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“BedBottle” by Leslie Banta, part of the February art exhibit at EMU.<\/div>\n

Leslie Banta, owner-operator of Staunton (VA) Art Supply, will display her works February 7-25 in the public art gallery. <\/p>\n

Banta will exhibit photographs and paintings that explore the theme, “Boundaries Without Limit.” <\/p>\n

An opening reception for the artist will be held 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, in the gallery, located on third floor of EMU’s Hartzler Library<\/a>. See previous exhibits in the Hartzler Gallery<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“When you place boundaries around an object or shape, you create a world within a world,” the artist says of her work. “Enclosure doesn’t only limit or prevent escape; it allows something new to happen within that space. And the interior space is not necessarily lesser than what surrounds it,” she adds. <\/p>\n

In Banta’s paintings, the canvas surface is broken up through numerous color blocks and collaged elements. Each color or image allows fullness while adding to the rhythm of the larger painting. <\/p>\n

The artist’s photographs invite a voyeuristic escape into a dream – a small, private place that cannot fully be shared. Adding an element of containment and reduced scale to a common image, such as a bed, reveals how privacy and intimacy are held in tension with space and time. The stereoscopic, or 3D effect in the photos, helps bring the small spaces alive. <\/p>\n

Banta exhibited for nine years in the Washington, D.C., area before moving to the Shenandoah Valley in 2005. She earned a BFA degree with honors in painting from Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, where she grew up. Northern Virginia abstract painter Joyce McCarten mentored her after college. She took post-graduate work at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, D.C., with instructors Bill Christenberry and Mindy Weisel. British colourist Richard Kenton Webb greatly influenced her painting palette. <\/p>\n

The exhibit is open for browsing daily free of charge during regular library hours; admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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