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The McGufTy Art Center. Charlottesville features a la rye on site installation by Jeanne Drevas of Sperryville using tulip poplar bark and pine needles, plus smaller work.
Nature provides the materials for this show, various barks, honeysuckle, grasses, pine needles, cattail fluff, scarred wood and whatever else she gleans as she wanders the forest.
The exhibits runs now through Jan. 27.
Ms. Drevas worked on the installation starting Jan. 2 using ten foot tall pieces of tulip bark scavenged from a logging site in Rappahannock and the final product remained unknown until right before last Friday’s night opening reception.
Drevas' studies of clay in Geneva, Switzerland, where she first experimented with terra sigillata and primitive wood firing with salt and sulfates, provided valuable learning. but she felt constrained by both the limits of clay and the single medium.
She also spent time in Bangkok, Thailand, where she realized her calling as a gleaner and assembler of indigenous
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