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Cold Wax

10/29/2017
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​The luscious texture in many of Paul Germain's works is due to a cold-wax process which can be built up and worked and reworked, polished, and, scribed into.

Different than encaustic, which uses hot wax, this process is to use a beeswax-resin-mineral spirits medium (Germain uses one made by a British company called Doralnds). It is soft enough to mix with oil pigments immediately. The damar varnish helps it dry hard. Germain mainly uses it on those pieces where a matte, dull finish is desired and it is usually varnished with a matte damar varnish (rather than a gloss varnish).

See the depth of Paul Germain's surfaces in person at Art Works through November 19th, 2017.
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A Slice of Life

10/17/2017
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New Work by Hina Naeem has arrived at Art Works this week.  Her still-life paintings give us a glimpse into a specific moment.  From colorful light reflecting off of various wine glasses and bottles, to a pair of heels and half finished cigarettes strewn about. Her scenes leave us wondering-- imagining the mysterious lives of these objects' owners. See more of her collection here.
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New Photography at Art Works

9/10/2017
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New this week is Jon Jelling at Art Works.   His photography is for sale at Art Works and can be ordered online.  Here is a sample of one of his masterpieces.  PhotographyClick here to see more. 
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Ten Days and counting

8/10/2017
Only ten days left of the Maximo Laura exhibit at Art Works.   These tapestries were created especially for this exhibit.   Maximo Laura has shown his work at the gallery twice before but it's been six years since we'd seen his work in person.  When we opened the boxes to unpack the work,  we were astonished.  We didn't think Laura's work could improve, be brighter, be more moving than what we'd seen before but they were!  

Look for the love, the hope, the trials overcome in these tapestries.  They won't just adorn your space.   They will pull you into the creator's realm of imagination.

The tapestries leave us on 8/21.    Take one home with you!
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Collecting Art

7/30/2017

I've been thinking about the Maximo Laura exhibit at Art Works which will be with us 21 more days.  These tapestries are collector items,  numbered editions, one of a kind even.  They take months to make.  So as a collector's item, what does that mean?

Most of us buy art.   We don't collect art.   Sure we may have a great deal of artwork, so much that we have no place to hang it all.  But is it a collection?  

Typically people buy what they like and don't pay much attention to its ongoing worth,  how it fits together and another important aspect of an art collection--its legacy.  

Now that's interesting.  How many of you baby boomers have saved and cared for your grandparents antiques all these years and are ready to pass them on to your generation-x and millennials only to find out they don't want them?    Would it be that way with an art collection?    Maybe.   But there are others who will appreciate the legacy besides your heirs.  

Legacy, meaning: a gift.   First your art collection is a gift to yourself.  Then it will endure,  a gift to others.

My favorite in the Maximo Laura collection at Art Works?  Here it is:  Hugging the Beloved.   I hope you come in to see it, purchase it or your favorite and add it to your collection or start your collection, today .

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Maximo Laura brings Peru to Richmond, Virginia

7/21/2017
Richmond, Virginia,  of all places to find a collection of Perurian, Inca inspired tapestires.   But here they are!   Fifteen to pick from.  All are hand-made,  woven on a loom in Maximo Laura's workshop.  

These are collector items,  uniquely different and limited editions.

Visit Art Works Gallery and make one of them your own.   Or buy online and we will ship to you. 
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Maximo Laura - Weaving a Tapestry

7/17/2017
From the words of Maximo Laura:  
Tapestry-making requires a progressive, slow and irreversible system of work that allows for the miniscule, patient and intimate meeting of technical and visual solutions, leading to the opening of an infinite repertoire of possibility, subjected to the communicative intentionality of the work.

​In my case, I look for a language that emanates spirituality, aesthetic beauty and lyricism. I try to submit myself to the limitations of the materials and to the requirements of the act of creation, under the light of an obsessive taste that will, in the end, reflect a cultural and textile connotation that is typically Peruvian.
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Collection of tapestries at Art Works Gallery on sale through August 20, 2017.   Call for an appointment (804.291.1400) or come Tuesday-Sunday 12 pm -6 pm to see the exhibit.  

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CELEBRACION DE LA COSECHA II (Celebration of the Harvest) by Maximo Laura

7/6/2017
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In Celebration of the Harvest II, you'll notice geometric patterns.--specifically the squares and rectangles.  These checkered patterns in a Maximo Larua tapestry represent a natural landscape, the crop fields.  Notice the plants at the bottom of the tapestry.  

This tapestry is $4,500.   It measures 
47.24" x 47.24".   It is currently on display at Art Works and can be purchased in the gallery or online.   

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Tapestry by Maximo Laura CONCILIACION (Conciliation)

7/5/2017
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This tapestry is on display (and for sale) at Art Works in Richmond, Virginia.  Maximo Laura,  from Peru is interested in the natural world. Birds often are woven into the stories and artwork and take center place in Conciliation.    

Notice the background. Circles in the Andean cosmology refer to cycles--cycles of time, transformation--recurring events.  


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