid: $655

Art Box

Available by Raffle ($10 per ticket)

Art Box

Available by Raffle ($10 per ticket)

Art Box

Available by Raffle ($10 per ticket)

See more images of artworks HERE!



… and more of the ART BOX work HERE!



Come this Friday, December 19th to 1708 Gallery to bid on the art work by some of the area’s most prominent artists. Doors open at 7:00pm; Silent Auction Closes at 9:30pm. Dance Party to follow.

Food generously provided by Comfort, Mezzanine, and Savor – Cash Bar – Music provided by DJ’s for Lovers.

Not So Silent Night: Holiday in a Box

Silent Auction Exhibition and Gala Event!

New work by the region’s most prominent artists.

Make your holiday creative and unique …

A benefit for 1708 Gallery.





Exhibition Opening: Friday, December 5, 7-10pm

Silent Auction Gala and Holiday Dance Party: Friday, December 19, 7pm

More than 100 small art works by the region’s most prominent artists are available through silent auction. Bidding starts this Friday, December 5th and ends with the Holiday Gala and Dance Party on December 19th. A great opportunity to purchase unique and creative gifts while supporting the artistic community including 1708 Gallery. Only $10 to bid on your favorite piece of art.

There is more! Be the lucky recipient of one of six limited-edition Art Boxes, created by distinguished contemporary artists including Robert Walz, Tom Chenoweth, Carole Garmon, Cindy Neuschwander, Rob Tarbell, and Paul Teeples. Just purchase one (or more) $10 raffle ticket before December 19th when the recipients will be announced during the Gala event. Raffle tickets are available at 1708 Gallery, Chop Suey Books, Dransfield Jewelers, and Main Art Supply.

Here is a glimpse of some of the art …. just before it went on the walls … or the pedestals …

A new addition to our holiday exhibition and gala event …. ART BOX … a show within the show … The amazing Art Box artists are Robert Walz, Tom Chenoweth, Carole Garmon, Cindy Neuschwander, Rob Tarbell, and Paul Teeples – but which artist made which box? (Only those that come to the Gala Event on the 19th will know!!!) These one-of-a-kind art pieces are offered to our community through raffles which are on sale now at 1708 Gallery, Main Art and Frame, Dransfield Jewelers, and Chop Suey Books. They are $10 each, $50 for 6, and $100 for 13 (the lucky number!) …

FEED is a national juried biennial exhibition organized by 1708 Gallery. Open to professional artists and graduate students, there are two tiers to the jurying process: the submissions, due January 30, 2009, will be narrowed down to semi-finalists, out of those five finalists will be selected for an exhibition in June 2009. Each of the five finalists will have an opportunity to exhibit multiple works and will receive a $1000 honorarium each.

Go here to find out more: www.1708feed.org