New Work by Laura Edwards Wooten

Visit her online gallery at: www.orzokitchen.com

Opening reception, Thursday, September 9th at 6:30pm

Exhibit dates: September 9 - October 31, 2010

In this exhibit curated by Pam Black & Theo vanGroll of the UVA School of Architecture, Charlottesville artist Laura Edwards Wooten, explores an intimate interior world through landscapes both invented and observed, in oil, acrylic and mixed media collage.

Her Momentum Series, presents a personal narrative as told through an iconography of invented landscape elements. Mountains, oceans and clouds conspire with small boats, winding paths and garden gates to act out the story of creative struggle.

Her Apollo Road Series, explores a landscape of creative sanctuary. Generated from both memory and observation, shifting perspectives of broad vistas, bird’s eye maps, and diminutive vignettes are utilized to recreate the spirit of place as experienced by the artist. These overlapping bodies of work reveal different parts of the same journey, navigating between solitude and community, surrender and ambition, safety and risk: a meditation on the struggle to maintain creative momentum, and the joy that unexpectedly reveals itself along the way.