art6
will display the work of the two artists through April 24.
Brevig incorporates her conservator’s knowledge of historical
painting techniques into her work. In addition to several oil
paintings, she will be displaying five works in egg tempera.
She also incorporates gold and silver leaf into her work. This
technique is rarely seen today, “mainly due to the extreme amount of
time and physical effort it takes to prepare the surface to properly
apply metal leaf,” she said.
Brevig has been exploring dolls as a subject matter for her
paintings for more than 20 years. She started painting them larger
than human-sized. “The goal was to take something that was
considered to be harmless and cute and make it into something
threatening and powerful,” she said.
She worked to create drama and psychological response by making the
dolls frightening.
The direction of her work painting dolls has changed over the years.
The paintings in the art6
show are scaled down and “they have more of a sense of humor
these days,” she said.
Lange’s black and white photographs are tinted with nostalgia. Mr.
Green’s Barber Shop “represents a passing age, but one that should
be preserved,” Lange said.
He
captures with his lens “a shop with a soundtrack of opera and a cast
of characters to beat any show on Broadway.” He uses his documentary
photographer’s training and experience to take the viewer to “a
place where you can sit for an hour, leave for a year and all has
stayed as it was.”
“Mr. Green’s is a place that stands for something more, something
that when it is lost, it will seem is the soul of this country,”
Lange said.
Brevig studied art at the College of William and Mary and earned
master’s degrees from both Virginia Commonwealth University and
Buffalo State College in Buffalo, N.Y. In addition to her artwork,
she is a conservator with Richmond Conservation Studio.
Her work has been exhibited most recently at the Peninsula Fine Arts
Center in Newport News. She also has shown her work throughout
Virginia and in Denver, Colo., and Buffalo, N.Y.
Lange will graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University this
spring with a bachelor’s degree in still photography. He also
studied at North Carolina’s Duke University and at Northeastern
University’s School of the Arts in Boston, Mass. He is the owner of
Studio 111 in Richmond.
He
most recently exhibited his work at the Penumbra Gallery and Studio
in Sylva, N.C. His work has been included in shows in Virginia and
North Carolina.
art6
hours on opening night are 7 to 10 p.m. The gallery’s
regular hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 4.
Information: www.art6.org; First Fridays:
www.firstfridayrichmond.com.
