Washington Post "Reception of the Month"

Check it out... Julia Beizer, Producer of the City Guide for the Post, calls our upcoming reception the "Reception of the month!" She writes in her monthly column:

Reception of the Month

I usually choose an opening reception with a great DJ or some other perk to fill this space, but this month, it's the quality of the art that hooked me. From 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, Long View Gallery celebrates the opening of a show of work by Jessie Mann and Mary Chiaramonte, two of the region's most talented female artists.

With her heavily textured paintings, Chiaramonte taps into a feeling of almost suicidal despair that resonates throughout the room. Drawings and cut-out works by the West Virginia-based artist will also be on view. Jessie Mann's eerie performance photographs made for a great show at Adamson last year. The photographs are absent at Long View, but the artist's Pollock-esque drip paintings will surely prove to be a more than able replacement.

You can read the rest of her Going Out Gurus suggestions here.

New Exhibition at Long View Gallery

February 8 -March 15
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 5-8pm

Jessie Mann is both a photographer and painter, daughter of photographer Sally Mann, whose projects she assisted and taught her a great deal about art and its role in life. Jessie’s paintings are influenced by her studies in psychology. She calls them, “little proofs, of both the manifold action of perception and the will of consciousness.”

Mary Chiaramonte grew up in rural West Virginia where she spent most of her childhood drawing, painting, and cultivating the imagination. With a slight obsession for “the human story”, she has developed an interest in documenting personal issues and intimate moments.