Daily Press - At A Glance (Mark Erickson)

Watercolors document vanishing South

Mark St. John Erickson — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:26:00 GMT

Charleston artist Mary Whyte wasn't thinking much about the direction of her work when she began painting a well-to-do South Carolina banker in 2007.

Watercolor artists strut their stuff

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Like many of their fruity brethren, pears and strawberries have provided the subject for innumerable watercolor still lifes in the past — yet most of these earnest efforts have produced middling if not worse results at best.

Art teachers shine in juried exhibit

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Hampton painter Christi Harris is nothing if not an artist who knows how to get the most out of unpromising subject matter.

Art teachers shine in juried exhibit

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Hampton painter Christi Harris is nothing if not an artist who knows how to get the most out of unpromising subject matter.

X-Ray art bewilders and beguiles

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:12:00 GMT

Thomas B. Kinraide was an electrical engineer first and only secondly an artist.

X-Ray art bewilders and beguiles

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:12:00 GMT

Thomas B. Kinraide was an electrical engineer first and only secondly an artist.

Keyboards enriched colonial lifestyle

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Even before they opened Colonial Williamsburg's first exhibition buildings, the pioneering stewards of the Historic Area recognized the importance of music in recreating the look, sound and feel of 18 t h -century life in an Anglo-American setting.

Keyboards enriched colonial lifestyle

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Miniature art explores big world of small works

Mark St. John Erickson — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:37:53 GMT

Virtually any way you want to slice it up, a painting, drawing or photograph that measures no more than 20 square inches in size is unusually small.

Newport News arts center features workplace posters

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

When Frenchman Jules Cheret perfected the printing process that produced the first modern full-color poster in the late 1800s, he quickly combined with such talents as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to turn the streets of Paris into an art museum.

Newport News arts center features workplace posters

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

'Tramp art' grew from available supply of materials

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Few things say more about the potential of home-grown artistic talent than the eye-popping procession of richly carved and layered "tramp art" that cropped up in America between the Civil War and the Great Depression.

'Tramp art' grew from available supply of materials

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Chrysler showcases treasures at Willoughby-Baylor House

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Inside the late-1700s rooms of Norfolk's historic Willoughby-Baylor House, curator Alex Mann of the Chrysler Museum of Art is carrying out an experiment in perception that's well worth seeing.

Chrysler showcases treasures at Willoughby-Baylor House

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Inside the late-1700s rooms of Norfolk's historic Willoughby-Baylor House, curator Alex Mann of the Chrysler Museum of Art is carrying out an experiment in perception that's well worth seeing.

Best 2012 art shows: Hampton Roads had some stunners

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:46:00 GMT

Five is far too small a number to encompass all the visual arts shows that stood out from the crowd in what was a remarkably good year in Hampton Roads and Southeast Virginia.

Best 2012 art shows: Hampton Roads had some stunners

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:46:00 GMT

Five is far too small a number to encompass all the visual arts shows that stood out from the crowd in what was a remarkably good year in Hampton Roads and Southeast Virginia.

Peninsula Glass Guild mounts annual show in Hampton

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Few people imagined where it all might lead when the newly organized Peninsula Glass Guild staged its first juried exhibition at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in Hampton 25 years ago.

Peninsula Glass Guild mounts annual show in Hampton

Mark St. John Erickson — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Few people imagined where it all might lead when the newly organized Peninsula Glass Guild staged its first juried exhibition at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in Hampton 25 years ago.

New exhibit casts Tiffany in fresh light

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Before the Chrysler Museum of Art broke ground on a $24 million expansion and renovation project this summer, it packed up one of the nation's broadest and most select collections of work by Art Nouveau genius Louis Comfort Tiffany.

New exhibit casts Tiffany in fresh light

Mark St. John Erickson — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Self-taught artists chase inner visions

Mark St. John Erickson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:30:41 GMT

What drives a person to pick up a chain saw, welder or tin snips and wield them as an artist might instead of for a utilitarian purpose?

Warhol portraits still look new

Mark St. John Erickson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:30:41 GMT

Twenty-five years after his untimely death in early 1987, Pop Art pioneer Andy Warhol is still best known for the subversive, strangely deadpan way in which his paintings and prints make you think twice about the most familiar icons of American consumer culture.

Virginia landscape shines in Hampton exhibit

Mark St. John Erickson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:30:40 GMT

Landscape painting has such wide and seemingly natural appeal today that it's hard to imagine a time when it didn't.

Ancient Greeks remade human figure

Mark St. John Erickson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:30:40 GMT

More than 2,600 years after Athenian artists started one of the most influential revolutions in the history of art, few people recognize that there was ever such a consequential war of taste — or that so much of what distinguishes Western art today reflects the triumph of the victors.