On View: March 30 – April 28, 2024

Reception: April 13, 6 pm – 8 pm.

At The Workhouse Arts Center: McGuireWoods, W-16 2nd Floor

Beyond is a exhibition collaboration featuring artwork submissions from first and second year art students at both, Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University.

This year’s exhibition was hosted by The Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA. and takes place in the second floor, McGuireWoods Gallery.

Sarah Berry, the Exhibitions Manager and Rachel Kizielewicz, Interim President and CEO of the Workhouse Arts Center, welcomed everyone to this year’s reception.

The exhibition showcases art that considers play, experimentation, freedom from boundaries, initiates new narratives and transforms artistic experience.

The exhibition was organized by George Mason’s 2-D and 3-D Foundations Faculty Rachel Dubuque and NOVA Alexandria’s 3-D Professor Jessica Gardner.

Our combined exhibition would not be complete without hearing from Rick Davis, Dean of George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and Jay Steere, Dean of the Liberals Arts at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community.  They both spoke of the robust character of our fine arts programs and the extraordinary artwork and creative ability of all our students.

Beyond was juried by Joesph Orzal, creative director of NoMüNoMü.  The NoMüNoMü website, explains that Orzal, “is a Filipino-Mexican American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer active in DC, Atlanta, New York, and Toronto. His Works, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting usually explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.”

As juror, Joseph picked the final art and determined the winning selections for the awards ceremony which took place the the reception on April 13th.

Everyone was very excited to be able to come to stage and say a few words about their winning artwork.

 

And the winners are:

• First Place: Alexandra Benson, A Tapestry of Plastic Waste (Mason)

• Second Place: River Temple, Kadın Düşmanlığı (Mason)

• Third Place: Noah Covington, Biblical Angel Rendition (NOVA)

• Fetun Getachew, Market Color (NOVA)

Director’s Award for Best in Show *Sponsored by Zoë Charlton, George Mason University’s School of Art, Director 

•  Gabriela Guitierrez Aramay, Closing Spaces (Mason)

Music was provided by the NOVA Alexandria Jazz Combo Band featuring Oliver Coudert on guitar, Jamie Jackson on bass, and Kurt Steinbacher on drums. The Music was wonderful and everyone had a phenomenal time!