Dymphna de Wild at the Smith House

April 05th, 2010

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Arts Council of the Valley presents monotypes, prints, paintings and sculptures by Dutch artist Dymphna de Wild. Her work will be featured in the Darrin-McHone Gallery Art Gallery at the Smith House, 311 S. Main Street. The exhibition opens with a reception of complimentary refreshments on April 2 from 5-7 p.m., and the work will remain on view until April 28. The Darrin-McHone Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Highlighting monotypes and sculpture, the work is influenced by Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 film “Through the Glass Darkly.” After standing empty and isolated during the long Nordic winter, the front porch of a seaside cabin becomes a theater for one lone night. The play stars a brother and sister and their intimate conversation about life and death. The artist says, “While watching the movie I could smell the weathered boards of the interior of the cabin, the salt water and the wet bathing suits. Behind the stage and obscuring the horizon, are a dark line of pine trees on one side and the sun skimming the ocean on the other. It must have been close to midsummer night.”

Currently Dymphna de Wild is a candidate for an MFA from James Madison University. She received several degrees from schools both in Europe and America. She received degrees from College for Personnel Management, in Breda, the Netherlands and Academy of Fine Arts in Turnhout, Belgium. In 2003, she earned her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC where she was awarded the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award in 2003, the Printmaking Faculty Award in 2002, and the Fine Arts Faculty Awards in 2000, 2001, and 2002. She teaches at the Beverley Street Studio School in Staunton, and participated as the Visiting Artist at the Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School in Fishersville, Virginia from 2004-2009. The artist has exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lynchburg, Kronos Gallery in Staunton, and Washington Square in Washington, DC.

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