Visible Records Member Group Show

Direct sow

December 20th-January 25th, 2025

about the Artists:

1. /Maria Villanueva is a multimedia artist whose studio art practice explores the dynamic interactions between human and natural systems that evolve within urban and natural landscapes. The media varies from technology, drawing and painting, photography, video, to site-specific sculpture installations. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio in 2009, and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas in 2021.

Rocks II
Oil on canvas
30" x 30" x 5"
2023

Red Rocks II
Oil on canvas
30" x 30" x 5"
2023

2. /Peter Russell received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia in Art X: Expanded Forms, a Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Virginia, and is currently practicing landscape architecture in Charlottesville, Va. His practice is rooted in inquiry, exploring the entanglement of perception, landscape, and climate. It is defined by three framing questions:

- How does the sociocultural lens through which we view landscapes shape our experience of place?

- How does climate interact with the landscape to affect changes in perception or experience?

- What does it mean to “view” the landscape, and how can we understand landscape as a visual medium with the power to inform/shape experience?

Horizon Color Study No. 1

Charcoal and Watercolor on paper

33"x48"

3. /Morgan Ashcom (he/him) is an artist, as well as Founder and Director of Visible Records. Ashcom’s work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Ashcom has been an artist in residence at Light Work and has taught at Western Connecticut State University, Ithaca College, University of Hartford, Cornell University and the University of Virginia. Ashcom leads the Exhibitions Committee for Visible Records.

Untitled

Photographs, blue print.

2024

4. /Jackson Taylor is currently the Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at the University of Virginia, Jackson was born and raised in rural Kentucky on an intergenerational cattle and tobacco farm. He holds a BFA in 2D Studio Art from the University of Louisville and received his MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of Iowa in 2021. He has exhibited work internationally, conducted printmaking workshops across the country. His most recent work offers a record of warped pastoral landscapes, snapshots of decay, and precarious situations that examine the still-dissolving rose-colored vignette that shrouded/shrouds the American South. Layering together sequences of disjunctive photographic references, the work surveys instances of nefarious nature, where religious extremism and exasperated cultures highlight the fragility and degradation of man.

Winning Chair

Lithograph on Paper

20x27” 2024

5. /Rebecca Belt: (she/her)is the founder and mindful warrior behind Random Acts of T Shirts. She has created a t-shirt company to empower and engage random acts of kindness, human rights, and adventure. You can find her on Instagram @randomactsoftshirts.

I am the Art

silk screen on cotton

2024

We are all human. A human being is the art. A human being should be treated as such with equality, humanity, grace, and dignity. We are all created equally.

6. /Kweisi Morris rediscovered his art practice 5,000 miles away on a sojourn to West Africa. On those distant shores, he found his muse, his artist name, and a renewed inspiration to create. Like a good gumbo, his work is a fusion of cultural memory and a spicy mix of contemporary social commentary. The American Scream is the sound of resistance countering the mythology of the American Dream. Ceaseless for over 400 years, if you tune your ears to the voice of the people and lean in close, you can hear it too.

The American Scream

Cut paper and block printing on illustration board.

22” x 32”

7. /Anna Hogg’s practice indulges in the impossible and the unknowable, exploring these fields as productive sites for play and wild flights of imagination. Allowing truth to be unstable and knowledge to be indeterminate, my work “stays with the trouble” of the impossible and the unknowable, whether investigating nonhuman and more-than-human perspectives, questioning futurity and failure in the context of climate crisis, or addressing different technologies' role in knowledge production. Storytelling itself becomes the framework for analysis and critical engagement, often using the framework of Ursula K. LeGuin’s carrier bag theory of fiction as a point of departure.

skyline drive, or after Triple F

(film) 30 sec loop

(plexi), 62.5x31 in

16mm film, Eiki projector, cinderlocks, passenger side mirror, rear view mirror, Little Tree air freshener, rear windshield wiper, plexiglass, ink, windex

8. /Elena Yu (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice weaves together many mediums and intentions including textiles, performance, drawing, sculpture, archival research and community practice. In both her artist and organizing practices, Elena’s emphasis is on developing public programs and exhibitions that consider and care for all aspects of a community ecosystem, bringing together local residents, artists, partnering organizations and sites around contemporary art and issues. Elena has exhibited, performed, facilitated workshops and attended artist residences throughout the United States. In 2022, she co-founded The Firehouse (@thefirehousejt) and Sun Spot (@sun___spot), two artist-run spaces in Joshua Tree, CA. From 2016-2022, she worked at High Desert Test Sites and A-Z West, eventually as Assistant Director of Programming. Elena is currently an Arts Equity Commons Campus Artist-in-Residence at University of California Santa Barbara, studio member at Visible Records, and the Ruffin Gallery and Visiting Artist Coordinator at UVA’s Department of Art. She received a BA in Art from UCLA in 2016.

Office Staff of Life

Dust jackets, administrative ephemera, postcard, rubber stamps and rubber band recovered from UCSB Ethnic and Gender Studies Library, office supplies and desk,

printed chiffon,

42” x 30.5” x 34”

2024

9./Anik Sparman (they/them, b. 1991) makes landscapes and images of landscapes. The prints in this show represent places familiar to the artist translated through structure-from-motion (photogrammetry) techniques that combine multiple photographs into three-dimensional models. These models are then shaded, filtered, cropped, and composed in the digital space before printing. Anik’s image making practice is an outgrowth of their work as a landscape architect and gardener.

Sketches for an atlas of Hickory Hollow

8.5x11

2024

10./Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American multidisciplinary artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Vietnam and moved to the US as a teenager, Nguyễn’s experiences and perspective as an immigrant inform and enrich her work. She sews threadbare, abstract structures and forms. To Nguyễn, abstraction is a tool to process and articulate - a formal construct upon which she restructures her stories. It is an act of obscuring the painful details, distilling the most beautiful aspects, and transforming them into tangible objects. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2022 and her BA from the University of Virginia in 2015.

Held

cotton threads and reclaimed battings

2024

11./bryan ortiz (he/him/they/them) is an artist with roots in Southern California and Central/Southern Mexico. ortiz has taught at The Ohio State University and Colorado College. He has helped to curate exhibitions, facilitate workshops, and produce public facing events and dinners. bryan is a member of the transborder artist collective, Colectivo Rasquache, and co-founder of the Columbus, OH based performance group, Taco Reparations Brigade. He is the former Assistant-Director of Visible Records.

This work looks at the moment when a referee intervenes and calls a stop to a boxing match. When a stoppage is called, the referee acknowledges that a fighter has taken too much abuse or can no longer adequately protect themselves. The referee will then place their body between the boxers, often wrapping their arms around the beaten fighter, in an effort to prevent further harm. These drawings reflect on this moment –a shared embrace between a defeated fighter and the referee– a space that feels intimate and caring but also heavy in context with the violence, spectacle, and competition involved in boxing.

Untitled

Graphite on Canvas

47 x 187 inches 2024

*Inquire for pricing

12./Natasha Woods (she/they) is an artist, filmmaker, programmer, and the assistant director of Visible Records. She has programmed a range of events and screenings at DIY and artist-forward spaces across the midwest. Her approach to filmmaking is somatic, one of deep listening and often an invitation to look closer and to move slowly. By centering the first-person and process based approaches, the camera becomes an extension and tool for her observation and inquiries for world making and questions of belonging. Her work has been screened in backyards and at various moving image festivals including Film Diary NYC, ImagesFestival, Dream Clinic, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and with the nomadic No Evil Eye Cinema.

Gut Check Assemblage (3)

(Excerpts of a diary film) Shot in Recife, Brazil.

Super 8 stills>rice paper, glue, ink, found wood

various dimensions, 2024.

13. /Will May is a multimedia artist working with photography, drawing, and video. He is primarily interested in how images are interpreted, changed, and carried in the imagination. He lives and works in Charlottesville VA.

Images from the ongoing series Unknown Chapel

1. Black Madonna Number One

2. Miraculous Milk and Cookie

3. Just One Moment

4. Byzantine Snack

5. A Miracle of Suction

6. Revelation from the Pit

7. Evening Repairs

8. Stained Glass Figure with Vigilant Cat

9. Trinity with Mustard

10. Lion Faced Powers Held at Bay with Karate

“I made the Unknown Chapel pictures using the Adobe Firefly machine learning model. Using short phrases to generate images, I change words and select results until an idea is illustrated. The phrase “Surprised medieval Jesus with cat, stained glass” yields distortions and odd details but also conventional themes that mimic normality. If images aren’t saved while working, they aren’t replicated by reusing the same prompt, making the game endless.

The results are all machine generated visual representations based on language, presented as pictorial narrative. I’ve chosen the visual languages of traditional media (tapestry, fresco, stained glass) and commercial advertising photography, all populated with a well known religious figure. The piece is crowned by a Mary Magdalene whose importance was downplayed, distorted, or erased by early church historians, and more recently revived by scholars like Elizabeth Schrader Polczer.”

14. /Jeremy Jean-Jacques (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and the programs manager of Visible Records. He strives to challenge the art world with art that is reflective of the human experience and the expansion of the soul. He has organized community art shows and has played at popular venues and DIY spaces across the east coast and the south. He is currently finishing a full-length graphic novel and is writing his fourth music album.

“This piece depicts a male northern mockingbird and a female cardinal with a passage I crafted and modified inspired by words from Malkia Cyril. The birds were chosen by being the state birds of my partner and I's home states.”

Kindred

2024

6.5x9.5

*$100

15./Sean Lopez is a director of intermedia performances, videos, and installations who currently teaches in the College of Visual & Performing Arts at George Mason University. His artwork explores the thin line between the subconscious and waking life through intermedial theatre and expanded cinema events. Lopez's practice encompasses writing plays, drawing on movie screens, composing soundscapes, designing studio stages, performing characters, utilizing computer software, recording and mapping video footage, and creating installations.

Chapter 3: Bad-Good Kid Messages Above from the Below

Video installation

2024