Opening reception set for latest exhibits at Gadsden Museum of Art

There will be an opening reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Oct. 7, First Friday in downtown Gadsden, for two new exhibits at the Gadsden Museum of Art.

Pamela Venz’s “Portraits of Space, Narratives of Place,” will be in the Leo Reynolds Gallery on the museum’s first floor, according to a news release from the GMA. “Archetypes and Eternal Stories,” by Shaun Roberts, will be on the second-floor Barbara Reed Gallery.

Venz is a native of Birmingham and is an art professor at Birmingham-Southern College. Her exhibit is described as a “soft look into (her) personal life through photography.”

Venz in her artist’s statement said, “The photographs contained within this exhibition represent a decade of intentional exploration of the spaces and places that I inhabit. Some are the places that I call home, and some are the places where I have traveled and inhabited for a limited amount of time.

“All are the result of my fascination with the ability of the camera to isolate and reveal unintentional narratives and still-lifes," she said. “I do not alter the scenes that I photograph or rely on Photoshop tricks for their ambiguous nature.”

Roberts, a native of Lufkin, Texas, is an associate professor of art and painting coordinator at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

According to the release, he uses a classical style with modern imagery to create narrative paintings that are universally identifiable to viewers.

“I work in a mythological landscape and develop archetypal images to create a cathartic moment between the viewer and subject whether it be love, death or an eternal sunset,” Roberts said in his artist’s statement.

Light refreshments will be served during the reception.

The exhibits will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Also on display through October are “Finding a Way Home” by Cynthia Wagner and “The Angry Black Women/ A Black Hole in a White Space” by Phoebe Burns; both are Huntsville-based mixed media artists.

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This article originally appeared on The Gadsden Times: Two new exhibits on tap at Gadsden Museum of Art