Exhibit dates: March 6 – April 6, 2025
(9419 Battle St, Manassas, VA 20110)
Artist Reception: March 9, 2-4 pm
RSVP: https://virginiaartfactory.org/event/artist-reception-variegated/
Artists’ Demonstrations: April 6, 2-4 pm
RSVP: https://virginiaartfactory.org/event/artists-demonstrations-variegated/
Exhibit Summary
Oxford dictionary defines the adjective “var·i·e·gat·ed” as “exhibiting different colors, patches, or streaks”. “VAriegated” is a dynamic group art exhibit where each Virginia artist explores these elements in their own unique way. The collection of works visually bridges Patricia Taylor Holz’s experimental, textured mixed media pieces with the vibrantly colored abstract work of Nancy Ramsey, and the soft moving atmospheric studies of Caroline Adams into a seamless, complimentary display.
Patricia Taylor Holz is a multimedia freelance artist, designer, photographer, and Benjamin Moore home color consultant, mostly known for her murals, faux finishes, gilding, and selfie wings around Loudoun County. Taylor experiments with vast amounts of texture and mixed media, as well as reflectivity and patterns, and includes a series of heavily textured fragmented surreal canyonlands in a style of “monochromatic minimalism”. She paints on paper, metal, wood and canvas with dye, watercolor, acrylics & oils. Her surfaces are then sculpted with gesso, molding paste, rice paper, twine, crackling paste, cheesecloth, sand, sawdust, and lava salt.
Nancy Ramsey approaches art as an exploration and investigates various ways to represent nature alongside man-made structures and the human form in her abstract paintings. Her vibrant abstract landscape paintings are initially based on maps and images that the artist has collected, then abstracted, creating a result that is quite different than the traditional landscape. Ramsey’s medium of choice has evolved from watercolor to mixed water media, acrylics and oil and includes, most recently, layering drawing and painting on translucent substrates.
Caroline Adams received her BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. Over the past two and a half decades, Caroline has spent many years abroad, studying, painting, teaching printmaking and bookmaking, mentoring students, and working with children’s art classes, at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Paros, Greece, in Quito, Ecuador, Frankfurt, Germany, and Bogota, Colombia. Adams paints her atmospheric studies in multiples, hoping to immerse the viewer in an endless expanse of landscape. These abstracted landscapes are created in oil and egg tempera on canvas and panel. Adams’s paintings present a degree of ambiguity, allowing them to provoke a sense of familiarity and calm, without representing a specific location.
