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Opening Reception for Spring Exhibitions
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents Opening Reception for their Spring Exhibitions on Thursday, January 23, 2025 in the Grand Lobby.

The Moss Arts Center’s spring exhibitions feature the work of Shaunté Gates and Charisse Pearlina Weston, two artists who experiment with the tension between beauty and destruction, using fragmented compositions to showcase multiple perspectives and narratives.

Both artists will be in attendance for the opening reception of their solo exhibitions: Gates’ “This Is Not a Test” and Weston’s “I saw the room but darkly dreamed it...”.

Gates’ solo exhibition features a survey of mixed-media paintings and densely layered works combining photography, painting, collage, and found materials to create surreal, dreamlike compositions that merge portraiture, landscape, and architecture.

Weston’s solo exhibition engages with themes of surveillance and tactics of Black refusal by transforming materials associated with observation and control through repetition and reuse. It features new glass, lead, and concrete sculptures and works on canvas that challenge fixed narratives and systems of control. The core of this disruption lies in the manipulation of a reflective and transparent glass, essentially a one-way mirror, that is often used for monitoring. Weston's alteration of the glass’ reflective surface through kiln-firing and folding disrupts its surveillant function, rendering the surface opaque, cracking the reflective skin, and obscuring her etched text. This material transformation symbolically subverts the mechanisms of surveillance, questioning who holds power in the act of observing and being observed.

Both exhibitions are on view through Sunday, March 30th.

The galleries and all related events are free and open to the public.

The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is located at 330 Turner Street NW in Blacksburg, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/vZm4DFJN/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/01/mac-spring-exhibitions-2025.html or https://artscenter.vt.edu/experiences/gates-weston-opening-reception.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.