Featured Art Exhibits
Exposure Unlimited
Dooley Foyer
In the winter of 1986 John Nichols Jr. approached Fredericksburg area artists to seek members for an exhibition group. Originally formed as “Art Shop”, the group’s first venture began that summer as a co-op in the middle gallery of the Silversmith House/FCCA. By August of that year the group transitioned into its present form. No longer a co-op; the name “Exposure Unlimited” was adopted by the group. Early exhibits occurred at local community colleges and at a Fredericksburg Fine Arts Festival exhibit which was held in the DuPont Galleries during December 1986 and January 1987 at what is now the University of Mary Washington. In the spring of 1988, the group returned to the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (FCCA) with an exhibit titled “Risk Takers”. Exposure Unlimited would return to FCCA for their 20th, 25th, 30th anniversary exhibits and in October of 2021 the current membership celebrated 35 years of exhibitions and camaraderie with their 35th anniversary exhibit at FCCA. Over the years membership in the group has changed, but three of those founding members who continue with the group today are Cathy Herndon, John Nichols Jr. and Bob Worthy. Other current members include local artists Jimmy Butler, Elizabeth Carter, Tarver Harris, Joan Limbrick, and Alice Stone-Brooks.
Corinne Jones
Gellman Room
I am Corinne Jones, a self-taught artist based in Richmond, Virginia.
This exhibit emerges from an ongoing journey through trauma, healing, and rediscovering myself. As a survivor of domestic abuse, I see the world through a different lens than I once did and understand how easy it is to lose yourself in cycles of chaos. I use photography and intentional processing as meditation to create stillness within myself and the viewer. My compositions follow imbalance and negative space, mirroring how life fractures and reframes perception. I am inspired by the compass of light and dark, the calm and chaos of nature, the depths of human feeling-and lastly of the human spirit and its quiet resilience.
This exhibit emerges from an ongoing journey through trauma, healing, and rediscovering myself. As a survivor of domestic abuse, I see the world through a different lens than I once did and understand how easy it is to lose yourself in cycles of chaos. I use photography and intentional processing as meditation to create stillness within myself and the viewer. My compositions follow imbalance and negative space, mirroring how life fractures and reframes perception. I am inspired by the compass of light and dark, the calm and chaos of nature, the depths of human feeling-and lastly of the human spirit and its quiet resilience.
Darryl Worrell
Gellman Room
In these 7 paintings you will find no images of Comfort. They are reminders Reminders of the Brutality of the human condition. To accept treachery as a true danger, to see malice. THE RESPONSE of man intent with a piece of glass. You must accept the emotions of the Colors to see The image you have been told is unfamiliar.
Michael Young
Second Floor
“Portraits that have bold pops of color in an otherwise monochromatic setting, my paintings signify the apathy of youth. The figures in my paintings embody the conflict between how we feel deeply versus how we act as if we don’t feel a thing. This façade is often glamorized as being “too cool to care”. This “cool” that is carefree and seductive, is desperately sought after. It has become the new face of beauty in+ our time, the stoic and/or femme fatale trope. Focusing on beauty that has been given a hard edge, self-centered with a notion of effortlessness, my work comments on the attitude of this generation. A delicate application of sleek oil paint represents the high gloss filter craved by youth culture. My art embodies the rebellion, beauty, and mystery of urban youth.”
