Albee, an art collector for more than 40 years, has curated an exhibition of more than 30 works by nine sculptors. The show will open at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 and run through Dec. 17. While works range from room-size installation pieces to smaller sculptures of wood, plaster, Plexiglass and other materials, Albee says the selected artists share certain traits. It s clear evidence of the artist making the art molding, carving, manipulating and intruding. There is no theoretical work here, no work that is merely idea.
Sculpture is worked through idea to matter.
They include John Beech, John Duff, David Fulton, Barry Goldberg, David McDonald, Richard Nonas, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Jonathan Thomas and Paul Whiting. Albee acquired the first of many art works a painting by Richmond artist David Wurtzel from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the 1960s, while in town to deliver a lecture at the University of Richmond. It is Albee s longstanding friendship with Ted Potter, Ph.D., director of VCU s Anderson Gallery, that has brought him back to Richmond. Potter invited him to curate a VCU exhibition. The nine artists he has selected for this important exhibition are highly accomplished and innovative.