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Opening Reception for Artist Nikki Plynn's Exhibit "Bottom Up, Top Down: Stained Glass Sculptures"
Venue: Virginia Tech Perspective Gallery (Squires Student Center), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Kat Mills
Date: Friday, June 7, 2019
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Tech Perspective Gallery, located in the Squires Student Center, presents the Opening Reception for artist Nikki Plynn's new exhibit "Bottom Up, Top Down: Stained Glass Sculptures" on Friday, June 7, 2019.

Nikki Pynn is a New River Valley based artist, who has been working to transform the traditional art form of stained glass into sculpture. She frequently integrates stained glass with found metal objects. Putting glass in the structures to create sculpture repositions traditional stained glass from the window to the middle of the room. Nikki draws on folk art for the stands, which hold glass constructions, marrying two distinctly different genres of art.

Influenced by artists and farmers who solve problems and create with what is at hand, Nikki has pulled from scrap piles at bike shops and dump areas, and has dug up pieces from abandoned farms to build the sculpture stands. Bikes are built to move. Using discarded bike wheels, Nikki invites viewers to touch and move the art, thwarting usual gallery rules.

Nikki discovered stained glass while working towards her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. She constructed stained glass panels by traditional methods from graduation in 1980 until 2012. From then, she has experimented with the fragility within the stability of sculptures.

Music will be provided by Kat Mills.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The exhibit runs from June 7 – August 9, 2019.

Gallery hours are Monday from 6:00-9:00 pm, Tuesday-Saturday from 12:00-9:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00-5:00 pm.

Perspective Gallery is located in the second floor gallery in Virginia Tech’s Squires Student Center at 290 College Avenue in Blacksburg, VA.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/VTPerspectiveGallery or https://www.facebook.com/events/320006885334168/ or https://campuslife.vt.edu/student_centers/Squires/Perspective_Gallery.html or call 540-231-6040.