Opening Art Reception with Artists Pia Fries and Radcliffe Bailey:

Date: September 14, 2017
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech
Description: The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents an Opening Art Reception with Artists Pia Fries and Radcliffe Bailey on Thursday, September 14, 2017 in the Grand Lobby and all art galleries.

Pia Fries (Swiss; based in Dusseldorf, Germany) is internationally acclaimed as an undaunted and intrepid painter, whose exuberant paintings integrate silkscreened facsimiles of 17th-century Baroque and Mannerist prints and the gestural rigor and emotional depth of Abstract Expressionism with a contemporary sensibility.

Painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist Radcliffe Bailey (American, based in Atlanta, Georgia) layers found objects, materials, and potent imagery to explore connections between past and present, personal experience and collective memory. In this installation, Bailey references historical and ancestral communities and migrations, including enslaved African peoples escaping Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp, while examining concepts of identity race, culture, and the mnemonic power of objects.

The exhibit will be on display from Thursday, September 14, 2017 through Saturday, December 9, 2017.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

For more information, visit: http://artscenter.vt.edu/ or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt