Art Notes

Odes of March
l VAIA gallery
Virginia Artists In Action will feature “Japan Remembered,” oil paintings by local artist and author John Trippel.
Trippel and his family lived in Japan from 1953 to 1959 while his father served in the military. After decades of sitting in storage, photographs sparked the artist’s in-depth study of the small town in Japan where he was raised.
Tonight’s opening includes a live performance by guitarist Wendy Repass and a short film by Eric Hurt during tonight’s opening reception.
The reception will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the gallery in York Place.
For more information, call 970-ARTS.

l Siips
Sage Moon Gallery is presenting a group show at East Main St. wine bar.
The exhibition will open with a reception from 6 to 8 tonight, followed by live music beginning at 9.
Photographer Nathan Beck is showing “Images from the Southwest.” His work has been featured in the New York Times Style Magazine and on “ABC News” and “20/20.”
John Lynch, a surrealist, is opening “Time and Space,” while Yale Landsberg and John Lynch will present a cooperative show called “First Hour of the Day/Last Hour of the Night.”
There will be light refreshment and a cash bar.
For more details, call 977-9997.

l Charlottesville Community Design Center
Building Goodness Foundation will hold an opening reception from, 5:30 to 7:30 tonight to open a photo exhibit, “Through Our Volunteers’ Eyes: the Faces and Places of Building Goodness Foundation.”
For 10 years, volunteers have designed and constructed buildings in Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, the Gulf Coast and Charlottesville. This exhibit features photographs from these projects.

l Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
“Empty Nest,” a collaborative installation by Sebastijan Jemec and Jocelyn Spaar and others, will open tonight with a reception from 6 to 8 tonight.
People define spaces, and when the people leave, their memory and objects give presence. The exhibit uses photography, projection and sound. Somewhat site-specific, “Empty Nest” is constantly being redefined and refined.
For more information, visit http://www.thebridgepai.com or call 984-5669.

l Second Street Gallery
Local artist Lisa Beane is opening a two-month showing of mixed-media painting and sculpture in the main gallery called “XO.”
Beane, who received a BFA from Syracuse University, has been exhibited and collected extensively around Virginia and throughout the country.
In the Dove Gallery, six artists from Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal and South Korea will exhibit their selections of sequential art, “Impera Et Divide.”
Frederic Coche, Ae-rim Lee, Andre Lemos, Ilan Manouach, Andrei Molotiu, Fabio Zimbres are featured in an exhibit curated by Warren Craghead III and Pedro Moura. The artists used ink, pencil, collage, etching, and digital media, in their exhibit of graphic art.
A reception for both shows will run from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight. An artist’s talk is scheduled at 6:30.
For more details, call 977-7284.

l McGuffey Art Center
Diane Siebels will be showing “731 Days: Works from the Past Two Years” in the Main Gallery. In the Downstairs Hall Gallery, Russell U. Richards will be showing “The Arts and Innards of Russell U. Richards.” Also showing downstairs are still-life paintings by Jessie Coles in “Day Dream.”
Both Upstairs Galleries will house ArtinPlace’s C2D 2009. In honor of the 50th anniversary of desegregation in area schools, “Charlottesville, A Multicultural Community” will run through March 29.
There will be an opening reception for all the show from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight.
For more details, call 295-7973.

l Paramount Theater
First- through eighth-grade students from Charlottesville Waldorf School created “The Earth, Our Home,” more than 50 drawings and paintings about environmental stewardship.
An opening is scheduled from 5 to 6:45 tonight. Food will be served.
The art will remain up throughout March.

l Bozart Gallery
Carolyn McPherson, the president of Bozart, will showcase her work in “New Orleans on My Mind.”
The photographs include scenes of the day Katrina hit. There also will be some whimsical pieces, including jewelry and Christmas ornaments made of computer keyboard keys.
The opening starts at 5 tonight, and the show runs through March 29.
Twenty percent of the proceeds from the sale of any of her work will be sent to Renew Our Music, an organization dedicated to helping rebuild the New Orleans music scene.
Call 973-4321 for details.

l Art Life Studio
There will be an open house from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at the studio in the Glass Building.
The event will include an art show, “Art and Soul,” with new paintings, life-size drawings and poetic writing by eight women in Jena Leake’s expressive arts classes.
Cary Oliva paints with her hands, while other painters include Anina Macchia, Charlie Palumbo, Jane Belisle and Mi Re La. Christine Gyovai uses a large-scale body map and poetry. Michelle Nevarr paints from intuition and Casey Williams created a life-size self portrait.
The artists will talk about their work at 6:30. The work will be on display through May 1. For details, call 996-8087.

l Spring Street
“Faux Fur” by Beate Casati opens with a reception from 6 to 8 tonight. The show will remain on view through April 30.
Call 975-1200 for more information.
Matthew Affron, curator of modern art at the University of Virginia Art Museum, will give a lunchtime talk at noon Tuesday.
Affron is co-curator of the exhibition “Matisse, Picasso and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia Art Museum.” The exhibit will be at UVa through April 24.

l C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery
“Bone Sigh Arts: Finding the Real” by Terri St. Cloud opens with a reception from 6 to 9 tonight.
St. Cloud merges her watercolor paintings with verse to illustrate the moods and phases of life. She also is the author of six books of verse. For details, call 972-9500.

l Derriere de Soie
There will be an opening reception of “Painting Sexy,” works by Sharon Shapiro, from 5:30 to 8 tonight.
The shop is at 105 E. Main St.

l Fellini’s No. 9
Sarah Hasty Williams will be showing her “Mixed Water Media this month. The artist will be on hand tonight for a reception from show from 5:30 to 7 tonight.
For more details, call 979-4279.

l Angelo
J.M. Henry’s abstractions, “The Landscapes,” will be on view for two months.
There will be an opening reception for the artist from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight.
For more information, call 971-9256.
l Gallery at Fifth and Water
Meg West returns to the gallery for the fifth March in a row. Her “Second Edition of Barns and Farms” will open with a reception from 5:30 to 8 tonight.
The exhibition features paintings Highland, Orange, Madison, Albemarle and Nelson counties and Pendleton, W.Va.
Dial 979-9825 for more details.

l La Galeria
Patricia Travers will open, “Somewhere Else,” a mixed-media exhibition, with a reception from 5 to 8 tonight. Her show will remain on view through April 1.
For more details, call 293-7003.

l Sidetracks Music
There will be a reception for Marcia Renton Grove acrylics, “Vibrant Simplicity,” from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight.
Grove, who earned her BFA from Edinboro University in 1989, teaches ceramics and digital imaging at Monticello High School both. She has taught at Jack Jouett Middle School and all four elementary schools in Buckingham County.
For more details, call 295-3080.