Exhibitions and ongoing events

Christina Laurel is a paper artist creating installations and two-dimensional art, all with a Japanese aesthetic. Her mission is to create an “exhale” moment, an oasis that offers a respite and refuge from our daily sensory overload. Suspended lace panels support a migrating pattern of butterflies that cast shadows and respond to air movement.

Suzanne Sbarge and Holly Roberts share a similar sensibility; they both use collage, weaving textures and images into surrealistically enigmatic artworks that open subconscious doorways into the ambiguous space of the night: haunting dreams brim with narrative probability remaining stubbornly resistant to a literal interpretation.

In conjunction with the 42nd anniversary Tri-State Sculpture Conference, TCVA is proud to partner with the 2020 Conference Chair, Travis Donovan, assistant professor of sculpture, Department of Art in Appalachian State University’s College of Fine and Applied Arts to host the conference and bring the award-winning sculptor, Esperanza Cortés to campus as a keynote speaker and guest artist for an exhibition, CANTAR DE CIEGOS/SONG OF THE BLIND.

Painter Jacklyn St. Aubyn creates a magical space in which things aren’t what they appear to be. First perceptions may be misleading. She has landscapes and interiors in mind as she works, but not in the realistic sense; rather, she conjures imaginary spaces that defy logic.

Retracing Audubon: Eco-Conversations is an exhibition and book project reexamining John James Audubon’s epic life journey and the production of his beloved tome, “The Birds of America.” This exhibition features contemporary photographs made by Krista Elrick of the American landscapes in which Audubon traveled 200 years ago. Also included are quotes from Audubon’s journals and entries Elrick made in her own travel notebooks two centuries later.