Photographs of these exhibitions can be viewed on this website, page 5, GALLERY UPDATES AND RECENT EXHIBITS. Also see installation images and videos on our INSTAGRAM page.
Below is a list of past exhibitions
at the MVA Gallery.
“AMAZING ABSTRACTS” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One — National Group Show
An exhibit of superb abstract artists who declare their independence from portraying reality and emphasize the essential elements of line, shape, color, form and gestural mark to achieve intense and rhythmic effects.
“THE DRAMA OF LIGHT AND SHADOW” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two — National Group Show
Opposition of light and shadow can create the illusion of three-dimensional space, emphasize tonal range, and accentuate the shapes of objects. In addition, the interplay of contrasting light patterns can reinforce the theme and mood of artwork. An exhibition of powerful and fascinating images.
“THE GRANDEUR OF COLOR” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two — National Group Show
Various artistic approaches to color. Some artists beautifully portray traditional reality while faithfully reproducing color and natural objects. Other artists, who believe color is relative, creatively transform objects to reconstruct reality.
“LANDSCAPE — SERENE AND SAVAGE” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two — National Group Show
Art representing the opposing forces of Nature. Images of Nature tranquil and comforting — from beautiful gardens to glowing sunsets. Also images of Nature ferocious and dangerous — from jagged mountain cliffs to raging thunderstorms.
“THE ARTIST’S VISION — OPEN CALL” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two —
National Group Show
Talented artists, photographers and sculptors present their finest artwork for this national Open Call exhibit which welcomes any theme, style or subject matter. An extensive collection of remarkable images and personal visions for this special show.
”EVERYTHING BLUE” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two –
National Group Show
Blue — the color has been recognized for both positive and negative symbolic and psychological values. Talented artists and photographers present their contemporary interpretations. In this exhibit, Blue can permeate an entire image or can be used in a small section of an artwork. It can imbue radiance to inanimate objects and enliven elements of Nature. Extraordinary art!
”TRIBUTE TO SMALL WORKS” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two –
National Group Show
The MVA Gallery proclaims the virtues of smallness because small art can portray big ideas, big visions and big talent. A special collection of small art (under 18 inches) offers unique visions – traditional and non-traditional – by extraordinary artists and photographers.
“ON THE STREETS — THE URBAN EXPERIENCE ” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two – National Group Show
Talented artists and photographers who explore public places for visual ideas encounter and record contradictions – wealth and poverty, health and illness, youth and old age, beauty and ugliness, kindness and hostility, growth and decay, order and chaos. Compelling urban imagery!
“AMAZING PORTRAITS — HUMAN AND ANIMAL” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two –
National Group Show
A display of compelling portraits of individuals depicting physical attributes and psychological complexities. Also a variety of self-portraits, formal and informal, that reveal personalities who expose or conceal identity. Another section of the exhibit includes a fascinating group of animal portraits with domesticated and wild creatures in various environments.
“THE FOUR ELEMENTS — EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two —
National Group Show
This theme provides an opportunity for artists and photographers to explore a vast universe of imagery on a practical, symbolic, spiritual, psychological, and aesthetic level. An exhibit full of surprises and visual delights.
“THE POWER OF RED” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One —
National Group Show
Red is a color of intense emotion. In this exhibition, artists reveal their talent as they manipulate red to achieve aesthetic and psychological effects. The color can serve as purely decorative, create a structural device, function by defining form and animate a visual narrative. Traditional and non-traditional artistic approaches offer thrilling surprises to viewers.
“PORTALS AND PASSAGES” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room Two —
National Group Show
Portals — including doors, entranceways and windows — function as physical, conceptual and psychological points of arrival and departure. Doors may be admired for their architectural features or historical value. But they also are symbolic. Windows reveal atmospheric views. But window imagery is rich with metaphorical meaning. Portals and Passages are also associated with corridors, streets, tunnels, bridges and trails. They serve as symbolic entrances to other realms, real or imaginary. They can signify freedom or present the concept of crossing over into a mysterious experience. And they can even represent life-cycle Rites of Passage. This exhibit has been praised for its dramatic and entrancing imagery!
”THE ART OF BEAUTY” EXHIBIT
Exhibition Room One and Two –
National Group Show
What do artists and photographers find beautiful in life and in art? This collection of inspired artwork answers that question with a vast variety of subject matter and artistic styles. Pictorial elements reflect traditional concepts of harmony and balance or modernist notions of distortion and fragmentation. A lovefest of fascinating imagery.