INLIGHT 2015

On November 13th & 14th, 2015, 1708 Gallery's 8th annual InLight Richmond illuminated the grounds of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts including the E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden. For the first time, InLight Richmond was held for two nights allowing for more light-based artwork and audience engagement. The exhibition featured special curated projects as well as juried works selected by Alex Baker, Director at Philadelphia's Fleisher/Ollman Gallery.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Allison Berkoy
Erika Diamond
Laure Drogoul
Justin Ginsberg
Elizabeth Hamilton
Tim Harper and Matt Lively 
Brooke Inman
Matthew Jensen
Benjamin Jones
Robert Lisek
VisuaLabs
Will May
Kevin Cwalina
Jonah Tobias
Eva Rocha
Joshua Thorud
Anthony Earl Smith
Robert Walz
Rhonda Weppler
Trevor Mahovsky
Alice Pixley

Special Projects

Jacob Stanley
Derek Larson
Jacco Olivier 
Mark Strandquist
Ander Mikalson and John Dombrowski
Zach Kurth-Nelson
Bohyun Yoon

2015 AWARD WINNERS BEST IN SHOW
Alice Pixley Young | Lightgeist

selected by Juror Alex Baker, Director at Philadelphia's Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
Alice Pixley Young studied at Ringling College of Art and Design and the New York Studio Residency Program, and received an  MFA from the University of Maryland and an MA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been exhibited at Bullseye Projects in Portland, Oregon, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the 21c Museum in Cincinnati and Louisville, and the Currents International New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

In Young’s work, ideas of nature, place and memory are experienced through the layering of media and visual information. Lightgeist addresses the idea of systems, cycles and the change of light within the season. Through a small cityscape “set” and a projected video of flocking birds, she explores the way memory effects the construction of both our psychic and physical environments. Video projection marks autumn moving into winter, overcast days and crepuscular hours- dimming late afternoons and evenings and murky dawns.

www.alicepixleyyoung.com

NEW MARKET PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Eva Rocha | Object-Orientalis

selected by the InLight audience
In Object-Orientalis, Rocha explores the correlation between the de-humanized commercial relationship we have developed with the contemporary art object and the ways we have allowed ourselves to objectify other humans. Rocha is interested in how object-oriented views relate to other social issues, particularly the objectification of women and its implications for human trafficking.

Eva Rocha, a multimedia artist from Brazil, is a graduate student in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She brings together her studies and her early experiences as an actress in avant-garde theater in Sao Paulo to create her current work, which utilizes video performance and mapping projection to explore the relationship between objects and cultural perspectives. She was awarded the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts in 2015. Her work is in prominent private and public collections in the US and Brazil.

www.evarocha.com